Helping Hand (move)

Helping Hand (Japanese: てだすけ Help) is a non-damaging move introduced in Generation III. It is TM03 in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!.

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 or in the  of a move like  or.

Helping Hand targets the user.

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

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

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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
Helping Hand increases and  by one stage for all allies (except the user) in the room.

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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 on a recalled Pokémon, or a Pokémon with  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
Rechte Hand Refuerzo Coup d'Main Altruismo てだすけ 帮助（招式）