Water Spout (move)

Water Spout しおふき Whale Spout

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Battles Type  Water Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  Varies Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally Affects all foes

Availability Introduced  Generation III Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  0   The appeal works better the later it is performed.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Water Spout (Japanese: しおふき Whale Spout) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III. It is a variation of Eruption and can be considered the inverse of Reversal and Flail.

Effect

Water Spout does damage, and hits both Pokémon in double battles. This move's power reduces as the user's HP reduces. The power is calculated by the formula:

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Hence, the maximum power, at 100% HP, will be 150.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0320 Wailmer Water 41 0321 Wailord Water 44 0382 Kyogre Water 75 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0320 Wailmer Water 34 0321 Wailord Water 34 0382 Kyogre Water 80 0382 Kyogre Water 50 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0007 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Squirtle
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Remoraid, Octillery^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.} |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0223 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Remoraid
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Wailmer, Wailord^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.}

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0320 Wailmer Water 34 0321 Wailord Water 34 0382 Kyogre Water 50 0592 Frillish Water Ghost 61 0593 Jellicent Water Ghost 69 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0007 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Squirtle
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Remoraid, Octillery |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0223 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Remoraid
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Wailmer, Wailord

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

In the anime

File:Wailord WaterSpout.png Getting ready File:Wailord WaterSpout2.png Wailord
The user spouts water to damage the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Wailord's body glows light blue, then it fires a blast of water from its blowhole at the opponent.
Robin's Wailord	Island Time		Debut

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Walo Water Spout.png Wailord
The user shoots a large blast of water.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Wailord fires a blast of water from its blowhole at the opponent.
Professor Birch's Walo	VS. Kyogre & Groudon X		Debut

Trivia

• Up until Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, the only Pokémon capable of learning this move were all based upon whales.
• Up until Pokémon Black and White, only pure water types could learn Water Spout.

In other languages

• Dutch: Water Fontein
• French: Giclédo
• German: Fontränen
• Greek: Κρουνός
• Italian: Zampillo
• Korean: 바지락조개 Bajirakjogae
• Spanish: Salpicar
• Serbian: Izbacivanje Vode

Variations of the move Eruption
Eruption • Water Spout • Dragon Energy

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.