Psywave (move)

Psywave サイコウェーブ Psychowave

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Battles Type  Psychic Category  Special PP  15 (max. 24) Power  Varies Accuracy  80% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch 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 TM46 in Generation I

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Badly startles all Pokémon that made good appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart 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

Psywave (Japanese: サイコウェーブ Psychowave) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Psywave inflicts a random amount of damage, varying between 0.5× and 1.5× the user's level. The damage can be calculated using the following formula, where X is a randomly generated number between 0 and 10:

(X + 5) × (User's level / 10)

The damage is always rounded down; however, Psywave will always deal at least 1 HP of damage.

In Generation I, the game will freeze if a level 1 Pokémon uses the move, though this error was fixed in later generations. Though it is a Psychic move, Psywave deals typeless damage, taking neither weakness nor resistance into account.

Learnset

Generation I

By TM46

#   Pokémon Type 0012 Butterfree Bug Flying 0035 Clefairy Normal 0036 Clefable Normal 0039 Jigglypuff Normal 0040 Wigglytuff Normal 0048 Venonat Bug Poison 0049 Venomoth Bug Poison 0060 Poliwag Water 0061 Poliwhirl Water 0062 Poliwrath Water Fighting 0063 Abra Psychic 0064 Kadabra Psychic 0065 Alakazam Psychic 0079 Slowpoke Water Psychic 0080 Slowbro Water Psychic 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 0096 Drowzee Psychic 0097 Hypno Psychic 0102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 0113 Chansey Normal 0120 Staryu Water 0121 Starmie Water 0122 Mr. Mime Psychic 0124 Jynx Ice Psychic 0125 Electabuzz Electric 0126 Magmar Fire 0131 Lapras Water Ice 0137 Porygon Normal 0143 Snorlax Normal 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 0151 Mew 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 0200 Misdreavus Ghost -- 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" | 0092 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Gastly
| colspan="1" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0109 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Koffing
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus

|- | 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 0200 Misdreavus Ghost -- 0325 Spoink Psychic 7 0326 Grumpig Psychic 1 0326 Grumpig Psychic 7 0337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 25 0338 Solrock Rock Psychic 25 0358 Chimecho Psychic 30 0380 Latias Dragon Psychic -- 0381 Latios Dragon 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" | 0092 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Gastly
| colspan="1" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus
Chimecho |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0109 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Koffing
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus
Chimecho

|- | 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 0200 Misdreavus Ghost -- 0325 Spoink Psychic 7 0326 Grumpig Psychic -- 0326 Grumpig Psychic 7 0337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 23 0338 Solrock Rock Psychic 23 0358 Chimecho Psychic 30 0380 Latias Dragon Psychic -- 0381 Latios Dragon Psychic -- 0429 Mismagius Ghost -- 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" | 0092 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Gastly
| colspan="1" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus, Mismagius
Chimecho |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0109 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Koffing
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus, Mismagius
Chimecho

|- | 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:Mismagius psywave.png Mismagius File:Exeggutor Psywave.JPG Exeggutor File:Solrock Psywave.png Solrock
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Jynx's eyes glow and they raise their hands in the air. The opponent lifts up into the air, and by waving its arms, Jynx can control where the opponent goes.
Santa Claus's Jynx	Holiday Hi-Jynx		Debut
	Exeggutor's eyes glow green and it bends down, shooting a bright ring at the foe from the middle of its leaves.
Mandi's Exeggutor	Round One - Begin!		None
	Gastly shoots the fog around its body at the foe and the fog morphs into a arrow-like shape.
Officer Jenny's Gastly	Pikachu Re-volts		None
	Mr. Mime raises its hands then brings them down in the shape of a circle and a white circle appears in front of it. It then shoots the ring at the foe.
Unknown Trainer's Mr. Mime	The Psychic Sidekicks!		None
	Solrock releases blue waves at the foe.
Brandon's Solrock	Pace - The Final Frontier!		None
	Mismagius releases transparent waves at the foe.
Fantina's Mismagius	Playing the Leveling Field!		None

In other languages

• French: Vague Psy
• German: Psywelle
• Italian: Psico-onda / Psiconda