Life Orb

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The Life Orb (Japanese: いのちのたま Life Orb) is a type of held item introduced in Generation IV. It boosts the power of the holder's moves, but causes it to take damage when using damaging moves.
==In the core series games==
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===Effect===
Boosts the damage dealt by the holder's damaging moves by 30% (in Generation V onward, this boost is instead approximated as 5324/4096), but the holder takes damage equal to 10% of its maximum HP after it uses a damaging move (rounded down, but not less than 1). It does not boost the power of (although the holder still takes damage) or self-inflicted damage.
If a Pokémon steals a Life Orb with or , then the Life Orb does not boost the power, but the attacker takes damage for the use of that move that stole the Life Orb. The Life Orb activates before , so even if a Pokémon's held Life Orb is stolen by Pickpocket, it still damages the attacking Pokémon for that move. If a Pokémon steals a Life Orb with , it will take damage for the use of that move that stole the Life Orb. If the holder uses , then Life Orb boosts the power but doesn't damage the user.
The Life Orb activates after the holder takes damage from and the Rocky Helmet. The Life Orb activates after the holder recovers HP with a or takes damage from recoil and . If the holder uses a multistrike move, it takes damage after the last strike.
As the Life Orb inflicts indirect damage, prevents a Pokémon from taking damage from the Life Orb. If a Pokémon with uses a move boosted by that Ability, it does not take damage from Life Orb for that move.
For Dynamax Pokémon, the damage is equal to 10% of the Pokémon's non-Dynamax maximum HP.
====Generation IV====
The Life Orb damages its holder without displaying any message.
 and do not cause the user to take damage. It does not cause damage to the holder when hitting a .
====Generation V====
The Life Orb now displays a message when it inflicts damage.
If a Pokémon is holding a Life Orb when or that it used inflicts damage (even if it was not holding the Life Orb when it used the move), it takes damage for the Life Orb.
Life Orb now causes damage to the holder when hitting a .
====Generation VI onward====
The Life Orb does increase the damage dealt from and .
===Description===
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===Acquisition===
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| Stark Mountain
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| Ruins of Alph
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| Battle Subway (48 BP)
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| Battle Subway/PWT (24 BP)Transfer from 
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| Dream Clouds (Simulator α, Simulator γ)
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| Battle Maison (48 BP)
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| Battle Maison (48 BP)Held by (5% chance)
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| Resolution Cave, Mount Lanakila
| Battle Tree (48 BP)
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| Slumbering Weald
| (25 BP)Reward from Ball Guy for clearing Champion Cup tournament during post-game (1.8% chance)
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| Cram-o-matic (: 82-90 points)
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| Giant's Bed
| Reward from Ball Guy for clearing Galarian Star Tournament during post-game (1.8% chance)
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| Stark Mountain
| (25 BP)
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| Casseroya Lake
| Delibird Presents (Mesagoza Branch, after completing the main storyline)
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====Distribution====
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Games	Event	Language/Region	Distribution period
 	 	All 	May 15 to 16, 2021
=====As a held item=====
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Games	Event 	Language/Region 	Distribution period
 	 	United States 	August 15, 2010
 	 	Japanese 	February 10 to 27, 2012
 	 	Japanese 	September 15 to October 28, 2012
 	 	Korean 	February 24 to May 5, 2013
 	 	Korean 	May 4 to 5, 2013
 	Plasma Deoxys	English, French, German, Italian, Spanish	Various
 	 	Japanese 	December 15 to 23, 2012March 20 to May 6, 2013
 	 	Japanese 	September 29 to October 6, 2013
 	 	Japanese 	November 7 to December 6, 2015
 	 	Japan 	Various
 	 	Japan 	June 20 to August 31, 2015June 27 to 28, 2015
 	 	Korean 	November 20, 2015 to January 31, 2016
 	 	PAL 	May 5 to August 4, 2017
 	 	American 	May 15 to August 4, 2017
 	 	Japan 	June 8 to 9, 2019
 	 	All 	October 31 to November 3, 2021
 	 	United States, Canada, Brazil 	October 11, 2023 to January 1, 2024
==Gallery==
===Artwork===
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==In other languages==
==External links==
Category:Held items
Category:In-battle effect items
Category:Damage-inflicting items
Category:Held items with negative effects
de:Leben-Orb
es:Vidasfera
fr:Orbe Vie
it:Assorbisfera
ja:いのちのたま
zh:生命宝珠（道具）