Weather Ball (move)

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Weather Ball
ウェザーボール Weather Ball
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Type  Normal
Category  Special
PP  10 (max. 16)
Power  50
Accuracy  100%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
May affect anyone but the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
Condition  Smart
Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥
Jam  0  
A highly appealing move.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Earn +2 if the Judge's Voltage goes up.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Weather Ball (Japanese: ウェザーボール Weather Ball) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III, in which it was Castform's signature move.

Effect

When no weather condition is under effect, Weather Ball deals damage of the Template:Type2. During any weather condition, Weather Ball attacks with a different type and its base power doubles to 100. The type that Weather Ball is depends on the weather conditions at the time it is used. It will be:

Type power-ups from the weather will be put into effect, as well as STAB caused by Castform's type changing from its ability, Forecast.

In the anime

Pokémon

Template:Type2 Weather Ball

Roserade. A flaming yellow-orange ball forms between Roserade's hands. Roserade then fires it at the opponent. It then heavily burns the opponent.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0351 Castform Castform
Normal 30
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
0249 Lugia Lugia
Psychic Flying --
0250 Ho-Oh Ho-Oh
Fire Flying --
0351 Castform Castform
Normal 30
0407 Roserade Roserade
Grass Poison --
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" | 0069 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Bellsprout | style="background: #FFF" | Bellsprout
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Roserade |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0361 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Snorunt | style="background: #FFF" | Snorunt
| colspan="2" style="background:#3DCEF3; text-align: center;" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Castform
Roserade |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0420 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Cherubi | style="background: #FFF" | Cherubi
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Castform
Roserade |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0425 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Drifloon | style="background: #FFF" | Drifloon
| colspan="1" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Castform

|- | 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 other languages

  • French: Ball'meteo
  • German: Meteorologe
  • Italian: Palla clima
  • Spanish: Meteorobola.

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