Defense Curl

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Defense Curl

まるくなる Curl Up

Generation:	I

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	N/A
Accuracy:	N/A
PP:	40, max: 64
Affects:	Selected Target
Secondary Effect:	None
Priority:	0
Contact:	No

Affected by

Magic Coat:	No
Magic Bounce:	No
Bright Powder:	No
Protect/Detect:	No
Snatch:	Yes
Mirror Move:	No
King's Rock:	No

Contest Data

Contests (RS E)

Type:
Appeal:	2 ♥♥
Jam:	0

Super Contests (DP Pt)

Type:
Appeal:	2 ♥♥

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

Defense Curl is a Normal-type move that was introduced in Generation I.

Description[]

Games	Description
GS C	Heightens the user's Defense.
RS E	Curls up to conceal weak spots and raise Defense.
FRLG	The user curls up to conceal weak spots and raise its Defense stat.
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2 XY ORAS SM USUM PE SwSh BDSP LA	The user curls up to conceal weak spots and raise its Defense stat.
SV	The user curls up and boosts its Defense stat.

Effect[]

Using Defense Curl slightly raises the user's defense.

If Rollout or Ice Ball is used after this attack, it deals twice as much damage.

Learnset[]

By leveling up[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Sandshrew	ground	Field		6	6	3	3BW 1B2W2	1	1SM USUM PE	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Sandshrew	ice/steel	Field							1SM USUM PE	1SwSh	1
	Sandslash	ground	Field		1, 6	1, 6	1, 3	1, 3BW 1B2W2	1	1SM USUM PE	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Sandslash	ice/steel	Field							1SM USUM PE	1SwSh	Rem.
	Clefairy	fairy	Fairy	39	26	25	13	13	13	13SM USUM 4PE	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Clefable	fairy	Fairy							1PE	1SwSh BDSP	Rem.
	Jigglypuff	normal/fairy	Fairy	19	4	4	5	5	5XY 3ORAS	3SM USUM 6PE	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Wigglytuff	normal/fairy	Fairy	1	1	1	1	1	1	1SM USUM	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Geodude	rock/ground	Mineral	11	6	1	1	1	1	1SM USUM PE	1BDSP	1
	Geodude	rock/electric	Mineral							1SM USUM PE		1
	Graveler	rock/ground	Mineral	1, 11	1, 6	1	1	1	1	1SM USUM PE	1BDSP	1
	Graveler	rock/electric	Mineral							1SM USUM PE		1
	Golem	rock/ground	Mineral	1, 11	1, 6	1	1	1	1	1SM USUM PE	1BDSP	1
	Golem	rock/electric	Mineral							1SM USUM PE		1
	Lickitung	normal	Monster	23	13	12	9	9	9	9SM USUM	1SwSh BDSP
	Chansey	normal	Fairy	44	41	41	31	1	1	1SM USUM 4PE	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Snorlax	normal	Monster		15	10RS E 9FRLG	4	4	4	4SM USUM 6PE	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Cyndaquil	fire	Field				22	22	22	22	22BDSP	22
	Quilava	fire	Field				24	24	24	24	24BDSP	24
	Typhlosion	fire	Field				24	24	24	24	24BDSP	24
	Typhlosion	fire/ghost	Field									24
	Sentret	normal	Field		5	4	4	4	4	4	4BDSP	4
	Furret	normal	Field		1, 5	1, 4	1, 4	1, 4	1, 4	1, 4	1, 4BDSP	1
	Igglybuff	normal/fairy	Undiscovered		4	4	5	5	5XY 3ORAS	3	4SwSh BDSP	4
	Marill	water/fairy	Water 1/Fairy		3	3	2	2BW 10B2W2	10	10	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Azumarill	water/fairy	Water 1/Fairy		1, 3	1, 3	1, 2	1, 2BW 10B2W2	10	10	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Dunsparce	normal	Field		5	4	5	4BW 1B2W2	1	1	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Phanpy	ground	Field		9	9	1	1	1	1	1BDSP	1
	Donphan	ground	Field		9	9	1	1	1	1	1BDSP	1
	Porygon2	normal	Mineral		24	24	1	1	1	1	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Miltank	normal	Field		8	8	5	5	5	5	10SwSh BDSP
	Blissey	normal	Fairy		33	33	31	1	1	1	1SwSh BDSP	1
	Spheal	ice/water	Water 1/Field			1FRLG	1	1	1	1	1SwSh BDSP
	Sealeo	ice/water	Water 1/Field			1FRLG			1ORAS	1	1SwSh BDSP
	Walrein	ice/water	Water 1/Field			1FRLG			1ORAS	1	1SwSh BDSP
	Bidoof	normal	Water 1/Field				9	9	9	5	5BDSP
	Bibarel	normal/water	Water 1/Field				9	9	9	5	5BDSP
	Buneary	normal	Field/Human-Like				1	1	1	1	4SwSh BDSP
	Lopunny	normal	Field/Human-Like				1	1	1	1	1SwSh BDSP
	Happiny	normal	Undiscovered								4SwSh BDSP	4
	Munchlax	normal	Undiscovered				4	4	4	4	4SwSh BDSP	4
	Lickilicky	normal	Monster				9	9	9	9	1SwSh BDSP
	Porygon-Z	normal	Mineral								1SwSh BDSP	1
	Shaymin	grass	Undiscovered				1DP
	Tepig	fire	Field					13	13	13		13
	Pignite	fire/fighting	Field					13	13	13		13
	Emboar	fire/fighting	Field					13	13	13		13
	Munna	psychic	Field					1	1	1	1
	Musharna	psychic	Field					1	1	1	1
	Venipede	bug/poison	Bug					1	1	1	1
	Whirlipede	bug/poison	Bug					1	1	1	1
	Scolipede	bug/poison	Bug					1	1	1	1
	Golett	ground/ghost	Mineral					1	1	1	4	4
	Golurk	ground/ghost	Mineral					1	1	1	1	1
	Wimpod	bug/water	Bug/Water 3								1
	Golisopod	bug/water	Bug/Water 3								1
	Minior	rock/flying	Mineral							3		3
	Komala	normal	Field							1		1
	Togedemaru	electric/steel	Field/Fairy							5	5
	Magearna	steel/fairy	Undiscovered							1	6	6
	Wooloo	normal	Field								4
	Dubwool	normal	Field								1
	Bramblin	grass/ghost	Grass									1
	Brambleghast	grass/ghost	Grass									1
	Rellor	bug	Bug									1
	Rabsca	bug/psychic	Bug									1
	Dudunsparce	normal	Field									1
	Great Tusk	ground/fighting	Undiscovered									1
	Iron Treads	ground/steel	Undiscovered									1
	Pecharunt	poison/ghost	Undiscovered									Rem.
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 TM[]

Pokémon

Type

Egg groups

Machine

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

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[]

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By Move Tutor[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Games
Bold indicates that this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates that an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

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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 Generation II TMs and HMs

TMs	01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

HMs	01 02 03 04 05 06 07

See also	Generation I Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII TMs TRs Generation IX

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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 I

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	Absorb Acid Acid Armor Agility Amnesia Aurora Beam

B	Barrage Barrier Bide Bind Bite Blizzard Body Slam Bone Club Bonemerang Bubble Bubble Beam

C	Clamp Comet Punch Confuse Ray Confusion Constrict Conversion Counter Crabhammer Cut

D	Defense Curl Dig Disable Dizzy Punch Double Kick Double Slap Double Team Double-Edge Dragon Rage Dream Eater Drill Peck

E	Earthquake Egg Bomb Ember Explosion

F	Fire Blast Fire Punch Fire Spin Fissure Flamethrower Flash Fly Focus Energy Fury Attack Fury Swipes

G	Glare Growl Growth Guillotine Gust

H	Harden Haze Headbutt High Jump Kick Horn Attack Horn Drill Hydro Pump Hyper Beam Hyper Fang Hypnosis

I	Ice Beam Ice Punch

J	Jump Kick

K	Karate Chop Kinesis

L	Leech Life Leech Seed Leer Lick Light Screen Lovely Kiss Low Kick

M	Meditate Mega Drain Mega Kick Mega Punch Metronome Mimic Minimize Mirror Move Mist

N	Night Shade

P	Pay Day Peck Petal Dance Pin Missile Poison Gas Poison Powder Poison Sting Pound Psybeam Psychic Psywave

Q	Quick Attack

R	Rage Razor Leaf Razor Wind Recover Reflect Rest Roar Rock Slide Rock Throw Rolling Kick

S	Sand Attack Scratch Screech Seismic Toss Self-Destruct Sharpen Sing Skull Bash Sky Attack Slam Slash Sleep Powder Sludge Smog Smokescreen Soft-Boiled Solar Beam Sonic Boom Spike Cannon Splash Spore Stomp Strength String Shot Struggle Stun Spore Submission Substitute Super Fang Supersonic Surf Swift Swords Dance

T	Tackle Tail Whip Take Down Teleport Thrash Thunder Thunder Punch Thunder Shock Thunder Wave Thunderbolt Toxic Transform Tri Attack Twineedle

V	Vine Whip ViceGrip

W	Water Gun Waterfall Whirlwind Wing Attack Withdraw Wrap

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

Generation I