Dark Pulse (move)

Dark Pulse あくのはどう Evil Pulse

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Battles Type  Dark Category  Special PP  15 (max. 24) Power  80 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation IV TM79 in Generation IV

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs first in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Dark Pulse (Japanese: あくのはどう Evil Pulse) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Generation IV

Dark Pulse inflicts damage and has a 20% chance of causing the target to flinch.

Generation V

Dark Pulse can hit non-adjacent opponents in triple battles.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 36 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 44 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 44 0246 Larvitar Rock Ground 28 0247 Pupitar Rock Ground 28 0248 Tyranitar Rock Dark 28 0430 Honchkrow Dark Flying 55 0442 Spiritomb Ghost Dark 49 0448 Lucario Fighting Steel -- 0461 Weavile Dark Ice 49 0491 Darkrai Dark 93 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 TM79

#   Pokémon Type 0023 Ekans Poison 0024 Arbok Poison 0037 Vulpix Fire 0038 Ninetales Fire 0052 Meowth Normal 0053 Persian Normal 0089 Muk Poison 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 0109 Koffing Poison 0110 Weezing Poison 0130 Gyarados Water Flying 0151 Mew Psychic 0169 Crobat Poison Flying 0197 Umbreon Dark 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying 0200 Misdreavus Ghost 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 0208 Steelix Steel Ground 0215 Sneasel Dark Ice 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 0228 Houndour Dark Fire 0229 Houndoom Dark Fire 0246 Larvitar Rock Ground 0247 Pupitar Rock Ground 0248 Tyranitar Rock Dark 0261 Poochyena Dark 0262 Mightyena Dark 0274 Nuzleaf Grass Dark 0275 Shiftry Grass Dark 0302 Sableye Dark Ghost 0303 Mawile Steel 0306 Aggron Steel Rock 0318 Carvanha Water Dark 0319 Sharpedo Water Dark 0331 Cacnea Grass 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark 0336 Seviper Poison 0342 Crawdaunt Water Dark 0353 Shuppet Ghost 0354 Banette Ghost 0355 Duskull Ghost 0356 Dusclops Ghost 0359 Absol Dark 0362 Glalie Ice 0429 Mismagius Ghost 0430 Honchkrow Dark Flying 0434 Stunky Poison Dark 0435 Skuntank Poison Dark 0442 Spiritomb Ghost Dark 0448 Lucario Fighting Steel 0451 Skorupi Poison Bug 0452 Drapion Poison Dark 0453 Croagunk Poison Fighting 0454 Toxicroak Poison Fighting 0461 Weavile Dark Ice 0472 Gliscor Ground Flying 0474 Porygon-Z Normal 0477 Dusknoir Ghost 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 0485 Heatran Fire Steel 0487 Giratina Ghost Dragon 0487 Giratina Ghost Dragon 0491 Darkrai Dark 0493 Arceus Ice 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 36 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 44 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 44 0246 Larvitar Rock Ground 32 0247 Pupitar Rock Ground 34 0248 Tyranitar Rock Dark 34 0430 Honchkrow Dark Flying 75 0442 Spiritomb Ghost Dark 49 0448 Lucario Fighting Steel -- 0461 Weavile Dark Ice 51 0491 Darkrai Dark 93 0629 Baruchai Baruchai Dark Flying 46 0630 Barujiina Barujiina Dark Flying 46 0641 Tornelos Tornelos Flying 73 0642 Voltolos Voltolos Electric Flying 73 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" | 0355 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Duskull
| colspan="2" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost | style="background: #FFF" | Gastly, Haunter, Gengar
Spiritomb |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0570 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Zorua
| colspan="2" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark | style="background: #FFF" | Lucario
Weavile |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0574 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Gothimu | style="background: #FFF" | Gothimu
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Lucario |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0633 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Monozu | style="background: #FFF" | Monozu
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#5060E1" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Dragon | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Seviper

|- | 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. |} |}

By event

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0037 Vulpix Fire Dream World 0261 Poochyena Dark Dream World 0318 Carvanha Water Dark 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

Darkrai Dusknoir Zoroark File:Honchkrow dark pulse.png Honchkrow
The user shoots a beam of purple circles at its target.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Darkrai crouches together and it extends its arms quickly, making a wave of purple circles come out of its body and hit the opponent, or Darkrai puts its hands together and forms a ball of black and purple circles. Then crouches and spins while holding out one of its hands, making the orb float over to the end of the hand. Finally, it fires a beam of black and purple circles from the orb at the opponent.
Darkrai (movie 10)	The Rise of Darkrai		Debut
Tobias's Darkrai	The Semi-Final Frontier!		None
	A ball of purple circles appears in front of Spiritomb's mouth. It then fires a beam of purple circles at the opponent from the ball.
A wild Spiritomb	The Keystone Pops!		None
	Toxicroak puts its hands together and creates a ball of black and purple circles. It then fires the circles as a beam of circles at the opponent.
Saturn's Toxicroak	Enter Galactic!		None
	Crawdaunt points its claws at the opponent and fires two beams of purple and black circles from the insides of its claws at the opponent.
Kyle's Crawdaunt	Strategy With a Smile!		None
	Honchkrow fires a beam of black and purple circles at the opponent from its beak or chest.
Paul's Honchkrow	Aiding the Enemy!		None
	The three gems on Mismagius's body flashes red, and a ball of black and purple circles appear in front of them. It then fires the circles as a beam at the opponent.
Fantina's Mismagius	Shield with a Twist!		None
	Dusknoir puts its hands together and forms a small black ball of energy. It then separates its hands and fires a beam of black and purple circles at the opponent from the ball, or Dusknoir puts its hands together and forms a ball of black and purple circles. It then brings its hands forward and fires a beam of black and purple circles from the ball at the opponent.
Dusknoir (Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky)	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness		None
	Zoroark puts its hands together in front of its chest and fires a beam of black and purple or dark blue circles from in between them at the opponent.
Zoroark (movie 13)	Zoroark: Master of Illusions		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

The user fires a blast of energy.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Mismagius hits the opponent with a blast of energy.
Fantina's Mismagius	VS Mismagius I		Debut

Trivia

• All Dark-type moves were classed, due to their type, as special moves prior to Generation IV. Due to the damage category split, however, all Dark-type moves from Generations II and III became physical moves, and until Generation V, Dark Pulse was the only special Dark-type move available.

In other languages

• Chinese: 惡波動 È Bōdòng
• Dutch: Duister Puls
• French: Vibrobscur
• German: Finsteraura
• Greek: Σκοτεινός Παλμός
• Italian: Neropulsar
• Korean: 악의파동 Ak-yi Padong
• Norwegian: Mørke trykk
• Spanish (European): Pulso Umbrío
• Spanish (Latin American): Energía Negra (anime)

Variations of the move Waterfall
Waterfall • Poison Jab • Iron Head • Zing Zap Extrasensory • Dark Pulse • Scald

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