Psycho Cut (move): Difference between revisions

Psycho Cut (Japanese: サイコカッター Psychocutter) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Psycho Cut deals damage and has an increased critical hit ratio.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0064 Kadabra Psychic 34 0065 Alakazam Psychic 34 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 50 0359 Absol Dark 60 0475 Gallade Psychic Fighting 31 0488 Cresselia Psychic 66 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0096 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Drowzee
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Kadabra, Alakazam |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0307 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Meditite
| colspan="1" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting || style="background:#EF4179" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Kadabra, Alakazam |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0327 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Spinda
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Kadabra, Alakazam
Absol

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Trivia

• Absol and Spinda are the only non Template:Type2 Pokémon to learn this move: Absol via level up and Spinda through breeding.

In side games

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Cresselia appears on the Spear Pillar stage and will often shoot Psycho Cuts around the field, and sometimes shoot one large Psycho Cut as if it were a boomerang, hitting anyone that touches it.

In the anime

File:Gallade Psycho Cut.png Gallade File:Gallade Psycho Cut2.png Variation with circles
Both of the users hands glow blue and it uses them to slice the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	The blades on Gallade's arms glow blue, and he uses them to slice the opponent. The blades on Gallade's arms glow blue, and he fires multiple blue circles at the opponent. Note that the image above shows electrically-charged versions.
Zoey's Gallade	Debut		None

In other languages

• German: Psychoklinge
• Italian: Psicotaglio
• Korean: 싸이코커터 Psychocutter
• Spanish: Psico-corte

Variations of the move Slash
Slash • Night Slash • Shadow Claw • Psycho Cut • Cross Poison • Aqua Cutter Formerly a variation Leaf Blade

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