Copycat (move)

Copycat まねっこ Imitate

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 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 Self: Affects the user

Availability Introduced  Generation IV Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jam  0   Receives voltage points if previous Pokémon reaches maximum voltage

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Steals the Voltage of the Pokémon that just went.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Copycat (Japanese: まねっこ Imitate) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Copycat causes the user to use the last move that the target used. A move called by Copycat in this way counts as the last move used.

Copycat will fail if the target did not make a move selection in the round before the use of Copycat, switches out during the round Copycat is used, or if the opponent's last move used was Copycat or Mirror Move. (Note that if either was used successfully, the move copied by that will be the most recent move used, and so that move will be copied by this use of Copycat.)

Paralysis, confusion, recharging, and building up for a multi-turn move have no effect to the last move used. If Copycat is used against a target that was fully paralyzed or hurt itself right before its use, Copycat will still use the last move that the target used. If Copycat is used during the first turn of a multi-turn move, Copycat will use the move that the opponent used before that move (or fail if no move was previously made).

A Pokémon will be able to use a move that is disabled if it is called via Copycat.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0122 Mr. Mime Psychic 4 0173 Cleffa Normal 13 0174 Igglybuff Normal 17 0185 Sudowoodo Rock -- 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 38 0300 Skitty Normal 11 0300 Skitty Normal 18 0311 Plusle Electric 24 0312 Minun Electric 24 0327 Spinda Normal 10 0438 Bonsly Rock -- 0439 Mime Jr. Psychic 4 0440 Happiny Normal 5 0447 Riolu Fighting 29 0481 Mesprit Psychic 61 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0122 Mr. Mime Psychic 4 0173 Cleffa Normal 13 0174 Igglybuff Normal 17 0185 Sudowoodo Rock -- 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 41 0300 Skitty Normal 18 0311 Plusle Electric 24 0312 Minun Electric 24 0327 Spinda Normal 10 0438 Bonsly Rock -- 0439 Mime Jr. Psychic 4 0440 Happiny Normal 5 0447 Riolu Fighting 29 0481 Mesprit Psychic 61 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" | 0427 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Buneary
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0501 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Mijumaru | style="background: #FFF" | Mijumaru
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | 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 other languages

• French: Photocopie
• German: Imitator
• Greek: Αντιγραφή
• Italian: Copione
• Korean: 흉내쟁이 Hyungnaejaeng'i
• Spanish: Copión

Variations of the move Mirror Move
Mirror Move • Copycat