Sweet Kiss (move)

Sweet Kiss てんしのキッス Angel's Kiss

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  75% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

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

Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   Makes all Pokémon after the user nervous.

Super Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Sweet Kiss (Japanese: てんしのキッス Angel's Kiss) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Sweet Kiss causes the target to become confused.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0172 Pichu Electric 11 0173 Cleffa Normal 13 0174 Igglybuff Normal 14 0175 Togepi Normal 18 0176 Togetic Normal Flying 18 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 9 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 event

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0029 Nidoran♀ Poison New York City Pokémon Center 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison New York City Pokémon Center 0060 Poliwag Water New York City Pokémon Center 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison New York City Pokémon Center 0143 Snorlax Normal New York City Pokémon Center 0193 Yanma Bug Flying New York City Pokémon Center 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 0172 Pichu Electric 11 0173 Cleffa Normal 13 0174 Igglybuff Normal 14 0175 Togepi Normal 11 0175 Togepi Normal 9 0176 Togetic Normal Flying 18 0176 Togetic Normal Flying -- 0176 Togetic Normal Flying 9 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 9 0370 Luvdisc Water 36 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 purification

#   Pokémon Type Game 0113 Chansey Normal XD 0301 Delcatty Normal XD 0315 Roselia Grass Poison XD 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 event

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0060 Poliwag Water Events 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 0172 Pichu Electric 13 0173 Cleffa Normal 10 0174 Igglybuff Normal 13 0175 Togepi Normal 10 0176 Togetic Normal Flying -- 0176 Togetic Normal Flying 10 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 8 0370 Luvdisc Water 27 0417 Pachirisu Electric 25 0440 Happiny Normal 12 0492 Shaymin Grass 82 0492 Shaymin Grass 82 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" | 0311 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Plusle
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Togetic, Togekiss
Pachirisu |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0312 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Minun
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Togetic, Togekiss
Pachirisu |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0427 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Buneary
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Pikachu, Raichu
Pachirisu |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0456 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Finneon
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Luvdisc

|- | 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0172 Pichu Electric 13 0173 Cleffa Normal 10 0174 Igglybuff Normal 13 0175 Togepi Normal 10 0176 Togetic Normal Flying -- 10 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 8 0370 Luvdisc Water 37 0417 Pachirisu Electric 29 0440 Happiny Normal 12 0492 Shaymin Grass 82 0492 Shaymin Grass 82 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" | 0311 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Plusle
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" |



|- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0312 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Minun
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" |



|- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0427 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Buneary
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" |
|- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0456 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Finneon
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0531 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Tabunne | style="background: #FFF" | Tabunne
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" |

|- | 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

File:Sweet kiss smoochum.png Smoochum File:Pachirisu Sweet Kiss.png Pachirisu File:Piplup Sweet Kiss.png Getting hit File:Piplup Sweet Kiss 2.png Getting confused
The user kisses the foe with a sweet, angelic cuteness that causes confusion.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Smoochum blows kisses at the opponent and releases multiple pink hearts, stunning them.
Brad Van Darn's Smoochum	The Screen Actor's Guilt		Debut
Unknown Trainer's Josephine	One Trick Phony!		None
A Coordinator's Smoochum	Dawn's Early Night!		None
A Smoochum Jessie used briefly	Camping it Up!		None
Coordinator's Smoochum	Old Rivals, New Tricks!		None
	Igglybuff blows a kiss at the opponent and releases a pink heart that confuses them.
Brittany's Gigglybiff	Same Old Song and Dance		None
Brittany's Gigglybuff	Same Old Song and Dance		None
	Jynx blows kisses at the opponent, making pink lips come out of Jynx's lips and hit the opponent.
Nurse Joy's Jynx	The Ice Cave!		None
	Luvdisc's mouth glows pink and releases a pink heart from it at the opponent, confusing it.
Daisy's Luverin	Luvdisc is a Most Splendored Thing!		None
Juan's Luvdisc	The Great Eight Fate!		None
	Pachirisu blows a kiss at the opponent, releasing a pink heart at it. When the heart hits the opponent, the opponent becomes confused.
Dawn's Pachirisu	Twice Smitten, Once Shy!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Cleffa and Igglybuff
The user kisses the opponent, causing it to become confused.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Cleffa kisses the opponent on the cheek, causing it to become dizzy.
Whitney's Fafa	Kiss Away Cleffa! Igglybuff!		Debut
	Igglybuff kisses the opponent on the cheek, causing it to become dizzy.
Whitney's Buff Buff	Kiss Away Cleffa! Igglybuff!		Debut

Trivia

Its animation correlates to its Japanese name in which an angel floats down and kisses the opponent.

In other languages

• Dutch: Zoete Kus
• French: Doux Baiser
• German: Bitterkuss
• Greek: Αγγελικό Φιλί
• Italian: Dolcebacio
• Korean: 천사의키스 Cheonsa-yi Kiss
• Polish: Pocałunek
• Portuguese (European): Beijo Doce
• Spanish: Beso Dulce
• Serbian: Sladak Poljubac

Variations of the move Lovely Kiss
Lovely Kiss • Sleep Powder • Sweet Kiss Formerly a variation Will-O-Wisp

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.