Captivate (move)

Captivate ゆうわく Allure

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect any foe, but not allies

Availability Introduced  Generation IV TM78 in Generation IV

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  2 ♥♥ Lowers next Pokémon's points by 2

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Captivate (Japanese: ゆうわく Allure) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Captivate lowers the Special Attack stat of the target by two stages, if it is the opposite gender. It will fail if the target has the ability Oblivious, is same gender as the user, or either or both Pokémon are genderless.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
012		Butterfree	Bug	Flying	36				40			'
029		Nidoran♀	Poison		Poison	43				43			'
030		Nidorina	Poison		Poison	50				50			'
031		Nidoran♂	Poison		Poison	43				43			'
032		Nidorino	Poison		Poison	50				50			'
037		Vulpix	Fire		Fire	37				41			'
052		Meowth	Normal		Normal	46				46			'
053		Persian	Normal		Normal	56				56			'
234		Stantler	Normal		Normal	49				53			'
241		Miltank	Normal		Normal	35				35			'
282		Gardevoir	Psychic		Psychic	53				60			'
300		Skitty	Normal		Normal	42		46	46			'
350		Milotic	Water		Water	25				25			'
368		Gorebyss	Water		Water	28				28			'
370		Luvdisc	Water		Water	40				51			'
413		Wormadam	Bug	Grass	35				35			'
416		Vespiquen	Bug	Flying	33				33			'
431		Glameow	Normal		Normal	32				32			'
432		Purugly	Normal		Normal	32				32			'
456		Finneon	Water		Water	26				26			'
457		Lumineon	Water		Water	26				26			'
478		Froslass	Ice	Ghost	31				31			'
509		Purrloin	Dark		Dark					33			'
572		Minccino	Normal		Normal					39			'
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By TM78

By breeding

#	Pokémon		Type		Father
					II		III		IV		V		VI
077		Ponyta	Fire		Fire	no
174		Igglybuff	Normal		Normal	no
238		Smoochum	Ice	Psychic	no
300		Skitty	Normal		Normal	no
302		Sableye	Dark	Ghost	no
303		Mawile	Steel		Steel	no
314		Illumise	Bug		Bug	no
349		Feebas	Water		Water	no
370		Luvdisc	Water		Water
442		Spiritomb	Ghost	Dark	no
495		Snivy	Grass		Grass	no
570		Zorua	Dark		Dark	no
574		Gothita	Psychic		Psychic	no
607		Litwick	Ghost	Fire	no
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By event

Generation V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0235 Smeargle Normal Dream World 0300 Skitty Normal Dream World 0349 Feebas Water Dream World 0366 Clamperl Water Dream World Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

File:Wormadam Captivate.png Wormadam
The user releases pink hearts.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Wormadam releases multiple pink hearts from its body at the opponent.
Ursula's Wormadam	Another One Gabites the Dust!		Debut

Trivia

• Mew is the only genderless Pokémon that can learn this move: Mew is able to learn any TM, and can learn it by TM78.
• It is likely that Nincada cannot learn Captivate due to the fact that Shedinja would then learn it, and it is genderless. The same happens with Attract.

In other languages

Language Title French Séduction German Liebreiz Greek Σαγήνη Italian Incanto Korean 유혹 Yuhok Spanish Seducción

Variations of the move Charm
Charm • Feather Dance • Fake Tears • Captivate • Eerie Impulse

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.