Normal · Status move · Gen 4
Lucky Chant
Lucky Chant is a Normal-type status move introduced in Generation 4. It never misses and has 30 PP (48 with PP Max). 54 Pokémon and forms can learn it.
Type
Normal
Category
Status
Power
—
Accuracy
—
PP
30 (max 48)
Priority
0
Effect
For 5 turns, shields user's party from critical hits. For 5 turns, the user and its party members cannot be struck by a critical hit. Fails if the effect is already active on the user's side.
- Targets
- The user's side of the field
- Scarlet & Violet
- Not usable — it was removed in Scarlet & Violet
- Pokémon Champions
- Not usable
- Legends: Z-A
- Not usable
Pokémon that learn Lucky Chant
54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electric | 5–7 | ||||
| Electric | 5–7 | ||||
| Electric/Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Fairy | 4–7 | ||||
| Fairy | 4–7 | ||||
| Grass/Poison | 4–7 | ||||
| Grass/Poison | 4–7 | ||||
| Grass/Poison | 4–7 | ||||
| Grass/Psychic | 4–7 | ||||
| Grass/Psychic | 4–7 | ||||
| Grass/Dragon | 4–7 | ||||
| Ice/Psychic | 4–7 | ||||
| Electric | 5–7 | ||||
| Fairy | 4–7 | ||||
| Fairy/Flying | 4–7 | ||||
| Psychic/Flying | 4–7 | ||||
| Psychic/Flying | 4–7 | ||||
| Grass | 4–7 | ||||
| Water/Rock | 4–7 | ||||
| Ice/Psychic | 4–7 | ||||
| Psychic/Fairy | 4–7 | ||||
| Psychic/Fairy | 4–7 | ||||
| Psychic/Fairy | 4–7 | ||||
| Electric | 5–7 | ||||
| Electric | 5–7 | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Normal | 4–7 | ||||
| Water | 4–7 | ||||
| Steel/Psychic | 7 | ||||
| Grass | 4–7 | ||||
| Grass | 4–7 | ||||
| Ghost | 4–7 | ||||
| Fairy/Flying | 4–7 | ||||
| Psychic/Fighting | 4–7 | ||||
| Psychic | 4–7 | ||||
| Grass | 4 | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Psychic | 5–7 | ||||
| Normal/Flying | 5–7 | ||||
| Normal/Flying | 5–7 | ||||
| Normal/Flying | 5–7 | ||||
| Normal | 5–7 | ||||
| Water/Flying | 5–7 | ||||
| Water/Flying | 5–7 | ||||
| Fire | 6–7 | ||||
| Fire | 6–7 | ||||
| Fire/Psychic | 6–7 | ||||
| Fairy | 6–7 | ||||
| Fairy | 6–7 | ||||
| Fairy | ✓ | 6, 9 | |||
| Fairy | 6–7 | ||||
| Fairy | 7 | ||||
| Steel/Fairy | 7 |
Lucky Chant FAQ
What does Lucky Chant do?
Lucky Chant is a Normal-type status move. For 5 turns, the user and its party members cannot be struck by a critical hit. Fails if the effect is already active on the user's side.
Which Pokémon can learn Lucky Chant?
54 Pokémon and forms can learn Lucky Chant in at least one game: 1 in Scarlet & Violet, 0 in Pokémon Champions and 0 in Legends: Z-A. Examples: Pikachu, Raichu, Alolan Raichu, Clefairy, Clefable and Oddish.
Is Lucky Chant in Pokémon Champions?
No, no Pokémon can use Lucky Chant 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.