Attract (move)

Attract メロメロ Intoxicating

If it is the opposite gender of the user, the foe becomes infatuated and less likely to attack.

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

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect either foe, but not the ally

Availability Introduced  Generation II TM45 in Generation II TM45 in Generation III TM45 in Generation IV

Contests Category  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0 Makes the Pokémon who appeal after the user's turn nervous.

Super Contests Category  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Attract on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Attract on Eevee's Movedex

Attract (Japanese: メロメロ Intoxicating) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

If the target is the opposite gender of the Pokémon who launched the move, the target becomes infatuated.

Learnset

Generation II

By TM45

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation II and have genders can learn Attract. Mew can also learn Attract.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 267 Beautifly Bug Flying 31 300 Skitty Normal 7 301 Delcatty Normal -- 350 Milotic Water 45 370 Luvdisc Water 28 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 TM45

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation III and have genders can learn Attract, except Nincada. Mew can also learn Attract.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 267 Beautifly Bug Flying 31 300 Skitty Normal 4DP 300 Skitty Normal 8PtHGSS 301 Delcatty Normal -- 350 Milotic Water 41 370 Luvdisc Water 22 413 Wormadam Plant Cloak Bug Grass 41 413 Wormadam Sandy Cloak Bug Ground 41 413 Wormadam Trash Cloak Bug Steel 41 431 Glameow Normal 45 432 Purugly Normal 53 456 Finneon Water 10 457 Lumineon Water -- 10 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 TM45

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation III and have genders can learn Attract, except Nincada. Mew can also learn Attract.

By breeding

#   Pokémon Type Father 427 Buneary Normal Skitty, Delcatty Glameow, Purugly 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 the anime

Gabite	Chansey	Affected	Togepi
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Chansey	Chansey releases yellow hearts which hit the opponent. When they hit into the foe, the hearts duplicate and infatuate the foe.
Cheryl's Chansey	Some Enchanted Sweetening!		None
Gabite	A yellow heart forms between Gabite's hands. The heart then grows in size and is released toward the opponent. When the opponent gets hit, the heart duplicates into many smaller hearts and the opponent is instantly infatuated with Gabite.
Gabite	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness		Causes the foe to see the user as very attractive
Glameow	Glameow releases yellow hearts which hit the opponent. When they hit into the foe, the hearts duplicate and infatuate the foe.
Johanna's Glameow	DP138		None
Umbreon	Umbreon releases yellow hearts which hit the opponent. When they hit into the foe, the hearts duplicate and infatuate the foe.
Johanna's Umbreon	DP138		None
Togepi	Togepi releases yellow hearts which hit its target. When they hit into the foe, the hearts duplicate and infatuate the foe. Togepi can then control the actions of the afflicted Pokémon.
Wild Togepi	DP142		None

Trivia

• Mew and Ditto are the only genderless Pokémon which can use this move: both can by transformation, while Mew, able to learn any TM, can also learn it by TM45.

In other languages

• French: Attraction
• Spanish: Atracción
• Italian: Attrazione
• German: Anziehung

This move article is part of Project MoveDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each move.