Hidden Power

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Hidden Power

めざめるパワー Awakening Power

Introduced:	Generation II

Battle Data

Type:
Category:
Power:	60^[1]
Accuracy:	100%
PP:	15, max: 24
Priority:	0
Contact:	No

Affected by

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

Contest Data

Contests (RS E)

Condition:	Smart
Appeal:	3 ♥♥♥
Jam:	0
Can repeatedly be used without boring the judges.

Super Contests (DP Pt)

Condition:	Smart
Appeal:	1 ♥
Earn +3 if the Pokémon gets the lowest score.

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Condition:	Clever
Appeal:	3 ♥♥♥
Jam:	0
An appealing move that can be used repeatedly without boring the audience.

Hidden Power is an incredible Normal-type move introduced in Generation II. It has been TM10 since Generation II.

Description

Games	Description
GS C	The power varies with the POKéMON.
RS E	The effectiveness varies with the user.
FRLG	An attack that varies in type and intensity depending on the user.
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2	A unique attack that varies in type and intensity depending on the Pokémon using it.
XY ORAS	A unique attack that varies in type depending on the Pokémon using it.
SM USUM PE BDSP	A unique attack that varies on the type depending on the Pokémon using it.
SwSh	This move can't be used. It's recommended that this move is forgotten. Once forgotten, this move can't be remembered.

Effect

In battle

Though a Normal-type move naturally, Hidden Power's type can change depending on the user's IVs. Hidden Power does damage to the target. In a Double Battle, Hidden Power can target any Pokémon around the user. In a Triple Battle, Hidden Power can only target a Pokémon that's adjacent to the user.

There is a special algorithm for determining Hidden Power's type. However, there is no in-game way to know the type of the attack, and NPCs typically refuse to tell the type. The type of the attack is determined by taking the two least significant bits (the eighth number of each set) of the Pokémon's Attack and Defense IVs, then concatenating them in the same order.

Type of Hidden Power

Value	Type
0	Fighting
1	Flying
2	Poison
3	Ground
4	Rock
5	Bug
6	Ghost
7	Steel
8	Fire
9	Water
10	Grass
11	Electric
12	Psychic
13	Ice
14	Dragon
15	Dark

Learnset

By leveling up

Pokémon	Type	Egg groups	Level
			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 TM

Generation I

Pokémon	Type	Egg groups	Machine
			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.

Generation I

Pokémon	Type	Egg groups	Machine
			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.

Generation II

Pokémon	Type	Egg groups	Machine
			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.

Generation III

Pokémon	Type	Egg groups	Machine
			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.

Generation IV

Pokémon	Type	Egg groups	Machine
			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.

Generation V

Pokémon	Type	Egg groups	Machine
			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.

Generation VI

Pokémon	Type	Egg groups	Machine
			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.

Generation VII

Pokémon	Type	Egg groups	Machine
			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.

Trivia

Despite being a Normal type move, it cannot deal Normal type damage.
Because Hidden Power was introduced before the introduction of the Fairy type, it is never Fairy type since the method of finding the type has not changed since Generation III.

Gallery

Main games

Main series

References

^ As of Generation VI, Hidden Power has a base power of 60, which prior that had a varied base power

[1] As of Generation VI, Hidden Power has a base power of 60, which prior that had a varied base power

[1]

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 II

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	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