Feint (move)

Feint フェイント Feint

Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  50 Accuracy  100% Priority  +2 Does not make contact Not 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 IV Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jam  0   Points awarded = 4 minus Current judge voltage

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Raises the score if the Voltage is low.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Feint (Japanese: フェイント Feint) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Feint inflicts damage, but only strikes a target that has used Protect or Detect during that turn, lifting the effects of Protect or Detect for the remainder of the turn in a double battle. Feint is an increased priority move, and attacks after Protect and Detect, but before other increased priority attacks.

In the anime

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• Heracross using Feint on Elekid.
  Heracross using Feint on Elekid.

Pokémon

Heracross. Heracross's long horn glows white. Heracross then charges towards its opponent, ending the foe's Protect or Detect.

• Used by Conway's Heracross in Smells Like Team Spirit. Debut.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0025 Pikachu Electric 29 0052 Meowth Normal 54 0053 Persian Normal 68 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying 43 0106 Hitmonlee Fighting 25 0107 Hitmonchan Fighting 21 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 43 0141 Kabutops Rock Water -- 0212 Scizor Bug Steel 61 0214 Heracross Bug Fighting 49 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 20 0237 Hitmontop Fighting 33 0307 Meditite Fighting Psychic 22 0308 Medicham Fighting Psychic 22 0319 Sharpedo Water Dark -- 0328 Trapinch Ground 81 0352 Kecleon Normal 14 0359 Absol Dark -- 0391 Monferno Fire Fighting 26 0392 Infernape Fire Fighting 29 0434 Stunky Poison Dark 18 0435 Skuntank Poison Dark 18 0447 Riolu Fighting 15 0448 Lucario Fighting Steel 15 0469 Yanmega Bug Flying 38 0475 Gallade Psychic Fighting 39 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" | 0127 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pinsir
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Scyther, Scizor
Heracross
Trapinch, Vibrava, Flygon
Yanmega |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0207 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Gligar
| colspan="1" style="background:#915121; text-align: center;" | Ground || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Scyther, Scizor
Heracross
Trapinch, Vibrava, Flygon
Yanmega |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0255 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Torchic
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Pikachu, Raichu
Monferno, Infernape
Lucario |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0453 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Croagunk
| colspan="1" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison || style="background:#FF8000" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Fighting | style="background: #FFF" | Lucario

|- | 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

• Despite being a Normal-type move, no Normal-type Pokémon were able to learn it by leveling up until the release of Pokémon Platinum.

In other languages

• Spanish: Amago
• Italian: Fintoattacco.
• German: Offenlegung