Giga Drain (move)

Giga Drain (Japanese: ギガドレイン Giga Drain) is a damage-dealing move introduced in Generation II. Giga Drain is the strongest in a line of three Grass-type HP draining attacks, the other two being and. It was TM19 from Generation II to Generation IV.

Generation II
Giga Drain will inflict damage on the target and ½ of the damage dealt will be restored to the user as.

The base PP of Giga Drain is 5 in this generation, and its base power is 60.

Giga Drain will always fail against a.

Generation III
Giga Drain will now properly heal the user when damaging a substitute. When used on a Pokémon with the Ability, the user will lose the amount of HP it would have gained instead.

Giga Drain can also be used as part of a Pokémon Contest combination, with the user gaining extra two appeal points if the move was used in the prior turn.

Generation IV
The move's base PP was raised to 10. If the user is holding a Big Root, the HP restored is increased by 30% (making the restored HP 65% of the damage dealt). Big Root does not increase the damage dealt.

Generation V
Giga Drain's base power has been increased from 60 to 75.

Generation VI
Giga Drain cannot be used if the user is under the effects of.

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Giga Drain inflicts damage and restores the user's HP based on the damage inflicted. In Gates to Infinity and, ½ of damage dealt will be restored to the user. In Gates to Infinity, the HP restored will be based off the HP lost by the target, while in Super Mystery Dungeon, the HP restored is based off the overall damage dealt. For example, Giga Drain dealing 120 damage to a target with 50 HP will restore 25 HP in Gates to Infinity, but 60 HP in Super Mystery Dungeon.

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In other languages
Gigasauger Gigadrenado Giga-Sangsue Gigassorbimento ギガドレイン 终极吸取（招式）