Expert Belt

	Pokémon Global Link artwork
	Introduced in Generation IV
Pocket
Generation IV	Items
Generation V	Items (Held items)
Generation VI	Items
Generation VII	Items
Generation VIII	Other Items
Generation IX	Other Items
Fling
Power	10

Not to be confused with Black Belt.

The Expert Belt (Japanese: たつじんのおび Expert Obi) is a type of held item introduced in Generation IV that strengthens supereffective attacks.

In the core series games

Price

Games	Cost	Sell price
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2 XY ORAS BDSP	N/A	$100
SM USUM SwSh	N/A	$2,000
SV	$30,000	$7,500

Effect

Boosts the damage of the holder's supereffective moves by 20%.

Description

Games	Description
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2	An item to be held by a Pokémon. It is a well-worn belt that slightly boosts the power of supereffective moves.
XY ORAS SM USUM PE SwSh BDSP LA	An item to be held by a Pokémon. It's a well-worn belt that slightly boosts the power of supereffective moves.
SV	An item to be held by a Pokémon. It's a well-worn belt that slightly boosts the power of the holder's supereffective moves.

Acquisition

Games	Finite methods	Repeatable methods
DP Pt		Route 221 (one item per day)
HGSS	Mt. Silver Cave
PBR		Shop (7200 Poké Coupons, after completing Masters Battle Set 1)
BW	Driftveil City	Held by wild Sawk^B and wild Throh^W (1% chance each, dark grass only)
B2W2	Route 19, Driftveil City	Held by wild Sawk^B2 and wild Throh (1% chance each, dark grass only)
XY	Lumiose City (North Boulevard)
ORAS	Trick House (in the prize room after completing Puzzle 1)	Battle Maison (48 BP)
SM USUM	Seaward Cave	Battle Royal Dome (48 BP)
SwSh	Turffield
SwShIA	Fields of Honor	Cram-o-matic (Fighting: 92-100 points)
BDSP		Route 221 (one item per day)
SV	Dalizapa Passage (from a Pokémon League representative after defeating 4 Trainers in the area)	Delibird Presents (Mesagoza Branch, after earning 4 Gym Badges)

Distribution

Games	Event	Language/Region	Distribution period
SV	December 2023 Nintendo newsletter Expert Belt	All	December 26, 2023 to February 28, 2025

As a held item

Games	Event	Language/Region	Distribution period
BW B2W2	Pokémon Center 15th Anniversary Samurott	Japanese	June 26 to July 2, 2013 July 3 to 7, 2013
BW B2W2	Seung Heon's Cresselia	Korean	August 24 to 25, 2013
XY ORAS	Pokémon EXPO Gym Zoroark	Japanese	November 19, 2015 to May 31, 2016
SwSh	Hirofumi Kimura's East Sea Gastrodon	All	August 22 to 23, 2020

Gallery

Artwork

Artwork from
Scarlet and Violet

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

In Toasty!! Battle Against Toxapex, Sonia was revealed to have found an Expert Belt in Turffield after following the hints she received from a little girl. In Stealth!! Infiltrate the Energy Plant, she was revealed to have given it to Henry, who gave it to his Sirfetch'd, Lancelot, to hold during his Gym battle against Opal.

In the TCG

Main article: Expert Belt (Arceus 87)

Expert Belt was introduced as a Pokémon Tool Trainer card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the English Diamond & Pearl Series (the Japanese DP Era) in the Arceus expansion.

The Pokémon this card is attached to gets +20 HP and that Pokémon's attacks do 20 more damage to the opposing Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). However, when the Pokémon this card is attached to is Knocked Out, the opponent takes 1 more Prize card.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	達人帶 Daahtyàhn Daai
Chinese	Mandarin	達人帶 / 达人带 Dárén Dài
French		Ceinture Pro
German		Expertengurt
Italian		Abilcintura
Korean		달인의띠 Darinui Tti
Spanish		Cinta Experto* Cinta Xperto*

External links

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

This item article is part of Project ItemDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on all items.