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How Things Work

Last Updated 12 Mar 2005

 

 

Table of Contents

 

A. Introduction, Copyright, Disclaimer

 

B. General Battle Information

 

C. Stats, Stat Modifiers, and Stat Caps

 

D. Status Ailments

 

E. Type Effectiveness

 

F. Order of Operations

 

G. Moves

     1. General Information

     2. Ways of Obtaining

     3. Previous Evolution Moves

     4. Number of Moves

     5. Specific Move Information

 

H. Other Battle-Related Things

     1. Critical Hits

     2. Flinching

     3. Items

     4. In-game Differences (cross reference)

     5. Stadium Differences (cross reference)

 

I. Reference Information

     1. Glossary

     2. Additional Resources

     3. Revision History

     4. Contacting Me

     5. Unanswered Questions

     6. Credits

 

 

 

A. Introduction, Copyright, Disclaimer;

The purpose of this document is to provide as much and as detailed information as possible

about the battling aspect of the Pokémon chromatic generation. It should be noted that despite

this, I do not guarantee that the information provided is 100% complete or accurate (see

especially I5).

 

All trademarks and copyrighted information contained in this document are owned by there

respective holders. This document is Copyright 2004-2005 by Nautilator and may not be

distributed, or modified without permission. The latest version of this document can be found

at GameFAQs (http://www.gamefaqs.com), and at

http://roadcaesar.homestead.com/files/rby-stuff.zip (though I might make slight format changes

to that one that GameFAQs does not allow).

 

Parts of this document, such as triple astericks entries and entries in F1 and F2, have been

worded to facilitate search convenience.

 

 

 

B. General Battle Information;

This section describes what can happen or be done during a battle and other information that

can related to the process of battling. General information relevant to all gameboy battles is

first given, and then any information that is relevant only to certain types of battles is

then presented and noted accordingly.

 

 

When you start a battle, you will automatically send out the first pokémon in your team that

has not fainted. During any one turn of a battle, there are four general actions that can be

performed: fight, switch, use an item, or run away.

 

***Fight***

You can order your active pokémon to attempt an attack, the effects of which are listed in E4.

 

***Switch***

If you don't want your current active pokémon to fight, you can decide to switch it to one of

your other party members (though this will not be possible if your team party has only one

member, or if you try to switch to a pokémon that has fainted). Switching your active pokémon

takes precedence over all other actions. Any time either player switches, the last move used

flag of both pokémon will be reset.

 

***Use an Item***

You can opt to use an item instead of attacking. The use of an item takes precedence over

making a move, though not over switching. Item use during a battle is restricted to items that

can restore HP, restore PP, cure a status ailment, temporarily increase a stat, attempt to

catch the opposing pokémon, or allow you to escape from the battle. It is not possible to

escape from a trainer battle, and it is not possible to catch a trainer's pokémon (though you

still have the ability to try). This option is unavailable in link battles.

 

***Run away***

If you do not want to battle, you can attempt to run away from the opposing pokémon. If the

current speed of your active pokémon is greater than or equal to the current speed of the

opponent, you will be able to run away without any problems, but if the current speed of your

active pokémon is less than the speed of the opponent, there is a chance of not being able to

escape, in which case you do nothing during that round. It is not possible to run away from a

trainer battle.

 

A battle will end if all of your pokémon faint, if all the opposing pokémon faint, or (if

against a wild pokémon) the opposing pokémon is caught.

 

A pokémon's health will be represented by health bar with 48 pixels. The health bar will be

green if it has int(2.25*int(MaxHP/4) + 0.75) or more HP, orange if it has

int(265*int(0.2*MaxHP + 0.2)/256 + 2) or more HP but less HP than the amount needed for a green

health bar, and red if it has less HP than the amount needed for a yellow bar. This translates

into approximate ranges of 1% to 20% for a red meter, 21% to 55% for an orange meter, and 56%

or higher for a green meter. If a pokémon's health bar is red, its cry will change, further

indicating that it is in poor health.

 

The Battle Damage Formula is:

 

     (((((min(((((2L/5 + 2)*A*P)/max(1, D))/50), 997) + 2)*S)*T)/10)*R)/255

 

and is used to calculate the damage done by an attack with a power value. L is the user's

level, A is the user's current attack, P is the move's power, D is the opponent's current

defense, S is the STAB modifier (S is 1.5 if the move's type matches one of the user's, and is

otherwise 1), T is the type effectiveness modifier (40, 20, 10, 5, 2.5, or 0; note though that

this is afterwards divided by 10), and R is a random number between 217 and 255. If an

opponent's defense is decreased to 0 during calculations (such as for Selfdestruct and

Explosion), it will be increased to 1 (though this doesn't happen if the defense value used

experiences rollover). The maximum amount of damage any one attack can do before STAB or type

effectiveness multipliers is 999.

 

There are some other phenomena that influence the BDF. One is rollover, the effects of which

are described in the Stats section. Each time a calculation is made, it is done by integer

division, which results in the decimal (if any) always being dropped, instead of rounded.

Aside from recurrent damage, the amount of damage done to a pokémon can never be greater than

its current HP (but the amount of damage done to a substitute can). Any time a damaging move

results in 0 damage being done, it will generate a miss, though the displayed message will

almost always be that the opponent is unaffected. Also, if the pokémon's current attack or

current defense is greater than 255, then its attack and its defense will be halved, and halved

again (truncating both times), and those numbers will be used in place of its actual attack and

defense values.

 

If an active pokémon switches out, all benefits and losses of moves that have influenced it

while it remained active will be reset. The only things a pokémon will retain after switching

is its current HP, current PP, and any major status ailments it has.

 

 

Common to all in-game battles:

Your PP is of course limited, but the opponent will have an unlimited amount current of PP.

Each time an opponent pokémon faints, every one of your team members that was active during

that battle will gain experience. If you win the battle, you will pick up any money generated

by the use of Pay Day and will receive money if the battle was against a trainer. If all of

your pokémon are knocked out, you will black out, and awake in the last pokémon center you

visited, with half of your money.

 

If a pokémon has been traded to you (either from another person or from a person in the game),

it will gain 50% more experience from each battle than your pokémon, but if you do not have the

proper badges, it may become unruly. It will always run away when ordered to, but if ordered to

attack, it might turn away, loaf around, ignore orders, use a different attack, begin to nap,

or not obey. If it turns away, loafs around, or ignores orders, it will simply not make a move

during that round. If it uses a different move, PP will still be deducted from the move you

ordered it to use. If it begins to nap, it will fall asleep (but not regain any HP in the

process). If if does not obey, it will hurt itself in its confusion.

 

After defeating each of the eight gym leaders, you will receive the leader's badge, enhancing

your in-game abilities.

 

Boulderbadge: increases the attack of all your pokémon by 12.5% of its original value

              allows you to use Flash outside of battle

 

Cascadebadge: traded pokémon of up to Lv.30 will always obey you

              allows you to use Cut outside of battle

 

Thunderbadge: increases the speed of all your pokémon by 12.5% of its original value

              allows you to use Fly outside of battle

 

Rainbowbadge: traded pokémon of up to Lv.50 will always obey you

              allows you to use Strength outside of battle

 

Soul Badge: increases the defense of all your pokémon by 12.5% of its original value

            allows you to use Surf outside of battle

 

Marsh Badge: traded pokémon of up to Lv.70 will always obey you

 

Volcanobadge: increases the special of all your pokémon by 12.5% of its original value

 

Earth Badge: traded pokémon of up to Lv.100 will always obey you

 

The effects of gym leader badges apply to all in-game battles. Even without any gym badges,

traded pokémon of up to Lv.10 will always obey you. Note that the Earth Badge will allow you

to control traded pokémon of up to Lv.100, as opposed to allowing you to control all traded

pokémon. It is not possible for you to fully control a traded pokémon that is above Lv.100

(though such a pokémon would have to be obtained via a glitch or cheating device).

 

Stat increases due to badges are automatically applied to all your pokémon, and do not

count as stat level changes. Because of these stat increases, the stat value cap for all stats

essentially becomes 888 instead of 999. Also, each time your pokémon uses a stat-increasing

move (such as Amnesia, Double Team, or Swords Dance), the stat increases given by the badges

will be applied again; this is known as the stat bleeding glitch.

 

 

Wild pokémon battles:

Wild pokémon can be encountered in tall grass, caves, across water, or when fishing (or in the

Safari Zone, but that is slightly different, as noted below). You can attempt to catch the

pokémon by throwing a pokéball at it before it faints. The battle ends when the wild pokémon

has fainted or been caught, or all of your active pokémon have fainted.

 

 

Safari Zone battles:

The Safari Zone is located in Fuschia City. You pay 500 pokédollars for 30 Safari Balls (which

act like Great Balls), and can stay until you use all of them, walk 500 steps, or leave on your

own will, whichever happens first. When encountering pokémon in the Safari Zone, you can't

battle them. Instead, you will have the option to throw bait, a rock, or a Safari Ball at the

pokémon, or to run away. Throwing a rock doubles the pokémon's catch rate and run away rate,

while throwing bait halves a pokémon's catch rate and run away rate.

 

 

Trainer battles:

If you get in the field of view of a trainer, an exclamation point will appear over the

trainer's head and the trainer will walk up to you, give an introduction, and start a battle.

Whenever you knock out one of the trainer's pokémon, you will be told what the next pokémon

sent out will be and then have the option of switching your active pokémon without taking a

turn, even if your active pokémon normally couldn't. Instead of attacking or switching, both

you and the trainer (though the trainer almost never does this) may use an item. You may also

throw a pokéball at the opponent's pokémon, but the trainer will always block it. You win by

knocking out all of the trainer's pokémon. It is not possible to run from a trainer battle. Gym

leaders and Elite 4 members will not automatically walk up to you; you must face them and press

A to challenge them.

 

 

Link Battles:

If you and someone else have linked your games and are both in pokémon centers, the person in

the right half of the pokémon center will allow you to trade pokémon or battle. You will have

to save before battling, and your pokémon will not be automatically healed before battling.

Choosing to battle will land you and your opponent in a room with a battling simulator, and

when both of you have pressed A while facing it, the battle will begin. During each turn, you

will have the chance to make an attack, switch your active pokémon, or run away. You win if

your opponent has no active pokémon or runs away, lose if you have no active pokémon or run

away, and draw if both of you simultaneously run away or have no active pokémon.

 

For the purpose of a link battle, badges, unruliness, items, and gaining experience do not

exist, and your pokémon will be restored to their original state after the battle ends or is

reset.

 

 

Stadium Differences:

A pokémon's health bar will have 96 pixels. Players will be able to see the exact amount of

current and maximum HP that each active pokémon has. Damaging moves that do 0 damage will

always result in a message that the move missed.

 

 

 

C. Stats, Stat Modifiers, and Stat Caps

 

All pokémon have six numerical statistics (Level, HP, Attack, Defense, Speed, Special), as well

as two non-numerical stats (Accuracy, Evasion). Pokémon also have experience points, which are

used to determine their levels, and stat experience, a non-visible number that affects a

pokémon's stats.

 

***Level, Experience Points***

Each time a pokémon grows a level, its other numerical stats will increase. Both level and the

appropriate offensive stat are used in the BDF to calculate the amount of damage it can do, so

an increase in level results in an increase in average damage. Since a pokémon's level also

determines how much damage Night Shade, Seismic Toss, and (less directly) Psywave will do, the

damage done by those moves will increase as well. Wild pokémon can be found as low as Lv.2, and

it is possible to raise a pokémon up to Lv.100.

 

A pokémon's level is determined by how many experience points it has and its growth rate. The

growth rate formulas are:

     Fast:   0.8L^3                          (800,000 to get to Lv.100)

     Medium: L^3                           (1,000,000 to get to Lv.100)

     Slow:   1.25L^3                       (1,250,000 to get to Lv.100)

     Fading: 1.2L^3 - 15L^2 + 100L - 140   (1,059,860 to get to Lv.100)

 

Truncating the values given by these formulas determines the minimum number of experience

points necessary to be on a given level L. The total amount of experience points that an

opponent pokémon will give for defeating it is equal to int(T*int(int(int(int(B*L*W)/7)/N)/E)).

Additionally, if E=2, then int(T*int(int(int(int(int(B*L*W)/7)/N)/2)/P)) experience points will

be gained by each non-fainted member of your party, regardless of whether or not they were

active during the battle. In both of these formulas, B is the opponent's base experience (a

fundamental value based on its species), L is the opponent's level, W is the opponent's

wildness (1.5 if used by a trainer, otherwise 1), N is the total number of your pokémon that

were active and did not faint while the opponent was active, E is your Exp.All value (2 if you

are carrying the Exp.All item, 1 if you are not), P is the number of party members you have

that have not fainted, and T is your pokémon's trade value (1.5 if your pokémon is traded,

otherwise 1; a pokémon is considered traded if its ID number does not match your ID number).

Pokémon that have fainted cannot gain experience points, even if they were active before

fainting. Pokémon cannot gain experience in link battles.

 

Although the actual levels on which you can normally acquire pokémon on range from 2 to 100, it

is theoretically possible for a pokémon's level to be any integer from 0 to 255 (any time it

becomes higher, including during a critical hit, it will be reduced mod 256). It is also

possible to find pokémon on levels higher than 100 (and through level roll over, 0 and 1) via

the Missingno. glitch in Pokémon Red and Blue. To activate the Missingno. glitch, talk to the

old man in Viridian City near the cuttable bush, answer no to his question, and watch him catch

a Weedle. Afterwards, wild pokémon (including the glitch pokémon Missingno.) will appear on the

eastern edges of Cinnabar and Seafoam Islands, and some of these pokémon will have levels

higher than 100.

 

A pokémon's level can be increased by gaining enough experience points (and is in fact

recalculated each time a pokémon gains experience points or is given a Rare Candy). Using the

Rare Candy item on a pokémon will increase its experience points by the minimum amount needed

to increase its level by 1. Though it will have no effect on Lv.100 pokémon, it will work on

pokémon of higher levels. A Lv.100 pokémon cannot gain experience points, and if a pokémon's

level is greater than 100, it will be reduced to 100 if it gains any experience points via

battling.

 

 

***HP***

Short for Hit Points, basically the amount of damage a pokémon can withstand. When a pokémon

has no HP left, it will faint, and you will win a battle when all of your opponent's pokémon

have fainted. Pokémon have two HP values, current and maximum. Current HP is the amount of HP

the pokémon has at any referenced time, since it may have been damaged during the battle and

have less than its maximum possible HP. Maximum HP is supposedly the highest amount a pokémon's

HP can be, but is more of a calibration number for determining how much HP to restore to a

pokémon via HP-restoring methods. In at least one case, it is legally possible for a pokémon to

have greater current HP than maximum HP (for more information, see the in-game differences for

Transform).

 

Ways that HP can be restored:

     -Healing at a Pokémon Center or rest stop, in which case the current HP of all your party

      members will be made equal to their respective maximum HP values.

     -Using a HP-restoring item, either in battle (where it will count as your turn) or out of

      battle. Items that can restore HP are Fresh Water, Full Restore, Hyper Potion, Lemonade,

      Max Potion, Max Revive, Potion, Rare Candy, Revive, Soda Pop, and Super Potion. (Rare

      Candy is designated to increasing a pokémon's level rather than HP, but a level increase

      usually results in an increase in maximum HP and subsequently current HP, even if the

      pokémon was fainted at the time of use.)

     -By using a move while battling that can restore HP. Absorb, Dream Eater, Leech Life,

      Leech Seed, Mega Drain, Recover, Rest, and Softboiled are the moves that can restore HP,

      and Softboiled can also be used out of battle to heal other party members.

 

There is also an item, HP Up, which can increase a pokémon's maximum HP but will have no effect

on its current HP.

 

Using a move is the only available method of HP restoration in link battles.

 

 

***Attack***

A pokémon's attack stat is used in calculating how much damage it will do with physical,

damaging attacks.

 

***Defense***

A pokémon's defense stat is used in calculating how much resistance it has to physical,

damaging attacks.

 

***Speed***

A pokémon's speed will determine when in a round it will attack in relation to its opponent,

unless one of them uses an altered-priority move. If both pokémon use an increased or a

decreased priority move, turn placement will be determined normally. If both active pokémon

have the same speed, turn placement will be determined randomly.

 

***Special***

A pokémon's special stat is used in calculating how much damage it will do with as well as how

much resistance it has to special, damaging attacks.

 

 

A pokémon's Attack, Defense, Speed, and Special can be increased or decreased by up to six

levels, via the use of certain moves or items. A stat with a level value of N will multiply the

pokémon's base stat by (2+N)/2 if N is positive, or by 2/(2-N) if N is negative (and truncate

afterwards). Actual changes to stat levels happen via addition and subtraction. All of a

pokémon's stat levels will be reset to 0 if it switches out, and the use of Haze by either

pokémon will (among other things) reset the stat levels of both active pokémon to 0.

 

A pokémon does not have statistical Accuracy or Evasion values, but Accuracy and Evasion

modifiers are taken into consideration by moves that have accuracy values (moves that do not

have accuracy values are unaffected by accuracy and evasion modifiers, and essentially never

miss). Accuracy and Evasion modifiers are also increased in terms of levels, but not on the

same scale as Attack, Defense, Speed, and Special. Whenever a pokémon uses an attack with an

accuracy value, the base accuracy of the move is multiplied by the user's accuracy modifier and

opponent's evasion modifier to determine the move's final accuracy.

 

The base accuracy of a move with an accuracy value will be multiplied by the user's accuracy

modifier and the opponent's evasion modifier to determine the final accuracy of the move.

The user's accuracy modifier is equal to (3+N)/3 if N is positive, or 3/(3-N) if N is negative.

The opponent's evasion modifier is equal to 3/(3+N) if N is positive, or by (3-N)/3 if N is

negative. Whenever a move with an accuracy value is used, its initial accuracy value is

multiplied by the user's accuracy modifier and the opponent's evasion modifier to determine the

final accuracy of the move.

 

Stats have level and value caps. A pokémon's stat levels cannot go above +6 or below -6.

Additionally, a pokémon's stat values cannot go above 999 or below 1 (for Accuracy and Evasion

modifiers, a move's accuracy cannot go above 100% or below 0%). If a move that can only cause a

stat level change attempts to change a stat beyond either of these limitations, nothing will

happen, and if a move has a secondary effect that could potentially change a stat beyond its

level or value limitations, the secondary effect will not activate. The stat value changes due

to a burn, paralysis, or (in-game only) badges counts towards stat value caps, but the changes

due to Light Screen and Reflect do not, and as a result may cause roll over.

 

A pokémon's stats can roll over if they get too high. If a pokémon's attack, defense, or

special reaches 1024 or higher at any time during battle calculations, it will be reduced mod

1024. There is no such rollover associated with speed, though under normal circumstances it is

still subject to the standard stat level and value caps.

 

 

 

D. Status Ailments;

This is a detailed list of the status ailments that a pokémon might be subjected to while

battling. Major status ailments cannot be reset by switching, though minor status ailments can.

A pokémon can't have more than one status ailment at a time (so any major status ailment can

prevented by having another major status ailment), but can simultaneously have one major status

ailment and one minor status ailment. Burn, Freeze, Paralysis, Poison, and Sleep are major

status ailments, and Confusion is a minor status ailment.

 

If a move that can only inflict a major status ailment does not work for any reason, it will be

the equivolent of a miss, though the gameboy-displayed text message will not claim that. A move

that can only inflict sleep used against a sleeping opponent will result in a notice that the

opponent is already asleep. If a move that can only inflict a major status ailment does not

work for whatever reason (other than the case just mentioned), the opponent will be

"unaffected."

 

Whenever a calculation is made, the decimal is dropped, so numbers will always be truncated.

The only time this is not true is if a number is calculated to be 0, in which case it is bumped

up to 1.

 

 

***Burn***

Effects: The pokémon becomes burned, and loses 1/16th of its maximum HP at the end of each of

its turns in a round. Also, the pokémon's attack is reduced to 50% of its original value,

though this attack reduction is in addition to any stat modifiers that the pokémon may have. If

the pokémon's maximum HP is less than 16, it will lose 1 HP per round.

 

If the pokémon is burned during a round that it switches in, it will only be subjected to

recurrent burn damage that round if its speed is less than or equal to the opponent's speed. If

the pokémon is burned and is switched in, it will be subjected to recurrent burn damage before

the opponent makes a move if its speed is greater than the opponent's, but after the opponent

makes a move if its speed is less than or equal to the opponent's. If both pokémon switch in

and are burned or poisoned, recurrent damage will be done in order according to their current

speed values.

 

Recurrent burn damage will be done even if the pokémon knocks itself out with crash damage,

recoil damage, or self-inflicted confusion damage, or by making a substitute before the end of

its turn but will not occur if the burned pokémon knocks out an opponent. Continuing partial

trapping damage is done before recurrent burn damage, and Leech Seed draining is done after

recurrent burn damage.

 

The attack loss penalty will be ignored during a critical hit, and will be ignored after using

an attack-raising attack, but reimplemented if the pokémon is subsequently hit with a attack-

reducing attack.

 

Prevention, Cures: A substitute will block secondary burns, and fire types can't be burned by

fire attacks. Rest can cure a burn, but will not cure its attack reduction penalty (though

subsequently using a attack-raising move or switching out will then cure that). Using an

attack-raising move will tenuously negate the attack reduction penalty, but not the burn

status. Haze will temporarily cure the attack reduction penalty if used by the pokémon, and

completely cure the burn if it is used by the opponent. Critical hits will ignore the attack

reduction of a burn.

 

In-game Differences: Any attack modifiers used against a burned pokémon will cause the attack

reduction due to burn to be ignored.

 

Stadium Differences: The attack reduction of a burn will be reset by rest. Attack-raising

attacks will not negate the attack loss penalty. A pokémon can rid itself of the burn ailment

by using Haze. A pokémon will not take recurrent burn damage when it switches in.

 

Moves that can cause a burn: Ember, Fire Blast, Fire Punch, Flamethrower

 

 

***Confusion***

Effects: The pokémon receives a confusion duration length of 2-5 turns (chosen randomly), which

is reduced by 1 each time the pokémon attempts to execute an attack. The duration deduction for

confusion occurs immediately before the attempt to execute the move is made, so the pokémon

will effectively be confused for 1-4 turns. When the confusion duration length ends, a notice

that the pokémon is no longer confused will be shown immediately before it attempts to execute

its next attack. While confused, the pokémon will have a 50% chance of attacking itself with a

40-power attack, resulting in min(int(int(40*A*int(2L/5 + 2)/D)/50), 997) + 2 damage to itself

(where A, D, and L are the pokémon's current attack, current defense, and level) instead of

performing its selected attack. If the pokémon's current attack or current defense is greater

than 255, then its attack and its defense will be halved, and halved again (truncating both

times), and those numbers will be used in place of its actual attack and defense values.

 

The confusion duration length will only be reduced when the pokémon actually attempts to make a

move, so turns spent flinching, fast asleep, frozen solid, recharging, or partially trapped

will not count towards the confusion duration length. Self inflicted confusion damage will not

reset the last move used flag, counts as the last amount of damage done (and can be countered

by the opponent), ignores the effect of Reflect, can never be a critical hit, and will be

absorbed by a substitute. The duration of all moves, other than than Hyper Beam and Rage, that

take more than one turn to fully execute will be disrupted if the user hurts itself due to

confusion. If a move that can only inflict the confusion condition does not work for whatever

reason, it will "fail."

 

Prevention, Cures: Confusion can be cured by Haze or switching, and a substitute will block

primary confusion. This ailment is temporary.

 

Stadium Differences: The messages regarding confusion are displayed after the move choice is

shown, allowing both players to see the attempted attack regardless of success. A substitute

will completely protect the user from confusion (though not self-inflicted confusion).

 

Moves that can cause confusion: Confuse Ray, Confusion, Petal Dance (self-inflicted), Psybeam,

          Supersonic, Thrash (self-inflicted)

 

 

***Freeze***

Effects: The pokémon becomes frozen solid indefinately, rendering it unable to attack or select

a move.

 

Freeze will pause but not disrupt the turn duration of multi-turn moves, Bide, Hyper Beam,

Petal Dance, Rage, and Thrash.

 

If a frozen pokémon gets defrosted by a fire move before its turn in a round ends, it will be

able to attack during that round. It will attack with the last move it selected, or its topmost

move if it had not selected an attack (selecting an attack but switching out will reset the

attack selection). If at this time the move selected has a current PP count of 0, it will still

be used, and afterwards, its current PP will become 63, and full PP ups will be applied to the

move. Additionally, a frozen pokémon that has not recharged and has its freeze status

eliminated via Haze will remain unable to attack, switch, or do anything, and nothing (not even

getting refrozen and then defrosted by a fire move) will be able to change this.

 

Prevention, Cures: A substitute will block secondary freeze, and ice types can't be frozen by

ice attacks. The pokémon can be defrosted only if the opponent uses a fire attack or Haze

against it while it is active.

 

Stadium Differences: You get to select a move while the pokémon is frozen.

 

Moves that can cause freezing: Blizzard, Ice Beam, Ice Punch

 

 

***Paralysis****

Effects: The pokémon becomes paralyzed, reducing its speed to 25% of its original value, though

this speed reduction is in addition to any stat modifiers that the pokémon may have.

Additionally, each time the pokémon attempts to perform an attack, it will have a 25% chance of

being fully paralyzed and not being able to attack.

 

The speed loss penalty can be negated by using a speed-raising attack, but will be

reimplemented if the pokémon is subsequently hit with a speed-reducing attack. If a pokémon

becomes fully paralyzed during the semi-invulnerable turn of Dig or Fly, it will remain semi-

invulnerable until it switches out or successfully executes Dig or Fly. Being fully paralyzed

will not reset the last amount of damage done or last move used flags.

 

Prevention, Cures: A substitute will block secondary paralysis, and type immunities will

prevent the paralysis possibility of the respective attacks. Rest can cure paralysis, but will

not cure the speed reduction penalty (though subsequently using a speed-raising move or

switching out will then cure that). Speed-increasing moves will temporarily cure the speed

reduction penalty, but not the paralysis status. Haze will temporarily cure the speed reduction

penalty if used by the pokémon, and completely cure paralysis if it is used by the opponent.

 

In-game Differences: Any speed modifiers used against a paralyzed pokémon will cause the speed

reduction due to paralysis to be ignored.

 

Stadium Differences: Rest will reset the speed reduction of paralysis. Speed-raising attacks

will not negate the speed loss penalty. A substitute will completely protect the user from

paralysis. A pokémon can completely rid itself of the paralysis ailment by using Haze.

 

Moves that can cause paralysis: Body Slam, Glare, Lick, Stun Spore, Thunder, Thunder Wave,

          Thunderbolt, Thundershock, Thunderpunch

 

 

***Poison***

Effects: The pokémon becomes poisoned, and loses 1/16th of its maximum HP at the end of each of

its turns in a round. If the pokémon's maximum HP is less than 16, it will lose 1 HP per round.

 

If the pokémon is poisoned during a round that it switches in, it will only be subjected to

recurrent poison damage that round if its speed is less than or equal to the opponent's speed.

If the pokémon is poisoned and is switched in, it will be subjected to recurrent poison damage

before the opponent makes a move if its speed is greater than the opponent's, but after the

opponent makes a move if its speed is less than or equal to the opponent's. If both pokémon

switch in and are burned or poisoned, recurrent damage will be done in order according to their

current speed values.

 

Recurrent poison damage will be done even if the pokémon knocks itself out with crash damage,

recoil damage, or self-inflicted confusion damage, or by making a substitute before the end of

its turn but will not occur if the poisoned pokémon knocks out an opponent. Continuing partial

trapping damage is done before recurrent poison damage, and Leech Seed draining is done after

recurrent poison damage.

 

Prevention, Cures: A substitute will prevent poisoning, and poison types can't be poisoned. If

used by the opponent, Haze will cure poisoning.

 

In-game Differences: Out of battle, a poisoned Pokémon will take 1 HP of damage for every

fourth step you take. The amount of steps that required for the HP to be deducted will be reset

by resetting the game. (No such poison damage is taken while walking around in a colosseum

room.)

 

Stadium Differences: A pokémon can rid itself of the poison ailment by using Haze. A pokémon

will not take recurrent poison damage when it switches in.

 

Moves that can cause poisoning: Poison Gas, Poison Sting, Poisonpowder, Sludge, Smog,

          Toxic (badly poisons), Twineedle

 

 

***Sleep***

Effects: The pokémon receives a sleep duration length of 1-7 turns (chosen randomly), which is

reduced by 1 each time the pokémon attempts to execute an attack. The duration deduction will

occur immediately before the attempt to execute the move is made, and the pokémon will wake up

when its duration length becomes 0. It will not be able to attack on the same turn that it

wakes up though, so the pokémon will be unable to attack for a total of 1-7 turns. The

countdown duration will not be altered if the pokémon is switched out before it wakes up.

 

Sleep is required for Dream Eater to work. Sleep will pause but not disrupt the turn duration

of all moves that take more than one turn to fully execute, except for Hyper Beam, for which

the recharge turn will be negated. If pokémon uses an altered attack priority move (Counter,

Quick Attack) during the same round it is put to sleep, the altered priority received by the

move will only be reset on the turn after it wakes up (not even switching can reset this).

 

Prevention, Cures: Can be cured by Haze, if used by the opponent. This ailment is temporary.

 

Stadium Differenecs: The pokémon receives a sleep duration of 1-3 turns (chosen randomly).

Also, you get to select a move while the pokémon is asleep. A substitute will protect the user

from primary sleep.

 

Moves that can cause sleep: Hypnosis, Lovely Kiss, Rest (self-inflicted), Sing, Sleep Powder,

          Spore

 

 

 

E. Type Effectiveness

Each move has a type associated with it, which influences the amount of damage that the move

will do, if it has a power value. The effectiveness of a move with a power against an opponent

pokémon can be summed up with this chart:

 

 

      A\Defending

      t \   Types        E       F

      t  \               l       i                               P

      a   \          D   e       g   F           G       N   P   s

      c    \         r   c       h   l   G   G   r       o   o   y       W

      k T   \        a   t   F   t   y   h   r   o       r   i   c   R   a

      i y    \   B   g   r   i   i   i   o   a   u   I   m   s   h   o   t

      n p     \  u   o   i   r   n   n   s   s   n   c   a   o   i   c   e

      g e      \ g   n   c   e   g   g   t   s   d   e   l   n   c   k   r

     /=====================================================================\

     |Bug      | 1 | 1 | 1 |0.5|0.5|0.5|0.5| 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Dragon   | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Electric | 1 |0.5|0.5| 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |0.5| 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Fire     | 2 |0.5| 1 |0.5| 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |0.5|0.5|

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Fighting |0.5| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |0.5| 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |0.5|0.5| 2 | 1 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Flying   | 2 | 1 |0.5| 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |0.5| 1 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Ghost    | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Grass    |0.5|0.5| 1 |0.5| 1 |0.5| 1 |0.5| 2 | 1 | 1 |0.5| 1 | 2 | 2 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Ground   |0.5| 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |0.5| 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Ice      | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |0.5| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |0.5|

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Normal   | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |0.5| 1 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Poison   | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |0.5| 2 |0.5| 1 | 1 |0.5| 1 |0.5| 1 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Psychic  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |0.5| 1 | 1 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Rock     | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |0.5| 2 | 1 | 1 |0.5| 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |

     |---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

     |Water    | 1 |0.5| 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |0.5| 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |0.5|

     \=====================================================================/

 

 

In order to determine the type effectiveness of a move against a pokémon, look at the move's

type in the rows and the pokémon's type in the columns. For example, a water attack used

against a dragon type has a multiplier of 0.5, so it would do half the damage it usually would.

If a pokémon has two types, look at the type effectiveness against both types and multiply the

moves together. For example, a grass attack used against a poison type has a multiplier of 0.5,

and has a multiplier of 2 if used against a water type, so if used against a water/poison type,

the multiplier will be 2 * 0.5 = 1, or just regular damage. The type effectiveness values used

in the BDF are ten times the final type effectiveness value, but the damage amount is divided

by 10 immediately afterwards.

 

An attack is considered super effective if it has a type multiplier of 2 or 4, and not very

effective if it has a type multiplier of 0.25 or 0.5. If it has a multiplier of 1, it does

regular damage, and if it has a multiplier of 0, it will always miss against the opponent,

though the text message will almost always note that the move "doesn't affect" the opponent.

There is no text message distinction beyond whether or not a type multiplier is 0, between 0

and 1, 1, or greater than 1. Additionally, if a pokémon has a second type and is attacked with

a move that does not result in a type multiplier of 1 (or 10, depending on perspective), the

type effectiveness message associated with the attack will be based solely on the pokémon's

second type.

 

Stadium Differences:

The type effectiveness messages associated with moves will always take both of a pokémon's

types into account (except regarding immunities, which will always result in a message that the

attempted attack missed).

 

 

 

F. Order of Operations

This is a list that shows the order in which the various operations happen relative to each

other in any one round.

 

First, determination of which pokémon performs its action first and which performs its action

second in a round occurs. Running away takes priority over switching, which takes priority over

using an item, which takes priority over attempting to attack. If both trainers choose to run

away, it will happen simultaneously and the game will be declared a draw. If both trainers

switch, each trainer will always see their pokémon switched out first. If both trainers use an

item (in an in-game battle of course), each trainer will always see their pokémon affected

first.

 

If both trainers choose to attack, determination of which pokémon attacks first depends on the

current speed of both pokémon and the priority of the attack selected. If one of the pokémon

has selected an increased (or decreased) priority attack, it will attack first (or last) unless

the opponent has also selected an increased (or decreased) priority attack. If the attack

priority of both the selected attacks is the same, then the pokémon with the higher current

speed will go first. If both pokémon have the same current speed, the game will randomly select

which one goes first.

 

Provided that neither player chooses to run away, the round will proceed as follows:

 

Beforehand:

     *All players select an action, including a specific item or attack if possible*

 

Running away will end the battle, but otherwise the round will proceed:

 

First pokémon's turn:

     *Sleep duration deduction*

     [First pokémon is frozen solid, fast asleep, or wakes up]

     ([First pokémon must recharge])

     *Disable duration deduction*

     [First pokémon is disabled no more]

     *Confusion duration deduction*

     [First pokémon is confused no more]

     *[First pokémon is fully paralyzed]*

     *[First pokémon hurts itself due to confusion]*

     *PP is deducted from selected attack*

     *[Attack is used]*

     *[Attack misses]*

     *Damage calculation including critical hit*

     *Battle animation*

     *Damage and primary effects of attack*

     [Second pokémon's substitute took the damage]

     [Second pokémon's substitute broke]

     [Critical hit]

     [Type effectiveness of attack]

     [Any flavor text associated with the executed attack]

     ([Second pokémon faints])

     *[Second pokémon's rage builds]*

     *[Secondary effects of attack]*

     *[Recurrent poison/burn damage to first pokémon]*

     *[Recurrent Leech Seed damage to first pokémon]*

     *[Second pokémon flinches]*

 

Second pokémon's turn:

     *Sleep duration deduction*

     [Second pokémon is frozen solid, fast asleep, or wakes up]

     (Second pokémon must recharge)

     *Disable duration deduction*

     [Second pokémon is disabled no more]

     *Confusion duration deduction*

     [Second pokémon is confused no more]

     *[Second pokémon is fully paralyzed]*

     *[Second pokémon hurts itself due to confusion]*

     *PP is deducted from selected attack*

     *[Attack is used]*

     *[Attack misses]*

     *Damage calculation including critical hit*

     *Battle animation*

     *Damage and primary effects of attack*

     [First pokémon's substitute took the damage]

     [First pokémon's substitute broke]

     [Critical Hit]

     [Type effectiveness of attack]

     [Any flavor text associated with the executed attack]

     ([First pokémon faints])

     *[First pokémon's rage builds]*

     *[Secondary effects of attack]*

     *[Recurrent poison/burn damage to second pokémon]*

     *[Recurrent Leech Seed damage to second pokémon]*

 

Astericks indicate that the line involves an operation. Parentheses indicate that the line is

a potential battle condition, which may effect the execution of lines below it. Brackets

indicate that the line is a displayed text message. Lines marked with astericks/parentheses as

well as brackets indicate that the line is an operation/condition, and a text message directly

associated with the line is displayed immediately following the operation or condition

(provided that it happened/exists).

 

Also note that all lines will of course happen only if applicable, since the disable or

confusion duration deductions can only happen if the pokémon actually is disabled or confused,

an attack missing will not result in a battle animation, etc.

 

 

 

G. Moves;

 

G1. General Information;

A move has four main attributes: type, power, PP, and accuracy.

 

 

***Type***

One of the 15 possible types that a move might be. A move's type determines whether it is a

physical or special attack and also changes the effectiveness of the move when used against

pokémon of different types (though this does not apply to moves that do damage but do not have

power values). Also, if the move has a power and the move's type is the same as one of the

user's types, the move will do 50% more damage (this is known as STAB, short for same type

attack bonus).

 

 

***Power***

Every move that does damage calculated with the Battle Damage Formula has a base power. Some

moves can do damage despite not having power values.

 

 

***PP***

PP is short for power points, and basically represents the number of times you can use the

move. Each move has two PP values, a current value and a maximum value. Current PP is the

amount of PP the pokémon has at any referenced time, since PP will be deducted from moves when

used. Maximum PP is supposedly the highest PP a move can have, but is more of a calibration

number for determining how much PP to restore to a pokémon via PP-restoring methods.

 

Every time a move is fully executed, 1 PP is deducted from it. If a move has 0 PP, you will not

be allowed to select the attack (though this is bypassed in a couple of cases where the game

automatically selects the attack). In-game, PP can be restored by healing at a Pokémon Center

or use a PP-restoring item (Elixer, Ether, Max Elixer, Max Ether).

 

The only way to "restore" used PP in a link battle is with the PP roll over glitch. If by some

means the game allows you to use a move with a current PP count of 0, its current PP will

become 63 and it will have max PP ups applied to it after that use. This can happen to any

attack if a pokémon attacks immediately after being defrosted, or to a handful of moves (Bind,

Clamp, Fire Spin, Hyper Beam, Metronome, Mimic, and Wrap) because of the autoselection involved

with partial trapping moves. More detailed information on how it can be done can be found in

the information entry for Freeze, and in the entries of each mentioned move.

 

When a move is first learned, its maximum PP value will be at its base value. Subsequently, you

can apply up to 3 PP-ups to each move, and each PP-up will increase the move's maximum PP by

20% of its base value (though 61 is the maximum PP of a move with 40 base PP).

 

 

***Accuracy***

Accuracy is the probability that the selected move will actually hit the opponent. Multiply an

accuracy value by 2.56, round accordingly, and call that value A. If a randomly generated

number from 0 to 255 is less than A, the move will hit the opponent. The initial accuracy of

the move can be influenced by Accuracy and Evasion modifiers. The execution of certain moves

does not involve an accuracy or evasion check, and such moves essentially never miss.

 

 

G2. Ways of Obtaining;

A pokémon can learn a move by Level, Previous Evolution, TM, HM, or Gift.

 

***Level***

When a pokémon's level reaches certain values, it will learn moves. If the pokémon has less

than 4 moves, it will automatically learn the move, but if it has 4 moves, you will be given

the option of allowing the pokémon to learn the move; you will have to replace one of the

pokémon's current moves because it can't have more than 4 moves at a time. If the pokémon

already knows the move, no acknowledgement that it learns the move at that level will be made,

and if the pokémon gains enough experience at once to skip the level at which it learns a move,

it will not learn it either.

 

***Previous Evolution***

In a few instances, a pokémon will not be able to learn a move by Level or TM, yet one of its

previous evolutions will, allowing it access to the move. E3 contains a list of moves learnable

in this way.

 

***TM***

During the course of the game, you will find TMs that will allow you to teach a pokémon the

move it contains, provided that the selected pokémon is compatible with the move. If the

pokémon already knows the move, the game will not allow you to teach the TM to that pokémon.

There are a total of 50 different TMs, each of which is a one-time use (though it is possible

to obtain multiple copies of some of them).

 

***HM***

Essentially the same as TMs, but HMs can be used an unlimited number of times (and whose use

out of battle is required to complete the game). Once learned, you will not be allowed to

replace any of the 5 HM moves without using a move deleter (which is only present in GSC).

 

***Gift***

A move is considered a Gift move if it is a move that can be obtained by receiving a gift

pokémon with that move. Usually such a move can't be learned by any other means. Any of such a

pokémon's evolutions are also considered to learn that move as a Gift move (as opposed to

Previous Evolution).

 

Two moves can be obtained only from Stadium. A Lv.15 Psyduck with Amnesia can be obtained by

getting all 151 pokémon in Stadium's Hall of Fame. Since it is awarded to you and does not

usually have that move, it is a Gift move. A Pikachu with Surf can be obtained by beating the

R2 Prime Cup at the Master Ball level without saving. The team used for this must contain a

Pikachu and must be completely selected from your gameboy cartridge. Pikachu must be in your

3-member team, but only during the last round. Since Surf is taught to the Pikachu you bring

with you, it is essentially a move learned by HM, though not under normal circumstances.

 

A pokémon's move set will not be allowed to have the same move more than once, except

temporarily via Mimic.

 

For a list of pokémon and the moves they can learn, I would recommend White Cat's dexes, found

at http://pokedex.kary.ca/.

 

 

G3. Previous Evolution Moves;

This is a list of all moves that can be learned by Previous Evolution but not by chromatic

Level. Moves marked with parentheses can be learned by metallic Level, TM, or Tutor. Moves

marked with brackets can be learned by chromatic TM.

 

Metapod: Tackle, String Shot

Butterfree: Harden, Tackle, String Shot

Kakuna: Poison Sting, String Shot

Beedrill: Harden, Poison Sting, String Shot

Raichu: Agility, [(Double Team)], (Light Screen), (Quick Attack), Slam, [(Swift)], (Tail whip),

           [(Thunder)], [(Thunderbolt)]

Nidoqueen: Bite, Fury Swipes, Growl

Nidoking: Focus Energy, Fury Attack, [Horn Drill], Leer

Clefable: (Defense Curl), Growl, Light Screen, Pound

Ninetales: (Confuse Ray), Fire Spin, (Flamethrower)

Wigglytuff: [Body Slam], [Double-Edge], Pound, [(Rest)]

Vileplume: (Absorb), [(Solarbeam)]

Arcanine: Agility, Bite, (Flamethrower)

Poliwrath: Amnesia, Bubble, Hydro Pump

Victreebel: Growth, Slam, (Vine Whip)

Cloyster: [(Ice beam)], Leer, Tackle

Exeggutor: Leech Seed, Poisonpowder, [Reflect], [(Solarbeam)], Sleep Powder, Stun Spore

Starmie: Hydro Pump, Light Screen, Minimize, (Recover), [(Swift)]

Gyarados: Splash, Tackle

Vaporeon: Focus Energy, Growl, [Take Down]

Jolteon: Bite, Focus Energy, Growl, [Take Down]

Flareon: Focus Energy, Growl, [Take Down]

 

Also, Pikachu essentially learns Surf by HM (though under special conditions of course), so in

turn, Raichu essentially learns Surf by Previous HM.

 

 

G4. Number of Moves;

The maximum number of moves a pokémon may have at any one time is four, and no pokémon may have

less than one move. Since there is a move deleter in Blackthorn City in the Metallic

generation, it is possible to have any pokémon with only one move by trading it to a metallic

cartridge, deleting the move, and trading back.

 

There is no move deleter directly available in the Chromatic generation though, and if the move

deleter is not accessible, the minimum number of moves a pokémon can have will not always be

equal to one. For calculating the minimum number of moves a pokémon can have, the minimum

number of level moves it can have is all that needs to be considered, since a pokémon can skip

all of its Previous Evolution, TM, HM, and Gift moves (if the minimum number of moves a pokémon

must have is less than 4, then it will be equal to the minimum number of level moves it can

have, but if the minimum number of moves a pokémon can have is 4, those moves may be obtained

by any means, since they can be simply overwritten with moves not learned by level). Since a

pokémon will not learn a move if it skips the level the move is learned on, the minimum number

of moves a pokémon can have is equal to min(4, I + U + S). I is equal to the initial number of

moves the pokémon has (which by its nature must be at least 1), though if the pokémon's level

is greater than or equal to its evolution level and the pokémon has lower evolutions, then I is

equal to the pokémon's initial number of moves or the initial number of moves of its lower

evolution(s), whichever is lower. U is the number of moves the pokémon learns on levels it

can't skip. To find U, first determine a level K, which is the least K such that F(K)-F(K-1)>E,

where F(K) (read as "F of K", since a pokémon's minimum experience points can be written as a

function of level) is the number of experience points needed to be on level K, and E is the

maximum number of experience points that can be obtained at once. Taking E to be 4387 (from a

traded pokémon singlehandedly surviving your rival's Lv.65 Blastoise in Red or Blue), K is 35

if the pokémon's growth rate is slow, 39 if the pokémon's growth rate is medium or fading, or

43 if the pokémon's growth rate is fast. If the pokémon's level L is less than K, then U is 0,

otherwise, U is the number of level moves the pokémon can learn from level K to level L. If L

is greater than or equal to K, then S is 0 (since the pokémon won't be able to skip any levels

at such values), otherwise, S is determined by the lengths of unskippable move streaks that a

pokémon's level move list experiences. To determine how much of a move streak can be skipped,

find the least N such that F(H-N)-F(J)<E, where H is the highest level in the streak, J is the

lowest level in the streak, and N is a nonnegative integer. Add N to S, and repeat the process

until all move streaks are accounted for. It should be noted that no move streaks in RBY are

unskippable.

 

 

G5. Individual Move Information;

This is a detailed list of the type, power, PP, accuracy, and any additional info about the 165

moves in the Chromatic series. Moves that do not have power values will have their power values

listed as ---. Such moves do not do damage based on the BDF (if they do damage at all) and

unless otherwise noted, will be completely unaffected by the user's or opponent's type(s).

Moves that do not have accuracy values will have their accuracy values listed as ---, and

essentially can never miss since there is no accuracy or evasion check performed when such

moves are used. All information given pertains to how the moves function in a gameboy, link

battle. Any differences in Stadium or in-game battles are noted accordingly.

 

Whenever a calculation is made, the decimal is dropped, so numbers will always be truncated.

The only time this is not true is if a number is calculated to be 0, in which case it is bumped

up to 1.

 

Any references to PP in this section are to current PP, unless otherwise noted. References to

items are relevant only when items are relevant, but behavior-wise are not presumed to be

strictly different.

 

 

***Absorb***

Type: Grass

Power: 20

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Absorb does damage, and up to 50% of the damage done to the opponent is restored to the user.

However, if this attack does 1 point of damage, 1 HP will be restored to the user.

 

If Absorb breaks a substitute, no HP will be restored to the user. If HP is restored to the

user when its current HP is greater than its maximum HP, its current HP will be set equal to

its maximum HP.

 

Stadium Differences:

Absorb will always miss if the opponent has a substitute.

 

 

***Acid***

Type: Poison

Power: 40

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Acid does damage and has a 9.8% chance of lowering the opponent's defense by 1 level.

 

Acid will not be able to lower the opponent's defense if it has reached a level of -6 or a

value of 1, or if the opponent has a substitute.

 

Stadium Differences:

Acid has a 19.9% chance of lowering the opponent's defense by 1 level.

 

 

***Acid Armor***

Type: Poison

Power: ---

PP: 40-61

Accuracy: ---

 

Acid Armor increases the user's defense by 2 levels.

 

Acid Armor will do nothing if the user's defense has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999.

The effect of Acid Armor is ignored by critical hits.

 

 

***Agility***

Type: Psychic

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: ---

 

Agility increases the user's speed by 2 levels.

 

Agility will do nothing if the user's speed has reached a level +6 or a value of 999.

 

 

***Amnesia***

Type: Psychic

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: ---

 

Amnesia increases the user's special by 2 levels.

 

Amnesia will do nothing if the user's special has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999. The

effect of Amnesia is ignored by critical hits.

 

 

***Aurora Beam***

Type: Ice

Power: 65

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Aurora Beam does damage and has a 9.8% chance of lowering the opponent's attack by 1 level.

 

Aurora Beam will not be able to lower the opponent's attack if it has reached a level of -6 or

a value of 1, or if the opponent has a substitute.

 

Stadium Differences:

Aurora Beam has a 29.7% chance of lowering the opponent's attack by 1 level.

 

 

***Barrage***

Type: Normal

Power: 15

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 84.4%

 

Barrage does damage, hitting 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2

times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a

12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Though technically only the first hit can critical hit,

each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

 

Barrage will end immediately if it breaks a substitute. Counter will only counter the last hit

of a Barrage attack.

 

 

***Barrier***

Type: Psychic

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: ---

 

Barrier increases the user's defense by 2 levels.

 

Barrier will do nothing if the user's defense has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999. The

effect of Barrier is ignored by critical hits.

 

 

***Bide***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

After Bide is selected, the user will be unable to select a move for an idling period of 2-3

turns (chosen randomly), though it will still be able to switch out during this time. On the

following turn, Bide will do damage equal to twice the damage received during the idling

period. Although Bide deals normal damage, type has no effect on the calculated damage

inflicted by this attack. Bide is unaffected by accuracy and evasion modifiers, and can hit

pokémon during the semi-invulnerable turn of Dig and Fly.

 

Bide will count crash damage and an opponent's self-inflicted confusion damage as damage that

can be reversed. Damage absorbed by a Substitute can be reversed for the amount of damage it

would have done to the user had the user not had a substitute. If an opponent damages the user

during the idling period, it must then use an attack that actually misses (as opposed to one

that fails, or making a move, or using an item) in order to reset the last amount of damage

counted towards Bide. For example, if a Nidoking uses Seismic Toss and then Growl during the

same idling period of a Bide attack, Bide will count the turn that Growl was used as if Seismic

Toss was used a second time.

 

Sleep, freeze, partial trap duration, and flinching will pause but not disrupt the duration of

Bide.

 

Stadium Differences:

You get to select a move during each of Bide's idling turns. Bide will miss against pokémon

that are in the middle of Dig or Fly.

 

 

***Bind***

Type: Normal

Power: 15

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 74.6%

 

Bind does damage for 2-5 turns. There is a 37.5% chance that it will attack for 2 turns, a

37.5% chance that it will attack for 3 turns, a 12.5% chance that it will attack for 4 turns,

and a 12.5% chance that it will attack for 5 turns. Though technically only the first attack

can critical hit, every attack during the duration will do the same amount of damage. During

this turn duration, the opponent will be unable to attack, and if the user of Bind attacks

before the opponent when used, the opponent will be unable to attack during that round as well.

 

Damage done by Bind's continuing duration is done after recurrent damage. If the user switches

out before the turn duration ends, the opponent will be unable to attack during that turn,

since it did not get to select a move. If the opponent switches out before the turn duration

ends, Bind will automatically be used against the incoming pokémon, deducting an additional PP

from the move. If at such a time Bind has 0 PP, Bind will still be used against the incoming

pokémon. After that use, the current PP of Bind will roll over to 63, and full PP ups will be

applied to it.

 

Even if Bind misses, it will negate the recharge turn normally required for Hyper Beam.

Additionally, if the user of Bind attacks before the user of Hyper Beam during a recharge turn

and the use of Bind misses, the user of Hyper Beam will automatically use Hyper Beam during

that turn. If at such a time Hyper Beam has 0 PP, Hyper Beam will still be used, and afterwards

its current PP will roll over to 63, and full PP ups will be applied to it.

 

Although Bind can't damage ghost types, it can immobilize them.

 

In-game differences:

The opponent will get to select a move during each turn of Bind's duration, and will attack

your incoming pokémon with the selected move if you decide to switch before the duration is

over.

 

Stadium Differences:

You get to select a move during each turn of Bind's duration. If the opponent switches out

before the duration ends, the incoming pokémon will not automatically be attacked. Bind will

negate the recharge turn of Hyper Beam only if successful.

 

 

***Bite***

Type: Normal

Power: 60

PP: 25-40

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Bite does damage and has a 9.8% chance of causing the opponent to flinch.

 

Bite can only cause the opponent to flinch if the user attacks before the opponent does. Bite

can't make an opponent with a substitute flinch.

 

 

***Blizzard***

Type: Ice

Power: 120

PP: 5-8

Accuracy: 89.5%

 

Blizzard does damage and has a 9.8% chance of freezing the opponent.

 

Blizzard can't freeze an opponent that has a substitute or already has a major status ailment.

 

 

***Body Slam***

Type: Normal

Power: 85

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Body Slam does damage and has a 29.7% chance of paralyzing its opponent.

 

Body Slam can't paralyze an opponent that has a substitute or already has a major status

ailment.

 

 

***Bone Club***

Type: Ground

Power: 65

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 84.4%

 

Bone Club does damage and has a 9.8% chance of causing the opponent to flinch.

 

Bone Club can only cause the opponent to flinch if the user attacks before the opponent does.

Bone Club can't make an opponent with a substitute flinch.

 

 

***Bonemerang***

Type: Ground

Power: 50

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 89.5%

 

Bonmerang does damage, hitting twice per use. Though technically only the first hit can

critical hit, each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

 

Bonemerang will end immediately if it breaks a substitute.

 

 

***Bubble***

Type: Water

Power: 20

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Bubble does damage and has a 9.8% chance of lowering the opponent's speed by 1 level.

 

Bubble will not be able to lower the opponent's speed if it has reached a level of -6 or a

value of 1, or if the opponent has a substitute.

 

 

***Bubblebeam***

Type: Water

Power: 65

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Bubblebeam does damage and has a 9.8% chance of lowering the opponent's speed by 1 level.

 

Bubblebeam will not be able to lower the opponent's speed if it has reached a level of -6 or a

value of 1, or if the opponent has a substitute.

 

Stadium Differences:

Bubblebeam has a 29.7% chance of lowering the opponent's speed by 1 level.

 

 

***Clamp***

Type: Water

Power: 35

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 74.6%

 

Clamp does damage for 2-5 turns. There is a 37.5% chance that it will attack for 2 turns, a

37.5% chance that it will attack for 3 turns, a 12.5% chance that it will attack for 4 turns,

and a 12.5% chance that it will attack for 5 turns. Though technically only the first attack

can critical hit, every attack during the duration will do the same amount of damage. During

this turn duration, the opponent will be unable to attack, and if the user of Clamp attacks

before the opponent when used, the opponent will be unable to attack during that round as well.

 

Damage done by Clamp's continuing duration is done after recurrent damage. If the user switches

out before the turn duration ends, the opponent will be unable to attack during that turn. If

the opponent switches out before the turn duration ends, Clamp will automatically be used

against the incoming pokémon, deducting an additional PP from the move. If at such a time Clamp

has 0 PP, Clamp will still be used against the incoming pokémon. After that use, the current PP

of Clamp will roll over to 63, and full PP ups will be applied to it.

 

Even if Clamp misses, it will negate the recharge turn normally required for Hyper Beam.

Additionally, if the user of Clamp attacks before the user of Hyper Beam during a recharge turn

and the use of Clamp misses, the user of Hyper Beam will automatically use Hyper Beam during

that turn. If at such a time Hyper Beam has 0 PP, Hyper Beam will still be used, and afterwards

its current PP will roll over to 63, and full PP ups will be applied to it.

 

In-game differences:

The opponent will get to select a move during each turn of Clamp's duration, and will attack

your incoming pokémon with the selected move if you decide to switch before the duration is

over.

 

Stadium Differences:

You get to select a move during each turn of Clamp's duration. If the opponent switches out

before the duration ends, the incoming pokémon will not automatically be attacked. Clamp will

negate the recharge turn of Hyper Beam only if successful.

 

 

***Comet Punch***

Type: Normal

Power: 18

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 84.4%

 

Comet Punch does damage, hitting 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2

times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a

12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Though technically only the first hit can critical hit,

each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

 

Comet Punch will end immediately if it breaks a substitute. Counter will only counter the last

hit of a Comet Punch attack.

 

 

***Confuse Ray***

Type: Ghost

Power: ---

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Confuse Ray causes the opponent to become confused.

 

Confuse Ray will fail if the opponent has a substitute or is already confused.

 

 

***Confusion***

Type: Psychic

Power: 50

PP: 25-40

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Confusion does damage and has a 9.8% chance of confusing the opponent.

 

Confusion can't confuse an opponent that is already confused.

 

Stadium Differences:

Confusion can't confuse an opponent that has a substitute.

 

 

***Constrict***

Type: Normal

Power: 10

PP: 35-56

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Constrict does damage and has a 9.8% chance of lowering the opponent's speed by 1 level.

 

Constrict will not be able to lower the opponent's speed if it has reached a level of -6 or a

value of 1, or if the opponent has a substitute.

 

 

***Conversion***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: ---

 

Conversion changes the user's current type(s) to the opponent's current type(s).

 

 

***Counter***

Type: Fighting

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

If the last amount of damage done before the use of Counter is greater than 0 and was dealt by

a normal or fighting attack, Counter will do twice as much damage to the opponent. Although

Counter deals fighting damage, its type does not alter the amount of damage it inflicts.

 

Counter is a decresed priority move. If the opponent does not use an decreased priority move

during the round that it is used, Counter will go last regardless of the user's or opponent's

speed. If the opponent also uses an decreased priority move during the same round, the attack

order of the users will be determined normally. If the user is put to sleep or is frozen during

the round that Counter is (or attempts to be) used, Counter's decreased speed priority will not

be reset. Subsequently, it will only be reset on the turn after the user wakes up or is

defrosted, or if the user switches out.

 

Counter can critical hit, but the actual amount of damage dealt back by it will not be altered

by a critical hit. Counter will only counter the last hit of a multi-hit move and the last

attack of a partial trapping move. Counter will always miss if called by Metronome.

 

Switching, full paralysis, and using a multi-turn move will not reset the last amount of damage

done, allowing counter to counter itself as well as self-inflicted recoil damage. However, if

both active pokémon use Counter during the same round, both attacks will fail. An attack

absorbed by a Substitute can be countered for the amount of damage it would have done to the

user had the user not had a substitute.

 

If a a HP-restoring item is used on the opponent during the same round that Counter is used,

Counter will counter the item.

 

Stadium Differences:

Switching, full paralysis, and using a multi-turn move reset the last amount of damage done, so

Counter can't counter itself or self-inflicted recoil damage if the opponent does not make a

move on its following turn.

 

 

***Crabhammer***

Type: Water

Power: 90

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 84.4%

 

Crabhammer does damage, and has a high critical hit ratio.

 

 

***Cut***

Type: Normal

Power: 50

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: 94.5%

 

Cut does damage.

 

 

***Defense Curl***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 40-61

Accuracy: ---

 

Defense Curl increases the user's defense by 1 level.

 

Defense Curl will do nothing if the user's defense has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999.

The effect of Defense Curl is ignored by critical hits.

 

 

***Dig***

Type: Ground

Power: 100

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

On the turn that Dig is selected, the user will dig underground, where the only attacks it

can't avoid are Bide, Swift, and Transform. On the following turn, Dig will do damage, PP will

be deducted from it, and it will count as the last move used. Once Dig is selected, the user

won't be able to switch out until it is disrupted or fully executed.

 

If Dig is not fully executed, PP will not be deducted from it, and it will not count as the

last move used. If the opponent uses Mirror Move during the turn that the user digs

underground, Mirror Move will copy the move that the user executed immediately before using Dig

(or fail if it can't).

 

Confusion and full paralysis will disrupt Dig. Additionally, if the user is fully paralyzed

during the mostly-invulnerable turn of Dig, the mostly-invulnerable part will not be reset

until the user switches out or fully executes Dig or Fly.

 

Stadium Differences:

Dig will allow the user to avoid damage reversed by Bide. Full paralysis will reset the mostly-

invulnerable part of Dig. Mirror Move will copy Dig on either of the turns it takes to execute.

 

 

***Disable***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 54.7%

 

Disable randomly selects one move that is in the opponent's current move set and whose current

PP is greater than 0, and gives it a randomly chosen disable duration length of 1-8, which is

reduced by 1 each time the pokémon attempts to execute an attack. While the move is disabled, a

message of "disabled!" will appear in place of the disabled move's PP, and the opponent will be

unable to use the move until the round after Disable wears off (attempting to select the move

will just result in a notice that the move is disabled).

 

If the opponent does manage to select the move (such as if it knows the move twice because of

Mimic, or if the user is faster than the opponent and disables the attack that the opponent was

going to use during that round) and attempts to execute it before the disable duration is over,

it will only result in a wasted turn and a message that the move is disabled. Since the check

to see if a move is disabled happens after the duration reduction, it is possible to disable

the move the opponent was about to use for only 1 turn and as a result have Disable end

immediately, still allowing the opponent to use said move during that round. It is also

possible for the opponent to still use the disabled move if it is called via Metronome or

Mirror Move.

 

If the opponent has only one move and that move is successfully disabled, it will use Struggle

until it can select its move again. Disable will fail if the opponent has no PP for any of its

moves.

 

Turns spent flinching, fast asleep, frozen solid, recharging, or partially trapped will not

count towards the disable duration length.

 

Even if unsuccessful (for any reason), using Disable against a pokémon using Rage will cause

its rage to build.

 

Stadium Differences:

Disable will cause a pokémon's rage to build only if successful. The disabled move's PP is not

replaced with a "disabled!" message, though attempting to select the move will still result in

a notice that the move is disabled.

 

 

***Dizzy Punch***

Type: Normal

Power: 70

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Dizzy Punch does damage.

 

 

***Double Kick***

Type: Fighting

Power: 30

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Double Kick does damage, hitting twice per use. Though technically only the first hit can

critical hit, each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

 

Double Kick will end immediately if it breaks a substitute. Counter will only counter the last

hit of a Double Kick attack.

 

 

***Double Team***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: ---

 

Double Team increases the user's evasion by 1 level.

 

Double Team will do nothing if the user's evasion has reached a level of +6.

 

 

***Double-Edge***

Type: Normal

Power: 100

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Double-Edge does damage, and the user receives recoil damage equal to 25% of the damage done to

the opponent.

 

If the user of Double-Edge attacks first and faints itself due to recoil damage, the opponent

will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round. However, the user will

still be subject to recurrent damage.

 

Self-inflicted recoil damage from Double-Edge from the previous turn can be countered if the

opponent does not make a move on the following turn. If Double-Edge breaks a substitute, the

user will take no recoil damage.

 

Stadium Differences:

No recoil damage is taken if Double-Edge knocks out an opponent.

 

 

***Doubleslap***

Type: Normal

Power: 15

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 84.4%

 

Doubleslap does damage, hitting 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2

times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a

12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Though technically only the first hit can critical hit,

each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

 

Doubleslap will end immediately if it breaks a substitute. Counter will only counter the last

hit of a Doubleslap attack.

 

 

***Dragon Rage***

Type: Dragon

Power: ---

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Unless it misses, Dragon Rage will always do 40 points of dragon damage to the opponent. Its

type will not alter the amount of damage it inflicts.

 

 

***Dream Eater***

Type: Psychic

Power: 100

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Dream Eater does damage, but only if the opponent is asleep. Up to 50% of the damage done to

the opponent is restored to the user. However, if this attack does 1 point of damage, 1 HP will

be restored to the user.

 

If Dream Eater breaks a substitute, no HP will be restored to the user. If HP is restored to

the user when its current HP is greater than its maximum HP, its current HP will be set equal

to its maximum HP.

 

Dream Eater will miss if the opponent is not asleep.

 

Stadium Differences:

Dream Eater will always miss if the opponent has a substitute.

 

 

***Drill Peck***

Type: Flying

Power: 80

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Drill Peck does damage.

 

 

***Earthquake***

Type: Ground

Power: 100

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Earthquake does damage.

 

 

***Egg Bomb***

Type: Normal

Power: 100

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 74.6%

 

Egg Bomb does damage.

 

 

***Ember***

Type: Fire

Power: 40

PP: 25-40

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Ember does damage and has a 9.8% chance of burning the opponent.

 

Ember can't burn an opponent that has a substitute or already has a major status ailment.

 

 

***Explosion***

Type: Normal

Power: 170

PP: 5-8

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Explosion does damage, and causes the user to faint. Though its power is 170, the opponent's

defense will be halved when damage from this attack is calculated, giving it an effective power

of 340. The game will bump 0 up to 1 to avoid infinite damage, so Explosion will then

effectively have a power of 170 if used against an opponent with a defense value of 1.

 

If Explosion breaks an opponent's substitute, the user will not faint, though its image will be

replaced by a blank image. Additionally, if the user of Explosion had a substitute at the time

of such a situation, uses Substitute later, or switches out, its regular image will once again

become visible.

 

If the user of Explosion attacks first and faints itself, the opponent will not attack or be

subjected to recurrent damage during that round.

 

Stadium Differences:

If Explosion breaks an opponent's substitute, the user will faint.

 

 

***Fire Blast***

Type: Fire

Power: 120

PP: 5-8

Accuracy: 84.4%

 

Fire Blast does damage and has a 29.7% chance of burning the opponent.

 

Fire Blast can't burn an opponent that has a substitute or already has a major status ailment.

 

 

***Fire Punch***

Type: Fire

Power: 75

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Fire Punch does damage and has a 9.8% chance of burning the opponent.

 

Fire Punch can't burn an opponent that has a substitute or already has a major status ailment.

 

 

***Fire Spin***

Type: Fire

Power: 15

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 69.5%

 

Fire Spin does damage for 2-5 turns. There is a 37.5% chance that it will attack for 2 turns, a

37.5% chance that it will attack for 3 turns, a 12.5% chance that it will attack for 4 turns,

and a 12.5% chance that it will attack for 5 turns. Though technically only the first attack

can critical hit, every attack during the duration will do the same amount of damage. During

this turn duration, the opponent will be unable to attack, and if the user of Fire Spin attacks

before the opponent when used, the opponent will be unable to attack during that round as well.

 

Damage done by Fire Spin's continuing duration is done after recurrent damage. If the user

switches out before the turn duration ends, the opponent will be unable to attack during that

turn. If the opponent switches out before the turn duration ends, Fire Spin will automatically

be used against the incoming pokémon, deducting an additional PP from the move. If at such a

time Fire Spin has 0 PP, Fire Spin will still be used against the incoming pokémon. After that

use, the current PP of Fire Spin will roll over to 63, and full PP ups will be applied to it.

 

Even if Fire Spin misses, it will negate the recharge turn normally required for Hyper Beam.

Additionally, if the user of Fire Spin attacks before the user of Hyper Beam during a recharge

turn and the use of Fire Spin misses, the user of Hyper Beam will automatically use Hyper Beam

during that turn. If at such a time Hyper Beam has 0 PP, Hyper Beam will still be used, and

afterwards its current PP will roll over to 63, and full PP ups will be applied to it.

 

In-game differences:

The opponent will get to select a move during each turn of Fire Spin's duration, and will

attack your incoming pokémon with the selected move if you decide to switch before the duration

is over.

 

Stadium Differences:

You get to select a move during each turn of Fire Spin's duration. If the opponent switches out

before the duration ends, the incoming pokémon will not automatically be attacked. Fire Spin

will negate the recharge turn of Hyper Beam only if successful.

 

 

***Fissure***

Type: Ground

Power: ---

PP: 5-8

Accuracy: 29.7%

 

Fissure does damage equal to the opponent's current HP. Fissure will break a substitute

on contact, and can be countered for infinite damage on the turn it breaks a substitute.

 

Fissure will not affect an opponent whose current speed is greater than the user's current speed.

 

 

***Flamethrower***

Type: Fire

Power: 95

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Flamethrower does damage and has a 9.8% chance of burning the opponent.

 

Flamethrower can't burn an opponent that has a substitute or already has a major status

ailment.

 

 

***Flash***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 69.5%

 

Flash decreases the opponent's accuracy by 1 level.

 

Flash will do nothing if the opponent's accuracy level is at -6, and will fail if the opponent

has a substitute or is under the effect of Mist.

 

 

***Fly***

Type: Flying

Power: 70

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 94.5%

 

On the turn that Fly is selected, the user will fly up high, where the only attacks it can't

avoid are Bide, Swift, and Transform. On the following turn, Fly will do damage, PP will be

deducted from it, and it will count as the last move used. Once Fly is selected, the user won't

be able to switch out until it is disrupted or fully executed.

 

If Fly is not fully executed, PP will not be deducted from it, and it will not count as the

last move used. If the opponent uses Mirror Move during the turn that the user flys up high,

Mirror Move will copy the move that the user executed immediately before using Fly (or fail if

it can't).

 

Full paralysis and getting hurt due to confusion will disrupt Fly. Additionally, if the user is

fully paralyzed during the mostly-invulnerable turn of Dig, the mostly-invulnerable part will

not be reset until the user switches out or fully executes Dig or Fly.

 

Stadium Differences:

Fly will allow the user to avoid damage reversed by Bide. Full paralysis will reset the mostly-

invulnerable part of Fly. Mirror Move will copy Fly on either of the turns it takes to execute.

 

 

***Focus Energy***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: ---

 

Focus Energy quarters the probability of the user scoring a critical hit.

 

The effect of Focus Energy can only be removed by switching or Haze. Focus Energy will fail if

the user is already under its effect.

 

Stadium Differences:

Focus Energy works properly; it quadruples the probability of the user scoring a critical hit.

 

 

***Fury Attack***

Type: Normal

Power: 15

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 84.4%

 

Fury Attack does damage, hitting 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2

times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a

12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Though technically only the first hit can critical hit,

each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

 

Fury Attack will end immediately if it breaks a substitute. Counter will only counter the last

hit of a Fury Attack attack.

 

 

***Fury Swipes***

Type: Normal

Power: 18

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 79.7%

 

Fury Swipes does damage, hitting 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2

times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a

12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Though technically only the first hit can critical hit,

each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

 

Fury Swipes will end immediately if it breaks a substitute. Counter will only counter the last

hit of a Fury Swipes attack.

 

 

***Glare***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: 74.6%

 

Glare paralyzes the opponent.

 

Glare can't affect an opponent that already has a major status ailment.

 

Stadium:

Glare can't affect an opponent that has a substitute.

 

 

***Growl***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 40-61

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Growl decreases the opponent's attack by 1 level.

 

Growl will do nothing if the opponent's attack has reached a level of -6 or a value of 1, and

will fail if the opponent has a substitute or is under the effect of Mist. The effect of Growl

is ignored by critical hits.

 

 

***Growth***

Type: Grass

Power: ---

PP: 40-61

Accuracy: ---

 

Growth increases the user's special by 1 level.

 

Growth will do nothing if the user's special has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999. The

effect of Growth is ignored by critical hits.

 

 

***Guillotine***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 5-8

Accuracy: 29.7%

 

Guillotine does damage equal to the opponent's current HP. Guillotine will break a substitute

on contact, and can be countered for infinite damage on the turn it breaks a substitute.

 

Guillotine will not affect an opponent whose current speed is greater than the user's current

speed.

 

 

***Gust***

Type: Normal

Power: 40

PP: 35-56

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Gust does damage.

 

 

***Harden***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: ---

 

Harden increases the user's defense by 1 level.

 

Harden will do nothing if the user's defense has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999. The

effect of Harden is ignored by critical hits.

 

 

***Haze***

Type: Ice

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: ---

 

Haze resets the stat levels of both active pokémon to 0 and removes the statistic reductions

due to burns and paralysis as well as the effects of Focus Energy, Leech Seed, Light Screen,

Mist, Reflect, confusion, and the cumulative nature of Toxic from both active pokémon. In

addition, Haze removes any major status ailments from the opponent.

 

Haze does not remove any major status ailments that the user has, does not change the generic

Minimize graphic back to the pokémon's regular image, and does not reset either pokémon's

current type(s), current move(s), or current species.

 

If a frozen pokémon that has not recharged from Hyper Beam has its freeze status eliminated via

Haze, it will remain unable to attack, switch, or do anything else, and nothing will then be

able to change this.

 

Stadium Differences:

Haze eliminates any major status ailments that the user has.

 

 

***Headbutt***

Type: Normal

Power: 70

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Headbutt does damage and has a 29.7% chance of causing the opponent to flinch.

 

Headbutt can only cause the opponent to flinch if the user attacks before the opponent does.

Headbutt can't make an opponent with a substitute flinch.

 

 

***Hi Jump Kick***

Type: Fighting

Power: 85

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 89.5%

 

Hi Jump Kick does damage. If this attack misses, the user will take 1 point of crash damage.

Since all attacks that do 0 damage miss, Hi Jump Kick will always miss if used against a ghost

type.

 

If the user of Hi Jump Kick attacks first and faints itself due to crash damage, the opponent

will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round. However, the user will

still be subject to recurrent damage.

 

The crash damage from Hi Jump Kick can be reversed by Bide or Counter.

 

 

***Horn Attack***

Type: Normal

Power: 65

PP: 25-40

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Horn Attack does damage.

 

 

***Horn Drill***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 5-8

Accuracy: 29.7%

 

Horn Drill does damage equal to the opponent's current HP. Horn Drill will break a substitute

on contact, and can be countered for infinite damage if and when it breaks a substitute.

 

Horn Drill will not affect an opponent whose current speed is greater than the user's current

speed.

 

 

***Hydro Pump***

Type: Water

Power: 120

PP: 5-8

Accuracy: 79.7%

 

Hydro Pump does damage.

 

 

***Hyper Beam***

Type: Normal

Power: 150

PP: 5-8

Accuracy: 89.5%

 

Hyper Beam does damage. A recharge turn is required on the turn after damage is done, during

which no action may be performed.

 

Hyper Beam will not require a recharge turn if it misses, breaks a substitute, or faints the

opponent, or if the user is targetted by a partial trapping move (even if it misses), flinches,

or is put to sleep after the attack but before the recharge turn. However, freeze does not

negate the recharge turn of Hyper Beam. If the user is confused, the recharge turn of Hyper

Beam will not count towards the number of turns the user will remain confused.

 

In a round where the opponent attacks before a user which must recharge, if the opponent uses a

partial trapping move that misses, the user will automatically use Hyper Beam during that turn.

If at such a time Hyper Beam has 0 PP, Hyper Beam will still be used, and afterwards its PP

will roll over to 63, and full PP ups will be applied to it.

 

If a frozen pokémon that has not recharged gets defrosted via Haze, it will remain unable to

attack, switch, or do anything, and nothing (not even getting refrozen and then defrosted by a

fire move) will be able to change this.

 

Stadium Differences:

Hyper Beam requires a recharge turn every time it is used.

 

 

***Hyper Fang***

Type: Normal

Power: 80

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 89.5%

 

Hyper Fang does damage and has a 9.8% chance of causing the opponent to flinch.

 

Hyper Fang can only cause the opponent to flinch if the user attacks before the opponent does.

Hyper Fang can't make an opponent with a substitute flinch.

 

 

***Hypnosis***

Type: Psychic

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 59.8%

 

Hypnosis puts the opponent to sleep.

 

Hypnosis can't affect an opponent that already has a major status ailment.

 

Stadium Differences:

Hypnosis can't affect an opponent that has a substitute.

 

 

***Ice Beam***

Type: Ice

Power: 95

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Ice Beam does damage and has a 9.8% chance of freezing the opponent

 

Ice Beam can't freeze an opponent that has a substitute or already has a major status ailment.

 

 

***Ice Punch***

Type: Ice

Power: 75

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Ice Punch does damage and has a 9.8% chance of freezing the opponent.

 

Ice Punch can't freeze an opponent that has a substitute or already has a major status

ailment.

 

 

***Jump Kick***

Type: Fighting

Power: 70

PP: 25-40

Accuracy: 94.5%

 

Jump Kick does damage. If this attack misses, the user will take 1 point of crash damage. Since

all attacks that do 0 damage miss, Jump Kick will always miss if used against a ghost type.

 

If the user of Jump Kick attacks first and faints itself due to crash damage, the opponent will

not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round. However, the user will still

be subject to recurrent damage.

 

The crash damage from Jump Kick can be reversed by Bide or Counter.

 

 

***Karate Chop***

Type: Normal

Power: 50

PP: 25-40

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Karate Chop does damage, and has a high critical hit ratio.

 

 

***Kinesis***

Type: Psychic

Power: ---

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 79.7%

 

Kinesis decreases the opponent's accuracy by 1 level.

 

Kinesis will do nothing if the opponent's accuracy level is at -6, and will fail if the

opponent has a substitute or is under the effect of Mist.

 

 

***Leech Life***

Type: Bug

Power: 20

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Leech Life does damage, and up to 50% of the damage done to the opponent is restored to the

user. However, if this attack does 1 point of damage, 1 HP will be restored to the user.

 

If Leech Life breaks a substitute, no HP will be restored to the user.  If HP is restored to

the user when its current HP is greater than its maximum HP, its current HP will be set equal

to its maximum HP.

 

Stadium Differences:

Leech Life will always miss if the opponent has a substitute.

 

 

***Leech Seed***

Type: Grass

Power: ---

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 89.5%

 

Leech Seed plants a seed on the opponent. At the end of each of its turns that it is under the

effect of Leech Seed, 1/16th of the opponent's HP will be drained, and the same amount of HP

will be restored to your active pokémon (even if it was not the pokémon that originally used

the attack). Recurrent Leech Seed draining will not occur if the seeded pokémon knocks out an

opponent. Unlike other types of damage, the recurrent damage done by Leech Seed can exceed the

opponent's current HP.

 

If the opponent has less than 16 HP, Leech Seed will drain 1 HP per turn. Leech Seed draining

will occur even if the seeded pokémon knocks itself out with crash damage, recoil damage, or

self-inflicted confusion damage, or by making a substitute before the end of its turn. Draining

from Leech Seed is done after continuing partial trapping damage and recurrent poison or burn

damage. Leech Seed can be removed by Haze or switching. If the opponent is seeded during a

round that it switches in, it will take recurrent damage during that round, but only if its

speed is less than or equal to the user's speed.

 

If the opponent is also under the effect of Toxic, Leech Seed will increase the N value of

of Toxic by 1 per turn. If the current HP of the recepient of Leech Seed's HP-restoring effect

is greater than its maximum HP, its current HP will be set equal to its maximum HP.

 

Leech Seed will not work against grass types.

 

Stadium Differences:

Leech Seed will not work against a substitute.

 

 

***Leer***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Leer decreases the opponent's defense by 1 level.

 

Leer will do nothing if the opponent's defense has reached a level of -6 or a value of 1, and

will fail if the opponent has a substitute or is under the effect of Mist. The effect of Leer

is ignored by critical hits.

 

 

***Lick***

Type: Ghost

Power: 20

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Lick does damage and has a 29.7% chance of paralyzing its opponent.

 

Lick can't paralyze an opponent that has a substitute or already has a major status ailment.

 

 

***Light Screen***

Type: Psychic

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: ---

 

Light Screen doubles the user's special when the opponent damages the user with a special

attack that has a power.

 

Light Screen will fail if the user is already under its effect. The effect of Light Screen is

ignored by critical hits. If Light Screen causes the user's special to reach 1024 or higher at

any time during battle calculations, it will be reduced mod 1024.

 

 

***Lovely Kiss***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 74.6%

 

Lovely Kiss puts the opponent to sleep.

 

Lovely Kiss can't affect an opponent that already has a major status ailment.

 

Stadium Differences:

Lovely Kiss can't affect an opponent that has a substitute.

 

 

***Low Kick***

Type: Fighting

Power: 50

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 89.5%

 

Low Kick does damage and has a 29.7% chance of causing the opponent to flinch.

 

Low Kick can only cause the opponent to flinch if the user attacks before the opponent does.

Low Kick can't make an opponent with a substitute flinch.

 

 

***Meditate***

Type: Psychic

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: ---

 

Meditate increases the user's attack by 1 level.

 

Meditate will do nothing if the user's attack has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999. The

effect of Meditate is ignored by critical hits.

 

 

***Mega Drain***

Type: Grass

Power: 40

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Mega Drain does damage, and up to 50% of the damage done to the opponent is restored to the

user. However, if this attack does 1 point of damage, 1 HP will be restored to the user.

 

If Mega Drain breaks a substitute, no HP will be restored to the user. If HP is restored to the

user when its current HP is greater than its maximum HP, its current HP will be set equal to

its maximum HP.

 

Stadium Differences:

Mega Drain will always miss if the opponent has a substitute.

 

 

***Mega Kick***

Type: Normal

Power: 120

PP: 5-8

Accuracy: 74.6%

 

Mega Kick does damage.

 

 

***Mega Punch***

Type: Normal

Power: 80

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 84.4%

 

Mega Punch does damage.

 

 

***Metronome***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: ---

 

Metronome randomly selects one attack other than Metronome and Struggle, and fully executes the

attack. An attack called by Metronome in this way counts as the last move used.

 

If Metronome successfully calls Hyper Beam or a partial trapping move and has 0 PP before the

move fully executes, its PP can roll over in the same manner as the move is called. If

Metronome calls Counter, it will always miss. A pokémon will be able to use a move that is

disabled if called via Metronome.

 

 

***Mimic***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Mimic randomly copies one of the opponent's current attacks and its maximum PP. The user will

retain the copied attack until it faints or is switched out, or the battle ends. There are no

restrictions on what Mimic can copy (though in practice, Mimic can't copy Struggle because it

is not a normally selectable move).

 

If Mimic copies a partial trapping move, and if the opponent switches out when its PP is 0 and

before its duration is over, the current PP of the move will roll over to 63 and full PP ups

will be applied to it. Mimic will retain the move's current PP if the user switches out, and

full PP ups will be applied to any moves that Mimic subsequently copies.

 

In-game Differences:

Mimic allows you to see the opponent's moveset and select the move to copy.

 

Stadium Differences:

Mimic will not copy a move's maximum PP.

 

 

***Minimize***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: ---

 

Minimize increases the user's evasion by 1 level and replaces the user's regular image with a

tiny, generic image until the user faints or is switched out, or the battle ends.

 

Minimize will do nothing if the user's evasion has reached a level of +6.

 

 

***Mirror Move***

Type: Flying

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: ---

 

Mirror Move causes the user to use the last move that the opponent used. An attack called by

Mirror Move in this way counts as the last move used.

 

Mirror Move will fail if the opponent did not make a move selection in the round before the use

of Mirror Move, switches out during the round Mirror Move is used, or if the opponent's last

move used was Mirror Move.

 

Paralysis, confusion, recharging, and building up for a multi turn move have no effect to the

last move used. If Mirror Move is used against an opponent that was fully paralyzed or hurt

itself right before its use, Mirror Move will still use the last move that the opponent used.

If Mirror Move is used during the first turn of a multi-turn move, Mirror Move will use the

move that the opponent used before that move (or fail if no move was previously made).

 

A pokémon will be able to use a move that is disabled if it is called via Mirror Move.

 

Stadium Differences:

Mirror Move will copy multi-turn moves during either of the turns they take to execute.

 

 

***Mist***

Type: Ice

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: ---

 

Mist prevents the effects of primary stat modifications inflicted by the opponent. If a move

used by the opponent could only cause a stat change (such as Growl or Kinesis), that move will

fail. However, Mist will have no effect on side effect stat modifiers used by the opponent,

such as defense reducing via Acid or special reducing via Psychic.

 

Mist does not remove any stat modifiers already in effect, does not prevent the stat

modifications associated with burns or paralysis, and does not prevent the user from

successfully using stat modifiers. The effect of Mist can only be removed by switching or Haze.

 

Mist will fail if the user is already under its effect.

 

 

***Night Shade***

Type: Ghost

Power: ---

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Night Shade does damage equal to the user's level. Although Night Shade deals ghost damage, its

type does not alter the amount of damage it inflicts.

 

 

***Pay Day***

Type: Normal

Power: 40

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Pay Day does damage, and each use scatters coins on the ground with a value equal to twice the

user's level. These coins can't be collected.

 

In-game Differences:

Coins scattered by Pay Day are picked up if you win the battle.

 

 

***Peck***

Type: Flying

Power: 35

PP: 35-56

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Peck does damage.

 

 

***Petal Dance***

Type: Grass

Power: 70

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Petal Dance does damage for 3-4 (chosen randomly) turns. Once used (even if it misses on the

turn of its use), the user will only be able to use Petal Dance, and will not be able to switch

out. At the end of this duration, the user will become confused.

 

If the Petal Dance duration is disrupted (such as by full paralysis or hurting itself due to

confusion), it will immediately end. The user will only become confused if Petal Dance is fully

executed, without its duration being disrupted. Sleep, freeze, partial trapping, and flinching

will pause but not disrupt the duration of Petal Dance.

 

Stadium Differences:

After the duration of Petal Dance ends, there will be a notice that the user becomes confused.

 

 

***Pin Missile***

Type: Bug

Power: 14

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 84.4%

 

Pin Missile does damage, hitting 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2

times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a

12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Though technically only the first hit can critical hit,

each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

 

Pin Missile will end immediately if it breaks a substitute.

 

 

***Poison Gas***

Type: Poison

Power: ---

PP: 40-61

Accuracy: 54.7%

 

Poison Gas poisons the opponent.

 

Poison Gas can't affect an opponent that has a substitute, already has a major status ailment,

or is a poison type.

 

 

***Poison Sting***

Type: Poison

Power: 15

PP: 35-56

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Poison Sting does damage and has a 19.9% chance of poisoning the opponent.

 

Poison Sting can't poison an opponent that has a substitute, already has a major status

ailment, or is a poison type.

 

 

***Poisonpowder***

Type: Poison

Power: ---

PP: 35-56

Accuracy: 74.6%

 

Poisonpowder poisons the opponent.

 

Poisonpowder can't affect an opponent that has a substitute, already has a major status

ailment, or is a poison type.

 

 

***Pound***

Type: Normal

Power: 40

PP: 35-56

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Pound does damage.

 

 

***Psybeam***

Type: Psychic

Power: 65

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Psybeam does damage and has a 9.8% chance of confusing the opponent.

 

Psybeam can't confuse an opponent that is already confused.

 

Stadium Differences:

Psybeam can't confuse an opponent that has a substitute.

 

 

***Psychic***

Type: Psychic

Power: 90

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Psychic does damage and has a 29.7% chance of lowering the opponent's special by 1 level.

 

Psychic will not be able to lower the opponent's special if it has a stat level of -6 or a

value of 1, or if the opponent has a substitute.

 

 

***Psywave***

Type: Psychic

Power: ---

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 79.7%

 

Psywave causes a random amount of damage. The minimum damage it can do is 1, and the maximum

damage it can do is less than 1.5 times the user's level. And yes, the game will freeze if a

Lv.1 pokémon uses this attack.

 

 

***Quick Attack***

Type: Normal

Power: 40

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Quick Attack does damage, and is an increased priority move. If the opponent does not use an

increased priority move during the round that it is used, Quick Attack will go first regardless

of the user's or opponent's speed. If the opponent also uses an increased priority move during

the same round that the user uses Quick Attack, the attack order of the users will be

determined normally. If the user is put to sleep or frozen during the round that Quick Attack

is (or attempts to be) used, Quick Attack's increased speed priority will not be reset.

Subsequently, it will only be reset on the turn after the user wakes up or is defrosted, or if

the user switches out.

 

 

***Rage***

Type: Normal

Power: 20

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Rage does damage. After Rage is used, it will not be possible to do anything other than let the

user use Rage, and it will not stop using Rage until it faints or the battle ends. Every time

the user is damaged by a hit or is targetted by Disable (even if it misses or fails), its

attack level will increase by 1. Rage will use 1 PP when selected, but not use any PP on any

subsequent turns.

 

If Rage misses during the turn it is selected, its secondary effects will not activate. If Rage

misses due to an accuracy or evasion check when its decision-removing effect is active, the

accuracy of Rage will subsequently become 0.4%. The duration of Rage will be paused but not

disrupted by anything, including sleep, freeze, partial trapping, flinching, or if the user

hurts itself due to confusion.

 

Rage will not attempt to increase the user's attack if it has reached a level of +6, and will

not successfully increase the user's attack if it has reached a value of 999.

 

Stadium Differences:

Disable will cause a pokémon's rage to build only if successful.

 

 

***Razor Leaf***

Type: Grass

Power: 55

PP: 25-40

Accuracy: 94.5%

 

Razor Leaf does damage, and has a high critical hit ratio.

 

 

***Razor Wind***

Type: Normal

Power: 80

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 74.6%

 

Razor Wind does nothing on the turn it is selected, other than say that the user created a

whirlwind. On the following turn, Razor Wind will do damage, PP will be deducted from it, and

it will count as the last move used. Once Razor Wind is selected, the user won't be able to

switch out until it is disrupted or fully executed.

 

If Razor Wind is not fully executed, PP will not be deducted from it, and it will not count as

the last move used. If the opponent uses Mirror Move during the turn that the user creates a

whirlwind, Mirror Move will copy the move that the user executed immediately before using Razor

Wind (or fail if it can't).

 

Sleep, freeze, partial trapping, and flinching will pause but not disrupt the duration of Razor

Wind.

 

Stadium Differences:

Mirror Move will copy Razor Wind on either of the turns it takes to execute.

 

 

***Recover***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: ---

 

Recover restores up to 50% of the user's current HP.

 

Recover will fail if the difference between the user's current and maximum HP is 0, or if

(user's maximum HP - user's current HP) mod 256 = 255. If the user's current HP is greater than

its maximum HP, Recover will set the user's current HP to equal its maximum HP.

 

Stadium Differences:

Recover will fail only when the difference between the user's current and maximum HP is 0.

 

 

***Reflect***

Type: Psychic

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: ---

 

Reflect doubles the user's defense when the opponent damages the user with a physical attack

that has a power.

 

Reflect will fail if the user is already under its effect. The effect of Reflect is ignored by

self-inflicted confusion damage and critical hits. If Reflect causes the user's defense to

reach 1024 or higher at any time during battle calculations, it will be reduced mod 1024.

 

 

***Rest***

Type: Psychic

Power: ---

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: ---

 

Rest restores all of the user's current HP, and makes the user fall asleep. The user will be

asleep for one turn, wake up on the next turn, and then be able to attack after that. The sleep

countdown of Rest is not reset by switching.

 

Since the user falls asleep, it will be cured of any major status ailments it had prior to the

use of Rest, but Rest will not reset the stat reductions caused by paralysis or burns, will not

reset the cumulative nature of Toxic, and will not count towards turns confused.

 

Rest will fail if the difference between the user's current and maximum HP is 0, or if

(user's maximum HP - user's current HP) mod 256 = 255. If the user's current HP is greater than

its maximum HP, Rest will set the user's current HP to equal its maximum HP and make the user

fall asleep.

 

Stadium Differences:

Rest will fail only when the difference between the user's current and maximum HP is 0. Rest

will reset the cumulative nature of Toxic and the stat drops due to paralysis and burns.

 

 

***Roar***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Roar will never affect the opponent.

 

In-game Differences:

Roar can be used to automatically end wild pokémon battles.

 

 

***Rock Slide***

Type: Rock

Power: 75

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 89.5%

 

Rock Slide does damage.

 

 

***Rock Throw***

Type: Rock

Power: 50

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 64.5%

 

Rock Throw does damage.

 

 

***Rolling Kick***

Type: Fighting

Power: 60

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 84.4%

 

Rolling Kick does damage and has a 29.7% chance of causing the opponent to flinch.

 

Rolling Kick can only cause the opponent to flinch if the user attacks before the opponent

does. Rolling Kick can't make an opponent with a substitute flinch.

 

 

***Sand-Attack***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Sand-Attack decreases the opponent's accuracy by 1 level.

 

Sand-Attack will do nothing if the opponent's accuracy level is at -6, and will fail if the

opponent has a substitute or is under the effect of Mist.

 

 

***Scratch***

Type: Normal

Power: 40

PP: 35-56

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Scratch does damage.

 

 

***Screech***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 40-61

Accuracy: 84.4%

 

Screech decreases the opponent's defense by 2 levels.

 

Screech will do nothing if the opponent's attack has reached a level of -6 or a value of 1, and

will fail if the opponent has a substitute or is under the effect of Mist. The effect of

Screech is ignored by critical hits.

 

 

***Seismic Toss***

Type: Fighting

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Seismic Toss does damage equal to the user's level. Although Seismic Toss deals fighting

damage, its type does not alter the amount of damage it inflicts.

 

 

***Selfdestruct***

Type: Normal

Power: 130

PP: 5-8

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Selfdestruct does damage, and causes the user to faint. Though its power is listed as 130, the

opponent's defense will be halved when damage from this attack is calculated, giving it an

effective power of 260. The game will bump 0 up to 1 to avoid infinite damage, so Selfdestruct

will then effectively have a power of 130 if used against an opponent with a defense value of

1.

 

If Selfdestruct breaks an opponent's substitute, the user will not faint, though its image will

be replaced by a blank image. Additionally, if the user of Selfdestruct had a substitute at the

time of such a situation, uses Substitute later, or switches out, its regular image will once

again become visible.

 

If the user of Selfdestruct attacks first and faints itself, the opponent will not attack or be

subjected to recurrent damage during that round.

 

Stadium Differences:

If Selfdestruct breaks an opponent's substitute, the user will faint.

 

 

***Sharpen***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: ---

 

Sharpen increases the user's attack by 1 level.

 

Sharpen will do nothing if the user's attack has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999. The

effect of Sharpen is ignored by critical hits.

 

 

***Sing***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 54.7%

 

Sing puts the opponent to sleep.

 

Sing will not affect an opponent that already has a major status ailment.

 

Stadium Differences:

Sing can't affect an opponent that has a substitute.

 

 

***Skull Bash***

Type: Normal

Power: 100

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Skull Bash does nothing on the turn it is selected, other than say that the user lowered its

head. On the following turn, Skull Bash will do damage, PP will be deducted from it, and it

will count as the last move used. Once Skull Bash is selected, the user won't be able to switch

out until it is disrupted or fully executed.

 

If Skull Bash is not fully executed, PP will not be deducted from it, and it will not count as

the last move used. If the opponent uses Mirror Move during the turn that the user lowers its

head, Mirror Move will copy the move that the user executed immediately before using Skull Bash

(or fail if it can't).

 

Sleep, freeze, partial trapping, and flinching will pause but not disrupt the duration of Skull

Bash.

 

Stadium:

Mirror Move will copy Skull Bash on either of the turns it takes to execute.

 

 

***Sky Attack***

Type: Flying

Power: 140

PP: 5-8

Accuracy: 89.5%

 

Sky Attack does nothing on the turn it is selected, other than say that the user is glowing. On

the following turn, Sky Attack will do damage, PP will be deducted from it, and it will count

as the last move used. Once Sky Attack is selected, the user won't be able to switch out until

it is disrupted or fully executed.

 

If Sky Attack is not fully executed, PP will not be deducted from it, and it will not count as

the last move used. If the opponent uses Mirror Move during the turn that the user is glowing,

Mirror Move will copy the move that the user executed immediately before using Sky Attack (or

fail if it can't).

 

Sleep, freeze, partial trapping, and flinching will pause but not disrupt the duration of Sky

Attack.

 

Stadium Differences:

Mirror Move will copy Sky Attack on either of the turns it takes to execute.

 

 

***Slam***

Type: Normal

Power: 80

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 74.6%

 

Slam does damage.

 

 

***Slash***

Type: Normal

Power: 70

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Slash does damage, and has a high critical hit ratio.

 

 

***Sleep Powder***

Type: Grass

Power: ---

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 74.6%

 

Sleep Powder puts the opponent to sleep.

 

Sleep Powder can't affect an opponent that already has a major status ailment.

 

Stadium Differences:

Sleep Powder can't affect an opponent that has a substitute.

 

 

***Sludge***

Type: Poison

Power: 65

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Sludge does damage and has a 29.7% chance of poisoning the opponent.

 

Sludge can't poison an opponent that has a substitute, already has a major status ailment, or

is a ground type.

 

 

***Smog***

Type: Poison

Power: 20

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 69.5%

 

Smog does damage and has a 39.8% chance of poisoning the opponent.

 

Smog can't poison an opponent that has a substitute, already has a major status ailment, or is

a ground type.

 

 

***Smokescreen***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Smokescreen decreases the opponent's accuracy by 1 level.

 

Smokescreen will do nothing if the opponent's accuracy level is at -6, and will fail if the

opponent has a substitute or is under the effect of Mist.

 

 

***Softboiled***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: ---

 

Softboiled restores up to 50% of the user's current HP.

 

Softboiled will fail if the difference between the user's current and maximum HP is 0, or if

(user's maximum HP - user's current HP) mod 256 = 255. If the user's current HP is greater than

its maximum HP, Softboiled will set the user's current HP to equal its maximum HP.

 

Stadium Differences:

Softboiled will fail only when the difference between the user's current and maximum HP is 0.

 

 

***Solarbeam***

Type: Grass

Power: 120

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Solarbeam does nothing on the turn it is selected, other than say that the user took in

sunlight. On the following turn, Solarbeam will do damage, PP will be deducted from it, and it

will count as the last move used. Once Solarbeam is selected, the user won't be able to switch

out until it is disrupted or fully executed.

 

If Solarbeam is not fully executed, PP will not be deducted from it, and it will not count as

the last move used. If the opponent uses Mirror Move during the turn that the user takes in

sunlight, Mirror Move will copy the move that the user executed immediately before using

Solarbeam (or fail if it can't).

 

Sleep, freeze, partial trapping, and flinching will pause but not disrupt the duration of

Solarbeam.

 

Stadium:

Mirror Move will copy Solarbeam on either of the turns it takes to execute.

 

 

***Sonicboom***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 89.5%

 

Unless it misses, Sonicboom will always do 20 points of normal damage to the opponent. Its type

will not alter the amount of damage it inflicts.

 

 

***Spike Cannon***

Type: Normal

Power: 20

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Spike Cannon does damage, hitting 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2

times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a

12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Though technically only the first hit can critical hit,

each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

 

Spike Cannon will end immediately if it breaks a substitute. Counter will only counter the last

hit of a Spike Cannon attack.

 

 

***Splash***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 40-61

Accuracy: ---

 

Splash has no effect. Ever.

 

 

***Spore***

Type: Grass

Power: ---

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Spore puts the opponent to sleep.

 

Sleep Powder can't affect an opponent that already has a major status ailment.

 

Stadium Differences:

Spore can't affect an opponent that has a substitute.

 

 

***Stomp***

Type: Normal

Power: 65

PP: 20-32

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Stomp does damage and has a 29.7% chance of causing the opponent to flinch.

 

Stomp can only cause the opponent to flinch if the user attacks before the opponent does. Stomp

can't make an opponent with a substitute flinch.

 

 

***Strength***

Type: Normal

Power: 80

PP: 15-24

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Strength does damage.

 

 

***String Shot***

Type: Bug

Power: ---

PP: 40-61

Accuracy: 94.5%

 

String Shot decreases the opponent's speed by 1 level.

 

String Shot will do nothing if the opponent's speed has reached a level of -6 or a value of 1,

and will fail if the opponent has a substitute or is under the effect of Mist.

 

 

***Struggle***

Type: Normal

Power: 50

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 99.6%

 

Struggle does damage, and the user receives recoil damage equal to 50% of the damage done to

the opponent. Struggle will automatically be used by a pokémon that has no usable moves but

is ordered to attack, and has infinite PP in such a situation.

 

If the user of Struggle attacks first and faints itself due to recoil damage, the opponent will

not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round. However, the user will still

be subject to recurrent damage.

 

If Struggle breaks a substitute, the user will take no recoil damage.

 

If Struggle was a normally obtainable move, it would have 10-16 PP though no PP would ever be

deducted from it, and self-inflicted recoil damage from Struggle from the previous turn could

be countered if the opponent did not make a move on the following turn.

 

Stadium Differences:

No recoil damage is taken if Struggle knocks out an opponent. Type has no effect on the amount

of damage that Struggle inflicts.

 

 

***Stun Spore***

Type: Grass

Power: ---

PP: 30-48

Accuracy: 74.6%

 

Stun Spore paralyzes the opponent.

 

Stun Spore can't affect an opponent that already has a major status ailment.

 

Stadium Differences:

Stun Spore can't affect an opponent that has a substitute.

 

 

***Submission***

Type: Fighting

Power: 80

PP: 25-40

Accuracy: 79.7%

 

Submission does damage, and the user receives recoil damage equal to 25% of the damage done to

the opponent.

 

If the user of Submission attacks first and faints itself due to recoil damage, the opponent

will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round. However, the user will

still be subject to recurrent damage.

 

Self-inflicted recoil damage from Submission from the previous turn can be countered if the

opponent does not make a move on the following turn. If Submission breaks a substitute, the

user will take no recoil damage.

 

Stadium Differences:

No recoil damage is taken if Submission knocks out an opponent.

 

 

***Substitute***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: ---

 

Using 25% of the user's maximum HP, the user creates a substitute with 1 HP more than the

amount of HP lost by the user. If the user's max HP is 3 or less, it will not lose any HP when

the substitute is made. A substitute will have the same current type(s) and current stats of

the pokémon that has it. Once created, all stat modifying attacks and side effects used by the

opponent against the user will fail, though all current stat modifiers will remain in effect,

and any stat modifiers used by the user will also be applied to the substitute. Until it

breaks, a substitute will absorb all damage done by the opponent (even if the damage done

exceeds the remaining HP of the sustitute), but will not reduce the actual amount of damage

that the opponent's attacks do. A one-hit ko will break a substitute on contact.

 

Substitute will not protect the user from primary sleep, primary paralysis, secondary

confusion, or self-inflicted status ailments, but it will protect the user from poison,

secondary burns, secondary freeze, secondary paralysis, and primary confusion.

 

Substitute will not alter the execution of Bide, Counter, Disable, Haze, Leech Seed, Super

Fang, Transform, or partial trapping moves, and it will not absorb crash damage, recoil damage,

or recurrent damage. However, a substitute will absorb self-inflicted confusion damage and

prevent the user from flinching.

 

If a pokémon breaks a substitute with Hyper Beam, it will not need to recharge. If a pokémon

breaks a substitute with Explosion or Selfdestruct, it will not faint, though its picture will

no longer be visible until it switches out or uses Substitute. If a pokémon breaks a substitute

with a recoil move, it will not take any recoil damage. If a pokémon breaks a substitute with a

draining move, no HP will be restored to it. Note that in each of these cases, the substitute

has to be broken, not merely damaged, by the referenced attack.

 

If the user's curent HP is less than 25% (rounded down) of its maximum HP, it will be too weak

to make a substitute. If the user's current HP is exactly equal to 25% (rounded down) of its

maximum HP, it will create a substitute, and then faint.

 

Stadium Differences:

Substitute will protect the user from Absorb, Dream Eater, Leech Life, Leech Seed, Mega Drain,

and all status ailments inflicted by the opponent. If the user's current HP is exactly equal to

25% (rounded down) of its maximum HP, it will be too weak to create a substitute. If a pokémon

breaks a substitute with Explosion or Selfdestruct, it will faint.

 

 

***Super Fang***

Type: Normal

Power: ---

PP: 10-16

Accuracy: 89.5%