Matcha Gotcha
Pokémon Champions
20% burn. Recovers 50% dmg dealt. Thaws foe(s).
- Power
- 80
- Accuracy
- 90%
- PP
- 16 Scarlet & Violet: 15
- Hits
- Both foes (spread move)
- On Showdown
- 1.2% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Matcha Gotcha changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 15 → 16 Buffed
Numbers: PokéAPI’s changelog. Descriptions: Pokémon Showdown’s for each generation, PokéAPI’s notes where Showdown’s don’t differ. Champions: Pokémon Showdown.
See it in the games
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How it works in Champions
Has a 20% chance to burn the target. The user recovers 1/2 the HP lost by the target, rounded half up. If Big Root is held by the user, the HP recovered is 1.3× normal, rounded half down. The target thaws out if it is frozen.
“The user fires a blast of tea that it mixed. The user's HP is restored by up to half the damage taken by the target. This may also leave the target with a burn.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Matcha Gotcha, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
2
Big Rootheals ×1.3- Sheer Force×1.3, loses the effect
Blocks or weakens it
1
- Shield Dustblocks the effect
Punishes the user
1
- Liquid Oozehurts the user instead
Changes how it works
1
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
Only in other games 3
Boosts it
2
- Triage+3 priority
- Serene Gracedoubles the chance
Blocks or weakens it
1
Covert Cloakblocks the effect
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Good to know
- Heal Block stops the healing.
- Heal Block stops the healing.
- Thaws the user if it's frozen.
- Thaws a frozen target.
Who runs Matcha Gotcha on Showdown
Smogon · Showdown Champions VGC · Sep 2026: Smogon’s usage stats from Pokémon Showdown, not the in-game ladder.
On the ladder today
Ranked Doubles Pokémon with Matcha Gotcha among their most used moves.
Who learns Matcha Gotcha
1 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
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