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Psybeam ({{{kanji}}} {{{romaji}}})

Introduced:	Generation I
Battle Data
Type:
Category:
Power:	65
Accuracy:	100%
PP:	20
Priority:	0
Contact:	No
Affected by
Bright Powder:	Yes
Detect/Protect:	Yes
King's Rock:	No
Magic Bounce:	No
Magic Coat:	No
Mirror Move:	Yes
Snatch:	No
Contest Data
Contests
Condition:	Beauty
Appeal:	3 ♥♥♥
Jam:	0
Scrambles the order of appeals on the next turn.
Super Contests
Condition:	Beauty
Appeal:	2 ♥♥
Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs first in the turn.
Contest Spectaculars
Condition:	Beautiful
Appeal:	3 ♥♥♥
Jam:	0
Makes the audience expect little of other contestants.

Psybeam (サイケこうせん, Psyche-beam?) is a Psychic-type move introduced in Generation I.

Description[]

Games	Description
GS C	An attack that may confuse the foe.
RS E	Fires a peculiar ray that may confuse the foe.
FRLG	A peculiar ray is shot at the foe. It may also leave the foe confused.
DP Pt HGSS	The foe is attacked with a peculiar ray. It may also leave the target confused.
BW B2W2	The target is attacked with a peculiar ray. It may also cause confusion.
XY ORAS SM USUM PE SwSh BDSP LA	The target is attacked with a peculiar ray. This may also leave the target confused.
SV	The target is attacked with a peculiar ray. This may also confuse the target.

Effect[]

In battle[]

Foe	Foe	Foe
User	Ally	Ally

Psybeam deals damage and has a 20% chance to confuse the target.

In a Double Battle, Psybeam can target any Pokémon that's adjacent to the user.

Learnset[]

By leveling up[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Butterfree	bug/flying	Flying	32RG B 34	34	34	24	24	24	17SM USUM 16PE	16
	Venonat	bug/poison	Bug	35	33	33	25	25	25	17SM USUM 20PE	17BDSP	17
	Venomoth	bug/poison	Bug	38	36	36	25	25	25	17SM USUM 20PE	17BDSP	17
	Psyduck	water	Water 1/Field							27PE
	Golduck	water	Water 1/Field							27PE
	Kadabra	psychic	Human-Like	27	21	21	24	28	28XY 21ORAS	21SM USUM 1, Evo.PE	5
	Alakazam	psychic	Human-Like	27	21	21	24	28	28XY 21ORAS	21SM USUM 1PE	5
	Ponyta	psychic	Field								25
	Rapidash	psychic/fairy	Field								25
	Drowzee	psychic	Human-Like				26	25	25	25SM USUM 22PE	25BDSP	21
	Hypno	psychic	Human-Like				28	25	25	25SM USUM 22PE	25BDSP	21
	Exeggcute	grass/psychic	Grass							27PE
	Weezing	poison	Amorphous							1PE
	Seaking	water	Water 2							1PE
	Staryu	water	Water 3								24
	Starmie	water/psychic	Water 3								1
	Mr. Mime	psychic/fairy	Human-Like		36	29	25	25	25	25SM USUM 30PE	28SwSh BDSP
	Mr. Mime	ice/psychic	Human-Like								28
	Porygon	normal	Mineral	23	12	12	7	7	7	7SM USUM 9PE	20SwSh BDSP
	Mewtwo	psychic	Undiscovered							22PE
	Espeon	psychic	Field		36	36	36	36BW 21B2W2	20	20	25SwSh BDSP	25
	Misdreavus	ghost	Amorphous		27	30	23	28	28	28	28BDSP	28
	Girafarig	normal/psychic	Field		41	43	19	19	19	19	19BDSP	19
	Remoraid	water	Water 1/Water 2		22	22	10	10	10	10	12SwSh BDSP
	Octillery	water	Water 1/Water 2		22	22	1, 10	1, 10	1, 10	1, 10	12SwSh BDSP
	Mantine	water/flying	Water 1				1	1	1	1	1
	Porygon2	normal	Mineral		12	12	7	7	7	7	20SwSh BDSP
	Dustox	bug/poison	Bug			24	24	24	24XY 22ORAS	22	22BDSP
	Ralts	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous								18SwSh BDSP	18
	Kirlia	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous								18SwSh BDSP	18
	Gardevoir	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous								18SwSh BDSP	18
	Meditite	fighting/psychic	Human-Like								20BDSP	20
	Medicham	fighting/psychic	Human-Like								20BDSP	20
	Spoink	psychic	Field			16	14	14	14	14	14BDSP	14
	Grumpig	psychic	Field			1, 16	1, 14	1, 14	1, 14	1, 14	14BDSP	1
	Spinda	normal	Field/Human-Like			16	19	19	19XY 14ORAS	14	14BDSP
	Baltoy	ground/psychic	Mineral			11	11	15BW 13B2W2	13XY 16ORAS	16	15BDSP
	Claydol	ground/psychic	Mineral			11	11	15BW 13B2W2	13XY 16ORAS	16	15BDSP
	Kecleon	normal	Field			17	15DP 18Pt HGSS	18	18	18	18BDSP
	Wormadam	bug/grass	Bug				32	32	32	32	32BDSP
	Wormadam	bug/ground	Bug				32	32	32	32	32BDSP
	Wormadam	bug/steel	Bug				32	32	32	32	32BDSP
	Mothim	bug/flying	Bug				32	32	32	32	32BDSP
	Mismagius	ghost	Amorphous								1BDSP
	Mime Jr.	psychic/fairy	Undiscovered				25	25	25	25	28SwSh BDSP
	Porygon-Z	normal	Mineral				7	7	7	7	20SwSh BDSP
	Gallade	psychic/fighting	Human-Like/Amorphous								1SwSh BDSP	1
	Uxie	psychic	Undiscovered								21SwSh BDSP	21
	Mesprit	psychic	Undiscovered								21SwSh BDSP	21
	Azelf	psychic	Undiscovered								21SwSh BDSP	21
	Cresselia	psychic	Undiscovered								18SwSh BDSP	18
	Munna	psychic	Field					11	11	11	8
	Musharna	psychic	Field					1	1	1	1
	Sigilyph	psychic/flying	Flying					18	18	18	20
	Gothita	psychic	Human-Like					16	16	16	12	12
	Gothorita	psychic	Human-Like					16	16	16	12	12
	Gothitelle	psychic	Human-Like					16	16	16	12	12
	Solosis	psychic	Amorphous								12
	Duosion	psychic	Amorphous								12
	Reuniclus	psychic	Amorphous								12
	Elgyem	psychic	Human-Like					15	15	15	18
	Beheeyem	psychic	Human-Like					15	15	15	18
	Meloetta	normal/psychic	Undiscovered					31	31	31		31
	Fennekin	fire	Field						17	17		17
	Braixen	fire	Field						18	18		18
	Delphox	fire/psychic	Field						18	18		18
	Vivillon	bug/flying	Bug						17	17		17
	Espurr	psychic	Field						17	17	21
	Meowstic	psychic	Field						17	17	21
	Meowstic	psychic	Field						17	17	21
	Inkay	dark/psychic	Water 1/Water 2						21	21	15
	Malamar	dark/psychic	Water 1/Water 2						21	21	15
	Hoopa	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered						15XY 19ORAS	19		19
	Hoopa	psychic/dark	Undiscovered						19ORAS	19		19
	Tapu Lele	psychic/fairy	Undiscovered							14	20
	Magearna	steel/fairy	Undiscovered							1	30	30
	Orbeetle	bug/psychic	Bug								16
	Hatenna	psychic	Fairy								20	20
	Hattrem	psychic	Fairy								20	20
	Hatterene	psychic/fairy	Fairy								20	20
	Mr. Rime	ice/psychic	Human-Like								28
	Indeedee	psychic/normal	Fairy								15	15
	Indeedee	psychic/normal	Fairy								15	15
	Rabsca	bug/psychic	Bug									15
	Flittle	psychic	Flying									19
	Espathra	psychic	Flying									19
	Farigiraf	normal/psychic	Field									19
	Flutter Mane	ghost/fairy	Undiscovered									7
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

Bug

TM016

Bug

TM016

Water 1/Field

TM016

Water 1/Field

TM016

Slowpoke

Monster/Water 1

TM016

Slowpoke

Monster/Water 1

TM016

Slowbro

Monster/Water 1

TM016

Slowbro

Monster/Water 1

TM016

Drowzee

Human-Like

TM016

Hypno

Human-Like

TM016

Articuno

Undiscovered

TM016

Mewtwo

Undiscovered

TM016

Mew

Undiscovered

TM016

Espeon

Field

TM016

Slowking

Monster/Water 1

TM016

Slowking

Monster/Water 1

TM016

Amorphous

TM016

Girafarig

Field

TM016

Stantler

Field

TM016

Ralts

Human-Like/Amorphous

TM016

Kirlia

Human-Like/Amorphous

TM016

Gardevoir

Human-Like/Amorphous

TM016

Water 1/Bug

TM016

Water 1/Bug

TM016

Human-Like

TM016

Meditite

fighting/psychic

Human-Like

TM016

Medicham

fighting/psychic

Human-Like

TM016

Spoink

Field

TM016

Grumpig

Field

TM016

Amorphous

TM016

Amorphous

TM016

Amorphous

TM016

Amorphous

TM016

Amorphous

TM016

Bronzong

Mineral

TM016

Amorphous

TM016

Water 2

TM016

Water 2

TM016

Gallade

psychic/fighting

Human-Like/Amorphous

TM016

Uxie

Undiscovered

TM016

Mesprit

Undiscovered

TM016

Azelf

Undiscovered

TM016

Cresselia

Undiscovered

TM016

Gothita

Human-Like

TM016

Gothorita

Human-Like

TM016

Gothitelle

Human-Like

TM016

Braviary

Flying

TM016

Meloetta

Undiscovered

TM016

Fennekin

Field

TM016

Braixen

Field

TM016

Delphox

Field

TM016

Bug

TM016

Hoopa

Undiscovered

TM016

Hoopa

Undiscovered

TM016

Oranguru

Field

TM016

Undiscovered

TM016

Mineral/Amorphous

TM016

Mineral/Amorphous

TM016

Hatenna

Fairy

TM016

Hattrem

Fairy

TM016

Hatterene

Fairy

TM016

Indeedee

Fairy

TM016

Indeedee

Fairy

TM016

Calyrex

Undiscovered

TM016

Calyrex

Undiscovered

TM016

Calyrex

Undiscovered

TM016

Wyrdeer

Field

TM016

Armarouge

Human-Like

TM016

Rabsca

Bug

TM016

Flittle

Flying

TM016

Espathra

Flying

TM016

Farigiraf

Field

TM016

Scream Tail

Undiscovered

TM016

Undiscovered

TM016

Undiscovered

TM016

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[]

Special move[]

Generation III[]

Generation V[]

Gallery[]

Main games

Spinoffs

Main series

Pokémon Adventures

v · d · e List of Psychic-type moves

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

A	Agility Ally Switch Amnesia

B	Barrier

C	Calm Mind Confusion Cosmic Power

D	Dream Eater

E	Eerie Spell Esper Wing Expanding Force Extrasensory

F	Freezing Glare Future Sight

G	Glitzy Glow Gravity Guard Split Guard Swap

H	Heal Block Heal Pulse Healing Wish Heart Stamp Heart Swap Hyperspace Hole Hypnosis

I	Imprison Instruct

K	Kinesis

L	Light Screen Lumina Crash Lunar Blessing Lunar Dance Luster Purge

M	Magic Coat Magic Powder Magic Room Meditate Miracle Eye Mirror Coat Mist Ball Mystical Power

P	Photon Geyser Power Split Power Swap Power Trick Prismatic Laser Psybeam Psyblade Psychic Psychic Fangs Psychic Noise Psychic Terrain Psycho Boost Psycho Cut Psycho Shift Psyshield Bash Psyshock Psystrike Psywave

R	Reflect Rest Role Play

S	Skill Swap Speed Swap Stored Power Synchronoise

T	Take Heart Telekinesis Teleport Trick Trick Room Twin Beam

W	Wonder Room

Z	Zen Headbutt

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

Moves

v · d · e

List of move variations

Damage-dealing

A	Acid Bubble Ember Powder Snow Thunder Shock Aeroblast Spacial Rend Ancient Power Ominous Wind Silver Wind Arm Thrust Water Shuriken Aqua Jet Accelerock

B	Barb Barrage Infernal Parade Bite Heart Stamp Blizzard Hurricane Thunder Bolt Beak Fishious Rend Bone Rush Rock Blast Brine Hex Venoshock Bullet Seed Icicle Spear

C	Catastropika Pulverizing Pancake Circle Throw Dragon Tail Collision Course Electro Drift Counter Mirror Coat Cross Chop Stone Edge Crush Claw Razor Claw Crunch Flash Cannon Shadow Ball

D	Dig Dive Discharge Lava Plume Double-Edge Brave Bird Flare Blitz Wave Crash Wood Hammer Volt Tackle Drill Peck Dragon Claw Power Gem Seed Bomb Strength X-Scissor Dynamax Cannon Behemoth Bash Behemoth Blade Dynamic Punch Inferno

E	Earthquake Judgment Eruption Dragon Energy Water Spout

F	False Swipe Hold Back Fire Punch Ice Punch Signal Beam Thunder Punch Relic Song Fire Spin Clamp Sand Tomb Whirlpool Flail Reversal Flame Charge Chilling Water Pounce Struggle Bug Trailblaze Flamethrower Ice Beam Thunderbolt Fury Attack Barrage Fusion Flare Fusion Bolt

G	Giga Drain Drain Punch Horn Leech Gyro Ball Electro Ball

H	Hammer Arm Ice Hammer Heavy Slam Heat Crash Hyper Beam Blast Burn Frenzy Plant Giga Impact Hydro Cannon Meteor Assault Roar of Time Rock Wrecker Hyper Fang Zen Headbutt

I	Icy Wind Electroweb Mud Shot Snarl Iron Tail Dragon Rush

J	Jump Kick Supercell Slam

K	Karate Chop Poison Tail

L	Last Respects Rage Fist Leaf Blade Attack Order Low Kick Grass Knot Lunge Apple Acid Drum Beating Grav Apple Fire Lash Luster Purge Mist Ball

M	Megahorn Power Whip Precipice Blades Metal Burst Comeuppance

N	Needle Arm Force Palm

O	Octazooka Mirror Shot Mud Bomb Overheat Draco Meteor Fleur Cannon Leaf Storm

P	Pluck Bug Bite Pound Branch Poke Fairy Wind Gust Leafage Scratch Tackle Psybeam Aurora Beam Bubble Beam Chatter Low Sweep Sludge Spark Psyblade Hydro Steam Psychic Bug Buzz Earth Power Energy Ball Psyshock Body Press

Q	Quick Attack Bullet Punch Ice Shard Mach Punch Shadow Sneak Vacuum Wave

R	Return Frustration Revenge Avalanche Rollout Ice Ball

S	Sacred Fire Diamond Storm Seismic Toss Night Shade Shadow Bone Liquidation Skull Bash Electro Shot Sky Attack Freeze Shock Ice Burn Slash Aqua Cutter Cross Poison Night Slash Psycho Cut Shadow Claw Sludge Wave Moonblast Springtide Storm Bleakwind Storm Sandsear Storm Wildbolt Storm Steel Beam Chloroblast Stomp Steamroller Stomping Tantrum Lash Out Temper Flare Stone Axe Ceaseless Edge Stored Power Power Trip Sucker Punch Thunderclap Sunsteel Strike Moongeist Beam Photon Geyser Superpower Armor Cannon Close Combat Dragon Ascent Headlong Rush Super Fang Nature's Madness Ruination Surf Hyper Voice Land's Wrath Petal Blizzard Thousand Arrows Thousand Waves Swift Aerial Ace Feint Attack Magical Leaf Magnet Bomb Shadow Punch Shock Wave

T	Techno Blast Multi-Attack Thief Covet Thrash Outrage Petal Dance Raging Fury

U	U-turn Volt Switch

W	Waterfall Dark Pulse Extrasensory Iron Head Poison Jab Scald Zing Zap Weather Ball Terrain Pulse Wring Out Crush Grip Hard Press

Elemental fangs	Fire Fang Ice Fang Thunder Fang

One-hit knockout moves	Fissure Guillotine Horn Drill Sheer Cold

Pledge moves	Fire Pledge Grass Pledge Water Pledge

Let's Go Partner	Pika Papow Veevee Volley Bouncy Bubble Buzzy Buzz Sizzly Slide Glitzy Glow Baddy Bad Sappy Seed Freezy Frost

Status

After You Quash Camouflage Reflect Type Charm Captivate Eerie Impulse Fake Tears Feather Dance Confide Play Nice Conversion Conversion 2 Destiny Bond Grudge Disable Embargo Heal Block Taunt Torment Follow Me Rage Powder Foresight Miracle Eye Odor Sleuth Forest's Curse Trick-or-Treat Guard Split Power Split Harden Sharpen Heal Bell Aromatherapy Heal Pulse Floral Healing Aqua Ring Ingrain Jungle Healing Lunar Blessing Magnetic Flux Gear Up Meditate Defense Curl Howl Withdraw Memento Lunar Dance Healing Wish Mind Reader Lock-On Mist Lucky Chant Safeguard Morning Sun Moonlight Shore Up Synthesis Mud Sport Water Sport No Retreat Clangorous Soul Poison Powder Stun Spore Protect Baneful Bunker Burning Bulwark Detect King's Shield Obstruct Silk Trap Spiky Shield Quick Guard Crafty Shield Wide Guard Quiver Dance Coil Recover Heal Order Milk Drink Roost Slack Off Soft-Boiled Roar Whirlwind Sand Attack Flash Smokescreen Screech Metal Sound Sing Grass Whistle Supersonic Skill Swap Guard Swap Heart Swap Power Swap Speed Swap Sleep Powder Lovely Kiss Sweet Kiss Soak Magic Powder Spider Web Block Mean Look Spikes Stealth Rock Sticky Web Toxic Spikes Splash Celebrate Hold Hands Stockpile Bulk Up Calm Mind Cosmic Power Dragon Dance Hone Claws Swords Dance Acid Armor Amnesia Autotomize Barrier Iron Defense Nasty Plot Rock Polish Tail Whip Leer Trick Switcheroo Trick Room Magic Room Wonder Room Worry Seed Entrainment Simple Beam

Terrain moves	Electric Terrain Grassy Terrain Misty Terrain Psychic Terrain

Weather moves	Hail Rain Dance Sandstorm Snowscape Sunny Day

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

v · d · e List of Generation IX TMs

#001–050	001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050

#051–100	051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100

#101–150	101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150

#151–200	151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200

#201–229	201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229

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

Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet

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