Why does dragon claw do less damage than headbutt?

Basically I am new to the whole complex training methods (EVs, Natures, IVs) so please don’t kill me if the answer is obvious to you!I am levelling up my shelgon (34) and have maxed out attack (100) and hp (115) with EV training. I just used the dragon claw tm on her but it does less damage than headbutt! I thought that due to the higher base damage (80) and STAB it would be more powerful- and I checked that they are both physical moves.ThanksEdit: it must of been a glitch as I’ve restarted and now it’s fine.

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Alright so what I understand from your question is that you are in fact doingLESSdamage with Dragon Claw, a base 80 STAB physical attack than Headbutt, a base 70 physical attack on a Shelgon.This is basically impossible as Dragon Claw goes up to base 120 power counting STAB, while Headbutt remainds the same. Since they use the same stat to calculate the damage, Dragon Claw should be at a higher damage.The only case where I can think of which Headbutt would do more damage, would be if it was aCritical Hit. Since Critical Hits double the damage of an attack, perhaps that is what happened which caused Headbutt to do more than Dragon Claw.If not, it’s probably some kind of bug or glitch, so reset the game and try again I suppose.

Anyway these are all under the assumption you’re battling the same Pokemon. yay :D

Either you got a crit with Headbutt and didn’t notice, or your Shelgon’s stats were raised by something like Swagger when you used Headbutt, or you used Dragon Claw against a different Pokemon that has higher defence.

If Shelgon is using both moves against the same opponent, then something is glitched; Dragon Claw must do more damage than Headbutt.