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Hold Hands てをつなぐ Holding Hands

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  40 (max. 64) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally Affects an adjacent ally

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

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cute Appeal  1 ♥ Jamming  0   Prevents the user from being startled until the turn ends.

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

Hold Hands (Japanese: てをつなぐ Holding Hands) is a non-damaging Normal-type event-exclusive move introduced in Generation VI.

Effect

Hold Hands has no known effect in battle. When a Pokémon uses this move in a Double Battle or Triple Battle, it and its target ally will perform a brief animation together.

It will fail if used in a Single Battle or Horde Encounter (even if used by one of the five opposing Pokémon). It will hit the target even if it has used Protect, Detect, or Spiky Shield, but will fail if the target is protected by Crafty Shield or in the semi-invulnerable turn of a move like Fly or Dig.

If powered up by a Normalium Z into Z-Hold Hands, the user's Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed are raised by one stage each.

Hold Hands can be used as a part of a Contest Spectacular combination, causing certain moves (Circle Throw, Seismic Toss, Sky Drop, Smack Down, Storm Throw and Vital Throw) to give an extra three appeal points if any of them is used in the next turn.

Description

Learnset

By events

Generation VI

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Obtained with
0006		Charizard		Monster	Dragon	Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo Charizard Spring 2015 Charizard Pokémon Center Hiroshima Charizard
0025		Pikachu		Field	Fairy	Minato Mirai Pikachu Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo Pikachu Tohoku Pikachu Pokémon Center Hiroshima Pikachu Pika Pika Pokémon Spa Pikachu
666Fan		Vivillon Fancy		Bug		Bug	GTS Fancy Pattern Vivillon
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Vivillon
The user holds hands with its target.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Vivillon holds its target with one of its wings.
Yvette's fifteen Vivillon	PAXY38		Debut

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 牽手 Hīnsáu Mandarin 牽手 / 牵手 Qiānshǒu French Mains Jointes German Händchenhalten Italian Mano nella Mano Korean 손에손잡기 Son-esonjabgi Spanish Manos Juntas

Variations of the move Splash
Celebrate • Hold Hands • Splash

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