Sketch
Scarlet & Violet
Permanently copies the last move target used.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- —
- PP
- 1
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Sketch changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen IX
… Transformed, or if the move is
dropped: Chatter,added: Blazing Torque, Combat Torque, Dark Void, Hyperspace Fury, Magical Torque, Noxious Torque, Revival Blessing, Sketch, Struggle, added: Tera Starstorm, Wicked Torque, or any move the user knows. - Gen IV
- Gen III
Before: Fails when used in Link Battles.
Now: This move is permanently replaced by the last move used by the target. The copied move has the maximum PP for that move. Fails if the target has not made a move, if the user has Transformed, or if the move is Sketch, Struggle, or any move the user knows.
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
No clip of Sketch here yet. Find Sketch on YouTube →
How it works in Gen IX
This move is permanently replaced by the last move used by the target. The copied move has the maximum PP for that move. Fails if the target has not made a move, if the user has Transformed, or if the move is Blazing Torque, Combat Torque, Dark Void, Hyperspace Fury, Magical Torque, Noxious Torque, Revival Blessing, Sketch, Struggle, Tera Starstorm, Wicked Torque, or any move the user knows.
“This move enables the user to permanently learn the move last used by the target. Once used, Sketch disappears.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Sketch, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
Good to know
Who learns Sketch
It isn’t in Pokémon Champions.