Tickle (move)

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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}}}
Target
Foe Foe
Self Ally
May affect either foe, but not the ally
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
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 (Japanese: くすぐる Tickle) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation III.

Contents

Effect

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

In the anime

Pokémon

Whiscash. Whiscash grabs the target with it's whiskers and tickles its target with them.

Mime Jr.. Mime Jr. runs up to its target and starts tickling it.

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.

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 other languages

  • Spanish: Cosquillas
  • Dutch: Kietel
  • Italian: Solletico
  • German: Spasskanone


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