Incense

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Incenses (Japanese: おこう Incense) are a special class of held items that help Pokémon to breed differently. This allows Pokémon to produce Eggs containing baby Pokémon that were introduced beyond Generation II if the baby Pokémon was introduced after its evolutionary relatives.

Notably, most baby Pokémon which result from incense breeding have different Egg Move lists than their evolved forms. For example, Azurill can learn Fake Tears through breeding while Marill cannot, and Marill can learn Aqua Jet through breeding while Azurill cannot.

List of incenses

In the spin-off games

Pokémon GO

Incense is an item in Pokémon GO that, upon activation, draws wild Pokémon towards the player at an accelerated rate for 30 minutes in real time. It spawns approximately one Pokémon every five minutes if standing still, or one Pokémon every minute if walking.

The player starts the game with two incenses in their inventory and will obtain more at every fifth level starting at level 5, as well as at level 7. They can also be purchased with PokéCoins at the Shop.

The Mystery Box and Incense are mutually exclusive: if one is active, the other cannot be.

Image English name Japanese name Description Acquisition
  Incense おこう
Incense
Incense with a mysterious fragrance that lures wild Pokémon to your location for 30 minutes. Leveling up (Every 5 levels starting Lv. 5 and once on Lv. 7)
Shop


Artwork

These are artwork of the items as seen in the Pokémon Dream World.

     
Full Incense Lax Incense Luck Incense
     
Odd Incense Pure Incense Rock Incense
     
Rose Incense Sea Incense Wave Incense

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 薰香 Incense
Mandarin 薰香 Incense
  French Encens
  German Zuchtitem
  Italian Incensi
  Korean 향로 Hyangno
  Polish Kadzidło
  Portuguese Incenso
  Russian Ладан Ladan
  Spanish Incienso


Type-enhancing items
 
Items
 
Plates
 
Incenses
 
Orbs
 
Gems
 
Soul Dew


Held items
In-battle effect items
BerriesColored orbsDrivesPower items
Experience-affecting itemsGemsIncenseMega StonesMemoriesPlates
Stat-enhancing itemsType-enhancing itemsZ-Crystals
Out-of-battle effect items
Power itemsIncenseMailScarves


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