Kinesis (move)

Kinesis スプーンまげ Spoon Bend

The user distracts the foe by bending a spoon. It may lower the target's accuracy.

Battles Type  Psychic Category  Status PP  15 (max. 24) Power  — Accuracy  80% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Smart Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0 Temporarily stops the crowd from growing excited.

Super Contests Category  Smart Appeal  0 Earn double the score in the next turn.

Kinesis on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Kinesis on Eevee's Movedex

Kinesis (Japanese: スプーンまげ Spoon Bend) is a non-damaging Psychic-type move introduced in Generation I. It is the signature move of Kadabra and Alakazam.

Effect

Kinesis decreases the target's Accuracy stat by one stat level. Kinesis will do nothing if the target's Accuracy stat is at a stat level of -6, and will fail if the target has a Substitute or is under the effect of Mist.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 064 Kadabra Psychic --Y 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 064 Kadabra Psychic -- 065 Alakazam 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.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 064 Kadabra Psychic -- 065 Alakazam 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.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 064 Kadabra Psychic -- 065 Alakazam 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.

Trivia

• The Japanese name for this move is in reference to the psychokinetic spoon bending tricks popularized by stage psychic Uri Geller. The English name is simply the "-kinesis" suffix from the Greek for "motion" from related words such as psychokinesis and telekinesis.

In other languages

• French: Télékinésie
• German: Psykraft
• Spanish: Kinético
• Italian: Cinèsi

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