Extreme Speed
Pokémon Champions
Goes first: +2.
- Power
- 80
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 5
- Priority
- +2
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
- On Showdown
- 1.9% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Extreme Speed changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen V
dropped: Usuallyadded: Nearly always goes first.
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
+2: it moves before every move of lower priority, whatever the Speed. It has no other effect.
- Makes contact
“The user charges the target at blinding speed. This move always goes first.”
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
- Priority +2: it goes before moves of lower priority, whatever the Speed. Psychic Terrain, Dazzling, Queenly Majesty and Armor Tail block it.Priority moves
Who runs Extreme Speed on Showdown
Hisuian Arcanine87.9% of its sets
Dragonite66.5% of its sets
Mega Dragonite17.4% of its sets
Arcanine77.7% of its sets
Mega Lucario9.4% of its sets
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 Extreme Speed among their most used moves.
Who learns Extreme Speed
7 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
Lucario
Mega Lucario ZAll 14 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →