Assist

Assist (Japanese: ねこのて, Hepburn: Cat's Paw) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation III.

Description[]

Games	Description
Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire Version	Attacks randomly with one of the partner's moves.
Pokémon Emerald Version	Attacks randomly with one of the partner's moves.
Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version	The user randomly picks and uses a move of an allied Pokémon.
Pokémon Diamond Version and Pokémon Pearl Version	The user hurriedly and randomly uses a move among those known by other Pokémon in the party.
Pokémon Platinum Version
Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version
Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version
Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2
Pokémon X and Pokémon Y
Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire
Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon	The user hurriedly and randomly uses a move among those known by ally Pokémon.
Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!
Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield	This move can't be used. It's recommended that this move is forgotten. Once forgotten, this move can't be remembered.
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl
Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet

Effect[]

Battle[]

Assist allows a Pokémon to use a move known by any Pokémon in the players party. There are certain exceptions, and if none of the moves are compatible with Assist, it fails.

Contests[]

Changes the appeal points to 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8.

Super Contests[]

Make the order of contestants random in the next turn.

Learnset[]

By leveling up[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Skitty	Normal	Field/Fairy	19	19 (^DP) 22 (^Pt)	19	22 (^XY) 31 (^ORAS)	31
	Glameow	Normal	Ground		29	29	29	29
	Purugly	Normal	Ground		29	29	29	29
	Purrloin	Dark	Field			6	6	6
	Liepard	Dark	Field			6	6	6
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

By breeding[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg Groups	Father
Pokémon		Type	Egg Groups	V	VI	VII	VIII
	Meowth
	Drowzee*
	Sentret
	Spinda
	Sneasel		(HGSS)
	Chimchar		(HGSS)
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. * indicates a Pokémon that can only learn this move through chain breeding.

Gallery[]

Main games

Main series

v · d · e List of Normal-type moves

Generation I · Generation II · Generation III · Generation IV · Generation V · Generation VI · Generation VII · Generation VIII · Generation IX

A	Acupressure After You Assist Attract

B	Barrage Baton Pass Belly Drum Bestow Bide Bind Bite Block Blood Moon Body Slam Boomburst

C	Camouflage Captivate Celebrate Charm Chip Away Comet Punch Confide Constrict Conversion Conversion 2 Copycat Court Change Covet Crush Claw Crush Grip Cut

D	Defense Curl Disable Dizzy Punch Doodle Double Hit Double Slap Double Team Double-Edge

E	Echoed Voice Egg Bomb Encore Endeavor Endure Entrainment Explosion Extreme Speed

F	Facade Fake Out False Swipe Feint Fillet Away Flail Flash Focus Energy Follow Me Foresight Frustration Fury Attack Fury Swipes

G	Giga Impact Glare Growl Growth Guillotine Gust

H	Happy Hour Harden Head Charge Headbutt Heal Bell Helping Hand Hidden Power Hold Back Hold Hands Horn Attack Horn Drill Howl Hyper Beam Hyper Drill Hyper Fang Hyper Voice

J	Judgment

K	Karate Chop

L	Laser Focus Last Resort Leer Lock-On Lovely Kiss Lucky Chant

M	Me First Mean Look Mega Kick Mega Punch Metronome Milk Drink Mimic Mind Reader Minimize Moonlight Morning Sun Multi-Attack

N	Natural Gift Nature Power Noble Roar

O	Odor Sleuth

P	Pain Split Pay Day Perish Song Play Nice Population Bomb Pound Power Shift Present Protect Psych Up

Q	Quick Attack

R	Rage Raging Bull Rapid Spin Razor Wind Recover Recycle Reflect Type Refresh Relic Song Retaliate Return Revelation Dance Revival Blessing Roar Rock Climb Round

S	Safeguard Sand Attack Scary Face Scratch Screech Secret Power Self-Destruct Sharpen Shed Tail Shell Smash Simple Beam Sing Sketch Skull Bash Slack Off Slam Slash Sleep Talk Smelling Salts Smokescreen Snore Soft-Boiled Sonic Boom Spike Cannon Spit Up Splash Spotlight Stockpile Stomp Strength Struggle Stuff Cheeks Substitute Super Fang Supersonic Swagger Swallow Sweet Kiss Sweet Scent Swift Swords Dance

T	Tackle Tail Slap Tail Whip Take Down Tearful Look Teatime Techno Blast Teeter Dance Tera Blast Tera Starstorm Terrain Pulse Thrash Tickle Tidy Up Transform Tri Attack Trump Card

U	Uproar

V	Vise Grip

W	Weather Ball Whirlwind Wish Work Up Wrap Wring Out

Y	Yawn

See also	Bug-type Dark-type Dragon-type Electric-type Fairy-type Fighting-type Fire-type Flying-type Ghost-type Grass-type Ground-type Ice-type Poison-type Psychic-type Rock-type Steel-type Water-type

Moves

v · d · e List of moves introduced in Generation III

Bug-type · Dark-type · Dragon-type · Electric-type · Fairy-type · Fighting-type · Fire-type · Flying-type · Ghost-type · Grass-type · Ground-type · Ice-type · Normal-type · Poison-type · Psychic-type · Rock-type · Steel-type · Water-type

A	Aerial Ace Air Cutter Arm Thrust Aromatherapy Assist Astonish

B	Blast Burn Blaze Kick Block Bounce Brick Break Bulk Up Bullet Seed

C	Calm Mind Camouflage Charge Cosmic Power Covet Crush Claw

D	Dive Doom Desire Dragon Claw Dragon Dance

E	Endeavor Eruption Extrasensory

F	Facade Fake Out Fake Tears Feather Dance Flatter Focus Punch Follow Me Frenzy Plant

G	Grass Whistle Grudge

H	Hail Heat Wave Helping Hand Howl Hydro Cannon Hyper Voice

I	Ice Ball Icicle Spear Imprison Ingrain Iron Defense

K	Knock Off

L	Leaf Blade Luster Purge

M	Magic Coat Magical Leaf Memento Metal Sound Meteor Mash Mist Ball Mud Shot Mud Sport Muddy Water

N	Nature Power Needle Arm

O	Odor Sleuth Overheat

P	Poison Fang Poison Tail Psycho Boost

R	Recycle Refresh Revenge Rock Blast Rock Tomb Role Play

S	Sand Tomb Secret Power Sheer Cold Shock Wave Signal Beam Silver Wind Skill Swap Sky Uppercut Slack Off Smelling Salts Snatch Spit Up Stockpile Superpower Swallow

T	Tail Glow Taunt Teeter Dance Tickle Torment Trick

U	Uproar

V	Volt Tackle

W	Water Pulse Water Sport Water Spout Weather Ball Will-O-Wisp Wish

Y	Yawn

See also	Generation I Generation II Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Generation III

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