Power

Power (Japanese: いりょく power) is a property of moves that helps determine how much damage they deal. It is seen primarily in the, but it is touched upon in the Pokémon anime.

Overview
Moves with more power inflict more damage, provided all other circumstances are equal. Many variables besides power can influence the damage a move deals, however.

Statistically speaking, stronger moves often have certain limitations over weaker moves, such as low accuracy, low, or a negative effect like recoil damage.

Since Generation II, the power of a move is always displayed in the move section of a Pokémon's summary screen. All status moves in the games display a power of "&mdash;"; they do no damage. Most physical and special moves display a numeric value for their power (in some multiple of 5), but there are a number of exceptions: do not rely on the attacker and defender's stats for their damage and display a power of "&mdash;", including  and one-hit knockout moves (which always do enough damage to make a Pokémon faint if they hit);  also usually display a power of "&mdash;".

In the, rather than assigning a numerical value for power, moves are assigned a number of stars to indicate their power, and more stars indicates more power for that particular move. For example, has a rating of. There exists an actual numerical value for power, however, and it is added to the Pokémon's relevant Attack stat to determine damage dealt.

Power modification
A number of factors can specifically affect a move's power in the games' damage calculation.

Variable-power moves

 * gain a higher power under specific circumstances, usually double their normal power.
 * calculate their power based on specific circumstances.
 * The power of and  is decreased during,  and  (0.5×).

Other move factors

 * boosts the power of an ally's next move (1.5×)
 * boosts the power of the user's next move (2×)
 * The power of the move copied by is boosted (1.5×)
 * Terrains affect the power of certain moves:
 * boosts the power of moves (1.5×), and also decreases the power of,  and  (0.5×)
 * boosts the power of moves (1.5×)
 * boosts the power of moves (1.5×)
 * decreases the power of moves (0.5×)
 * and reduce the power of  and  moves respectively (0.33× since Generation V, 0.5× before)

Abilities

 * can increase the power of moves if the attacker has them.
 * may either decrease or increase the power of an attack, depending on the user's and target's genders (0.75× or 1.25×)
 * The added second strike of a move affected by has less power than the first strike (0.25× since Generation VII, 0.5× before).

Items

 * , (1.1×)
 * Type-enhancing items
 * Gems (1.3× since Generation VI; 1.5× before)
 * Incenses (1.2×): Odd Incense, Rock Incense, Rose Incense, Sea Incense, Wave Incense
 * Plates (1.2×)
 * Timespace orbs (1.2×)

Trivia

 * In Generation I only, there is no way to see a move's power on-screen.
 * In both Generations I and II, there is no way to see a move's power while in battle through the battle summary.
 * As of Generation VII, the average move power of all moves with a set power (for example, excluding ) is 79.09; excluding Z-Moves gives an average of 76.52. The most frequent move power is 80.