Iapapa 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	Dark
Gen. VI+	80
Fling
Power	10
Effect	Restores 12.5%Gen. IV-VI/50%Gen VII/33%Gen VIII of HP, but confuses Pokémon that do not like the sour flavor.

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An Iapapa Berry (Japanese: イアのみ Ia Fruit) is a type of Berry introduced in Generation III.

In the core series games

Price

Games	Cost	Sell price
RS E FRLG DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2 XY ORAS SM USUM BDSP	N/A	$10
SwSh	N/A	$40
LA	N/A	$150
SV	N/A	$20

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

Effect

Held item

Generations III-VI

An Iapapa Berry, when held by a Pokémon, will restore ⅛ of its maximum HP when its HP drops to ½ or below, but causes confusion to Pokémon that dislike the sour flavor. (Specifically, it confuses Pokémon with Lonely, Mild, Gentle, or Hasty Natures.) When forcibly consumed via Fling, Pluck, or Bug Bite, it restores ⅛ of the consumer's maximum HP, and confuses any consumer that dislikes the sour flavor.

Generation VII

An Iapapa Berry now restores ½ of the holder's HP when it drops to ¼ or below.

Generation VIII

The restored amount is decreased to ⅓ of the holder's HP.

Bag item

Generation III-VI

When used from the Bag on a Pokémon, it restores the Pokémon's HP by ⅛ of its maximum HP. It is consumed after use.

Generation VII

An Iapapa Berry now restores the Pokémon's HP by ½ of its maximum HP when used from the Bag on a Pokémon.

Generation VIII

An Iapapa Berry now restores the Pokémon's HP by ⅓ of its maximum HP when used from the Bag on a Pokémon.

In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, it restores the Pokémon's HP by ½ of its maximum HP. A wild Pokémon that hates sour flavors will briefly pause if it eats an Iapapa Berry.

Ingredient

Berry Blending

RS E

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

NPC	Flavors (100 RPM)	Feel
1 NPC	Sourness 25	23
2 NPCs	Sourness 23, Dryness 10	22
3 NPCs	Sourness 23, Sweetness 10	21
Blend Master	Sourness 51, Spiciness 12	45

ORAS

Iapapa Berries are yellow Berries that have a very low chance of producing a Pokéblock+.

Berry Crush
FRLGE	Iapapa Berries have a base Berry Powder of 50 and a difficulty of 60. With two players, this Berry will contribute 100 units of Berry Powder at 100% silkiness.

Poffin Cooking
DP Pt BDSP	When used alone, Iapapa Berries will produce Poffins with Sourness 14 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	Iapapa Berries are yellow Berries in Group 3.

Composting
XY	Iapapa Berries are yellow Berries.

Dye Houses
SM USUM	30 Iapapa Berries, Aspear Berries, and Wacan Berries are used to dye any white or dyed clothing into dark yellow.

Curry
SwSh	Iapapa Berries have a rarity of 2.

Cram-o-matic
SwSh	Iapapa Berries are Dark-type items and give 4 points towards the output value.

Exchange

Pokémon Dream World

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

Catalogue	Décor	Price
Plain Catalogue	Huge Table	15 Iapapa Berries 15 Figy Berries
Plain Catalogue	Arch Window	40 Iapapa Berries 40 Aguav Berries
Plain Catalogue	Speaker 1	15 Iapapa Berries 10 Pomeg Berries
Plain Catalogue	Speaker 2	15 Iapapa Berries 10 Kelpsy Berries
Pokémon Doll Catalogue	Lapras Doll	50 Iapapa Berries
Pokémon Doll Catalogue	Aipom Doll	50 Iapapa Berries

Description

Games	Description
RS E	A hold item that restores HP but may confuse.
FRLG	A hold item that restores HP but may cause confusion when used.
ColoXD	A hold item that restores HP but may confuse.
DP Pt	A Poffin ingredient. If held by a Pokémon, it restores the user's HP in a pinch, but may also cause confusion.
HGSS	If held by a Pokémon, it restores the user's HP in a pinch, but will cause confusion if it hates sour food.
BW B2W2	If held by a Pokémon, it restores the user's HP in a pinch, but will cause confusion if it hates the taste.
XY ORAS SM USUM PE SwSh BDSP	If held by a Pokémon, it restores the user's HP in a pinch, but it will cause confusion if the user hates the taste.
LA	A Berry that can be fed to a Pokemon to restore its HP by up to half its max. If a wild Pokemon that hates sour flavors eats one of these Berries, it will briefly pause.
SV	If a Pokémon holds one of these Berries, it will be able to restore some HP should it find itself in a pinch. But it will become confused if it hates the Berry's taste.

Tag information

No. 15
Size: 8.8" (22.3 cm)
Firmness: Soft

Games	Description
RS E	The Berry is very big and sour. It takes at least a day to grow.
DP Pt BDSP	This Berry is very big and sour. The juiciness of the pulp accentuates the sourness.

Curry information

Games	Description
SwSh	A big Berry that's full of sourness and water inside.

Acquisition

Games	Finite methods	Repeatable methods
RS E		Sootopolis City, Route 120 (if player's ID number ends in 4 or 9) Mossdeep Game Corner (Pokémon Jump reward)^E
FRLG	Berry Forest	Joyful Game Corner (Pokémon Jump reward)
ColoXD		Agate Village
DP Pt	Routes 211 and 213	Route 208 (Berry Master's house), Veilstone City Department Store Pal Park (score of 3001-3299) Spin Trade (2-3 players)^Pt
HGSS		Violet City Pal Park (score of 3001-3299) Spin Trade (2-3 players)
BW B2W2		Spin Trade (2-3 players)
DW*		Windswept Sky
XY		Route 10 Yellow Berry trees
ORAS	Route 123	Sootopolis City, Mauville Food Court Super Rank Pokémon Contest Spectacular (given by fan) Route 120 (if player's ID number ends in 4 or 9)
SM USUM		Berry piles (Route 4) Ambush encounters (Pyroar in Poni Plains^USUM)
SwSh		Berry trees (Route 9, Hammerlocke Hills) Max Raid Battles (Rolling Fields, Dappled Grove, East Lake Axewell, South Lake Miloch^Sw, Bridge Field, Stony Wilderness, Giant's Mirror, Hammerlocke Hills^Sh, Lake of Outrage)
SwShIA		Berry trees (Soothing Wetlands) Max Raid Battles (Fields of Honor, Soothing Wetlands, Forest of Focus, Training Lowlands, Workout Sea, Stepping-Stone Sea, Insular Sea)
SwShCT		Berry trees (Ballimere Lake) Max Raid Battles (Slippery Slope, Frostpoint Field, Giant's Bed, Snowslide Slope, Crown Shrine, Giant's Foot, Frigid Sea, Ballimere Lake)
BDSP	Routes 211 and 213	Route 208 (Berry Master's house), Veilstone City Department Store Picked up by walking Pokémon (Hardy, Brave, Adamant, Naughty, Bold, Impish, Hasty, Sassy, Quirky Natures)
LA		Farm (special berry harvest)
SV		Alfornada (Emotional Spectrum Practice) Tera Raid Battles (3★, 4★) Sparkling overworld item (South Province (Area Five), West Province (Area Two), West Province (Area Three))
SVID		Sparkling overworld item (Coastal Biome)

Growth

Generation III

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
6 hours

Taller
12 hours

Flowering
18 hours

Berries
24 hours

An Iapapa plant will yield 2-3 Berries.

Generation IV

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
5 hours

Taller
10 hours

Flowering
15 hours

Berries
20 hours

An Iapapa plant will yield 1-5 Berries. A growing Iapapa plant's soil dries by 10% every hour, fully drying out in 10 hours.

Generation V

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
7.5 hours

Taller
15 hours

Flowering
22.5 hours

Berries
30 hours

An Iapapa 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

An Iapapa plant will yield 3-15 Berries. During its growth, watering the plant adds 1.5 Berries to the final harvest, weeding it adds 1, and removing a pest adds 3. Iapapa plants attract Combee as pests. If grown next to each other, an Iapapa Berry and a Mago Berry may mutate into a Pomeg Berry.

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
4 hours

Taller
8 hours

Flowering
12 hours

Berries
16 hours

An Iapapa plant will yield 3-15 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

An Iapapa plant will yield 3 Berries if Isle Aplenny is at Phase 1, 6 Berries if it is at Phase 2, and 9 Berries if it is at Phase 3.

Generation VIII
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Planted
0 hours

Sprouted
5 hours

Taller
10 hours

Flowering
15 hours

Berries
20 hours

An Iapapa plant will yield 2-5 Berries.

Gallery

Artwork


Ingredient artwork from Sword and Shield	Artwork from Scarlet and Violet

Sprites


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

In animation

Pokémon the Series

An Iapapa Berry in Pokémon the Series: Black & White

Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire

Iapapa Berries debuted in Pokéblock, Stock, and Berry, where they were being sold at the Lilycove Berry Market.

Pokémon the Series: Black & White

In Oshawott's Lost Scalchop!, Ash's Oshawott used an Iapapa Berry as a temporary replacement for his lost scalchop. However, it ultimately failed when Ash's Pikachu used Thunderbolt on it, and it was burned and split in half, revealing it to be a stone fruit. Iris and Cilan tasted the Berry afterward and claimed that it brought out the flavor.

Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon

Iapapa Berries have made multiple appearances in the pile of Berries in Bewear's den during Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon.

Iapapa Berries appeared in A Team-on-Team Tussle!.

In Currying Favor and Flavor!, Ash and Pikachu found Iapapa Berries inside a hollowed-out stump in Lush Jungle while looking for a Miracle Seed to be used as a dish ingredient.

In Real Life...Inquire Within!, Iapapa Berries were included in the basket of Berries given to Ash and his classmates' Pokémon by Anela.

Pokémon Horizons: The Series

Multiple Iapapa Berries appeared in The Future I Choose.

Pokémon Concierge

The inside of an Iapapa Berry, as shown in Pokémon Concierge

Iapapa Berries appeared in What's on Your Mind, Psyduck?. Tyler uses them to make a pot of pie fillings, but Haru accidentally spills it all over the ground while she was chasing after Psyduck. However, Tyler doesn't mind, since he has more Iapapa Berries prepared by Pansear, Pansage, and Panpour. Later, Haru uses an Iapapa Berry as a way to let Psyduck channel its psychic powers in a controlled manner, which it succeeds in by splitting the Berry in half.

In the manga

An Iapapa Berry in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Diamond & Pearl arc

An Iapapa Berry appeared in Chancing Upon Chingling, being one of the Berries that Diamond and Lax used to slip a Team Galactic Grunt at the Team Galactic HQ so that Diamond could take his clothes and disguise himself as a Grunt.

Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc

In Homecoming and the Brilliant Professional Golfer, multiple Iapapa Berries appeared in the pile of Berries gathered by a group of Pokémon at Lush Jungle while helping Moon in her search for a special Mirage Berry.

Trivia

Origin

The Iapapa Berry's name and design may be based on a papaya.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	イアのみ Ia no Mi	From パパイア papaya
English	Iapapa Berry	From papaya
French	Baie Papaya	From papaye
German	Yapabeere	From Papaya
Italian	Baccapaia	From papaia
Spanish	Baya Pabaya	From papaya
Korean	파야열매 Paya Yeolmae	From 파파야 papaya
Chinese (Mandarin)	芭亞果 / 芭亚果 Bāyǎ Guǒ / Bāyà Guǒ*	Partial transliteration of papaya
Chinese (Mandarin)	酸木瓜 Suānmùguā*	From 酸 suān (sour) and 木瓜 mùguā (papaya)
Chinese (Cantonese)	芭亞果 Bā'a Gwó	Partial transliteration of papaya
Polish	Iapapajagoda	From its English name

External links

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

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