Giga Drain (move)

Move data

Type	Grass
Category	Special
Power	75
Accuracy	100
PP	10  (max. 16)
Makes contact?	No
Introduced	Generation 2

Machine/Record

Effects

Giga Drain deals damage and the user will recover 50% of the HP drained.

If the user is holding a Big Root, the move instead recovers 65% of the damage dealt (30% more than normal). If used on a Pokémon with the ability Liquid Ooze, the user instead loses the HP it would have otherwise gained.

Changes

• In Generations 2-4, Giga Drain has 60 base power.
• In Generations 2-3, Giga Drain has 5 PP.

Z-Move effects

When a Pokémon is holding Grassium Z and uses its Z-Power, Giga Drain turns into Bloom Doom and has base power 140.

Move target

Targets a single adjacent Pokémon.

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