Soak (move)

This article is about the move Soak. For the Field Move in Pokémon Ranger games, see Field Move.

Soak みずびたし Waterlog

File:Soak.png

Battles Type  Water Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat 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 V 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  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Soak (Japanese: みずびたし Waterlog) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation V.

Effect

Soak changes the target's type to Water, the effect lasts until the target switches out. Soak does not affect Pokémon with the ability Multitype.

Learnset

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0054 Psyduck Water 35 0055 Golduck Water 37 0118 Goldeen Water 51 0119 Seaking Water 63 0223 Remoraid Water 49 0224 Octillery Water 61 0279 Pelipper Water Flying -- 0456 Finneon Water 54 0457 Lumineon Water 66 0550 Basculin Water 32 0550 Basculin Water 32 0594 Alomomola Water 33 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" | 0298 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Azurill
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Psyduck, Golduck
Remoraid, Octillery
Alomomola |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0320 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Wailmer
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Goldeen, Seaking
Remoraid, Octillery
Finneon, Lumineon
Basculin
Alomomola

|- | 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. |} |}

Trivia

• Azurill is the only non-Water-type Pokémon to learn this move.
  • However, it does evolve into a Water-type Pokémon.
• Pelipper is the only dual-type Pokémon able to learn Soak.

In other languages

• French: Detrempage
• German: Überflutung
• Italian: Inondazione
• Spanish: Anegar

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