Psywave (move)
Psywave サイコウェーブ Psychowave | ||||||||||||
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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 Template:Type2 Pokémon without using Miracle Eye.
Learnset
Generation I
By TM46
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Generation II
By leveling up
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By breeding
Template:Breedlist
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0092
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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Generation III
By leveling up
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By breeding
Template:Breedlist
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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Generation IV
By leveling up
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By breeding
Template:Breedlist
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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Generation V
By leveling up
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By breeding
Template:Breedlist
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| 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
Solosis, Duosion, Reuniclus
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| 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
Solosis, Duosion, Reuniclus
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| 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.
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In the anime
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The foe is attacked with an odd, hot energy wave. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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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 | |
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, or Mismagius's eyes become surrounded in multicolored energy and it fires a beam of multicolored energy from its eyes 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 | |
Grings Kodai's Mismagius | Zoroark: Master of Illusions | 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
Phantom Thief Pokémon 7
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The user releases a powerful blast of energy at the opponent. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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User | First Chapter Used In | Notes | |
Mismagius glows and shoots a blast of energy at the opponent. | |||
Lily's Mismagius | A Fated Reunion | Debut | |
Mime Jr. glows and shoots a blast of energy at the opponent. | |||
Hiori's Mime Jr. | Lily Regains Her Memories! | Used via mimic |
Pokémon Adventures
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The foe is attacked with an odd, hot energy wave. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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User | First Chapter Used In | Notes | |
Jynx releases a powerful wave of psychic energy from its body that distorts the air around the opponent and creates a horrible sound in the their head. | |||
A 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. When in the spoon form, Mewtwo can fire the energy from the spoon by transforming it into a fork and extending it. | |||
Mewtwo (Adventures) | And Mewtwo Too!? | None | |
Misdreavus releases a beam of energy from its face at the opponent. | |||
Morty's Misdreavus | Misdreavus Misgivings | None | |
Girafarig releases a powerful wave of psychic energy from its antennae that distorts the air around and causes the opponent's head to hurt. | |||
Al's Girafarig | Great Girafarig | None | |
Solrock glares at the opponent and releases a powerful wave of psychic energy at the opponent from its body. | |||
Tate's Solrock | VS. Lunatone & Solrock | None |
Trivia
- Although Mewtwo, as a species, have not been able to learn this move by any means since Generation I, the Mewtwo portrayed in Pokémon Adventures still makes thorough usage of it when it returns in the FireRed & LeafGreen arc.
- The only Pokémon that learn Psywave by breeding are Template:Type2s.
- Koffing and Weezing can learn Psywave through breeding, despite not having been compatible with the TM for the same move in Generation I.
In other languages
- Dutch: Psygotisch
- French: Vague Psy
- German: Psywelle
- Greek: Ψυχοκύμα
- Italian: Psico-onda (Gen I-II), Psiconda (Gen III-present)
- Korean: 사이코웨이브 Psycho Wave
- Spanish: Psico-Onda (Gen I-II), Psicoonda (Gen III-present)
- Serbian: Psihički Talas
Generation I TMs | |
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01 • 02 • 03 • 04 • 05 • 06 • 07 • 08 • 09 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 • 50 | |
Generation I HMs | |
01 • 02 • 03 • 04 • 05 |
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