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Assist
ねこのて Cat's Paw
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Type  Normal
Category  Status
PP  20 (max. 32)
Power  —
Accuracy  —%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
  • Does not make contact
  • Not affected by Protect
  • Not affected by Magic Coat
  • Not affected by Snatch
  • Not affected by King's Rock
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
Affects all Pokémon on the field
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
Condition  Cute
Appeal  1
Jam  0  
Changes the appeal points to 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8.
Condition  Cute
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Makes the order of contestants random in the next turn.
Condition  Cute
Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Assist (Japanese: ねこのて Cat's Paw) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Assist calls up a move randomly known by one of the fellow Pokémon in its party and fully executes the attack. An attack called up by Assist counts as the last move used.

If Assist successfully calls Hyper Beam or a partial trapping move and has 0 PP before the move fully executes, its PP can roll over in the same manner as the move is called. If Assist calls Counter, Mirror Coat, or Sketch, it will always fail. A Pokémon will be able to use a move that is disabled in its own moveset if called via Assist.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0300 Skitty Skitty
Normal 19
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" | 0052 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Meowth | style="background: #FFF" | Meowth
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0096 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Drowzee | style="background: #FFF" | Drowzee
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Spinda |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0161 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Sentret | style="background: #FFF" | Sentret
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0327 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Spinda | style="background: #FFF" | Spinda
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty

|- | 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
0300 Skitty Skitty
Normal 19
0300 Skitty Skitty
Normal 22
0431 Glameow Glameow
Normal 29
0432 Purugly Purugly
Normal 29
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" | 0052 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Meowth | style="background: #FFF" | Meowth
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty
Glameow, Purugly |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0096 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Drowzee | style="background: #FFF" | Drowzee
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Spinda |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0161 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Sentret | style="background: #FFF" | Sentret
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty
Glameow, Purugly |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0215 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Sneasel | style="background: #FFF" | Sneasel
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#3DCEF3" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty
Glameow, Purugly |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0327 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Spinda | style="background: #FFF" | Spinda
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty
Glameow, Purugly |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0390 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Chimchar | style="background: #FFF" | Chimchar
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty
Glameow, Purugly

|- | 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.
|} |}

In the anime

The user hurriedly and randomly uses a move among those known by other Pokémon in the party.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
Skitty A white orb appears on Skitty's front paw. Skitty then fires a random move known by the Trainer's team from the orb.
May's Skitty Game Winning Assist Debut


Trivia

  • The original Japanese name for this attack is neko no te (ねこのて), which literally means "cat's paw". However, this is probably a play on words; the attack calls for the assistance of a random team member's attack to help defeat the opponent. In Japanese, there is a saying for when assistance is greatly needed; "neko no te mo karitai" (猫の手も借りたい), or "I would even like to borrow a cat's hands / I would even like a cat to assist me", or "I need all the help I can get". And since the only Pokémon who can use this move by leveling up are cat-like (with an animation of scattered cat pawprints), it displays a double meaning.

In other languages

  • Spanish: Ayuda
  • German: Zuschuss
  • Italian: Assistente
  • Hindi: Madad
  • Brazilian Portuguese: Auxílio
  • Dutch: Bijstand

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