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Torment

In Pokémon ChampionsGen III

Game

Pokémon Champions

DarkStatus

Target can't select the same move twice in a row.

Power: –
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 16 Scarlet & Violet: 15
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user

Properties

Through Substitute Reflectable

Changes over time

How Torment 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

Prevents the target from selecting the same move for use two turns in a row. This effect ends when the target is no longer active.

“The user torments and enrages the target, making it incapable of using the same move twice in a row.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

Abilities and items that boost Torment, block it, punish its user or change how it works.

Boosts it

1

Prankster+1 priority, but Dark-types are immune

Blocks or weakens it

1

Magic Bouncebounces it back

Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.

Good to know

Magic Coat sends it back to the user too.

Works with or against it

Who learns Torment

24 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

All 190 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →