Psycho Shift (move)

Psycho Shift サイコシフト Saiko Shifuto

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Battles Type  Psychic Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  90% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally Affects all adjacent foes, but not allies

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

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jam  0   Points equal 4 minus voltage of judge

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Raises the score if the Voltage is low.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Psycho Shift (Japanese: サイコシフト Psychoshift) is a Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Psycho Shift transfers any non-volatile status ailment from the user to the target, curing the user in the process. It will not transfer volatile status ailments (Confusion, etc.), and will fail if the opponent has a type- or ability- granted immunity to that status, or is affected by a status ailment already.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0163 Hoothoot Normal Flying 41 0164 Noctowl Normal Flying 47 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 33 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying 37 0380 Latias Dragon Psychic 50 0381 Latios Dragon Psychic 50 0386 Deoxys Psychic 57 0386 Deoxys Psychic 57 0386 Deoxys Psychic 57 0386 Deoxys Psychic 57 0488 Cresselia Psychic 75 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" | 0175 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Togepi
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" |
|- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0198 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Murkrow
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" |

|- | 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0163 Hoothoot Normal Flying 49 0164 Noctowl Normal Flying 57 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 33 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying 37 0380 Latias Dragon Psychic 50 0381 Latios Dragon Psychic 50 0386 Deoxys Psychic 57 0386 Deoxys Psychic 57 0386 Deoxys Psychic 57 0386 Deoxys Psychic 57 0488 Cresselia Psychic 75 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" | 0175 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Togepi
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" |
|- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0198 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Murkrow
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" |
|- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0561 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sigilyph
| colspan="1" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" |

|- | 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

• Chinese: 幻象轉移 Huànxiàng Zhuǎnyí
• French: Échange Psy
• German: Psybann
• Greek: Τηλεμεταβίβαση
• Italian: Psicotrasfer
• Korean: 사이코시프트 Psycho Shift
• Spanish: Psico-cambio
• Serbian: Psihička Smena

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