Assurance (move)

Assurance ダメおし Make Sure

Battles Type  Dark Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  50 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

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

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   Points double if last to appeal.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earns double the score on the final performance.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Assurance (Japanese: ダメおし Make Sure) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV that doubles in power when the target has received damage on that turn.

Effect

Assurance is a move in the Physical category that doubles in power when the target has already received damage on the turn it is used.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0015 Beedrill Bug Poison 34 0019 Rattata Normal 25 0020 Raticate Normal 29 0021 Spearow Normal Flying 29 0022 Fearow Normal Flying 35 0052 Meowth Normal 41 0053 Persian Normal 49 0056 Mankey Fighting 25 0057 Primeape Fighting 25 0109 Koffing Poison 15 0110 Weezing Poison 15 0197 Umbreon Dark 43 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying 25 0203 Girafarig Normal Psychic 28 0232 Donphan Ground 31 0261 Poochyena Dark 29 0262 Mightyena Dark 32 0318 Carvanha Water Dark 26 0319 Sharpedo Water Dark 26 0408 Cranidos Rock 24 0409 Rampardos Rock 24 0461 Weavile Dark Ice -- 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" | 0142 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Aerodactyl
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Spearow, Fearow
Murkrow, Honchkrow |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0227 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Skarmory
| colspan="1" style="background:#60A1B8; text-align: center;" | Steel || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Spearow, Fearow
Murkrow, Honchkrow |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0246 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Larvitar
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#915121" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Cranidos, Rampardos |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0336 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Seviper
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Rattata, Raticate
Meowth, Persian
Mankey, Primeape
Umbreon
Girafarig
Donphan
Poochyena, Mightyena
Absol
Glameow, Purugly
Weavile |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0359 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Absol
| colspan="2" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark | style="background: #FFF" | Rattata, Raticate
Meowth, Persian
Mankey, Primeape
Umbreon
Girafarig
Donphan
Poochyena, Mightyena
Seviper
Glameow, Purugly
Weavile |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0431 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Glameow
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Rattata, Raticate
Meowth, Persian
Mankey, Primeape
Umbreon
Girafarig
Donphan
Poochyena, Mightyena
Seviper
Absol
Weavile

|- | 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: Buena Baza
• German: Gewissheit