Contact

Contact (Japanese: ' contact) or direct attack (Japanese: ' direct attack) is a property of moves in the Pokémon games that was introduced in Generation III. Making contact occurs when a Pokémon physically touches the target when using a move in. Moves that make contact are affected by and can trigger various items and, such as and the Sticky Barb.

Whether a move makes contact is independent of its damage category. Most physical moves do make contact and make up the majority of contact moves. Most special moves do not make contact (with only 6 moves that do), and no status moves make contact. Prior to Generation VII, all moves that make contact only target a single Pokémon.

Hitting a does not make contact with the Pokémon behind it. While damage is physical, it does not make contact. If a Pokémon is immune to a move, the move will not make contact with the Pokémon.

Moves involving contact
In Generation III only, and  make contact, while, , and  do not.

These Shadow moves also make contact.

Trivia

 * In and, battle animations for contact moves do not show the attacking Pokémon hitting the defending one at all. As in the , physical blows usually utilize quick camera cuts between the attacking and defending Pokémon to imply direct contact.

In other languages
Kontakt Movimiento Capacité directe Contatto 直接攻撃 接触类招式