Psywave (move)

Psywave サイコウェーブ Psychowave

File:Psywave.png

Battles Type  Psychic Category  Special PP  15 (max. 24) Power  Varies Accuracy  80% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

Availability Introduced  Generation I TM46 in Generation I

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

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

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Psywave (Japanese: サイコウェーブ Psychowave) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 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, though it still cannot hit dark-type Pokémon without using Miracle Eye.

Learnset

Generation I

By TM46

#   Pokémon Type 0012 Butterfree Bug Flying 0035 Clefairy Normal 0036 Clefable Normal 0039 Jigglypuff Normal 0040 Wigglytuff Normal 0048 Venonat Bug Poison 0049 Venomoth Bug Poison 0060 Poliwag Water 0061 Poliwhirl Water 0062 Poliwrath Water Fighting 0063 Abra Psychic 0064 Kadabra Psychic 0065 Alakazam Psychic 0079 Slowpoke Water Psychic 0080 Slowbro Water Psychic 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 0096 Drowzee Psychic 0097 Hypno Psychic 0102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 0113 Chansey Normal 0120 Staryu Water 0121 Starmie Water Psychic 0122 Mr. Mime Psychic 0124 Jynx Ice Psychic 0125 Electabuzz Electric 0126 Magmar Fire 0131 Lapras Water Ice 0137 Porygon Normal 0143 Snorlax Normal 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 0151 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 0200 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

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0092 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Gastly
| colspan="1" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0109 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Koffing
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus

|- | colspan="6" | 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 0200 Misdreavus Ghost -- 0325 Spoink Psychic 7 0326 Grumpig Psychic -- 7 0337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 25 0338 Solrock Rock Psychic 25 0358 Chimecho Psychic 30 0380 Latias Dragon Psychic -- 0381 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

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0092 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Gastly
| colspan="1" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus
Chimecho |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0109 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Koffing
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus
Chimecho

|- | colspan="6" | 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 0200 Misdreavus Ghost -- 0325 Spoink Psychic 7 0326 Grumpig Psychic -- 7 0337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 23 0338 Solrock Rock Psychic 23 0358 Chimecho Psychic 30 0380 Latias Dragon Psychic -- 0381 Latios Dragon Psychic -- 0429 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

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0092 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Gastly
| colspan="1" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus, Mismagius
Chimecho |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0109 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Koffing
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus, Mismagius
Chimecho

|- | colspan="6" | 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0200 Misdreavus Ghost -- 0325 Spoink Psychic 7 0326 Grumpig Psychic -- 7 0337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 23 0338 Solrock Rock Psychic 23 0358 Chimecho Psychic 30 0380 Latias Dragon Psychic -- 0381 Latios Dragon Psychic -- 0429 Mismagius Ghost -- 0517 Munna Psychic -- 0561 Shinpora Shinpora Psychic Flying 8 0577 Yuniran Yuniran Psychic -- 0578 Daburan Daburan Psychic -- 0579 Rankurusu Rankurusu 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.

In the anime

File:Mismagius psywave.png Mismagius File:Exeggutor Psywave.png Exeggutor File:Solrock Psywave.png Solrock File:Mismagius Psywave.png Mismagius
The foe is attacked with an odd, hot energy wave.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Jynx's eyes glow and it raises its hands in the air. The opponent then lifts up into the air, and by waving its arms, Jynx can control wherever the opponent goes.
Santa Claus's Jynx	Holiday Hi-Jynx		Debut
	Exeggutor's eyes glow green and it bends down, firing a white ring at the opponent from the middle of its leaves.
Mandi's Exeggutor	Round One - Begin!		None
	Gastly shoots the fog around its body at the opponent and the fog morphs into a arrow-like shape that hits the opponent.
Officer Jenny's Gastly	Pikachu Re-Volts		None
	Golduck's eyes glow light blue, and it charges a white sphere from the jewel on its forehead, which it fires at the opponent.
A wild Golduck	By Bye Psyduck		Golduck cannot legally learn Psywave.
	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 fires the ring at the opponent.
Unknown Trainer's Mr. Mime	The Psychic Sidekicks!		None
	Solrock's body becomes outlined in light blue, and its eyes also glow light blue. Solrock then fires light blue rings at the opponent from its body.
Brandon's Solrock	Pace - The Final Frontier!		None
	Mismagius's outlines glow light blue and it releases a wave of energy out of its body. When it hits the opponent, its body glows multicolored at Mismagius can control the opponent, or Mismagius's body becomes outlined in light blue and it fires invisible or light blue shockwaves at the opponent from its body, or the gems on Mismagius's body glow pink and its body becomes outlined in light blue. It then fires multiple light blue tentacles from the outline at the opponent.
Cocoa's Mismagius	Arriving in Style!		None
Fantina's Mismagius	Playing the Leveling Field!		None
Zoey's Mismagius	Coming Full - Festival Circle!		None
	Chimecho's body becomes outlined in light blue and it releases multiple light blue rings from its mouth at the opponent.
Maya's Chimecho	Mastering Current Events!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Jynx Mewtwo
The foe is attacked with an odd, hot energy wave.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Jynx releases a powerful wave of psychic energy that distorts the air around them and creates a horrible sound in the opponent's head.
Team Rocket grunt's Jynx	The Jynx Jinx		Debut
	Mewtwo releases a powerful tornado from its body that traps the opponent inside, or Mewtwo creates a spoon out of psychic energy and hits the opponent with it.
Mewtwo (Adventures)	And Mewtwo Too!?		None

In other languages

• Dutch: Psygotisch
• French: Vague Psy
• German: Psywelle
• Greek: Ψυχοκύμα
• Italian: Psico-onda / Psiconda
• Spanish: Psico-Onda / Psicoonda