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Harden かたくなる
The user stiffens all the muscles in its body to raise its Defense stat.
Battles
Type	Normal
Category	Status
PP	30 (max. 48)
Power	—
Accuracy	—%
Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock
Boosts Defense one level.
Contests
Category	Tough
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Jam	0
???
Super Contests
Category	Tough
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Prevents the Voltage from going up in the same turn.
Harden on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Harden on Eevee's Movedex

Harden (Japanese: かたくなる Stiffen) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Contents 1 Effect 1.1 Generation I 2 In the anime 2.1 Pokémon 3 Learnset 3.1 Generation I 3.1.1 By leveling up 3.2 Generation II 3.2.1 By leveling up 3.2.2 By breeding 3.3 Generation III 3.3.1 By leveling up 3.3.2 By breeding 3.4 Generation IV 3.4.1 By leveling up 3.4.2 By breeding 4 In other languages

Effect

Generation I

Harden increases the user's defense by 1 level.

Harden will do nothing if the user's defense has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999. The effect of Harden is ignored by critical hits.

In the anime

Pokémon

Metapod. Metapod glows a greenish-whitish color

• Used by Ash's Metapod and Samurai's Metapod in Challenge of the Samurai. Debut

Learnset

Generation I

Generation II

Generation III

Generation IV

In other languages

• Spanish: Fortaleza
• French: Armure
• German: Härtner
• Portuguese: Endurecimento

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