Aurora Beam (move)

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

Cloyster	Seel	Suicune
The user fires a multicolored beam at the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Seel	A multicolored beam comes out from the horn on Seel's head.
Cerulean Gym's Seel	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
Pryce's Dewgong	Nice Pryce, Baby!		None
Cloyster	A multicolored beam is released from the horn on Cloyster's head.
Prima's Cloyster	The Mandarin Island Miss Match		None
Vaporeon	A muticolored beam is released from Vaporeon's mouth.
Sumomo's Vaporeon	Trouble's Brewing		None
Suicune	A multicolored beam is released from Suicune's mouth.
A wild Suicune	For Ho-oh the Bells Toll!		None
Wild Suicune	Drifloon in the Wind		None

Trivia

• Cresselia and Delibird are the only non-Water-type Pokémon that can learn Aurora Beam.
• It is commonly mistaken as the signature move of Suicune, but is learned by many other Pokémon.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Raio Aurora
• Dutch: Aurorastraal
• 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