Acupressure (move)
| Acupressure つぼをつく Point Strike | ||||||||||||
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Acupressure (Japanese: つぼをつく Point Strike) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.
Effect
Acupressure chooses one of the user's Stats at random and raises it by two stages. It can raise either the user's Attack, Defense, Speed, Special Attack, Special Defense, Accuracy or Evasion stat. Acupressure will fail if the user is under the effects of Substitute.
In a double battle, Acupressure may also be used on an ally to raise one of its stats chosen at random.
Generation V
Acupressure no longer fails if the user is under the effects of Substitute.
Learnset
Generation IV
By leveling up
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By breeding
Template:Breedlist
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0072
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| style="background: #FFF" | Tentacool
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison
| style="background: #FFF" | Skorupi, Drapion
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0213
| style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | 
| style="background: #FFF" | Shuckle
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock
| style="background: #FFF" | Skorupi, Drapion
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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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Trivia
- As of Generation IV, Acupressure is the only move that can raise the user's Accuracy.
In other languages
- Spanish: Acupresión
- Italian: Acupressione
