Hold Back

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Hold Back

てかげん Go Easy

Generation:	VI

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	40
Accuracy:	100%
PP:	40, max: 64
Affects:	0
Secondary Effect:	None
Priority:	0
Contact:	Yes

Affected by

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

Contest Data

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

Hold Back is an exclusive Normal-type move used by Celebi that was introduced in Generation VI from the Pokémon Bank event. It is also known by a Munchlax that was given out through Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon's Mystery Gift upon release date, alongside Happy Hour. Hold Back is very similar to False Swipe and Safeguard.

Description

Games	Description
XY ORAS SM USUM LA SV	The user holds back when it attacks and the target is left with at least 1 HP.
BDSP	This move can’t be used. It’s recommended that this move is forgotten. Once forgotten, this move can’t be remembered.

Effect

Learnset

Special move

Generation VI

Pokémon		Type	Obtained
	Celebi	psychic/grass	Pokémon Bank Celebi
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 event

Generation VI

Pokémon		Type	Obtained
	Mareep	electric	National Pokédex Mareep
	Beldum	steel/psychic	Steven's Beldum
	Serperior	grass	Hidden Ability Present Serperior
	Emboar	fire/fighting	Hidden Ability Present Emboar
	Samurott	water	Hidden Ability Present Samurott
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	Obtained
	Munchlax	normal	Snorlium Z Munchlax
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates 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 moves introduced in Generation VI

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	Aromatic Mist

B	Baby-Doll Eyes Belch Boomburst

C	Celebrate Confide Crafty Shield

D	Dazzling Gleam Diamond Storm Disarming Voice Dragon Ascent Draining Kiss

E	Eerie Impulse Electric Terrain Electrify

F	Fairy Lock Fairy Wind Fell Stinger Flower Shield Flying Press Forest's Curse Freeze-Dry

G	Geomancy Grassy Terrain

H	Happy Hour Hold Back Hold Hands Hyperspace Fury Hyperspace Hole

I	Infestation Ion Deluge

K	King's Shield

L	Land's Wrath Light of Ruin

M	Magnetic Flux Mat Block Misty Terrain Moonblast Mystical Fire

N	Noble Roar Nuzzle

O	Oblivion Wing Origin Pulse

P	Parabolic Charge Parting Shot Petal Blizzard Phantom Force Play Nice Play Rough Powder Power-Up Punch Precipice Blades

R	Rototiller

S	Spiky Shield Steam Eruption Sticky Web

T	Thousand Arrows Thousand Waves Topsy-Turvy Trick-or-Treat

V	Venom Drench

W	Water Shuriken

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

Generation VI