Psychic · Status move · Gen 4
Heal Block
Heal Block is a Psychic-type status move introduced in Generation 4. It has 100% accuracy and has 15 PP (24 with PP Max). In double battles it hits all adjacent opponents (spread moves deal 0.75× damage when they hit more than one target). 79 Pokémon and forms can learn it.
Type
Psychic
Category
Status
Power
—
Accuracy
100%
PP
15 (max 24)
Priority
0
Effect
For 5 turns, the foe(s) is prevented from healing. For 5 turns, the target is prevented from restoring any HP as long as it remains active. During the effect, healing and draining moves are unusable, and Abilities and items that grant healing will not heal the user. If an affected Pokemon uses Baton Pass, the replacement will remain unable to restore its HP. Pain Split and the Regenerator Ability are unaffected.
- Targets
- All adjacent opponents
- Scarlet & Violet
- Not usable — it was removed in Scarlet & Violet
- Pokémon Champions
- Not usable
- Legends: Z-A
- Usable (57 Pokémon)
Pokémon that learn Heal Block
79 Pokémon and forms (Mega Evolutions share their base form's moves). ✓ = can learn it in that game by any method; “Gens” lists every main-series generation it could be learned in.
| Pokémon | Type | Champions | S/V | Z-A | Gens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairy | ✓ | ||||
| Fairy | ✓ | ||||
| Normal | ✓ | ||||
| Dark | ✓ | ||||
| Steel | ✓ | ||||
| Normal | ✓ | ||||
| Dark | ✓ | ||||
| Water/Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Poison/Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Water/Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic/Fairy | ✓ | ||||
| Ice/Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Normal | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Water/Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Poison/Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Normal | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic/Grass | 4–7 | ||||
| Bug/Ghost | 4–7 | ||||
| Dark/Ghost | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Rock/Psychic | 4–7 | ||||
| Rock/Psychic | 4–7 | ||||
| Ground/Psychic | 4–7 | ||||
| Ground/Psychic | 4–7 | ||||
| Ghost | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Dragon/Psychic | ✓ | 4–7 | |||
| Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Steel/Psychic | 4–7 | ||||
| Steel/Psychic | 4–7 | ||||
| Psychic/Fairy | ✓ | ||||
| Normal | ✓ | ||||
| Ice/Ghost | ✓ | ||||
| Steel/Dragon | 4 | ||||
| Water/Dragon | 4 | ||||
| Ghost/Dragon | 4 | ||||
| Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Ghost | ✓ | 5–7 | |||
| Ground/Ghost | ✓ | ||||
| Ghost | ✓ | 5–7 | |||
| Poison | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Grass/Poison | ✓ | ||||
| Grass/Poison | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Ghost/Fire | ✓ | ||||
| Ghost/Fire | ✓ | ||||
| Ghost/Fire | ✓ | ||||
| Electric/Flying | 5–7 | ||||
| Fire/Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Fairy | ✓ | ||||
| Fairy | ✓ | ||||
| Dark/Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Steel/Fairy | ✓ | 6–7 | |||
| Ghost/Grass | ✓ | ||||
| Ghost/Grass | ✓ | ||||
| Dark/Flying | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic/Ghost | ✓ | ||||
| Normal | 7 | ||||
| Normal | 7 | ||||
| Dark | ✓ | ||||
| Dark | ✓ | ||||
| Steel | ✓ | ||||
| Ice/Psychic | ✓ | ||||
| Ground/Ghost | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic/Normal | ✓ | ||||
| Psychic/Normal | ✓ | ||||
| Poison/Normal | ✓ | ||||
| Poison/Normal | ✓ |
Heal Block FAQ
What does Heal Block do?
Heal Block is a Psychic-type status move. For 5 turns, the target is prevented from restoring any HP as long as it remains active. During the effect, healing and draining moves are unusable, and Abilities and items that grant healing will not heal the user. If an affected Pokemon uses Baton Pass, the replacement will remain unable to restore its HP. Pain Split and the Regenerator Ability are unaffected.
Which Pokémon can learn Heal Block?
79 Pokémon and forms can learn Heal Block in at least one game: 0 in Scarlet & Violet, 0 in Pokémon Champions and 57 in Legends: Z-A. Examples: Clefairy, Clefable, Meowth, Alolan Meowth, Galarian Meowth and Persian.
Is Heal Block in Pokémon Champions?
No, no Pokémon can use Heal Block in Pokémon Champions.
Move data and effect text from Pokémon Showdown (MIT), generation from PokéAPI; learnsets for Gen 1–9, Pokémon Champions and Legends: Z-A from Showdown. Unofficial fan site.