10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt (move)

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 Z-Move introduced in Generation VII. It is the exclusive Z-Move of any Pikachu in a cap and an upgraded version of its .
==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 in a cap, or a Pokémon ed into one, can use 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt if it knows , holds Pikashunium Z, and if its wears a Z-Ring or Z-Power Ring.
==In other games==
===Pokémon Masters EX===
Name 	Category 	State 	Base power	Max power 	Target 	Effect tag 	Description	Playable sync pair	 	 	
Sync move 	Sync move 	Sync move	Sync move 	Sync move 	Sync move	Sync move 	Sync move 	Sync move 	Sync move	Sync move	Sync move
Best Buds 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt	Default6★ EX	250 	300 	An opponentAll opponents	— 	Except in certain circumstances, successful hits with this attack become critical hits.	 	 	 	 	
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===
==In the manga==
===Movie adaptations===
===Pokémon Journeys===
==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 when used by .
* The name of this move is partly based on the Japanese name for , 100,000 Volts. The 10,000,000 figure references that it is an upgrade of Thunderbolt.
* Along with , 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 , 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 , this move is referenced by Iono upon being defeated for the first time in : "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 's Pikachu, Pika, to defeat Lance. As the name implies, it is a ten times stronger version of Thunderbolt.
==In other languages==
Category:Z-Moves
Category:Moves with a high critical-hit ratio
Category:Moves that cannot miss
Category:Damaging Z-Moves
de:Tausendfacher Donnerblitz
es:Gigarrayo fulminante
fr:Giga-Tonnerre
it:Iperfulmine
ja:1000まんボルト
zh:千萬伏特