Sand Attack — Pokémon Move

Lowers the target’s accuracy by one stage.

Type: ground; class: status; power: —; accuracy: 100; PP: 15; priority: 0.

Effect notes

Lowers the target’s accuracy by one stage.

In-game descriptions by version

gold silver	Reduces accuracy by throwing sand.
crystal	Reduces accuracy by throwing sand.
ruby sapphire	Reduces the foe’s accuracy by hurling sand in its face.
emerald	Reduces the foe’s accuracy by hurling sand in its face.
firered leafgreen	A lot of sand is hurled in the foe’s face, reducing its accuracy.
diamond pearl	Sand is hurled in the foe’s face, reducing its accuracy.
platinum	Sand is hurled in the foe’s face, reducing its accuracy.
heartgold soulsilver	Sand is hurled in the foe’s face, reducing its accuracy.
black white	Sand is hurled in the target’s face, reducing its accuracy.
black 2 white 2	Sand is hurled in the target’s face, reducing its accuracy.
x y	Sand is hurled in the target’s face, reducing the target’s accuracy.
omega ruby alpha sapphire	Sand is hurled in the target’s face, reducing the target’s accuracy.
sun moon	Sand is hurled in the target’s face, reducing the target’s accuracy.
ultra sun ultra moon	Sand is hurled in the target’s face, reducing the target’s accuracy.
lets go pikachu lets go eevee	Sand is hurled in the target’s face, reducing the target’s accuracy.
sword shield	Sand is hurled in the target’s face, reducing the target’s accuracy.
legends arceus	Sand is hurled in the target's face, reducing the target's accuracy.
scarlet violet	Sand is hurled in the target's face, lowering the target's accuracy.

Pokémon that learn this move in scarlet-violet

sandshrew — level-up, level 6
sandslash — level-up, level 1
diglett — level-up, level 1
dugtrio — level-up, level 1
eevee — level-up, level 5
vaporeon — level-up, level 5
jolteon — level-up, level 5
flareon — level-up, level 5
aipom — level-up, level 4
espeon — level-up, level 5
umbreon — level-up, level 5
gligar — level-up, level 4
skarmory — level-up, level 4
stantler — level-up, level 16
torchic — level-up, level 15
combusken — level-up, level 15
blaziken — level-up, level 15
poochyena — level-up, level 7
mightyena — level-up, level 1
makuhita — level-up, level 4
hariyama — level-up, level 1
trapinch — level-up, level 1
vibrava — level-up, level 1
flygon — level-up, level 1
cacnea — level-up, level 13
cacturne — level-up, level 13
starly — egg
ambipom — level-up, level 1
gible — level-up, level 6
gabite — level-up, level 1
garchomp — level-up, level 1
hippopotas — level-up, level 1
hippowdon — level-up, level 1
leafeon — level-up, level 5
glaceon — level-up, level 5
gliscor — level-up, level 1
blitzle — egg
zebstrika — egg
sandile — level-up, level 3
krokorok — level-up, level 1
krookodile — level-up, level 1
scraggy — level-up, level 12
scrafty — level-up, level 12
deerling — level-up, level 7
sawsbuck — level-up, level 1
sylveon — level-up, level 5
yungoos — level-up, level 10
gumshoos — level-up, level 1
rockruff — level-up, level 4
lycanroc midday — level-up, level 1