Lick (move)

Lick したでなめる Tongue Lick

Battles Type  Ghost Category  Physical PP  30 (max. 48) Power  20 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Makes 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 I Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  4 ♥♥♥♥ Badly startles the Pokémon in front.

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

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Tough Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Lick (Japanese: したでなめる Tongue Lick) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Lick inflicts damage and has a 29.7% chance of paralyzing the target. Lick cannot paralyze a target that has a Substitute or already has a major status ailment.

Generation II

Same as Generation I; however, there is a 30% chance of paralysis instead.

In the anime

• Lickilicky Lick.JPG

  Baron Alberto's Lickilicky using Lick to catch Alice.

Pokémon

Haunter. Haunter extends its tongue and licks the opponent.

• Used by Ash's Haunter from The Tower of Terror to Haunter Versus Kadabra. Debut.

Lickitung. Lickitung licks the opponent with its long tongue, usually causing paralysis.

• Used by Jessie's Lickitung from Princess vs Princess to ???.
• Used by Morty's Haunter in Ghost to Ghost.

Gengar. Gengar licks the opponent with its tongue.

• Used by a giant Gengar in The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis.

Gastly. Gastly extends its tongue to an incredible length and strikes the opponent with it.

• Used by Captain's Gastly in A Shipful of Shivers.
• Used by Morty's Gastly in Ghost to Ghost.

Kecleon. Kecleon extends its long tongue and licks the opponent.

• Used by in Madison and Alexa's two Kecleon in The Kecleon Caper.

Lickilicky. Lickilicky sticks out its long tongue and licks the opponent.

• Used by Baron Alberto's Lickilicky in The Rise of Darkrai to catch Alice from falling of the edge of a wall.
• Used by Baron Alberto in The Rise of Darkrai when he was transformed into a Lickilicky.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison -- 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison -- 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison -- 0124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 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 II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison -- 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison -- 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison -- 0108 Lickitung Normal -- 0124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 0209 Snubbull Normal 19 0210 Granbull Normal 19 0216 Teddiursa Normal 8 0217 Ursaring Normal -- 8 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic -- 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" | 0086 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Seel
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull, Granbull
Teddiursa, Ursaring |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0088 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Gastly, Haunter, Gengar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0143 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snorlax
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Lickitung |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0209 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull, Granbull
Teddiursa, Ursaring

|- | 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison -- 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison -- 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison -- 0108 Lickitung Normal -- 0124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 0209 Snubbull Normal 19 0210 Granbull Normal 19 0216 Teddiursa Normal 7 0217 Ursaring Normal -- 7 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic -- 0336 Seviper Poison 7 0352 Kecleon Normal -- 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" | 0086 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Seel
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull, Granbull
Teddiursa, Ursaring
Seviper
Kecleon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0088 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Gastly, Haunter, Gengar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0143 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snorlax
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Lickitung

|- | 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison -- 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison -- 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison -- 0108 Lickitung Normal -- 0124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 5 0143 Snorlax Normal 12 0209 Snubbull Normal 13 0210 Granbull Normal 13 0216 Teddiursa Normal 7 0217 Ursaring Normal -- 7 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 5 0336 Seviper Poison 7 0352 Kecleon Normal -- 0446 Munchlax Normal 12 0463 Lickilicky Normal -- 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" | 0086 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Seel
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull, Granbull
Teddiursa, Ursaring
Seviper
Kecleon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0088 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Gastly, Haunter, Gengar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0143 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snorlax
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Lickitung, Lickilicky |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0446 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Munchlax
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Lickitung, Lickilicky

|- | 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

Lick is the only Ghost move in Generation I that is affected by type match-ups.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Lambida
• French: Léchouille
• German: Schlecker
• Spanish: Lengüetazo
• Italian: Leccata