10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt (move)
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10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt (Japanese: 1000まんボルト 10,000,000 Volts), pronounced as Ten Million Volt Thunderbolt (Japanese: いっせんまんボルト Issenman Boruto), is a damage-dealing Electric-type Z-Move introduced in Generation VII. It is the exclusive Z-Move of any Pikachu in a cap and an upgraded version of its Thunderbolt.
Effect
Generation VII
10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt deals damage and has a sharply increased critical hit ratio of +2 stages.
Generation VIII onwards
10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt cannot be selected in a battle.
Description
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Learnset
Any Pikachu in a cap, or a Pokémon transformed into one, can use 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt if it knows Thunderbolt, holds Pikashunium Z, and if its Trainer wears a Z-RingSM or Z-Power RingUSUM.
In other games
Pokémon Masters EX
| Name | Category | State | Base power | Max power | Target | Effect tag | Description | Playable sync pair | |||
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| Best Buds 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt | Special | Default 6★ EX |
250 | 300 | An opponent All opponents |
— | Except in certain circumstances, successful hits with this attack become critical hits. | Ash & Pikachu | |||
Note:
- Description prior to Version 2.29.0 (from January 27, 2023): Temporarily assume the form of World Cap Pikachu during this sync move. Except in certain circumstances, successful hits with this attack become critical hits.
In animation
Pokémon animated series
| Wearing its Trainer's cap, the user gathers Z-Power and attacks the target with powerful rainbow-colored lightning. | |||
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Wearing its Trainer's Alola Cap, Pikachu strikes a series of synchronized poses with its Trainer to build Z-Power. It then leaps into the air and absorbs electricity from dark storm clouds that have formed above it. Pikachu then fires seven bolts of electricity, each a different color of a rainbow, at the opponent. | ||
| Ash's Pikachu | 10,000,000 Reasons to Fight! | Debut | |
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Wearing its Trainer's World Cap, Pikachu strikes a series of synchronized poses with its Trainer to build Z-Power. It then leaps into the air and absorbs electricity from dark storm clouds that have formed above it. Pikachu then fires seven bolts of electricity, each a different color of a rainbow, at the opponent. The lightning bolts can be controlled individually by Pikachu, thus changing trajectory and target. | ||
| Ash's Pikachu | Ultra Exciting from the Shocking Start! | None | |
In the manga
Movie adaptations
 Alola Cap Pikachu | |||
| Wearing its Trainer's cap, the user gathers Z-Power and attacks the target with powerful streams of electricity. | |||
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Wearing its Trainer's Alola Cap, Pikachu strikes a series of synchronized poses with its Trainer to build Z-Power. It then releases multiple streams of electricity from its body at the opponent. | ||
| Ash's Pikachu | ICYR1 | Debut | |
Pokémon Journeys
 World Cap Pikachu
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| Wearing its Trainer's cap, the user gathers Z-Power and attacks the target with powerful streams of electricity. | |||
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Wearing its Trainer's World Cap, Pikachu strikes a series of synchronized poses with its Trainer to build Z-Power. It then releases multiple streams of electricity from its body at the opponent. | ||
| Ash's Pikachu | Ultra Exciting from the Shocking Start! & Trial on a Golden Scale! (Part 2) | Debut | |
Appearance
Pose
In other generations
Spin-off series games
Trivia
- This is the only move whose English name starts with a non-alphabetic character.
- This is also one of the two moves to naturally have a sharply increased critical hit ratio, alongside Spacial Rend when used by Origin Forme Palkia.
- The name of this move is partly based on the Japanese name for Thunderbolt, 100,000 Volts. The 10,000,000 figure references that it is an upgrade of Thunderbolt.
- Along with Catastropika, 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt is the only species-exclusive Z-Move to have a unique pose not shared with other Z-Moves of the same type. Coincidentally, both are exclusive to Pikachu, although 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt can only be used by Pikachu in a cap.
- Pokémon Masters EX is the only game where World Cap Pikachu can use the Z-Move 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt, as it is unable to perform the move in the core series games.
- In Pokémon Masters EX, no other sync move has Best Buds 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt's effect.
- Even though Z-Moves have been absent from core series games since Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, this move is referenced by Iono upon being defeated for the first time in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: "You're as flashy and bright as a 10,000,000-volt Thunderbolt, friendo!"
- A similar move named MegaVolt (Japanese: １００まんボルト 1,000,000 Volts) was shown much earlier on in Pokémon Adventures by Red's Pikachu, Pika, to defeat Lance. As the name implies, it is a ten times stronger version of Thunderbolt.
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