Psywave (move) - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia

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Psywave (Japanese: サイコウェーブ Psycho Wave) is a damage-dealing Psychic-type move introduced in Generation I. It is TM46 in Generation I. In Generation II, it was the signature move of Misdreavus, but other Pokémon could still inherit it via breeding.

Effect

Generation I

Psywave inflicts a random amount of damage, varying between 1 damage and 1.5× the user's level.

In a link battle, the damage dealt varies between 1 damage and 1.5× the user's level on the user's side, and between 0 damage and 1.5× the user's level on its opponent's side in a link battle. As a result, if a 0 is generated in a link battle, it causes the games to desynchronize as the target will receive 0 damage on the opponent's game, while the user's side will keep generating pseudorandom numbers until it produces a number between 1 and 1.5× the user's level. Additionally, the game will freeze if a Level 0, 1, or 171 Pokémon uses the move, though Pokémon cannot normally be obtained at these levels without the use of glitches.

In Pokémon Stadium, Psywave always deals at least 1 damage.

Psywave has an accuracy of 80%

Generation II

Psywave inflicts a random amount of damage, varying between 1 HP and 1.5× the user's level. The damage is always rounded down; however, Psywave will always deal at least 1 HP of damage.

Psywave does not take weaknesses or resistances into account; however, type immunity is not ignored.

Generations III and IV

Psywave inflicts damage equal to ${\displaystyle \left\lfloor {\frac {Level_{user}\times (10r+50)}{100}}\right\rfloor }$, where r is a random number from 0 to 10. However, if this calculation produces a value of 0, Psywave deals 1 HP of damage instead.

Psywave can be used as the second move of a Pokémon Contest combination, with the user gaining 2 bonus appeal points if Calm Mind was used in the previous turn.

Generation V

Psywave inflicts damage equal to ${\displaystyle \left\lfloor {\frac {Level_{user}\times (r+50)}{100}}\right\rfloor }$, where r is a random number from 0 to 100. However, if this calculation produces a value of 0, Psywave deals 1 HP of damage instead.

Generations VI and VII

Psywave's accuracy is now 100% instead of 80%.

Generation VIII onwards

Psywave cannot be selected in a battle.

Description

Learnset

By leveling up

By breeding

By TM

In other games

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Pokémon GO

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

Psywave deals a variable amount of damage depending on the user's level. In the Rescue Team and Explorers series, the move will deal damage between 1/2 and 383/256 (~1.49×) of the user's level. It is affected by type matchup and STAB unlike in the main series. Before accounting for type matchup and STAB, the move is guaranteed to deal at least 1 HP of damage, but no more than 199 (although that number is impossible to achieve under normal gameplay).

In Super Mystery Dungeon, Psywave is no longer affected by type matchup. The move will deal damage approximately between 1 HP damage to 1.5× the user's level.

Pokémon Rumble Rush

Pokémon Masters EX

Description

In the anime

Exeggutor Solrock Mismagius Duosion
The user attacks the target with an odd psychic wave.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Jynx's eyes glow and she raises her hands in the air. The opponent then lifts up into the air, and by waving her arms, Jynx can control wherever the opponent goes.
Santa Claus's Jynx	Holiday Hi-Jynx		Debut
	Exeggutor's eyes glow green and it bends down, firing a white ring of energy at the opponent from the middle of its leaves.
Mandi's Exeggutor	Round One - Begin!		None
	Gastly shoots the fog around its body at the opponent and the fog morphs into an arrow-like shape that hits the opponent.
Officer Jenny's Gastly	Pikachu Re-Volts		None
	Mr. Mime raises its hands and then brings them down in the shape of a circle and a white circle appears in front of it. It then fires the ring at the opponent.
Toku's Mr. Mime	The Psychic Sidekicks!		None
	Solrock's body becomes outlined in light blue, and its eyes also glow light blue. Solrock then fires light blue rings at the opponent from its body.
Brandon's Solrock	Pace - The Final Frontier!		None
	Mismagius becomes surrounded by a light blue aura and it releases a wave of energy out of its body. When it hits the opponent, its body glows multicolored and Mismagius can control the opponent; or, Mismagius's body becomes outlined in light blue energy and it fires invisible or light blue shockwaves at the opponent from its body, or the gems on Mismagius's body glow pink and its body becomes outlined in light blue. It then fires multiple light blue tentacles from the outline at the opponent; or, Mismagius's eyes become surrounded in multicolored energy and it fires a beam of multicolored energy from its eyes at the opponent.
Cocoa's Mismagius	Arriving in Style!		None
Fantina's Mismagius	Playing the Leveling Field!		None
Zoey's Mismagius	Coming Full - Festival Circle!		None
Grings Kodai's Mismagius	Zoroark: Master of Illusions		None
	Chimecho's body becomes outlined in light blue and it releases multiple light blue rings of energy from its mouth at the opponent.
Maya's Chimecho	Mastering Current Events!		None
	Reuniclus puts its hands together in front of it and fires a multicolored beam of energy from its hands at the opponent.
Damon's Reuniclus	White—Victini and Zekrom		None
	Duosion puts its arms out in front of it and a ball of multicolored energy forms in front of its body. A wavy multicolored beam of energy then fires from the ball at the opponent.
Officer Jenny's Duosion	Beheeyem, Duosion, and the Dream Thief!		None
	Mega Mewtwo Y creates a white force field that expands rapidly from around it and explodes on contact with the opponent.
Mewtwo (M16)	Genesect and the Legend Awakened		Mewtwo cannot legally know Psywave in Generation V
	Grumpig fires a beam of multicolored energy from between its hands at the opponent.
A wild Grumpig	An Oasis of Hope!		None
	Spoink fires a beam of multicolored energy from between its hands at the opponent.
Multiple wild Spoink	An Oasis of Hope!		None
	Sigilyph's two eyespots on its body start to glow. Then, it fires a beam of multicolored energy from them at the opponent.
Carrie's Sigilyph	Cloudy Fate, Bright Future!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Phantom Thief Pokémon 7

Pokémon Try Adventure

Spoink
The user attacks the target with an odd psychic wave.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Spoink fires a beam of psychic energy at the opponent.
Soro's Spoink	TA30		Debut

In other generations

Core series games

Side series games

Spin-off series games

Trivia

• In Generation I, Psywave was responsible for two glitches, one of which could desynchronize games connected for a link battle in normal gameplay.

In other languages