Growth (move)

Growth せいちょう Growth

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  40 (max. 64) 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 Self: Affects the user

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

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  0   Ups the user's condition and helps prevent nervousness.

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

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

Growth (Japanese: せいちょう Growth) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Growth increases the user's Special stat by one stage. Growth will do nothing if the user's Special has reached six stages or a value of 999. The effect of Growth is ignored by critical hits.

Generation II and on

The effects of Growth are the same as the previous generation, however, it increases user's Special Attack stat instead.

In the anime

Tangrowth. Tangrowth emits a green beam from its hands that gives a dying tree the energy to grow.

• Used by wild Tangrowth as well as several other Grass-type Pokémon in Promoting Healthy Tangrowth!.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 34 0002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 38 0003 Venusaur Grass Poison 43 0046 Paras Bug Grass 41 0047 Parasect Bug Grass 48 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison -- 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison -- 0114 Tangela Grass 49 0114 Tangela Grass 48 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 0001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 32 0002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 38 0003 Venusaur Grass Poison 41 0046 Paras Bug Grass 37 0047 Parasect Bug Grass 46 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 6 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison -- 6 0114 Tangela Grass 46 0191 Sunkern Grass 4 0192 Sunflora Grass 4 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 event

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0060 Poliwag Water New York City Pokémon Center 0133 Eevee Normal New York City Pokémon Center 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison New York City Pokémon Center 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 32 0002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 38 0003 Venusaur Grass Poison 41 0046 Paras Bug Grass 37 0047 Parasect Bug Grass 43 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 6 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison -- 6 0114 Tangela Grass 13 0191 Sunkern Grass 6 0192 Sunflora Grass 6 0273 Seedot Grass 7 0274 Nuzleaf Grass Dark 7 0275 Shiftry Grass Dark -- 0285 Shroomish Grass 36 0315 Roselia Grass Poison 5 0331 Cacnea Grass 9 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark --,9 0357 Tropius Grass Flying 7 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" | 0314 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Illumise
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Parasect, Parasect
Cacnea, Cacturne

|- | 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 0001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 25 0002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 28 0003 Venusaur Grass Poison 28 0046 Paras Bug Grass 27 0047 Parasect Bug Grass 30 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 7 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison -- 7 0114 Tangela Grass 12 0191 Sunkern Grass -- 0192 Sunflora Grass -- 0273 Seedot Grass 7 0274 Nuzleaf Grass Dark 7 0285 Shroomish Grass 33 0315 Roselia Grass Poison 4 0331 Cacnea Grass 9 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark -- 9 0357 Tropius Grass Flying 7 0406 Budew Grass Poison 4 0413 Wormadam Bug Grass 29 0420 Cherubi Grass 7 0421 Cherrim Grass 7 0455 Carnivine Grass -- 0465 Tangrowth Grass 12|- 0492 Shaymin Grass -- 0492 Shaymin Grass Flying -- 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" | 0314 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Illumise
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Parasect, Parasect
Cacnea, Cacturne |- | 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" | Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur
Paras, Parasect
Bellsprout, Weepinbell
Tangela, Tangrowth
Sunkern, Sunflora
Shroomish
Roselia
Cacnea, Cacturne
Tropius
Cherubi, Cherrim
Carnivine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0459 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snover
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#3DCEF3" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur
Paras, Parasect
Bellsprout, Weepinbell
Tangela, Tangrowth
Sunkern, Sunflora
Shroomish
Roselia
Cacnea, Cacturne
Tropius
Cherubi, Cherrim
Carnivine

|- | 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. |} |}

Trivia

• Despite this move being a Template:Type2 move, no Normal-type Pokémon can learn it apart from Eevee's special NYPC event in Gen II.
  • In addition, the only other Pokémon that can learn Growth that are not Template:Type2 are Illumise, Poliwag, and Spinarak and even then, only through breeding or special NYPC events.

In other languages

• Spanish: Desarrollo
• French: Croissance
• German: Wachstum
• Portuguese: Crescimento
• Italian: Crescita