Heal Pulse (move)

Heal Pulse
いやしのはどう Healing Wave

Battles

Type	Psychic
Category	Status
PP	10 (max. 16)
Power	—
Accuracy	—%
Priority	{{{priority}}}
Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Target

Foe	Foe	Foe
Self	Ally	Ally
May affect anyone but the user

Availability

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

Contest Spectaculars

Condition	Beautiful
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Jamming	0
Excites the audience in any kind of contest.

On Smogon's Movedex:

Heal Pulse (Japanese: いやしのはどう Healing Wave) is a non-damaging Psychic-type move introduced in Generation V.

Effect

Generation V

Heal Pulse restores up to 50% of the target's maximum HP. It will fail if the target's HP stat is already full or if it is behind a Substitute.

Heal Pulse bypasses accuracy checks to always hit, unless the opponent is in the semi-invulnerable turn of a move such as Dig or Fly. It can hit non-adjacent targets in Triple Battles.

Generation VI onward

Heal Pulse restores up to 75% of the target's maximum HP rather than the usual 50% when used by Pokémon with the Ability Mega Launcher.

If powered up by a Psychium Z into Z-Heal Pulse, all of the user's lowered stats are reset.

Description

Games	Description
BW B2W2 XY ORAS	The user emits a healing pulse which restores the target's HP by up to half of its max HP.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Level
#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
0079		Slowpoke		Monster	Water 1	58	58	58
0080		Slowbro		Monster	Water 1	68	1, 68	1, 68
0113		Chansey		Fairy		Fairy	38	38	38
0199		Slowking		Monster	Water 1	58	1, 58	1, 58
0242		Blissey		Fairy		Fairy	38	38	38
0280		Ralts		Amorphous		Amorphous	23	23^XY 19^ORAS	19
0281		Kirlia		Amorphous		Amorphous	25	25^XY 19^ORAS	19
0282		Gardevoir		Amorphous		Amorphous	25	25^XY 19^ORAS	19
0358		Chimecho		Amorphous		Amorphous	49	49^XY 47^ORAS	47
0380		Latias		style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" \| Undiscovered	style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" \| Undiscovered	65	1, 65^XY 16^ORAS	16
0381		Latios		style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" \| Undiscovered	style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" \| Undiscovered	65	1, 65^XY 16^ORAS	16
0448		Lucario		Field	Human-Like	42	51	51
0475		Gallade		Amorphous		Amorphous	25	25^XY 19^ORAS	19
0531		Audino		Fairy		Fairy	35	35^XY 37^ORAS	37
0594		Alomomola		Water 1	Water 2	17	17	17
0683		Aromatisse		Fairy		Fairy		1	1
0693		Clawitzer		Water 1		Water 3		1	1
0716		Xerneas		style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" \| Undiscovered	style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" \| Undiscovered		1	1
0788		Tapu Fini		style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" \| Undiscovered	style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" \| Undiscovered			1
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 breeding

#	Pokémon		Types	Parent Egg Groups		Egg Move
#	Pokémon		Types	Parent Egg Groups		II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
0152		Chikorita		Monster	Grass	✔	✔	✔
0173		Cleffa		style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" \| Undiscovered	style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" \| Undiscovered		✔	✔
0174		Igglybuff		style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" \| Undiscovered	style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" \| Undiscovered		✔	✔
0370		Luvdisc		Water 2		Water 2	✔	✔	✔
0420		Cherubi		Fairy	Grass	✔	✔	✔
0574		Gothita		Human-Like		Human-Like		✔	✔
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.

Special move

Generation V

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Obtained with
0420		Cherubi		Fairy	Grass	Dream World - Dream Park
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 event

Generation V

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Obtained with
0150		Mewtwo		style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" \| Undiscovered	style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" \| Undiscovered	Pokémon Hills Mewtwo
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.

In the anime

Pokémon	Method
Mega Audino Audino Wigglytuff Clawitzer
The user unleashes a healing pulse of energy.
User	First Used In	Notes
	Audino puts its hands in front of its body and a light pink ball of energy appears in between them. Audino then opens its arms and the orb breaks apart into multiple light pink sparkles, releasing waves of light pink energy with light pink sparkles in it that expand outward, causing the opponent to relax.
Nurse Joy's Audino	A Venipede Stampede!	Debut
	Wigglytuff opens its mouth and releases multiple pink energy waves from it, causing the opponent to relax.
A wild Wigglytuff	The Clumsy Crier Quiets the Chaos!	None
Nurse Joy's Wigglytuff	The Clumsy Crier Quiets the Chaos!	None
	Mega Audino puts its hands in front of its body and releases multiple multicolored waves of energy from its body, causing the opponent to relax.
Nurse Joy's Audino	A Giga Battle with Mega Results!	None
	A burst of rainbow colored light comes from Clawitzer and then a circle-like area of rainbow colored light shines from the ground underneath Clawitzer until Clawitzer is healed.
Sawyer's Clawitzer	A Full-Strength Battle Surprise!	Enhanced via Mega Launcher

In other generations

Generation I	RB Y	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	FRLG E	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	Pt HGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SM USUM	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, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Trivia

This move originated as a TCG Attack.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		治癒波動 Zhìyù Bōdòng
Dutch		Geneespuls
European French		Vibra Soin
German		Heilwoge
Indonesian		Gelombang Menenangkan
Italian		Ondasana
Korean		치유파동 Chiyu Padong
Polish		Leczniczy Puls
Portuguese	Brazil	Vibração de Cura Pulso de Cura (XY096) Pulso da Cura (XY119-present, TCG)
Portuguese	Portugal	Pulso de Cura
Spanish	Latin America	Pulso Sanador
Spanish	Spain	Pulso Cura

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