Soft-Boiled (move)

Softboiled タマゴうみ Egg Lay

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock Usable outside of battle

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Self: Affects the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I TM41 in Generation I Move Tutor in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Move Tutor in Pokémon Emerald

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   A highly appealing move.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Increased Voltage is added to the performance score.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty 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

Softboiled (Japanese: タマゴうみ Egg Lay) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. Notably, when contained in TM41, it was the least-usable TM as it was only useable on two Pokémon. Prior to Generation III, it was the signature move of Chansey and Blissey. It was later "reinstated" as their signature move in Generation IV.

Effect

In battle

Softboiled restores up to 50% of the user's current HP.

Softboiled will fail if the difference between the user's current and maximum HP is 0, or if (user's maximum HP - user's current HP) mod 256 = 255. If the user's current HP is greater than its maximum HP, Softboiled will set the user's current HP to equal its maximum HP.

In Stadium, Softboiled will fail only when the difference between the user's current and maximum HP is 0.

Outside of battle

Similar to Milk Drink, Softboiled can also be used outside of battle to take away some HP from the user and restore another party Pokémon's HP.

Learnset

Generation I

By TM41

#   Pokémon Type 0113 Chansey Normal 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 0113 Chansey Normal 13 0242 Blissey Normal 10 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0113 Chansey Normal 13 0242 Blissey Normal 10 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 move tutor

In Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, and Emerald

#   Pokémon Type 0035 Clefairy Normal 0036 Clefable Normal 0113 Chansey Normal 0151 Mew Psychic 0173 Cleffa Normal 0175 Togepi Normal 0176 Togetic Normal Flying 0242 Blissey Normal 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0113 Chansey Normal 12 0242 Blissey Normal 12 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0113 Chansey Normal 16 0242 Blissey Normal 16 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:Chansey Softboiled.png Chansey File:Softboiled heal.png Healing
The user produces a glowing egg that enters its target, healing it.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Chansey produces a yellow, glowing egg that enters its target body making it outlined in yellow, healing it.
Brock's Chansey	DP190		Debut

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Adventures Chansey Softboiled.png Chansey
The user fires an egg into the air and it explodes, healing the target.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Chansey fires the egg in its pouch into the air. The egg then explodes, and the dust from it circles around the target, healing it. A new egg takes its place as soon as Chansey fires the egg.
Daisy's Chansey	Take a Chance on Chansey		Debut

Trivia

• Mew is the only non-Normal type to learn Softboiled, and can only learn Softboiled by TM or move tutor.
• Clefairy and Clefable are capable of learning Softboiled via move tutor in Generation III, but are incompatible with the TM in Generation I.
• Although Softboiled is available in Emerald as a move tutor move, no Pokémon obtainable in the game can learn it without the use of trading or a certain event item used to catch Mew.

In other languages

• Dutch: Zachtgekookt
• French: E-Coque
• Greek: Μελάτη Θεραπεία
• German: Weichei
• Italian: Covauova
• Korean: 알낳기 Alnaki
• Spanish: Amortiguador

Variations of the move Recover
Recover • Soft-Boiled • Milk Drink • Slack Off • Heal Order • Roost