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Cooltrainer (move) redirects here. For the Trainer class, see Cool Trainer. For the glitch type, see Cooltrainer♀ (Type).

-- is a glitch move of the Template:Type2, a glitch type that is displayed for blank data. It is known by relatively few glitch Pokémon, and, unusually for a glitch move, can be learned by a regular Pokémon. Initially, it has 0/13 PP, and can't gain any more by healing at a Pokémon Center. Rather, one must supply the Pokémon with a PP Up and an Ether/Elixir in order to be able to use the move.

What it really is

The Cooltrainer move, as can be seen from battle, is actually meant to represent a blank space in a Pokémon's movelist, and so isn't meant to be selected for use in battle. Its index number is 0, putting it roughly in-league with 'M, which takes this spot in Pokémon data.

This move is accessed when a player forces the game into thinking that the Pokémon has a blank move as its first move. To do this, a player must have a Ditto or another Pokémon with only Transform use that move to become any opponent Pokémon. At this point, the player now has access to the opponent's movelist, via Ditto. By switching around the first and last moves in this movelist using the Select button, the glitch is activated, and all that must be done now is to end the battle, either by defeating the opponent or running away.

On the Pokémon status screen, the first move will be displayed as this move. After a PP Up or a PP-restoring item is used, the move is usable in-battle, which can cause a vastly random array of effects, as well as odd text such as "Ditto used Machop!" as the game draws data from elsewhere in its confusion.

Its usual effect is a damaging move with Fissure's animation, which freezes the game if it does not defeat the target.

If the Pokémon with this move reaches a level at which it can learn a new move, and has four moves already, the game will automatically delete this move and replace it with the new one, as it thinks that the Pokémon only has three moves.

The ability to cause this glitch was removed in later games; however, "--" is still used even in Generation IV to denote no move.

Reported glitch phrases

• DITTO used MACHOP!
• DITTO used !
• DITTO used STARMIE!
• DITTO used L!
• DITTO used KADABRA!
• DITTO used ZAPDOS!
• DITTO used AERODACTYL!
• DITTO used NEASH!
• DITTO used JACK!
• DITTO used MEWTWO!

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

Through the Transform glitch

#   Pokémon Type Level 0000 A (uppercase) A (uppercase) Normal Normal 48 0132 Ditto Normal -- 0151 Mew Psychic -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Super Glitch and the Swimmer

When exploiting the transform glitch on the Swimmer with two Horseas in the water right under Fuchsia City, some odd and Super Glitch-like effects were found to happen. The discovering user reported the following:

• Ditto Transformed into the Horsea and swapped the first and second moves.
• Ditto was called back and replaced with a Pidgeot, which proceeded to faint the Horsea.
• When the Swimmer was about to send out his second Horsea, Pidgeot was switched for the Ditto.
• When Ditto's moves were checked, -- was occupying the first slot and the cursor couldn't be moved beyond it.
• If down on the D-Pad was pressed enough, "[Glitchy tile]Y99[Glitchy tile]99 to" appeared in the second and fourth move slots.
• When -- was used, the menu's processing speed slowed and Horsea's name changes to two glitchy tiles and it suddenly sustained a burn.
• The music slowly faded out then stopped altogether, and a sound like "Kssh" could be heard occasionally.
• The game stated that Horsea was frozen solid, then hurt by the burn, which slowly depleted its now wrapped-around-the-screen HP bar, much like with Super Glitch.
• Even when Horsea was fainted by its burn, the Swimmer sent out the Horsea again.
• Ditto was then switched out and Pidgeot was sent back out.
• Horsea's sprite then changed to that of Arcanine.
• "Arcanine" fainted due to its burn, and strangely, the same Horsea was sent out again.
• At that point, processing speeds, text, and sprites were back to normal.
• Then Ditto was switched in.
• Everything messed up again, and the burn fainted the Horsea.
• Another Horsea was sent out, so Ditto was switched out for Pidgeot.
• Pidgeot defeated Horsea with Gust, and the battle finally ended.
• The game then froze.

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