Heal Pulse (move)

Heal Pulse いやしのはどう Healing Wave

File:Heal Pulse.png

Battles Type  Psychic Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) 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

Heal Pulse (Japanese: いやしのはどう Healing Wave) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation V.

Effect

Heal Pulse restores up to 50% of the target's current HP. It will fail if the target's HP stat is already full or if it is behind a Substitute. Heal Pulse can hit non-adjacent targets in triple battles.

Learnset

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0079 Slowpoke Water Psychic 58 0080 Slowbro Water Psychic 68 0113 Chansey Normal 38 0199 Slowking Water Psychic 58 0242 Blissey Normal 38 0280 Ralts Psychic 23 0281 Kirlia Psychic 25 0282 Gardevoir Psychic 25 0358 Chimecho Psychic 49 0380 Latias Dragon Psychic 65 0381 Latios Dragon Psychic 65 0448 Lucario Fighting Steel 42 0475 Gallade Psychic Fighting 25 0531 Audino Normal 35 0594 Alomomola Water 17 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" | 0152 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Chikorita
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0370 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Luvdisc
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0420 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cherubi
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | 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:Audino Heal Pulse.png Audino
The users unleashes a healing pulse of energy
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Audino creates a ball of energy in its hands that explodes into a soothing wave.
Nurse Joy's Audino	BW022		Debut

Trivia

• Along with Present and Pain Split, Heal Pulse is one of three moves that can heal the opponent.
  • However, this is the only one of the three that is guaranteed to heal the opponent.

In other languages

• French: Vibra Soin
• German: Heilwoge
• Italian: Ondasana
• Spanish: Pulso Cura

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