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TM94 Rock Smash is given to you by a woman waiting outside the aquarium in Ambrette Town. You can access Ambrette Town by traveling south on Route 8.
The move can be used outside of battle to break open cracked boulders in order to access secret areas, encounter Wild Pokémon, find fossils, and other items. It can also be used to knock down cracked walls in the Lost Hotel.
TM94 Rock Smash Location
The stairs leading into Ambrette Town from Route 8.
Step 1: Enter Ambrette Town from Route 8 via the stairs heading west.
Note: The first time you approach Ambrette Town from Route 8 you will trigger a cutscene in which you are told to go to the Fossil Lab, but you do not have to do that right away.
The first area as you enter Ambrette Town, featuring the Pokémon Center and the Aquarium.
Step 2: Continue west, past the Pokémon Center to the Ambrette Aquarium (the large white and blue building). You will see a woman standing near the entrance.
The player receives TM94 Rock Smash.
Step 3: Talk to the woman NPC and she will immediately give you TM94 Rock Smash.
How To Use TM94 Rock Smash
Rock Smash Move Details
Type
Fighting
Category
Physical
Power
40
Accuracy
100
PP
15
In order to use TM94 Rock Smash, you will need to teach it to a Pokémon in your party.
You can then approach cracked boulders and cracked walls and break them open using Rock Smash. Cracked boulders are the only kind of rock that can be broken using this move.
TM94 Rock Smash.
Tip: In Pokémon X & Y, Rock Smash is a TM. This means that the move can be forgotten if you want to replace it with something else. The TM can also be used as many times as you like.
Cracked boulders look different to other rocks.
To use it out of battle, just approach a cracked boulder and interact with it (make sure there’s a Pokémon in your party that knows the move).
You will be given the option to break the boulder open, select ‘Yes’.
Using Rock Smash to destroy a cracked boulder.
Breaking open a cracked boulder will result in either a Wild Pokémon encounter, finding an item, or receiving a fossil. However, there is also a chance that nothing will happen when the rock is destroyed.
Tip: Cracked boulders will respawn when you exit and return to an area.
Items & Pokémon Obtainable Using TM94 Rock Smash
You can find Star Pieces by breaking cracked boulders.
The tables below detail the items, fossils, and Pokémon you can find using TM94 Rock Smash.
Note: Fossils can be restored into prehistoric Pokémon at the Fossil Lab in Ambrette Town.
Most of the fossils are only available late game, and several are version locked to X or Y.
Items in Rocks
Locations
Ether / Max Ether
Ambrette Town
Route 8
Route 12
Azure Bay
Cyllage City
Route 13
Route 18
Terminus Cave
Victory Road
Hard Stone
Ambrette Town
Route 8
Route 12
Azure Bay
Cyllage City
Glittering Cave
Route 13
Route 18
Terminus Cave
Victory Road
Heart Scale
Ambrette Town
Route 8
Route 12
Azure Bay
Cyllage City
Route 13
Route 18
Terminus Cave
Victory Road
Pearl / Big Pearl
Ambrette Town
Route 8
Route 12
Azure Bay
Cyllage City
Route 13
Route 18
Terminus Cave
Victory Road
Revive / Max Revive
Ambrette Town
Route 8
Route 12
Azure Bay
Cyllage City
Glittering Cave
Route 13
Route 18
Terminus Cave
Victory Road
Soft Sand
Ambrette Town
Route 8
Route 12
Azure Bay
Cyllage City
Route 13
Route 18
Terminus Cave
Victory Road
Star Piece
Ambrette Town
Route 8
Route 12
Azure Bay
Cyllage City
Route 13
Route 18
Terminus Cave
Victory Road
Fossils in Rocks
Location
Armor Fossil*
Glittering Cave
Claw Fossil* (Pokémon X only)
Glittering Cave
Cover Fossil*
Glittering Cave
Dome Fossil* (Pokémon Y only)
Glittering Cave
Helix Fossil* (Pokémon Y only)
Glittering Cave
Old Amber
Glittering Cave
Plume Fossil*
Glittering Cave
Root Fossil* (Pokémon X only)
Glittering Cave
Skull Fossil*
Glittering Cave
* Denotes fossils that are only available after the Hall of Fame.
Using Rock Smash can trigger a battle with a Wild Pokémon such as Binacle.
In an alternate universe, Hex lives in a cozy seaside cottage just outside Lilycove City, raising her mixed team of ghost and fairy Pokémon. Sometimes she goes out to ride her bike or harass young trainers on Route 121. In this universe, she works as an editor and is most likely to be found with her nose in a book or trapped under a cat.
