Recycle (move)

Recycle (Japanese: リサイクル Recycle) is a non-damaging move introduced in Generation III. It is TM67 in Generation IV and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
==Effect==
Recycle allows the user to recover a held item (such as a Berry) that has been previously consumed in battle.
Items that were transferred to another Pokémon (such as via ) are not consumed by that process, so cannot be recovered by Recycle simply due to being transferred. Once an item is recovered (including via other effects such as or ), it is no longer treated as a consumed item, so it cannot be restored again unless it is consumed again.
Recycle cannot recover items that were . Recycle cannot restore a burst Air Balloon or an item destroyed by .
===Generations III and IV===
Recycle allows the user to recover a held item that a Pokémon in its current position had previously consumed during the battle. Recycle fails if the user already has a held item.
Consumed items are tracked by position on the field. A Pokémon can recycle an item that was consumed by a different Pokémon, as long as that item was consumed while it was in the user's current position. Each position only tracks one consumed item at a time; if a Pokémon consumes an item, then another Pokémon is switched into that position and consumes another item, the original consumed item is no longer tracked—it cannot be restored, even if the other item is restored.
Items consumed by , , , and can be recovered; they are considered to be consumed in the position of the Pokémon that was holding the item before the move was used.
Recycle cannot recover items that were knocked off by . (In these generations, knocked-off items remain visible on the summary screen and are restored at the end of the battle.) If a Pokémon has a knocked off item and uses Recycle, it can successfully recover a consumed item (but not the knocked off item), but how this functions varies between generations.
* In Generation III, if a Pokémon with a knocked-off item uses Recycle, it recovers the consumed item and its knocked-off item is permanently lost (it will not be restored at the end of the battle). Its new item now functions as its held item. If its original held item was Mail, this can cause corruption.
* In Generation IV, if a Pokémon with a knocked-off item uses Recycle, it recovers the consumed item as its current held item, but it is still listed as holding its knocked-off item on its summary screen. At the end of the battle, its knocked-off item is restored (regardless of what its held item was at the end of the battle).
** If a Pokémon replaces its knocked-off item in this way, it can use that held item, but and fail if used by or targeting that Pokémon, and its held item cannot be stolen by or (nor can it steal items by using those moves). Bug Bite, Pluck, and Fling all function normally with the recovered item, however.
===Generation V onwards===
Recycle allows the user to recover a held item that the user had previously consumed during the battle. Recycle fails if the user already has a held item.
Consumed items are tracked by the Pokémon that consumed them, and are not forgotten even if switched out. A Pokémon may only have one consumed item at a time; if a Pokémon consumes an item, then obtains another and consumes it, the original consumed item cannot be restored, even if the second item is restored and transferred to another Pokémon.
Recycle can no longer restore items lost via and . Recycle can restore the user's Berry if it was consumed via .
Recycle can now be stolen by .
If powered up by a Normalium Z into Z-Recycle, the user's stat rises by two stages, then the move itself will fail after obtaining the Z-Power since it won't be possible to restore its own Z-Crystal.
==Description==
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==Learnset==
===By leveling up===
===By ===
===By TM/Move Tutor===
===Special move===
====Generation V====
==In other games==
===Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series===
In the Rescue Team, Explorers and Adventure Squad series, Recycle turns a Used TM into the TM it contained. In the Explorers series, it cannot turn back Used TMs that originally contained Recycle.
From Gates to Infinity onwards, Recycle instead converts a into a random Seed or an Oran Berry. However, they cannot be converted to , , or s.
===Description===
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==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
==In other generations==
===Core series games===
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==Trivia==
* In Generation III, the status screen erroneously states that the move has 100% accuracy, even though it targets the user (thus it ignores accuracy and evasion checks).
==In other languages==
Category:Item-manipulating moves
Category:Moves that can fail
Category:Moves usable in Pokémon Sword and Shield
Category:Moves usable in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
de:Aufbereitung
es:Reciclaje
fr:Recyclage
it:Riciclo
ja:リサイクル
zh:回收利用（招式）