Tickle (move)

Tickle くすぐる Tickle

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

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

Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0   Worsens the condition of those that made appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Tickle (Japanese: くすぐる Tickle) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Tickle reduces the target's Attack and Defense stat by one stat level each.

In the anime

• Tickle.JPG

  Mime Jr. using Tickle on Roserade.

• AG162 Mime Jr. tickles Combusken.jpg

  Mime Jr. using Tickle on Combusken.

Pokémon

Whiscash. Whiscash grabs the target with it's whiskers and tickles its target with them.

• Used by Juan's Whiscash in Eight Ain't Enough!.

Mime Jr.. Mime Jr. runs up to its target and starts tickling it.

• Used by James's Mime Jr. from Spontaneous Combusken to present.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0114 Tangela Grass 46 0138 Omanyte Rock Water 43 0139 Omastar Rock Water 46 0190 Aipom Normal 25 0340 Whiscash Water Ground -- 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" | 0131 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#3DCEF3" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Omanyte, Omastar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0133 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Eevee
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Aipom |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0263 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Zigzagoon
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Aipom |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0298 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Azurill
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Omanyte, Omastar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0300 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Aipom
Whiscash |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0303 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mawile
| colspan="2" style="background:#60A1B8; text-align: center;" | Steel | style="background: #FFF" | Aipom |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0320 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Wailmer
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Aipom
Whiscash

|- | 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 0114 Tangela Grass 47 0138 Omanyte Rock Water 43 0139 Omastar Rock Water 48 0190 Aipom Normal 15 0340 Whiscash Water Ground -- 0424 Ambipom Normal 15 0439 Mime Jr. Psychic -- 0465 Tangrowth Grass 47 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" | 0043 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Oddish
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Tangela, Tangrowth |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0069 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bellsprout
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Tangela, Tangrowth |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0098 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Krabby
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Omanyte, Omastar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0131 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#3DCEF3" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Omanyte, Omastar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0133 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Eevee
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Aipom, Ambipom |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0172 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pichu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Aipom, Ambipom |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0263 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Zigzagoon
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Aipom, Ambipom |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0270 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Lotad
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#2980EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Tangela, Tangrowth
Omanyte, Omastar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0298 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Azurill
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Omanyte, Omastar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0300 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Aipom, Ambipom |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0303 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mawile
| colspan="2" style="background:#60A1B8; text-align: center;" | Steel | style="background: #FFF" | Aipom, Ambipom |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0320 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Wailmer
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Aipom, Ambipom
Whiscash |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0345 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Lileep
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#2980EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Omanyte, Omastar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0349 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Feebas
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Omanyte, Omastar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0387 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Turtwig
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel
Tangela , Tangrowth
Lapras
Lotad, Lombre, Ludicolo
Cherubi, Cherrim |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0420 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cherubi
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Tangela, Tangrowth |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0456 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Finneon
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Wailmer, Wailord
Whiscash

|- | 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

• Spanish: Cosquillas
• Dutch: Kietel
• Italian: Solletico
• German: Spasskanone