

Updated on September 24, 2021, by Jeff Drake: In the main Pokemon series, from Red and Blue to Sword and Shield, there is a total of 70 Psychic-type moves. The more recent Pokemon games have corrected this by also making Psychic Pokemon weak against Dark and Ghost-types, and by giving the Bug-type some more damaging attacks.

In the earlier Pokemon games, Psychic moves were very popular this was due to only Bug Pokemon being strong against Psychic-type Pokemon, and they did not have very powerful attacks. RELATED: Pokemon That Should Be Flying-Type Most inflict a status effect on the enemy, raise stats of the user, lower the stats of the opponent, or have a unique ability like swapping stats or items with the opponent. The non-damaging Psychic moves, of which there are many, are quite varied in how they affect the game/opponents. For the most part, the damaging Psychic moves all have fairly good accuracy ratings, making them very reliable. Even with twenty entries, there are still a few of the best Psychic-type moves being left out, but honestly, after the twenty best the rest are all fairly similar in damage output and effect.Psychic moves in the Pokemongames have always been wild-cards to some degree. In an effort to make this list a little more comprehensive, five entries have been added and ranked according to their usefulness in battle. This means that a "best of" list that's limited to only fifteen entries is going to leave out a lot of very powerful Psychic moves.

Psychic moves in the Pokemongames have always been wild-cards to some degree.
