Tickle (move)

Tickle くすぐる Tickle

The user tickles the foe into laughing, reducing its Attack and Defense stats.

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  100% 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 either foe, but not the ally

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

Contests Category  Cute Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0 Worsens the condition of those that made appeals.

Super Contests Category  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Tickle on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Tickle on Eevee's Movedex

Tickle (Japanese: くすぐる Tickle) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Tickle reduces the target's Attack and Defense stat by one stat level each.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 114 Tangela Grass 46 138 Omanyte Rock Water 43 139 Omastar Rock Water 46 190 Aipom Normal 25 340 Whiscash Water Ground -- 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 131 Lapras Water Ice Omanyte, Omastar 133 Eevee Normal Aipom 263 Zigzagoon Normal Aipom 298 Azurill Normal Omanyte, Omastar 300 Skitty Normal Aipom Whiscash 303 Mawile Steel Aipom 320 Wailmer Water Aipom Whiscash 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.

By event

#   Pokémon Type Obtained in 174 IgglybuffLv 5 Normal PokéPark Events 360 WynautLv 5 Psychic PokéPark Events 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 114 Tangela Grass 47 138 Omanyte Rock Water 43 139 Omastar Rock Water 48 190 Aipom Normal 15 340 Whiscash Water Ground -- 424 Ambipom Normal 15 439 Mime Jr. Psychic -- 465 Tangrowth Grass 47 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 043 Oddish Grass Poison Tangela, Tangrowth 069 Bellsprout Grass Poison Tangela, Tangrowth 098 Krabby Water Omanyte, Omastar 131 Lapras Water Ice Omanyte, Omastar 133 Eevee Normal Aipom, Ambipom 172 Pichu Electric Aipom, Ambipom 263 Zigzagoon Normal Aipom, Ambipom 270 Lotad Grass Water Tangela, Tangrowth Omanyte, Omastar 298 Azurill Normal Omanyte, Omastar 300 Skitty Normal Aipom, Ambipom 303 Mawile Steel Aipom, Ambipom 320 Wailmer Water Aipom, Ambipom Whiscash 345 Lileep Rock Water Omanyte, Omastar 349 Feebas Water Omanyte, Omastar 387 Turtwig Grass Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel Tangela , Tangrowth Lapras Lotad, Lombre, Ludicolo Cherubi, Cherrim 420 Cherubi Grass Tangela, Tangrowth 456 Finneon Water Wailmer, Wailord Whiscash 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

	Mime Jr.	Mime Jr.
The user tickles the foe into laughing.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Whiscash	Whiscash tickles the opponent with its whiskers.
Juan's Whiscash	Eight Ain't Enough		None
Mime Jr.	Mime Jr. tickles the opponent with its hands, or Mime Jr. makes tickling gestures in the air and blue energy comes off its body and tickles the opponent.
James's Mime Jr.	Spontaneous Combusken!		None

In other languages

• Spanish: Cosquillas
• Dutch: Kietel
• Italian: Solletico
• European Portuguese: Cócegas
• German: Spasskanone

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