Trick (move)

Trick
トリック Trick
Trick VIII.png
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Type  Psychic
Category  Status
PP  10 (max. 16)
Power  —
Accuracy  100%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
  • Does not make contact
  • Affected by Protect
  • Not affected by Magic Coat
  • Not affected by Snatch
  • Affected by Mirror Move
  • Not affected by King's Rock
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
May affect anyone adjacent to the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
Condition  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Jam  0  
Works well if it's the same type as the one before.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  0  
Steals the Voltage of the Pokémon that just went.
Condition  Clever
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Jamming  1
Badly startles Pokémon that used a move of the same type.

Trick (Japanese: トリック Trick) is a non-damaging Psychic-type move introduced in Generation III. It is TR38 in Generation VIII.

Effect

Generations III and IV

  This move effect may be in need of research.
Reason: Does it fail when used at the Trainer Hill in Emerald?
You can discuss this on the talk page.

The user switches held items with the target. If only one of them is holding an item, the item is moved to the other.

Trick fails if:

In link battles, battle facilities, Secret Bases, and the Trainer House, items stolen will be returned at the end of the battle.

In Japanese Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, Trick can exchange Mail, but causes the Trick Mail bug. In international releases of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, as well as all releases of subsequent games, Trick will fail if either Pokémon is holding Mail. Trick also fails if either Pokémon is holding an e-Reader Berry.

Generations V to VII

Trick no longer switches a Trainer's Pokémon's items permanently; however, items switched in wild battles are permanently switched.

Trick fails if either the user or target holds:

Trick can now exchange a Griseous Orb as long as neither the user nor the target is Giratina. Trick can now exchange items with a Pokémon that has Multitype (but still cannot exchange Plates with Arceus).

If powered up by a Psychium Z into Z-Trick, the user's Speed is raised two stages, then the move itself will fail after obtaining the Z-Power since it won't be possible to exchange its own Z-Crystal.

Generation VIII

Trick will always fail when used in a Max Raid Battle, regardless of the items or target. (It works as normal against Dynamax Pokémon in other battles.)

Due to a presumed glitch in accounting for the removal of colored orbs, Trick would fail in versions 1.2.0 through 1.3.1 if it was used by or against Groudon or Kyogre and either the user or the target was not holding an item. This behavior was corrected in version 1.3.2.

Description

Games Description
RSE Tricks the foe into trading held items.
FRLG A move that tricks the foe into trading held items with the user.
ColoXD Tricks the target into trading held items.
DPPtHGSSPBR The user catches the foe off guard and swaps the foe's held item with its own.
BWB2W2
XYORAS
SMUSUM
SwSh
The user catches the target off guard and swaps its held item with its own.


Learnset

By leveling up

# Pokémon Types Egg Groups Level
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX
0064     Human-Like Human-Like 43 46 52 50XY
46ORAS
46
0065     Human-Like Human-Like 43 46 52 50XY
46ORAS
46
0122    
 
Human-Like Human-Like 37RSE
36FRLG
36 36 36 36
0353     Amorphous Amorphous 50 55BW
50B2W2
50 50 50BDSP
0354     Amorphous Amorphous 66 75BW
58B2W2
58 58 58BDSP
0439    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered 36 36 36 36
0479    
 
Amorphous Amorphous 1 1 1 1 45
0710    
 
Amorphous Amorphous 1 1 40SwSh
0711    
 
Amorphous Amorphous 1 1 40SwSh
0720  
Hoopa
Confined
 
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered 1 1
720U  
Hoopa
Unbound
 
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered 1ORAS 1
0806    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered 47USUM 60SwSh
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 TR

# Pokémon Types Egg Groups Machine
I
--
II
--
III
--
IV
--
V
--
VI
--
VII
--
VIII
TR38
IX
--
0035     Fairy Fairy SwSh
0036     Fairy Fairy SwSh
0063     Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0064     Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0065     Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0079    
 
Monster Water 1 SwSh
079G  
Slowpoke
Galarian Form
  Monster Water 1 SwSh
0080    
 
Monster Water 1 SwSh
080G  
Slowbro
Galarian Form
 
 
Monster Water 1 SwSh
0092    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0093    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0094    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0121    
 
Water 3 Water 3 SwSh
0122    
 
Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
122G  
Mr. Mime
Galarian Form
 
 
Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0124    
 
Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0137     Mineral Mineral SwSh
0150     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0151     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0173     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0175     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0176    
 
Flying Fairy SwSh
0177    
 
Flying Flying SwSh
0178    
 
Flying Flying SwSh
0196     Field Field SwSh
0199    
 
Monster Water 1 SwSh
199G  
Slowking
Galarian Form
 
 
Monster Water 1 SwSh
0233     Mineral Mineral SwSh
0238    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0249    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0251    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0263     Field Field SwSh
263G  
Zigzagoon
Galarian Form
 
 
Field Field SwSh
0264     Field Field SwSh
264G  
Linoone
Galarian Form
 
 
Field Field SwSh
0280    
 
Human-Like Amorphous SwSh
0281    
 
Human-Like Amorphous SwSh
0282    
 
Human-Like Amorphous SwSh
0292    
 
Mineral Mineral SwSh
0302    
 
Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0343    
 
Mineral Mineral SwSh
0344    
 
Mineral Mineral SwSh
0355     Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0356     Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0375    
 
Mineral Mineral SwSh
0376    
 
Mineral Mineral SwSh
0380    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0381    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0385    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0425    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0426    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0436    
 
Mineral Mineral SwSh
0437    
 
Mineral Mineral SwSh
0439    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0442    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0468    
 
Flying Fairy SwSh
0474     Mineral Mineral SwSh
0475    
 
Human-Like Amorphous SwSh
0477     Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0478    
 
Fairy Mineral SwSh
0479    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0480     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0481     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0482     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0488     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0494    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0509     Field Field SwSh
0510     Field Field SwSh
0517     Field Field SwSh
0518     Field Field SwSh
0527    
 
Field Flying SwSh
0528    
 
Field Flying SwSh
0555     Field Field SwSh
0561    
 
Flying Flying SwSh
0562     Mineral Amorphous SwSh
562G  
Yamask
Galarian Form
 
 
Mineral Amorphous SwSh
0563     Mineral Amorphous SwSh
0570     Field Field SwSh
0571     Field Field SwSh
0574     Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0575     Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0576     Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0577     Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0578     Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0579     Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0592    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0593    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0605     Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0606     Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0607    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0608    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0609    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0623    
 
Mineral Mineral SwSh
0677     Field Field SwSh
0678     Field Field SwSh
678F  
Meowstic
Female
  Field Field SwSh
0708    
 
Grass Amorphous SwSh
0709    
 
Grass Amorphous SwSh
0710    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0711    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0742    
 
Bug Fairy SwSh
0743    
 
Bug Fairy SwSh
0764     Grass Grass SwSh
0765    
 
Field Field SwSh
0769    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0770    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0778    
 
Amorphous Amorphous SwSh
0788    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0792    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0801    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0806    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
0825    
 
Bug Bug SwSh
0826    
 
Bug Bug SwSh
0854     Mineral Amorphous SwSh
0855     Mineral Amorphous SwSh
0859    
 
Fairy Human-Like SwSh
0860    
 
Fairy Human-Like SwSh
0861    
 
Fairy Human-Like SwSh
0862    
 
Field Field SwSh
0866    
 
Human-Like Human-Like SwSh
0867    
 
Mineral Amorphous SwSh
0876    
 
Fairy Fairy SwSh
876F  
Indeedee
Female
 
 
Fairy Fairy SwSh
0898    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
898I  
Calyrex
Ice Rider
 
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
898S  
Calyrex
Shadow Rider
 
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered SwSh
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
II III IV V VI VII VIII IX
0122    
 
Human-Like Human-Like BDSP
0161     Field Field BDSP
0263     Field Field BDSP
0302    
 
Human-Like Human-Like BDSP
0313     Bug Human-Like BDSP
0325     Field Field BDSP
0327     Field Human-Like BDSP
0352     Field Field BDSP
0439    
 
Human-Like Human-Like BDSP
0577     Amorphous Amorphous
0677     Field Field
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 Move Tutor

# Pokémon Types Egg Groups Game
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2 XY ORAS SM USUM PE
0035     Fairy Fairy
0036     Fairy Fairy
0063     Human-Like Human-Like
0064     Human-Like Human-Like
0065     Human-Like Human-Like
0079    
 
Monster Water 1
0080    
 
Monster Water 1
0092    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0093    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0094    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0096     Human-Like Human-Like
0097     Human-Like Human-Like
0121    
 
Water 3 Water 3
0122    
 
Human-Like Human-Like
0124    
 
Human-Like Human-Like
0137     Mineral Mineral
0150     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0151     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0161     Field Field
0162     Field Field
0173     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0175     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0176    
 
Flying Fairy
0177    
 
Flying Flying
0178    
 
Flying Flying
0196     Field Field
0199    
 
Monster Water 1
0200     Amorphous Amorphous
0203    
 
Field Field
0233     Mineral Mineral
0238    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0249    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0251    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0263     Field Field
0264     Field Field
0280    
 
Human-Like Amorphous
0281    
 
Human-Like Amorphous
0282    
 
Human-Like Amorphous
0292    
 
Mineral Mineral
0302    
 
Human-Like Human-Like
0307    
 
Human-Like Human-Like
0308    
 
Human-Like Human-Like
0313     Bug Human-Like
0325     Field Field
0326     Field Field
0327     Field Human-Like
0343    
 
Mineral Mineral
0344    
 
Mineral Mineral
0352     Field Field
0353     Amorphous Amorphous
0354     Amorphous Amorphous
0355     Amorphous Amorphous
0356     Amorphous Amorphous
0358     Amorphous Amorphous
0375    
 
Mineral Mineral
0376    
 
Mineral Mineral
0380    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0381    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0385    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0386  
Deoxys
Normal Forme
  No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
386A  
Deoxys
Attack Forme
  No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
386D  
Deoxys
Defense Forme
  No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
386S  
Deoxys
Speed Forme
  No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0425    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0426    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0429     Amorphous Amorphous
0433     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0436    
 
Mineral Mineral
0437    
 
Mineral Mineral
0439    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0442    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0468    
 
Flying Fairy
0474     Mineral Mineral
0475    
 
Human-Like Amorphous
0477     Amorphous Amorphous
0478    
 
Fairy Mineral
0479    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0480     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0481     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0482     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0488     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0491     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0493     No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0494    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0509     Field Field
0510     Field Field
0517     Field Field
0518     Field Field
0527    
 
Field Flying
0528    
 
Field Flying
0561    
 
Flying Flying
0562     Mineral Amorphous
0563     Mineral Amorphous
0570     Field Field
0571     Field Field
0574     Human-Like Human-Like
0575     Human-Like Human-Like
0576     Human-Like Human-Like
0577     Amorphous Amorphous
0578     Amorphous Amorphous
0579     Amorphous Amorphous
0592    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0593    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0605     Human-Like Human-Like
0606     Human-Like Human-Like
0607    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0608    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0609    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0648    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0654     Field Field
0655    
 
Field Field
0677     Field Field
0678     Field Field
678F  
Meowstic
Female
  Field Field
0708    
 
Grass Amorphous
0709    
 
Grass Amorphous
0710    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0711    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0720  
Hoopa
Confined
 
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
720U  
Hoopa
Unbound
 
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0742    
 
Bug Fairy
0743    
 
Bug Fairy
0764     Grass Grass
0765    
 
Field Field
0769    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0770    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0778    
 
Amorphous Amorphous
0788    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0792    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
0806    
 
No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered
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
0263     Field Field Dream World - Pleasant Forest
0313     Bug Human-Like Dream World - Spooky Manor
0355     Amorphous Amorphous Dream World - Spooky Manor
0578     Amorphous Amorphous Dream World - Spooky Manor
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
0302    
 
Human-Like Human-Like Chief Golgo's SableyeBW
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 other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, and Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, Trick is a move with 100% accuracy, and 17 PP. The user targets enemy in the front, swapping user's and enemy's held items. This move fails if at least one of the Pokémon is not holding an item. This move is affected by Taunt.

In Super Mystery Dungeon, Trick works even if either Pokémon is not holding an item.

Description

Games Description
MDRB Switches the user's hold item with the target's hold item. It only works if both Pokémon hold items.
MDTD Switches the user's hold item with the target's hold item. It works only if both Pokémon are holding items.
MDS Switches the user's held item with the target's held item. It works only if both Pokémon are holding items.
BSL てきポケモンのどうぐと じぶんのどうぐを いれかえる じぶんと てきポケモンの りょうほうが どうぐを もっていないと せいこうしない
MDGtI  UNUSED
SMD
MDRTDX
It swaps your held item with a target's held item. The move succeeds even if either you or the target doesn't have an item.


In the anime

 
Mr. Mime


The user catches the foe off guard and swaps the foe's held item with its own.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
  Mr. Mime's body becomes outlined in light blue, and an item it's holding glows white and disappears. It then switches places with an item the opponent was holding.
Rhonda's Mr. Mime Hail to the Chef! Debut


In the manga

Phantom Thief Pokémon 7


Pokémon Adventures


In other generations

Core series games

Side series games

Spin-off series games

Trivia

  • In Generation IV, despite being able to learn this move via Move Tutor, it will always fail when used by Arceus due to its Ability Multitype. In later generations, it can successfully use the move as long as neither Pokémon is holding a Plate.

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 戲法 Heifaat *
騙術 Pinseuht *
Mandarin 戲法 / 戏法 Xìfǎ *
騙術 / 骗术 Piànshù *
  Dutch Truc
  Finnish Temppu
  French Tour de Magie*
Tourmagik*
  German Trickbetrug
  Greek Ταχυδακτυλουργικό
  Italian Raggiro
  Korean 트릭 Trick
Portuguese   Brazil Travessura (games, TCG, manga)
Truque
  Portugal Truque
  Serbian Trik
  Spanish Truco
  Vietnamese Gian Manh


Variations of the move Trick
  TrickSwitcheroo


Generation VIII TMs
SwSh
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6061626364656667686970717273747576777879
8081828384858687888990919293949596979899
BDSP
0102030405060708091011121314151617181920
2122232425262728293031323334353637383940
4142434445464748495051525354555657585960
6162636465666768697071727374757677787980
81828384858687888990919293949596979899100
Generation VIII TRs (SwSh)
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6061626364656667686970717273747576777879
8081828384858687888990919293949596979899


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