Psywave (move)

Psywave サイコウェーブ Psychowave

The foe is attacked with an odd, hot energy wave. The attack varies in intensity.

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

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I TM46 in Generation I

Contests Category  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Badly startles all Pokémon that made good appeals.

Super Contests Category  Smart Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Psywave on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Psywave on Eevee's Movedex

Psywave (Japanese: サイコウェーブ Psychowave) is a damage-dealing Psychic-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Psywave inflicts a random amount of damage, varying between 0.5× and 1.5× the user's level. The damage can be calculated using the following formula, where X is a randomly generated number between 0 and 10:

(X + 5) × (User's level / 10)

The damage is always rounded down; however, Psywave will always deal at least 1 HP of damage.

In Generation I, the game will freeze if a level 1 Pokémon uses the move, though this error was fixed in later generations. Though it is a Psychic move, Psywave deals typeless damage, taking neither weakness nor resistance into account.

Learnset

Generation I

By TM46

#   Pokémon Type 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 035 Clefairy Normal 036 Clefable Normal 039 Jigglypuff Normal 040 Wigglytuff Normal 048 Venonat Bug Poison 049 Venomoth Bug Poison 060 Poliwag Water 061 Poliwhirl Water 062 Poliwrath Water Fighting 063 Abra Psychic 064 Kadabra Psychic 065 Alakazam Psychic 079 Slowpoke Water Psychic 080 Slowbro Water Psychic 092 Gastly Ghost Poison 093 Haunter Ghost Poison 094 Gengar Ghost Poison 096 Drowzee Psychic 097 Hypno Psychic 102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 113 Chansey Normal 120 Staryu Water 121 Starmie Water 122 Mr. Mime Psychic 124 Jynx Ice Psychic 125 Electabuzz Electric 126 Magmar Fire 131 Lapras Water Ice 137 Porygon Normal 143 Snorlax Normal 150 Mewtwo Psychic 151 Mew 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 II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 200 Misdreavus Ghost -- 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

#   Pokémon Type Father 092 Gastly Ghost Poison Misdreavus 109 Koffing Poison Misdreavus 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 200 Misdreavus Ghost -- 325 Spoink Psychic 7 326 Grumpig Psychic 1 326 Grumpig Psychic 7 337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 25 338 Solrock Rock Psychic 25 358 Chimecho Psychic 30 380 Latias Dragon Psychic -- 381 Latios Dragon 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

#   Pokémon Type Father 092 Gastly Ghost Poison Misdreavus Chimecho 109 Koffing Poison Misdreavus Chimecho 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 200 Misdreavus Ghost -- 325 Spoink Psychic 7 326 Grumpig Psychic -- 326 Grumpig Psychic 7 337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 23 338 Solrock Rock Psychic 23 358 Chimecho Psychic 30 380 Latias Dragon Psychic -- 381 Latios Dragon Psychic -- 429 Mismagius Ghost -- 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

#   Pokémon Type Father 092 Gastly Ghost Poison Misdreavus, Mismagius Chimecho 109 Koffing Poison Misdreavus, Mismagius Chimecho 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 the anime

Mismagius	Exeggutor	Solrock
The foe is attacked with an odd, hot energy wave.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Jynx	Jynx's eyes glow and they raise their hands in the air. The opponent lifts up into the air, and by waving its arms, Jynx can control where the opponent goes.
Santa Claus's Jynx	Holiday Hi-Jynx		Debut
Exeggutor	Exeggutor's eyes glow green and it bends down, shooting a bright ring at the foe from the middle of its leaves.
Mandi's Exeggutor	Round One - Begin!		None
Gastly	Gastly shoots the fog around its body at the foe and the fog morphs into a arrow-like shape.
Officer Jenny's Gastly	Pikachu Re-volts		None
Mr. Mime	Mr. Mime raises its hands then brings them down in the shape of a circle and a white circle appears in front of it. It then shoots the ring at the foe.
Unknown Trainer's Mr. Mime	The Psychic Sidekicks!		None
Solrock	Solrock releases blue waves at the foe.
Brandon's Solrock	Pace - The Final Frontier!		None
Mismagius	Mismagius releases transparent waves at the foe.
Cocoa's Mismagius	Arriving in Style!		None
Fantina's Mismagius	Playing the Leveling Field!		None

In other languages

• French: Vague Psy
• German: Psywelle
• Italian: Psico-onda / Psiconda

This move article is part of Project MoveDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each move.