Return

おんがえし Return Favor

Generation:	II

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	Varies
Accuracy:	100%
PP:	20, max: 32
Affects:	Selected Target
Secondary Effect:	None
Priority:	0
Contact:	Yes

Affected by

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

Contest Data

Contests (RS E)

Type:
Appeal:	1 ♥
Jam:	0

Super Contests (DP Pt)

Type:
Appeal:	2 ♥♥

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

Return (おんがえし Return) is a Normal-type move introduced in Generation II.

Effect[]

In Battle[]

A full-power attack that grows more powerful the more the user likes its trainer.

Return's total damage (denoted by ξ (xi)) is calculated by the following formula, based on the Pokémon's current friendship:

$\xi = (\frac{h}{2.5}, 1)$

ξ is the Return's damage.
h is the current happiness of a Pokémon.

The possible damage values that can be attained by Return is between ξ = 1 (lowest damage) to ξ = 102 (highest damage).

Contests[]

Excites the audience in any contest.

Super Contests[]

Earn +2 if Pokémon the performs first in the turn.

Learnset[]

Generation II[]

By TM27[]

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation II can learn Return.

Generation III[]

By TM27[]

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation III can learn Return.

Generation IV[]

By Leveling Up[]

Pokémon	type	Level
By Leveling Up
Lopunny	Normal	13
* Bold indicates a Pokémon which receives STAB from this move

By TM27[]

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation IV can learn Return.

Generation V[]

By Leveling Up[]

Pokémon	type	Level
By Leveling Up
Lopunny	Normal	13
* Bold indicates a Pokémon which receives STAB from this move

By TM27[]

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation V can learn Return.

Trivia[]

This move is the counterpart of the move Frustration, which is a move that grows more powerful the more the user hates it's trainer.

Gallery[]

Games

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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

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A	Aeroblast Ancient Power Attract

B	Baton Pass Beat Up Belly Drum Bone Rush

C	Charm Conversion 2 Cotton Spore Cross Chop Crunch Curse

D	Destiny Bond Detect Dragon Breath Dynamic Punch

E	Encore Endure Extreme Speed

F	False Swipe Feint Attack Flail Flame Wheel Foresight Frustration Fury Cutter Future Sight

G	Giga Drain

H	Heal Bell Hidden Power

I	Icy Wind Iron Tail

L	Lock-On

M	Mach Punch Magnitude Mean Look Megahorn Metal Claw Milk Drink Mind Reader Mirror Coat Moonlight Morning Sun Mud-Slap

N	Nightmare

O	Octazooka Outrage

P	Pain Split Perish Song Powder Snow Present Protect Psych Up Pursuit

R	Rain Dance Rapid Spin Return Reversal Rock Smash Rollout

S	Sacred Fire Safeguard Sandstorm Scary Face Shadow Ball Sketch Sleep Talk Sludge Bomb Snore Spark Spider Web Spikes Spite Steel Wing Sunny Day Swagger Sweet Kiss Sweet Scent Synthesis

T	Thief Triple Kick Twister

V	Vital Throw

W	Whirlpool

Z	Zap Cannon

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

Generation II