Cheri Berry

	Pokémon Global Link artwork
	Introduced in Generation III
Pocket
Generation III	Berries (RSE)
Generation III	Berry Pouch (FRLG)
Generation IV	Berries
Generation V	Berries
Generation VI	Berries
Generation VII	Berries
Generation VIII	Berries (SwShBDSP)
Generation VIII	Items (LA)
Generation IX	Berries
	Flavor
Generation III
Generation IV/VIII
Natural Gift
Type	Fire
Gen. VI+	80
Fling
Power	10
Effect	Cures paralysis

A Cheri Berry (Japanese: クラボのみ Kurabo Fruit) is a type of Berry. It was introduced in Generation III and is the first Berry numerically in both Hoenn and Sinnoh. It is the spiritual successor of the PRZCureBerry from Generation II, having an identical effect when used on or by a Pokémon. At a size of 0.8 inches (2 cm), it is also the smallest Berry.

In the core series games

Price

Games	Cost	Sell price
RS E FRLG DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2 XY ORAS SM USUM	N/A	$10
SwSh	$80	$40
BDSP	$80	$10
LA	$120	$30
SV	N/A	$20

In the Generation V games, the Cheri Berry can be sold to the gourmet maniac on Route 5 for $20.

Effect

Held item

If the holder is paralyzed, it will consume its held Cheri Berry and cure it of paralysis. When forcibly consumed via Fling, Pluck, Bug Bite, or Item Urge, it also cures the consumer of paralysis.

Bag item

When used from the Bag on a Pokémon, it cures that Pokémon of paralysis. This consumes the Cheri Berry.

In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, it can be used to cure a paralyzed Pokémon, or thrown near wild Pokémon to draw their attention.

Ingredient

Berry Blending

RS E

When blending with NPCs, Cheri Berries will produce the following Pokéblocks:

NPC	Flavors (100 RPM)	Feel
1 NPC	Spiciness 12	23
2 NPCs	Spiciness 12	22
3 NPCs	Spiciness 12	21
Blend Master	Spiciness 51, Dryness 12	45

ORAS

Cheri Berries are red Berries that have a very low chance of producing a Pokéblock+.

Berry Crush
FRLGE	Cheri Berries have a base Berry Powder of 20 and a difficulty of 50. With two players, this Berry will contribute 40 units of Berry Powder at 100% silkiness.

Poffin Cooking
DP Pt BDSP	When used alone, Cheri Berries will produce Poffins with Spiciness 9 and smoothness 24 when cooked in 1 minute with no spills or burns.

Ice Cream Scoop

DW

	Flavor 1	Flavor 2	Flavor 3
Easy to scoop
Stickiness

Juice Shoppe
XY	Cheri Berries are red Berries in Group 1.

Composting
XY	Cheri Berries are red Berries.

Dye Houses
SM USUM	15 Cheri Berries, Pomeg Berries, and Tamato Berries are used to dye any white or dyed clothing into pastel red.

Curry
SwSh	Cheri Berries have a rarity of 1.

Cram-o-matic
SwSh	Cheri Berries are Fire-type items and give 2 points towards the output value.

Crafting
LA	A Cheri Berry, Pecha Berry, Rawst Berry, and Aspear Berry are used to craft Full Heal.

Exchange

Generation IV

In Pokémon Platinum, the player can exchange Cheri Berries for accessories at the Pick a Peck of Colors Flower Shop:

1 Cheri Berry for a Red Flower

Pokémon Dream World

In the Pokémon Dream World, the player could exchange Berries for Décor. The following Décor required Cheri Berries.

Catalogue	Décor	Price
Plain Catalogue	Plain Sofa	45 Cheri Berries 45 Pecha Berries
Plain Catalogue	Plain Bed	40 Cheri Berries 40 Pecha Berries 20 Sitrus Berries
Plain Catalogue	Plain Bookshelf	15 Cheri Berries 10 Oran Berries
Plain Catalogue	Gothic Dresser	40 Cheri Berries 40 Pecha Berries
Plain Catalogue	Great Ball Rug	35 Cheri Berries 35 Oran Berries 35 Sitrus Berries
Plain Catalogue	Gingerbread House	300 Cheri Berries 300 Oran Berries 300 Pecha Berries
Pokémon Doll Catalogue	Natu Doll	50 Cheri Berries
Pokémon Doll Catalogue	Chatot Doll	50 Cheri Berries

Generation VIII

In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, the player can exchange Cheri Berries for Stickers at the Pick a Peck of Colors Flower Shop:

3 Cheri Berries for Electricity Sticker A

Description

Games	Description
RS E	A hold item that heals paralysis in battle.
FRLG	When held by a Pokémon, it will be used in battle to heal paralysis.
ColoXD	A hold item that heals paralysis in battle.
DP Pt	A Poffin ingredient. It may be used or held by a Pokémon to recover from paralysis.
HGSS	It may be used or held by a Pokémon to recover from paralysis.
BW B2W2	If held by a Pokémon, it recovers from paralysis.
XY ORAS SM USUMPE SwSh BDSP	A Berry to be consumed by Pokémon. If a Pokémon holds one, it can recover from paralysis on its own in battle.
LA	A Berry that can be fed to a Pokémon to cure its paralysis. You can also throw this Berry near wild Pokémon to draw their attention.
SV	If a Pokémon holds one of these Berries, it will be able to free itself from paralysis.

Tag information

No. 01
Size: 0.8" (2.0 cm)
Firmness: Soft

Games	Description
RS E	Blooms with delicate pretty flowers. The bright red Berry is very spicy.
DP Pt BDSP	This bright red Berry is very spicy and has a provocative flavor. It blooms with delicate, pretty flowers.

Curry information

Games	Description
SwSh	A simple Berry that's easy to use even for novice cooks. Its spicy hot taste is addictive.

Acquisition

Games	Finite methods	Repeatable methods
RS E	Routes 102 and 104	Pretty Petal flower shop, Lilycove City, Route 123 (Berry Master's house)
FRLG	Route 10, S.S. Anne, Sevault Canyon	Hidden recurring item (Berry Forest) Pickup (any level)
ColoXD		Agate Village
DP Pt	Routes 205, 207 and 214, Eterna Forest	Pick a Peck of Colors Flower Shop, Route 208 (Berry Master's house) Pal Park (score of 0-3000) Held by wild Glameow and wild Purugly (5% chance each)
HGSS	Olivine City	Route 34, Violet City, Goldenrod Department Store lottery Pal Park (score of 0-3000)
PW		Refreshing Field, Noisy Forest, Yellow Forest
BW	Route 6, Nacrene City	Held by wild Glameow (5% chance), wild Blitzle and wild Zebstrika (50% chance each), and wild Emolga (100% chance) Castelia City (Studio Castelia) Spin Trade (4 players)
B2W2	Lostlorn Forest, Route 5, Victory Road	Join Avenue (Flower Shop), Funfest Missions Held by wild Glameow (5% chance), wild Blitzle and wild Zebstrika (50% chance each), and wild Emolga (100% chance) Castelia City (Studio Castelia) Spin Trade (4 players)
DW*		Pleasant Forest
XY		Camphrier Town Coumarine City Red Berry trees
ORAS	Route 104	Pretty Petal flower shop, Normal Rank Pokémon Contest Spectaculars (gift from fan), Lilycove City, Route 123 (Berry Master's house), Super-Secret Base (Gather Berries)
SM USUM		Berry piles (Secluded Shore^SM/Ula'ula Beach^USUM, Routes 3, 5 and 8)
SwSh		Wedgehurst Berry shop Berry trees (Routes 3, 4 and 5, Rolling Fields, Watchtower Ruins)
SwShIA		Fields of Honor Berry shop Berry trees (Fields of Honor)
BDSP	Routes 205, 207 and 214, Eterna Forest	Pick a Peck of Colors Flower Shop, Route 208 (Berry Master's house) Held by wild Glameow and wild Purugly (5% chance each)
LA		Blue and red berry trees (Obsidian Fieldlands) Dropped by wild Shinx, Luxio, Luxray, Elekid, Electabuzz, and Electivire Ginkgo Guild cart (Tuli)
SV		Alfornada (Emotional Spectrum Practice) Tera Raid Battles (1★, 2★) Sparkling overworld item (Pokémon League, South Province (Area One), South Province (Area Two)) Held by wild Crabominable (5% chance)
SVTM		Sparkling overworld item (Kitakami Road, Mossfell Confluence, Reveler's Road, Wistful Fields)
SVID		Sparkling overworld item (Savanna Biome)

Distribution

Games	Event	Language/Region	Distribution period
SV	Berry Set	United Kingdom, Taiwan	November 18, 2022 to March 7, 2023

As a held item

Games	Event	Language/Region	Distribution period
BW	Powerful Tag Whimsicott	Japanese	June 1 to 22, 2012

Growth

Generation III

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
3 hours

Taller
6 hours

Flowering
9 hours

Berries
12 hours

A Cheri plant will yield 2-3 Berries.

Generation IV

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
3 hours

Taller
6 hours

Flowering
9 hours

Berries
12 hours

A Cheri plant will yield 2-5 Berries. A growing Cheri plant's soil dries by 15% every hour, fully drying out in 7 hours.

Generation V

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
4.5 hours

Taller
9 hours

Flowering
13.5 hours

Berries
18 hours

A Cheri plant will yield ? Berries.

Generation VI
Pokémon X and Y

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
4 hours

Growing
8 hours

Bigger
12 hours

Budding
16 hours

Bloom
20 hours

Berries
24 hours

A Cheri plant will yield 4-15 Berries. During its growth, watering the plant adds 1 Berries to the final harvest, weeding it adds 1, and removing a pest adds 3. Cheri plants attract Ledyba as pests.

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
4 hours

Taller
8 hours

Flowering
12 hours

Berries
16 hours

A Cheri plant will yield 4-20 Berries.

Generation VII
Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
6 hours

Taller
12 hours

Flowering
20 hours

Berries
24 hours

A Cheri plant will yield 4 Berries if Isle Aplenny is at Phase 1, 8 Berries if it is at Phase 2, and 12 Berries if it is at Phase 3.

Generation VIII
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
3 hours

Taller
6 hours

Flowering
9 hours

Berries
12 hours

A Cheri plant will yield 2-5 Berries.

Gallery

Artwork


Ingredient artwork from Sword and Shield	My Pokémon Place artwork	Artwork from Scarlet and Violet

Sprites


Berry Tag Sprite (Generation III)	Berry Tag Sprite (Generation IV)	Bag sprite from Legends Arceus

In spin-off games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

The Cheri Berry appears in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series.

Price

Games	Cost	Sell price
MDRB	120	20
MDTD S	80	8
MDGtI	50	5
SMD MDRTDX	12	3

Effect

It is a food item that heals paralysis and fills Belly by 5^RB^TDS^GtI/2^SMD^RTDX.

Description

Games	Description
MDRB	A food item that heals the Pokémon from paralysis. It also slightly fills the Pokémon's Belly.
MDTD S	A food item that heals a Paralysis status condition. It also slightly fills the Pokémon's Belly.
MDGtI	It heals the Paralysis status condition.
SMD	Eating it heals your paralysis.
MDRTDX	Eating it heals your Paralysis.

Acquisition

Games	Finite methods	Repeatable methods
MDRB		Thunderwave Cave, Mt. Steel, Sinister Woods, Silent Chasm, Mt. Thunder, Great Canyon, Lapis Cave, Rock Path, Snow Path, Frosty Forest, Mt. Freeze, Uproar Forest, Howling Forest, Stormy Sea, Silver Trench, Fiery Field, Lightning Field, Northwind Field, Mt. Faraway, Western Cave, Northern Range, Pitfall Valley, Buried Relic, Wish Cave, Southern Cavern, Wyvern Hill, Solar Cave, Grand Sea, Waterfall Pond, Unown Relic, Joyous Tower, Far-off Sea, Purity Forest, Oddity Cave, Remains Island, Marvelous Sea, Fantasy Strait, Makuhita Dojo Kecleon Shops (Mt. Blaze, Frosty Forest, Magma Cavern, Northern Range, Pitfall Valley, Wyvern Hill, Joyous Tower, Oddity Cave, Remains Island) Pokémon Square shop
MDTD S		Various dungeons
MDGtI		Post Town merchants, Paradise Facilities, various dungeons
SMD		Kecleon Shops, various dungeons
MDRTDX		Kecleon Shop, various dungeons

Appearance

Artwork

Artwork from Rescue Team DX

Sprites


Sprite from Red and Blue Rescue Team	Sprite from Explorers series	Sprite from Gates to Infinity	Sprite from Super Mystery Dungeon	Sprite from Rescue Team DX

Models


Model from Gates to Infinity	Model from Super Mystery Dungeon

Pokémon Sleep

Cheri Berry in Pokémon Sleep

The Cheri Berry is available in Pokémon Sleep as one of the Berries that can be gathered by helper Pokémon and fed to Snorlax.

Effect

Cheri Berries raise Snorlax's Strength, doubling the effect if the Berry is Snorlax's favorite. The base amount of Strength raised by the Berry is determined by the level of the helper Pokémon that gathered it.

Note

Games	Description
Sleep	This bright red Berry is very spicy and has a provocative flavor. It blooms with delicate, pretty flowers.

Acquisition

Cheri Berries can be gathered by Fighting-type helper Pokémon in the player's team. Like all Berries in the game, gathered Cheri Berries do not go into the player's inventory and instead are immediately eaten by Snorlax.

In animation

Cheri Berries in Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire

Pokémon the Series

Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire

Cheri Berries debuted in Berry, Berry Interesting, where May picked a few from a garden to blend with other Berries in order to produce Pokéblocks for her Pokémon.

Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl

Cheri Berries appeared in Like It or Lup It!.

In Cooking Up a Sweet Story!, Cheri Berries were in Abigail's Berry basket.

Cheri Berries appeared in Hungry for the Good Life!.

In Uncrushing Defeat!, a Cheri Berry was used to heal Ash's Monferno.

Pokémon the Series: XY

In A Fork in the Road! A Parting of the Ways!, Dr. White gave Jessie a Cheri Berry, which cured her after she had been hit by a wild Gloom's Stun Spore.

In Adventures in Running Errands!, Cheri Berries were at a Pokémon Center.

Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon

In Tasting the Bitter with the Sweet!, an image of a Cheri Berry was displayed by Rotom.

Pokémon Horizons: The Series

In As Long as I'm with My Friends, Roy and Fuecoco picked some Cheri Berries to add spiciness to the curry they wanted to make, and were ultimately sucessful despite being the victims of theft by a group of Skwovet led by a Greedent.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!, Cheri Berries were under the possession of Team Go-Getters. However, the Cheri Berries, along with most of their other Berries, were eaten by Ekans of Team Meanies.

In the manga

Cheri Berries in Pokémon Adventures

In the TCG

The following is a list of cards named or holding a Cheri Berry.

Cheri Berry Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Chimchar		Majestic Dawn		57/100	PPP Promotional cards		002/PPP
Chimchar					Shaymin LV.X Collection Pack		004/012

Trivia

Origin

The Cheri Berry's design and name may be based on cherries.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	クラボのみ Kurabo no Mi	From サクランボ sakuranbo, cherry
English	Cheri Berry	From cherry
French	Baie Ceriz	From cerise, cherry
German	Amrenabeere	From Amarenakirsche, Amarena cherry
Italian	Baccaliegia	From ciliegia, cherry
Spanish	Baya Zreza	From cereza, cherry
Korean	버치열매 Beochi Yeolmae	From 버찌 beojji, cherry
Chinese (Mandarin)	櫻子果 / 樱子果 Yīngzi Guǒ*	From 櫻 / 樱 yīng, cherry
Chinese (Mandarin)	辣櫻 Làyīng*	From 辣 là (spicy) and 櫻 yīng (cherry)
Chinese (Cantonese)	櫻子果 Yīngjí Gwó*	From 櫻 / 樱 yīng, cherry
Polish	Cherijagoda	From its English name
Brazilian Portuguese	Fruta Cere	From cereja, cherry
Vietnamese	Quả Cheri	From its English name

External links

On Smogon Itemdex:
- Generation III – IV – V – VI – VII – VIII – IX

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