Power Swap (move): Difference between revisions

Power Swap パワースワップ Power Swap

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Battles Type  Psychic Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact 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 May affect anyone adjacent to the user

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

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Raises the score if the Voltage is low.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Power Swap (Japanese: パワースワップ Power Swap) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Power Swap switches any changes to the user's Attack stat and Special Attack stat with any changes to the target's Attack stat and Special Attack stat. The effect of Power Swap can be Baton Passed.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0122 Mr. Mime Psychic -- 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 64 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 44 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying 54 0196 Espeon Psychic 78 0203 Girafarig Normal Psychic -- 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" | 0037 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Vulpix
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Espeon
Girafarig |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0102 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Exeggcute
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Seedot, Nuzleaf, Shiftry |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0114 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Tangela
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Seedot, Nuzleaf, Shiftry |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0273 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Seedot
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Espeon
Girafarig |- | 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" | Mr. Mime |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0333 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Swablu
| colspan="1" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Natu, Xatu

|- | 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 0122 Mr. Mime Psychic -- 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 57 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 47 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying 54 0196 Espeon Psychic 78 0203 Girafarig Normal Psychic -- 0617 Accelgor Bug 52 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Meditite Power Swap Adventures.png Meditite
The user switches stats with its opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Meditite glows brightly, switching its stats with the opponent.
Maylene's Meditite	VS. Tangrowth		Debut

In other languages

• French: Permuforce
• German: Krafttausch
• Greek: Ανταλλαγή Δυνάμεων
• Italian: Barattoforza
• Korean: 파워스웹 Power Swap
• Spanish: Cambia Fue.

Variations of the move Skill Swap
Skill Swap • Heart Swap • Power Swap • Guard Swap • Speed Swap

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.