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Muscle BandちからのハチマキPower Headband
Pokémon Global Link artwork
Introduced in Generation IV

The Muscle Band (Japanese: ちからのハチマキ Power Headband) is a type of held item introduced in Generation IV. It boosts the power of the holder's physical moves.

In the core series games

Price

Effect

Boosts the power of the holder's physical moves by 10%.

Description

Games Description
DPPtHGSSBWB2W2 An item to be held by a Pokémon. It is a headband that slightly boosts the power of physical moves.
XYORASSMUSUMPESwShBDSPLA An item to be held by a Pokémon. This headband exudes strength, slightly boosting the power of physical moves.
SV An item to be held by a Pokémon. This headband exudes strength, slightly boosting the power of the holder's physical moves.

Acquisition

Distribution

As a held item

Artwork

In the spin-off games

Muscle Band in Pokémon UNITE

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, the Muscle Band is a held item that causes the user to deal additional damage with basic attacks based on the target's remaining HP (with 0.35s cooldown for each target) and increases their Attack and Attack Speed. The damage increase is 1/2/3% of the target's remaining HP, but no more than 120/240/360, at grades 1, 10, and 20 respectively. Attack and Attack Speed is increased by 1 and 0% at Grade 1 and by 15 and 7.5% at Grade 30.

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In the TCG

Muscle Band
Main article: Muscle Band (XY 121)

Muscle Band was introduced as an Item card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the English XY Series (the Japanese XY Era) in the XY expansion.

The attacks of the Pokémon Muscle Band is attached to do 20 more damage to the opponent's Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).

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Additionally, a Muscle Band appeared in the artwork of Pikachu (BW-P Promo 120).

In other languages

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