Acupressure (move)

Acupressure つぼをつく Point Strike

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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 Your Party: Affects the user and all allies

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

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jam  0   Points of next appeal doubles

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

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Acupressure (Japanese: つぼをつく Point Strike) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Generation IV

Acupressure chooses one of the user's Stats at random and raises it by two stages. It can raise either the user's Attack, Defense, Speed, Special Attack, Special Defense, Accuracy or Evasion stat. Acupressure will fail if the user is under the effects of Substitute.

In a double battle, Acupressure may also be used on an ally to raise one of its stats chosen at random.

Generation V

Acupressure no longer fails if the user or target is under the effects of Substitute.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0084 Doduo Normal Flying 28 0085 Dodrio Normal Flying 28 0451 Skorupi Poison Bug 17 0452 Drapion Poison Dark 17 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" | 0072 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Tentacool
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Skorupi, Drapion |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0213 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Shuckle
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Skorupi, Drapion

|- | 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0084 Doduo Normal Flying 28 0085 Dodrio Normal Flying 28 0307 Meditite Fighting Psychic 39 0308 Medicham Fighting Psychic 42 0451 Skorupi Poison Bug 17 0452 Drapion Poison Dark 17 0556 Marakacchi Marakacchi Grass 29 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" | 0072 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Tentacool
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Skorupi, Drapion |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0213 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Shuckle
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Skorupi, Drapion |- | 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" | Meditite, Medicham

|- | 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: Acupression
• German: Akupressur
• Greek: Πιεσοθεραπεία
• Italian: Acupressione
• Korean: 경혈찌르기 Gyeonghyeol Jjireugi
• Spanish: Acupresión
• Serbian: Akupritisak