Soft-Boiled (move)

Softboiled タマゴうみ Egg Lay

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) 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 Usable outside of battle

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Self: Affects the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I TM41 in Generation I Move Tutor in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Move Tutor in Pokémon Emerald

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   A highly appealing move.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Increased Voltage is added to the performance score.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty 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

Softboiled (Japanese: タマゴうみ Egg Lay) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. Notably, when contained in TM41, it was the least-usable TM as it was only useable on two Pokémon. It is the signature move of Chansey and Blissey.

Effect

In battle

Softboiled restores up to 50% of the user's current HP.

Softboiled will fail if the difference between the user's current and maximum HP is 0, or if (user's maximum HP - user's current HP) mod 256 = 255. If the user's current HP is greater than its maximum HP, Softboiled will set the user's current HP to equal its maximum HP.

In Stadium, Softboiled will fail only when the difference between the user's current and maximum HP is 0.

Outside of battle

Similar to Milk Drink, Softboiled can also be used outside of battle to take away some HP from the user and restore another party Pokémon's HP.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
113		Chansey	Normal		Normal				13			13			12				16			'
242		Blissey	Normal		Normal				10			10			12				16			'
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By TM41

#	Pokémon		Type		Machine
					I TM41		II --		III --		IV --		V --		VI TM08
113		Chansey	Normal		Normal	✔															✔
151		Mew	Psychic		Psychic	✔															✔
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By move tutor

In Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, and Emerald

#   Pokémon Type 0035 Clefairy Normal 0036 Clefable Normal 0113 Chansey Normal 0151 Mew Psychic 0173 Cleffa Normal 0175 Togepi Normal 0176 Togetic Normal Flying 0242 Blissey 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.

In the anime

Chansey File:Softboiled heal.png Healing
The user produces a glowing egg that enters its target, healing it.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	The egg in Chansey's pouch glows yellow and it raises its arms into the air. When it does, a yellow glow in the shape of Chansey's egg rises from its pouch into the air. It then floats over to the target and melts into its body. As it does, the target's body becomes outlined in yellow, healing it.
Brock's Chansey	The Brockster Is In!		Debut

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Chansey Softboiled Adventures.png Chansey
The user fires an egg into the air and it explodes, healing the target.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Chansey fires the egg in its pouch into the air. The egg then explodes, and the dust from it circles around the target, healing it. A new egg takes its place as soon as Chansey fires the egg.
Daisy's Chansey	Take a Chance on Chansey		Debut
	Blissey slowly transfers half of its energy to heal an ally.
Crys's Blissey	VS. Shuckle		None

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD: Time, Darkness, and Sky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Trivia

• Mew is the only non-Normal type to learn Softboiled, and can only learn it by TM or move tutor.
• Clefairy and Clefable are capable of learning Softboiled via move tutor in Generation III, but are incompatible with the TM in Generation I.
• Although Softboiled is available in Emerald as a move tutor move, no Pokémon obtainable in the game can learn it without the use of trading or a certain event item used to catch Mew.
• Although the Japanese name of Softboiled is "Egg Lay", the only Pokémon based on egg-laying animals that can learn this move are Togepi and Togetic.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 生蛋 Shēng​dàn​ Dutch Halfgaar French E-Coque German Weichei Greek Μελάτη Θεραπεία Italian Covauova Korean 알낳기 Alnaki Polish Terapia ciałem Serbian Meko Kuvano Spanish Amortiguador

Variations of the move Recover
Recover • Soft-Boiled • Milk Drink • Slack Off • Heal Order • Roost

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.