#0494 · Unova · Generation 5 · mythical

Victini

Victory Pokémon · Psychic/Fire-type

Victini is a Psychic/Fire-type Pokémon, the Victory Pokémon, number 494 (#0494) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 5 and comes from the Unova region. It is 0.4 m tall and weighs 4 kg.

Victini is the Victory Pokémon, a small rabbit-like Psychic and Fire type. The Black Pokédex says Trainers who have Victini with them are said to win every time, whatever the encounter, and another entry says it makes limitless energy that it shares with anyone who touches it.

How to pronounce Victini

Victini is pronounced vik-TEE-nee. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Victini said out loud:

In Japanese it is ビクティニ.

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Victini is 0.4 m tall and weighs 4 kg. It has a round cream head, large blue eyes and big pointed ears that form the letter V, with orange tips on its ears, crest and limbs. Two pointed teeth show in its upper jaw, and two winglike tails let it fly. Bulbapedia says it can also turn invisible.

Behaviour

Bulbapedia calls Victini timid but caring, ready to fight when its friends are threatened. The Pokédex says it creates unlimited energy inside its body and shares it with whoever touches it, leaving them overflowing with power.

Habitat

The Pokédex gives no habitat. In Black and White it waits on Liberty Garden, and Bulbapedia lists it as unobtainable in Scarlet and Violet and in Legends: Z-A.

Powers

Its Ability Victory Star raises the accuracy of its side's moves, and Bulbapedia says no other Pokémon has it. Victini knows V-create from level 1, and is the only known Pokémon to learn V-create by levelling up or Searing Shot at all. It also uses Flame Charge, Zen Headbutt and Flare Blitz. With 100 in every base stat it is a balanced Fire and Psychic attacker.

Name origin

Victini appears to come from 'victory', and possibly 'destiny', 'teeny' or 'tiny'. The Japanese name is ビクティニ (Bikutini), which the games write Victini in Latin letters.

Design inspiration

Mana Ibe designed Victini, and in a 2011 interview Junichi Masuda said it was aimed more at girls than at boys. Bulbapedia says its ears and body may be based on usagi-ringo, apples cut to look like rabbits, with a possible nod to New York's nickname the Big Apple, as Unova is based on that city. Its V theme may link to Generation V, and Nike or Victoria, goddesses of victory, may also have inspired it. These are fan readings.

In the games

Victini is an event-only Pokémon: in Black and White you battle it on Liberty Garden with the Liberty Pass. In Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity it hosts the V-Wavecast broadcasts in Pokémon Paradise with plenty of energy.

In the anime

Victini starred in the twin films 'White: Victini and Zekrom' and 'Black: Victini and Reshiram', where it befriended the Vale people's king 1,000 years earlier and later the target of Damon's plan. It also sends visions to people and loves macarons.

Fun facts

• Victini sits at number 000 in the Unova Pokédex, which Bulbapedia says makes it the only Pokémon to legitimately hold that number in any Pokédex, so Snivy comes next as number 001.
• Masuda has said in several interviews that Victini is his favourite Generation V Pokémon, and it was added to the games at his request.
• The Crown Tundra expansion's data contains an unused Victini encounter, which suggests it was once planned to be available without an event.
• It is the only Generation V Mythical Pokémon that is caught in a battle rather than received through Mystery Gift.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Victini (Pokémon) · Serebii: Victini (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex), 404 because it is not in Scarlet/Violet

Base stats

• HP: 100
• Attack: 100
• Defense: 100
• Sp. Atk: 100
• Sp. Def: 100
• Speed: 100

Victini’s base stat total is 600. Its highest stat is HP and Attack and Defense and Sp. Atk and Sp. Def and Speed.

Type matchups

What is Victini weak to?

Victini takes extra damage from Water (2×), Ground (2×), Rock (2×), Ghost (2×), Dark (2×) moves.

It resists Fire (½×), Grass (½×), Ice (½×), Fighting (½×), Psychic (½×), Steel (½×), Fairy (½×).

Evolution

Victini does not evolve, and it does not evolve from any other Pokémon.

Abilities

• Victory Star: Increases moves' accuracy to 1.1× for friendly Pokémon.

Moves

Moves Victini learns by level up in Sword / Shield

TM moves (60)

Victini can learn 60 moves from TMs in Sword / Shield: Mega Punch, Mega Kick, Fire Punch, Thunder Punch, Hyper Beam, Giga Impact, Solar Beam, Fire Spin, Thunder Wave, Light Screen, Safeguard, Rest, Snore, Protect, Sunny Day, Will-O-Wisp, Facade, Swift, Helping Hand, Brick Break, Bounce, U-turn, Fling, Power Swap, Guard Swap, Speed Swap, Trick Room, Round, Mystical Fire, Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Psychic, Focus Energy, Fire Blast, Substitute, Reversal, Psyshock, Endure, Sleep Talk, Baton Pass, Encore, Shadow Ball, Future Sight, Uproar, Heat Wave, Taunt, Trick, Skill Swap, Blaze Kick, Overheat, Flare Blitz, Focus Blast, Energy Ball, Zen Headbutt, Grass Knot, Stored Power, Work Up, Wild Charge, Dazzling Gleam.

Move tutor moves (2): Expanding Force, Scorching Sands.

Breeding & training

• Gender: genderless.
• Egg groups: Undiscovered.
• Egg cycles: 120 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 15,360).
• Catch rate: 3 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 100.
• Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 3 HP effort values.
• Base experience yield: 270.

Pokédex entries

When it shares the infinite energy it creates, that being's entire body will be overflowing with power. (Black 2, White 2, Y, Alpha Sapphire)

This Pokémon brings victory. It is said that Trainers with Victini always win, regardless of the type of encounter. (Black, X, Omega Ruby)

It creates an unlimited supply of energy inside its body, which it shares with those who touch it. (White)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Highest Defense among Fire types in Gen 5: 100, shared with 1 other.
• Highest Attack among Psychic types in Gen 5: 100.
• Highest Defense among Psychic types in Gen 5: 100.
• Highest base stat total among Psychic types in Gen 5: 600, shared with 1 other.
• Taller than 11% of all Pokémon (0.4 m).
• Heavier than 13% of all Pokémon (4 kg).
• Base stat total 600, ranked #25 of 1,025.
• Its best stat is HP, ranked #95 of 1,025.
• One of 3 Pokémon that are both Psychic and Fire.
• One of 88 yellow Pokémon.
• Number 1 of 156 Pokémon introduced in Generation 5 (Unova).
• Can learn 72 different moves in Sword / Shield.
• Catch rate 3: about 0.4% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 3 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Victini (Pokémon), Serebii: Victini (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex), 404 because it is not in Scarlet/Violet.
• Pronunciation (vik-TEE-nee): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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