Sharpen (move)

Sharpen かくばる Improve Angles

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  30 (max. 48) 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

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

Availability Introduced  [[Generation {{{gen}}}]] Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  0   ???

Super Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Earn double the score in the next turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IX

Sharpen is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Sharpen increases the user's attack by 1 level.

Sharpen will do nothing if the user's attack has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999. The effect of Sharpen is ignored by critical hits.

In the anime

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Two Porygon after using Sharpen.

Pokémon

Porygon. Porygon glows white and then its nose gets sharp or it turns into a hammer or a sheld.

• Used by Team Rocket's Porygon and the Porygon that befriended Ash in Electric Soilder Porygon. Debut

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

• Porygon at Lv.--

Generation II

By leveling up

• Porygon at Lv.24

Generation III

By leveling up

• Porygon at Lv.24

Generation IV

By leveling up

• Porygon at Lv.--

In other languages

• Spanish: Afilar
• German: Schärfer