Hold Back (move): Difference between revisions

Hold Back てかげん Go Easy

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  40 (max. 64) Power  40 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation VI Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jamming  0   Makes the audience quickly grow bored when an appeal move has little effect.

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Hold Back (Japanese: てかげん Go Easy) is a damage-dealing Normal-type event-exclusive move introduced in Generation VI.

Effect

Hold Back inflicts damage, but will leave the target with 1 HP if it would otherwise cause it to faint. If the target has 1 HP remaining, Hold Back will hit and leave the target at 1 HP.

If used against a substitute, Hold Back is able to break it and will not leave the substitute with 1 HP.

Description

Learnset

Special move

Generation VI

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0251 Celebi Psychic Grass Pokémon Bank Celebi Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Event move

Generation VI

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0179 Mareep Electric National Pokédex Mareep 0374 Beldum Steel Psychic Steven's Beldum 0497 Serperior Grass Hidden Ability Present Serperior 0500 Emboar Fire Fighting Hidden Ability Present Emboar 0503 Samurott Water Hidden Ability Present Samurott Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Trivia

• Hold Back was first revealed on the December 18, 2013 episode of Nintendo Direct.

In other languages

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Language Title Chinese Cantonese 手下留情 Sáuhah Làuhchìhng Mandarin 手下留情 Shǒuxià Liúqíng French Retenue German Zurückhaltung Italian Riguardo Korean 적당히손봐주기 Jeokdanghisonbwajugi Russian Воздержание Spanish Clemencia

Variations of the move False Swipe
False Swipe • Hold Back

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