Moonlight (move)

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Moonlight
つきのひかり Moonlight
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Type  Normal
Category  Status
PP  5 (max. 8)
Power  —
Accuracy  —%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
  • Does not make contact
  • Not affected by Protect
  • Not affected by Magic Coat
  • Affected by Snatch
  • Not affected by King's Rock
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
Affects the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation II
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  1
Jam  0  
The appeal's quality varies depending on its timing.
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  0  
Increased Voltage is added to the performance score.
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Moonlight (Japanese: つきのひかり Moonlight) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Generation II

Moonlight restores the user's current HP based on the weather conditions and time of day. Normal conditions will restore ½ of the total HP.

Generations III and IV

Moonlight restores the user's current HP based on the weather conditions in the battle. Sunny conditions restore ⅔ HP, normal conditions restore ½ HP, and other conditions restore ¼ HP.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0035 Clefairy Clefairy
Normal 43
0043 Oddish Oddish
Grass Poison 32
0044 Gloom Gloom
Grass Poison 34
0197 Umbreon Umbreon
Dark 52
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" | 0102 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Exeggcute | style="background: #FFF" | Exeggcute
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#EF4179" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom

|- | 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
0029 029 Nidoran♀ Poison New York City Pokémon Center
0215 215 Sneasel Dark Ice New York City Pokémon Center
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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0035 Clefairy Clefairy
Normal 37
0043 Oddish Oddish
Grass Poison 32
0044 Gloom Gloom
Grass Poison 35
0197 Umbreon Umbreon
Dark 52
0269 Dustox Dustox
Bug Poison 20
0313 Volbeat Volbeat
Bug 13
0314 Illumise Illumise
Bug 13
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" | 0102 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Exeggcute | style="background: #FFF" | Exeggcute
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#EF4179" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0302 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Sableye | style="background: #FFF" | Sableye
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#704170" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ghost | style="background: #FFF" | Volbeat

|- | 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0035 Clefairy Clefairy
Normal 37
0043 Oddish Oddish
Grass Poison 33
0044 Gloom Gloom
Grass Poison 41
0197 Umbreon Umbreon
Dark 71
0269 Dustox Dustox
Bug Poison 20
0313 Volbeat Volbeat
Bug 13
0314 Illumise Illumise
Bug 13
0488 Cresselia Cresselia
Psychic 57
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" | 0102 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Exeggcute | style="background: #FFF" | Exeggcute
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#EF4179" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0302 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Sableye | style="background: #FFF" | Sableye
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#704170" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ghost | style="background: #FFF" | Volbeat

|- | 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.
|} |}

Trivia

  • Even though the recovery move is called "moonlight" signifying that it would recover more HP at night, it actually recovers more HP during intense sunlight brought on by Sunny Day. This is because the Japanese name for Sunny Day is simply Clear Sky.
    • It should also be noted that the moon reflects sunlight, so it could still work in that regard.

In other languages

  • Dutch: Maanlicht
  • French: Rayon Lune
  • German: Mondschein
  • Italian: Lucelunare
  • Spanish: Luz Lunar


Variations of the move Moonlight
StatusIC HOME.png MoonlightMorning SunShore UpSynthesis


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