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Power

Smelling Salts

Normalphysical

If the target is paralyzed, inflicts double damage and cures the paralysis.

Pokémon that learn it
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Power70
Accuracy100%
PP10
Priority0

In-battle effect

Inflicts regular damage. If the target is paralyzed, this move has double power, and the target is cured of its paralysis.

Changes across generations

Smelling Salts had different stats in earlier games. A dash means that value was unchanged from what it is today, and an arrow marks what happened when that era ended — ▲ raised or ▼ lowered.

GamesTypePowerAccuracyPP
Before Gen 6 (X/Y)—60 Power increased after this100%10
CurrentNormal70100%10

Pokémon that learn Smelling Salts

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

Mankey#0056Machop#0066Lickitung#0108Snubbull#0209Torchic#0255Whismur#0293Makuhita#0296Hariyama#0297
No. 001–151 (3)
No. 152–251 (1)
No. 252–386 (7)
No. 387–493 (1)
No. 494–649 (2)

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“Smelling Salts”. Pokémonism. Retrieved [date] from pokemonism.com/moves/smelling-salts.

Move data from PokéAPI.