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Helping Hand (Japanese: てだすけ Help) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation III. It is:

Effect

Generation III

Helping Hand is an increased priority move that will increase the damage done by the user's ally this turn by 50%.

It will fail if there is no adjacent ally, or if the ally has already acted this turn.

It can still affect an ally behind a substitute or in the semi-invulnerable turn of a move like Fly or Dig.

Helping Hand targets the user.

Generation IV

Helping Hand now targets an adjacent ally, and will raise its move's power by 50% this turn (resulting in virtually the same effect).

Helping Hand will fail in a Single Battle.

Helping Hand now boosts confusion damage.

Generation V onwards

Helping Hand now targets an adjacent ally. It no longer boosts confusion damage.

Helping Hand will fail when used by the player's Pokémon in a Horde Encounter. In a Battle Royal, Helping Hand can target any opponent, and successfully increase that opponent's move power.

If Helping Hand is used multiple times in a turn, all targeting the same Pokémon, the boosts are cumulative. The move power will increase by 125% if there are two Helping Hands, or 237.5% if there are three.

If powered up by a Normalium Z into Z-Helping Hand, all of the user's lowered stats are reset.

Generation IX

In Tera Raid Battles, when Helping Hand is used multiple times on the same target, it does not stack and only applies the base 50% increase.

Description

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/Move Tutor

By breeding

Special move

Generation III

Generation IV

Generation V

By event

Generation IV

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Obtained with
0390				Field	Human-Like	2009 Birthday Chimchar 2010 Birthday Chimchar
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

Generation V

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

Helping Hand targets all teammates other than the user in the same room, raising their Attack and Special Attack by one stage.

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, Helping Hand is Blissey's first move. It is obtained by reaching level 6 upgrading Pound into it instead of Egg Bomb. The user greatly improves movement speed and basic attack speed for itself and allies by 35% for 3s. During this duration, all of the user's basic attacks are boosted. After this bonus expires, the user loses any boosted attack that was granted. At level 12, the move also increases basic attack damage for all those affected by 15%.

Description

Games Description MDRB Boosts the Attack and Special Attack of team members in the same room by one level. MDTDS Boosts the Attack and Special Attack of team members in the room by 1 level. It does not affect the user. BSL おなじへやの なかまポケモンの こうげき とくこうを それぞれ １だんかいあげる MDGtI It boosts the Attack and Special Attack of your teammates in the same room. (The stat changes return to normal when they go to the next floor or step on a Wonder Tile.) SMD It boosts the Attack and Sp. Atk. of your teammates in the same room. Their stats return to normal when they go to the next floor or step on a Wonder Tile.

In the anime

Shroomish and Makuhita Plusle and Minun Eevee Meowstic
The user assists an ally by boosting the power of that ally's attack.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Plusle starts to cheer and its body gives off light blue electric sparks in the process. Then it releases a bolt of blue lightning in the air and it lands on the target, powering it up, or Plusle cheers on its ally, or Plusle creates a ball of yellow sparks on its hands and it dances and cheers. When the balls of electricity touch the target, it glows white then multicolored.
Thatcher's Plusle	A Different Kind of Misty		Debut
Solana's Plusle	The Green Guardian		None
Ursula's Plusle	Yes in Dee Dee, It's Dawn!		None
	Minun starts to cheer and its body gives off light blue electric sparks in the process. Then it releases a bolt of blue lightning in the air and it lands on the target, powering it up, or Minun creates a ball of light blue sparks on its hands and it dances and cheers for its ally. When the balls of electricity touch the target, it glows white then multicolored.
Thatcher's Minun	A Different Kind of Misty		Debut
Ursula's Minun	Yes in Dee Dee, It's Dawn		None
	Shroomish releases a bolt of blue energy from its body to the target, powering it up.
Sheridan's Shroomish	Cheer Pressure		None
	Makuhita releases a bolt of blue energy from its body at the target, powering it up.
Sheridan's Makuhita	Cheer Pressure		None
	Eevee lays one of its front paws on the target, and it and the target become covered in a multicolored aura, powering up the target's moves.
Virgil's Eevee	Team Eevee and the Pokémon Rescue Squad!		None
	A golden aura appears around Meowstic, and it transfers the aura to the target, powering up the target's moves.
Olympia's Meowstic	Cloudy Fate, Bright Future!		None
	Dolliv releases a stream of oil from each of its olive fruits into the target's move, powering it up.
Brassius's Dolliv	HZ055		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Battle Frontier

Pokémon Colosseum Snatcher Leo

Pokémon Omega Ruby Crimson Passion and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire Indigo Wisdom

In other generations

Core series games

Side series games

Spin-off series games

Trivia

• Ever since its introduction, Helping Hand has the highest consistent priority of all moves, meaning a Pokémon performing this move will always go first unless another Pokémon uses Pursuit on a recalled Pokémon, or a Pokémon with Prankster uses a move with +4 priority.
• In Generation III, the status screen erroneously states that the move has 100% accuracy, even though it ignores accuracy and evasion checks.

In other languages

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