Clangorous Soul
Pokémon Champions
User loses 33% of its max HP. +1 to all stats.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- — Scarlet & Violet: 100%
- PP
- 5
- Hits
- The user
- On Showdown
- 0.4% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Clangorous Soul changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
Accuracy 100% → never misses Buffed
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
the user's Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed by 1 in exchange for the user losing 33% of its maximum HP, rounded down. Fails if the user would faint or if its Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed stat stages would not change.
- Sound: goes through Substitute
- Dance: copied by
“The user boosts all its stats by using some of its own HP.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
Good to know
- Sound-based: Soundproof blocks it, it hits through Substitute, and Punk Rock boosts it.Sound-based moves
- Dance move: Dancer copies it.Dance moves
- Snatch can steal it.
- Can't be used through: Metronome.
Who runs Clangorous Soul 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 Clangorous Soul among their most used moves.
Who learns Clangorous Soul
1 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 1 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →