Aurora Beam (move)

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Aurora Beam オーロラビーム Aurora Beam

The foe is hit with a rainbow-colored beam. It may also lower the target's Attack stat.

Battles Type  Ice Category  Special PP  20 (max. 32) Power  65 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not 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 I Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Subtracts 4 appeal points from any Pokémon who appealed before the user who used the same type of move. Subtracts 1 point from anyone who did not use the same type.

Super Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs first in the turn.

Aurora Beam on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Aurora Beam on Eevee's Movedex

Aurora Beam (Japanese: オーロラビーム Aurora Beam) is a damage-dealing Ice-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Aurora Beam does damage and has a 9.8% chance of lowering the target's Attack stat by 1 level.

Aurora Beam will not be able to lower the target's attack if it has reached a level of -6 or a value of 1, or if the target has a Substitute.

Generation II and on

Same as before, but with a 10% chance of lowering the target's Attack stat instead.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
086		Seel	Water		35
087		Dewgong	Water	Ice	35
090		Shellder	Water		30
091		Cloyster	Water	Ice	--
134		Vaporeon	Water		36Y
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 II

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
086		Seel	Water		16
087		Dewgong	Water	Ice	--
087		Dewgong	Water	Ice	16
090		Shellder	Water		17
091		Cloyster	Water	Ice	--
134		Vaporeon	Water		36
223		Remoraid	Water		22
224		Octillery	Water		22
245		Suicune	Water		41C
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

#		Pokémon	Type		Father
072		Tentacool	Water	Poison	Shellder, Cloyster
116		Horsea	Water		Remoraid, Octillery Seel, Dewgong
120		Staryu	Water		Shellder, CloysterGS
131		Lapras	Water	Ice	Seel, Dewgong Remoraid, Octillery
138		Omanyte	Rock	Water	Seel, Dewgong Shellder, Cloyster Remoraid, Octillery
140		Kabuto	Rock	Water	Seel, Dewgong Shellder, Cloyster Remoraid, Octillery
223		Remoraid	Water		Remoraid, Octillery Seel, Dewgong
225		Delibird	Ice	Flying	Seel, Dewgong Vaporeon Remoraid, Octillery
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 III

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
086		Seel	Water		21
087		Dewgong	Water	Ice	--
087		Dewgong	Water	Ice	21
090		Shellder	Water		17RSE
090		Shellder	Water		22FRLG
091		Cloyster	Water	Ice	--
134		Vaporeon	Water		36
223		Remoraid	Water		22
224		Octillery	Water		22
245		Suicune	Water		41
363		Spheal	Ice	Water	25
364		Sealeo	Ice	Water	25
365		Walrein	Ice	Water	25
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

#		Pokémon	Type		Father
072		Tentacool	Water	Poison	Shellder, Cloyster
116		Horsea	Water		Seel, Dewgong Remoraid, Octillery Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
138		Omanyte	Rock	Water	Seel, Dewgong Shellder, Cloyster Remoraid, Octillery Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
140		Kabuto	Rock	Water	Seel, Dewgong Shellder, Cloyster Remoraid, Octillery Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
223		Remoraid	Water		Seel, Dewgong Remoraid, Octillery Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
225		Delibird	Ice	Flying	Seel, Dewgong Vaporeon Remoraid, Octillery Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
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
086		Seel	Water		27
087		Dewgong	Water	Ice	27
090		Shellder	Water		32
091		Cloyster	Water	Ice	--
134		Vaporeon	Water		36
223		Remoraid	Water		14
224		Octillery	Water		14
245		Suicune	Water		29
363		Spheal	Ice	Water	25
364		Sealeo	Ice	Water	25
365		Walrein	Ice	Water	25
488		Cresselia	Psychic		29
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

#		Pokémon	Type		Father
072		Tentacool	Water	Poison	Shellder, Cloyster
116		Horsea	Water		Seel, Dewgong Remoraid, Octillery Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
138		Omanyte	Rock	Water	Seel, Dewgong Shellder, Cloyster Remoraid, Octillery Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
140		Kabuto	Rock	Water	Seel, Dewgong Shellder, Cloyster Remoraid, Octillery Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
223		Remoraid	Water		Seel, Dewgong Remoraid, Octillery Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
225		Delibird	Ice	Flying	Seel, Dewgong Vaporeon Remoraid, Octillery Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
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

	Seel	Suicune
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Seel	A multicolored beam comes out from the horn on Seel's head.
Seel (Cerulean Gym)	The Misty Mermaid		Debut
Dewgong	A multicolored beam comes out from the horn on Dewgong's head.
Prima's Dewgong	The Mandarin Island Miss Match		None
Cloyster	A multicolored beam is released from the horn on its head.
Prima's Cloyster	The Mandarin Island Miss Match		None
Suicune	A multicolored beam is released from its mouth.
A wild Suicune	Drifloon in the Wind		None

Trivia

• Cresselia is the only Pokémon that is not a Water-type that learns Aurora Beam by level-up.
• Delibird is the only non-legendary non-water-type to be able to learn Aurora Beam.

In other languages

• French: Onde Boréale
• German: Aurorastrahl
• Spanish: Rayo Aurora
• Italian: Raggiaurora

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

Variations on the move Aurora Beam
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	Aurora Beam | BubbleBeam | Psybeam | Sludge