Hidden Power

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Hidden Power

Generation:	II

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	Varies
Accuracy:	100%
PP:	15*, max: ?
Affects:	Selected Target
Secondary Effect:	None
Priority:	0
Contact:	No

Affected by

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

Contest Data

Contests (RSE)

Type:
Appeal:	3 ♥♥♥
Jam:	0

Super Contests (DPPt)

Type:
Appeal:	1 ♥

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

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Hidden Power is a Normal-type attack introduced in Generation II. Hidden Power's type and power varies. Unown always know Hidden Power. There are 15 known pokemon that cannot learn Hidden Power. These include Caterpie, Metapod, Weedle, Kakuna, Magikarp, Ditto, Wobbuffet, Silcoon, Cascoon, Wynaut, Beldum, Cricketot, Combee, and Tynamo. Smeargle is only able to obtain Hidden Power through Sketch.

Effects

In battle

Hidden Power always varies from Pokémon to Pokémon and may or may not give the Pokémon STAB. There are certain protocols that determine the type, effect, and damage.

It can be easy to find the type of the Hidden Power when battling a Kecleon.

The formula used to determine the type number is:

$HP_{type}={\frac {5a+10b+20c+40d+160e+80f}{21}}$

• a depends on the HP IV.
• b and c depend on the Attack and Defense IV's respectively.
• d depends on the Speed IV.
• e and f depend on the Special Attack and Special Defense IV's respectively

The formula used to determine the power is:

$HP_{power}={\frac {40u+80v+160w+320x+640y+1,280z}{63}}+30$

The variables u through z (the "damage bits") represent the second to last bit of each IV. If a variable has a remainder of 2 or 3 when divided by 4, this bit is 1. Otherwise, the bit is zero.

• u depends on the HP stat.
• v and w depend on the Attack and Defense stats respectively.
• x depends on the Speed stat.
• y and z depend on the Special Attack and Special Defense stats respectively.

Pokémon

Generation II

Level-Up

#	Pokémon	Type	Level
#201	Unown	Psychic	--

TM10

All, save for Caterpie, Metapod, Weedle, Kakuna, Magikarp, Ditto, and Wobbuffet can learn Hidden Power in Generation 2.

Generation III

Level-Up

#	Pokémon	Type	Level
#201	Unown	Psychic	--
#307	Meditite	Fighting/Psychic	18 RSE
#307	Meditite	Fighting/Psychic	17 FRLG
#308	Medicham	Fighting/Psychic	18 RSE
#308	Medicham	Fighting/Psychic	17 FRLG

TM10

All, save for Caterpie, Metapod, Weedle, Kakuna, Ditto, Magikarp, Wobbuffet, Wurmple, Silcoon, Cascoon, and Wynaut can learn Hidden Power in Generation 3.

Generation IV

Level-Up

#	Pokémon	Type	Level
#199	Slowking	Water/Psychic	--
#201	Unown	Psychic	--
#307	Meditite	Fighting/Psychic	15
#308	Medicham	Fighting/Psychic	15
#413	Wormadam Plant Cloak	Bug/Grass	20
#413	Wormadam Sandy Cloak	Bug/Ground	20
#413	Wormadam Trash Cloak	Bug/Steel	20
#414	Mothim	Bug/Flying	20
#422	Shellos West Sea	Water	16
#422	Shellos East Sea	Water	16
#423	Gastrodon West Sea	Water/Ground	16
#423	Gastrodon East Sea	Water/Ground	16

TM10

All, save for Caterpie, Metapod, Weedle, Kakuna, Magikarp, Ditto, Wobbuffet, Wurmple, Silcoon, Cascoon, Wynaut, Kricketot, and Combee can learn Hidden Power in Generation 4

Trivia

• Prior to Generation IV, it was the only move that could be Physical and Special.
• The man to the left of the arena in southern Driftveil City can teach your Pokémon Hidden Power.

Gallery

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