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Imprison

Psychicstatus

Prevents the target from using any moves that the user also knows.

Pokémon that learn it
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Power—
Accuracy—
PP10
Priority0

In-battle effect

Prevents any Pokémon on the opposing side of the field from using any move the user knows until the user leaves the field. This effect is live; if the user obtains new moves while on the field, these moves become restricted. If no opposing Pokémon knows any of the user’s moves when this move is used, this move will fail.

TM & HM

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Imprison is taught by TM44, TM92 — the number varies by game.

GameMachine
Scarlet & VioletTM92
Sword & ShieldTM44

Pokémon that learn Imprison

144

Grouped by National Pokédex number. Learn methods and availability vary by game; open a Pokémon to check its game-specific learnset.

Clefairy#0035Clefable#0036Vulpix#0037Ninetales#0038Alakazam#0065Slowpoke#0079Slowbro#0080Grimer#0088
No. 001–151 (18)
No. 152–251 (13)
No. 252–386 (19)
No. 387–493 (14)
No. 494–649 (31)
No. 650–721 (9)
No. 722–809 (10)
No. 810–905 (19)
No. 906 onward (11)

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“Imprison”. Pokémonism. Retrieved [date] from pokemonism.com/moves/imprison.

Move data from PokéAPI.