Sacred Sword

Sacred Sword is a Fighting-type move introduced in Generation V. It was the signature move of every member of the Swords of Justice in Generation V, but it has been learnable by some other species of Pokémon since Generation VI.

Effect

The user slashes at the target using its blade or horns. The move itself ignores all of the target's stat changes.

Description

Games	Description
Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version	The user attacks by slicing with its long horns. The target's stat changes don't affect this attack's damage.
Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2
Pokémon X and Pokémon Y	The user attacks by slicing with a long horn. The target's stat changes don't affect this attack's damage.
Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire
Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon
Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon
Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl	This move can't be used. It's recommended that this move is forgotten. Once forgotten, this move can't be remembered.
Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet	The user attacks by slicing with a sword. The target's stat changes don't affect the damage inflicted by this move.

Learnset

By leveling up

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
				V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Gallade	psychic/fighting	Human-Like/Amorphous					1
	Cobalion	steel/Fighting	Undiscovered	42	42	42	49SwSh
	Terrakion	rock/Fighting	Undiscovered	42	42	42	49SwSh
	Virizion	grass/Fighting	Undiscovered	42	42	42	49SwSh
	Keldeo	water/Fighting	Undiscovered	43	43	43	49SwSh
	Honedge	steel/ghost	Mineral		47	47	48SwSh
	Doublade	steel/ghost	Mineral		51	51	56SwSh
	Aegislash	steel/ghost	Mineral		1	1	1SwSh
	Kartana	grass/steel	Undiscovered			1	60SwSh
	Zacian	fairy	Undiscovered				1SwSh	1
	Chien-Pao	dark/ice	Undiscovered					60
	Iron Leaves	grass/psychic	Undiscovered					42
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

By breeding

Trivia

• Its in-game description mentions horns, however this only applies to the Swords of Justice.

Gallery

v · d · e List of Fighting-type moves
Generation I · Generation II · Generation III · Generation IV · Generation V · Generation VI · Generation VII · Generation VIII · Generation IX
A	Arm Thrust Aura Sphere Axe Kick
B	Body Press Brick Break Bulk Up
C	Circle Throw Close Combat Coaching Collision Course Combat Torque Counter Cross Chop
D	Detect Double Kick Drain Punch Dynamic Punch
F	Final Gambit Flying Press Focus Blast Focus Punch Force Palm
H	Hammer Arm High Jump Kick
J	Jump Kick
K	Karate Chop
L	Low Kick Low Sweep
M	Mach Punch Mat Block Meteor Assault
N	No Retreat
O	Octolock
P	Power-Up Punch
Q	Quick Guard
R	Revenge Reversal Rock Smash Rolling Kick
S	Sacred Sword Secret Sword Seismic Toss Sky Uppercut Storm Throw Submission Superpower
T	Thunderous Kick Triple Arrows Triple Kick
U	Upper Hand
V	Vacuum Wave Victory Dance Vital Throw
W	Wake-Up Slap
See also	Bug-type Dark-type Dragon-type Electric-type Fairy-type Fire-type Flying-type Ghost-type Grass-type Ground-type Ice-type Normal-type Poison-type Psychic-type Rock-type Steel-type Water-type
Moves

v · d · e List of moves introduced in Generation V
Bug-type · Dark-type · Dragon-type · Electric-type · Fairy-type · Fighting-type · Fire-type · Flying-type · Ghost-type · Grass-type · Ground-type · Ice-type · Normal-type · Poison-type · Psychic-type · Rock-type · Steel-type · Water-type
A	Acid Spray Acrobatics After You Ally Switch Autotomize
B	Bestow Blue Flare Bolt Strike Bulldoze
C	Chip Away Circle Throw Clear Smog Coil Cotton Guard
D	Dragon Tail Drill Run Dual Chop
E	Echoed Voice Electro Ball Electroweb Entrainment
F	Fiery Dance Final Gambit Fire Pledge Flame Burst Flame Charge Foul Play Freeze Shock Frost Breath Fusion Bolt Fusion Flare
G	Gear Grind Glaciate Grass Pledge Guard Split
H	Head Charge Heal Pulse Heart Stamp Heat Crash Heavy Slam Hex Hone Claws Horn Leech Hurricane
I	Ice Burn Icicle Crash Incinerate Inferno
L	Leaf Tornado Low Sweep
M	Magic Room
N	Night Daze
P	Power Split Psyshock Psystrike
Q	Quash Quick Guard Quiver Dance
R	Rage Powder Razor Shell Reflect Type Relic Song Retaliate Round
S	Sacred Sword Scald Searing Shot Secret Sword Shell Smash Shift Gear Simple Beam Sky Drop Sludge Wave Smack Down Snarl Soak Steamroller Stored Power Storm Throw Struggle Bug Synchronoise
T	Tail Slap Techno Blast Telekinesis
V	V-create Venoshock Volt Switch
W	Water Pledge Wide Guard Wild Charge Wonder Room Work Up
See also	Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX
Generation V