Essentials
Summary
Cures the target of a major status ailment and heals the user for 50% of its max HP.
Damage Dealt
Stats
- Power
- — (no damage)
- Accuracy
- — (cannot miss)
- PP
- 20, up to 32 with PP Up
- Target
- Selected Pokémon
- Effect chance
- n/a
- Priority
- 0 (normal)
Flags
- Makes contact
- Has a charging turn
- Must recharge
- Blocked by Detect and Protect
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Reflectable
This move may be reflected back at the user with Magic Coat or Magic Bounce.
- Snatchable
- Copied by Mirror Move
- Punch-based
- Sound-based
- Unusable during Gravity
- Defrosts when used
- Targets opposite side in triples
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Heals
This move is blocked by Heal Block.
- Ignores Substitute
- Powder-based
- Jaw-based
- Pulse-based
- Ballistics-based
- Mental effects
- Unusable during Sky Battles
- Dance
Machines
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Not a TM
Effect
Cures the target of its major status ailment and heals the user for 50% of its max HP. If the target has no major status ailment, this move will fail.
Meta
This reflects how the games treat moves and may be somewhat idealistic.
Flavor
Flavor Text
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The user heals the target’s status condition. If the move succeeds, it also restores the user’s own HP.
Foreign Names
- Japanese
- じょうか (jouka)
- じょうか
- Korean
- 정화
- Chinese
- 淨化
- 净化
- French
- Purification
- German
- Läuterung
- Spanish
- Purificación
- Italian
- Purificazione
Similar moves
No other moves have the same effect as Purify.
Pokémon
Pokémon | Type | Ability | Gender | Egg Group | HP | Atk | Def | SpA | SpD | Spd | Total | ||
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Level up: Learned when a Pokémon reaches a certain level. | |||||||||||||
21 | Pyukumuku |
Innards Out
Unaware |
Water 1 | 55 | 60 | 130 | 30 | 130 | 5 | 410 |
1 Pokémon