Bug Bite
Pokémon Champions
User steals and eats the target's Berry.
- Power
- 60
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 20
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
- On Showdown
- 0.1% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Bug Bite changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen V
dropped: Theadded: If this move is successful and the user added: has not fainted, it steals the target's held Berry if … eats it immediately, gaining its effectsdropped: unlessadded: even if the user's item is being ignored. Items lost to this movedropped: canadded: cannot be regained withdropped: Recycle.added: Recycle or the Harvest Ability.
Numbers: PokéAPI’s changelog. Descriptions: Pokémon Showdown’s for each generation, PokéAPI’s notes where Showdown’s don’t differ. Champions: Pokémon Showdown.
See it in the games
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How it works in Champions
If this move is successful and the user has not fainted, it steals the target's held Berry if it is holding one and eats it immediately, gaining its effects even if the user's item is being ignored. Items lost to this move cannot be regained with Recycle or the Harvest Ability.
- Makes contact
“The user attacks by biting the target. If the target is holding a Berry, the user eats it and gains its effect.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
Good to know
- Makes contact: Rough Skin, Iron Barbs and Rocky Helmet hurt the attacker; Protective Pads prevents it.Contact moves
Works with or against it
Who runs Bug Bite on Showdown
Smogon · Showdown Champions VGC · Sep 2026: Smogon’s usage stats from Pokémon Showdown, not the in-game ladder.
On the ladder today
Ranked Doubles Pokémon with Bug Bite among their most used moves.
Who learns Bug Bite
19 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 104 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →