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Psycho Cut サイコカッター Psychocutter

Battles Type  Psychic Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  70 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation IV Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs first in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

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. |} |}

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0064 Kadabra Psychic 40 0065 Alakazam Psychic 40 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 43 0359 Absol Dark 60 0475 Gallade Psychic Fighting 36 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 |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0624 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pawniard
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#60A1B8" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Steel | style="background: #FFF" | Kadabra, Alakazam

|- | 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, Spinda and Pawniard are the only non Template:Type2 Pokémon to learn this move: Absol via level up and Spinda and Pawniard 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
	Gallade's forearms glow light blue and both of them grow and extend in the back. Gallade then swings its arms repeatedly and multiple light blue crescent blades or light blue rings of energy comes out of them and hits the opponent, or Gallade's forearms glow light blue and they extend in the back. Gallade then slices the opponent with its forearms.
Zoey's Gallade	A Grand Fight for Winning!		Debut

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Meditite Psycho Cut Adventures.png Meditite File:Gallade Psycho Cut Adventures.png Gallade
The user throws a blade made of psychic energy.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Meditite waves its arm upwards and a wave of energy shoots out.
Maylene's Meditite	VS. Meditite and Riolu II		Debut
	Gallade slashes at the opponent with its arm blades and a blade of energy shoots at the opponent.
Caitlin's Gallade	VS. Porygon-Z		None

In other languages

• Chinese: 幻象斬 Huànxiàng Zhǎn
• Dutch: Psycho Snij
• French: Coupe Psycho
• German: Psychoklinge
• Greek: Ψυχοδρέπανο
• Italian: Psicotaglio
• Korean: 사이코커터 Psycho Cutter
• Spanish: Psico-corte

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

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.