Leech Life (move)

Leech Life (Japanese: きゅうけつ Suck Blood) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Leech Life inflicts damage, and up to 50% of the damage dealt to the target is restored to the user as HP. If this attack deals 1 HP of damage, 1 HP will be restored to the user.

If Leech Life breaks a Substitute, no HP will be restored to the user. If HP is restored to the user when its current HP is greater than its maximum HP, its current HP will be set equal to its maximum HP.

In Stadium, Leech Life will always miss if the target has a Substitute.

Generation III onwards

If the target has the ability Liquid Ooze, the user takes damage instead of restoring HP.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0041 Zubat Poison Flying -- 0042 Golbat Poison Flying -- 0046 Paras Bug Grass 20 0047 Parasect Bug Grass -- 20 0048 Venonat Bug Poison 27 0049 Venomoth Bug Poison -- 27 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0041 Zubat Poison Flying -- 0042 Golbat Poison Flying -- 0046 Paras Bug Grass 19 0047 Parasect Bug Grass 19 0048 Venonat Bug Poison 25 0049 Venomoth Bug Poison 25 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison 23 0168 Ariados Bug Poison 25 0169 Crobat Poison Flying -- 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" | 0069 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bellsprout
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Paras, Parasect |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0193 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Yanma
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Paras, Parasect, Venonat, Venomoth,
Spinarak, Ariados

|- | 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0041 Zubat Poison Flying -- 0042 Golbat Poison Flying -- 0046 Paras Bug Grass 19 0047 Parasect Bug Grass 19 0048 Venonat Bug Poison 25 0049 Venomoth Bug Poison 25 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison 23 0168 Ariados Bug Poison 25 0169 Crobat Poison Flying -- 0290 Nincada Bug Ground 5 0291 Ninjask Bug Flying -- 5 0292 Shedinja Bug Ghost 5 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" | 0069 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bellsprout
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Paras, Parasect |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0193 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Yanma
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Paras, Parasect, Venonat, Venomoth,
Spinarak, Ariados, Nincada, Ninjask

|- | 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0041 Zubat Poison Flying -- 0042 Golbat Poison Flying -- 0046 Paras Bug Grass 11 0047 Parasect Bug Grass -- 11 0048 Venonat Bug Poison 17 0049 Venomoth Bug Poison 17 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison 12 0168 Ariados Bug Poison 12 0169 Crobat Poison Flying -- 0290 Nincada Bug Ground 5 0291 Ninjask Bug Flying -- 5 0292 Shedinja Bug Ghost 5 0402 Kricketune Bug 14 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" | 0069 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bellsprout
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Paras, Parasect |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0193 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Yanma
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Paras, Parasect, Venonat, Venomoth,
Spinarak, Ariados, Nincada, Ninjask,
Kricketune

|- | 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. |} |}

In other languages

• German: Blutsauger
• French: Vampirisme
• Spanish: Chupavidas
• Italian: Sanguisuga

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