SmellingSalt (move)

SmellingSalt きつけ Resuscitation

This attack inflicts double damage on a paralyzed foe. It also cures the foe's paralysis, however.

Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  60 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not 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 III Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  3 ♥♥♥ Startles the Pokémon that appealed before the user.

Super Contests Category  Smart Appeal  0 Raises the score if the Voltage is low.

SmellingSalt on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex SmellingSalt on Eevee's Movedex

SmellingSalt (Japanese: きつけ Resuscitation) is a damage dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

SmellingSalt deals damage and will have double the power on a target that is paralyzed. It will also cure the target of paralysis.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 296 Makuhita Fighting 31 297 Hariyama Fighting 33 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 056 Mankey Fighting Snubbull, Granbull Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken Whismur, Loudred, Exploud Spinda 066 Machop Fighting Makuhita, Hariyama Spinda 108 Lickitung Normal Whismur, Loudred, Exploud Aron, Lairon, Aggron 209 Snubbull Normal Mankey, Primeape Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken Whismur, Loudred, Exploud Spinda 255 Torchic Fire Mankey, Primeape Snubbull, Granbull Whismur, Loudred, Exploud Spinda 293 Whismur* Normal Mankey, Primeape Lickitung Snubbull, Granbull Aron, Lairon, Aggron Spinda 304 Aron Steel Rock Lickitung Whismur, Loudred, Exploud 327 Spinda Normal Mankey, Primeape Machop, Machoke, Machamp Snubbull, Granbull Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken Whismur, Loudred, Exploud Makuhita, Hariyama 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 296 Makuhita Fighting 22 297 Hariyama Fighting 22 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 056 Mankey Fighting Snubbull, Granbull Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken Whismur, Loudred, Exploud Spinda 066 Machop Fighting Makuhita, Hariyama Spinda Cacnea, Cacturne 108 Lickitung Normal Whismur, Loudred, Exploud Aron, Lairon, Aggron 209 Snubbull Normal Mankey, Primeape Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken Whismur, Loudred, Exploud Spinda 255 Torchic Fire Mankey, Primeape Snubbull, Granbull Whismur, Loudred, Exploud Spinda 293 Whismur* Normal Mankey, Primeape Lickitung, Lickilicky Snubbull, Granbull Aron, Lairon, Aggron Spinda 304 Aron Steel Rock Lickitung, Lickilicky Whismur, Loudred, Exploud 327 Spinda Normal Mankey, Primeape Machop, Machoke, Machamp Snubbull, Granbull Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken Whismur, Loudred, Exploud Makuhita, Hariyama Cacnea, Cacturne 331 Cacnea Grass Machop, Machoke, Machamp Makuhita, Hariyama Spinda Croagunk, Toxicroak 453 Croagunk Poison Fighting Machop, Machoke, Machamp Makuhita, Hariyama Spinda Cacnea, Cacturne 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.

Trivia

• Despite real-life smelling salts restoring consciousness, SmellingSalt cures paralysis. Another move, Wake-Up Slap, does this instead.

In other languages

• German: Riechsalz
• Italian: Maniereforti

Variations on the move SmellingSalt
	SmellingSalt | Wake-Up Slap

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