Captivate (move)

Captivate ゆうわく Allure

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally Affects all adjacent foes, but not allies

Availability Introduced  Generation IV TM78 in Generation IV

Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  2 ♥♥ Lowers next Pokémon's points by 2

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

Captivate on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Captivate on Eevee's Movedex

Captivate (Japanese: ゆうわく Allure) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Captivate lowers the Special Attack stat of the target by two stages, if it is the opposite gender. It will fail if the target has the ability Oblivious, is same gender as the user, or either or both Pokémon are genderless.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V
012		Butterfree	Bug	Flying	36				40
029		Nidoran♀	Poison		Poison	43				43
030		Nidorina	Poison		Poison	50				50
032		Nidoran♂	Poison		Poison	43				43
033		Nidorino	Poison		Poison	50				50
037		Vulpix	Fire		Fire	37				41
052		Meowth	Normal		Normal	46				46
053		Persian	Normal		Normal	56				56
234		Stantler	Normal		Normal	49				53
241		Miltank	Normal		Normal	35				35
282		Gardevoir	Psychic		Psychic	53				60
300		Skitty	Normal		Normal	42		46	46
350		Milotic	Water		Water	25				25
368		Gorebyss	Water		Water	28				28
370		Luvdisc	Water		Water	40				51
413		Wormadam	Bug	Grass	35				35
416		Vespiquen	Bug	Flying	33				33
431		Glameow	Normal		Normal	32				32
432		Purugly	Normal		Normal	32				32
456		Finneon	Water		Water	26				26
457		Lumineon	Water		Water	26				26
478		Froslass	Ice	Ghost	31				31
509		Purrloin	Dark		Dark	no				33
572		Minccino	Normal		Normal	no				39
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

By TM

By breeding

#	Pokémon		Type		Father
					I		II		III		IV		V
077		Ponyta	Fire		Fire	no
174		Igglybuff	Normal		Normal	no
238		Smoochum*	Ice	Psychic	no
300		Skitty	Normal		Normal	no
302		Sableye*	Dark	Ghost	no
303		Mawile	Steel		Steel	no
314		Illumise	Bug		Bug	no
349		Feebas	Water		Water	no
370		Luvdisc	Water		Water	no
442		Spiritomb	Ghost	Dark	no
495		Snivy	Grass		Grass	no
570		Zorua	Dark		Dark	no
574		Gothita*	Psychic		Psychic	no
607		Litwick	Ghost	Fire	no
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

By event

Generation V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained in 235 Smeargle Normal Dream World - Pokémon Café Forest and Spooky Manor 238 Smoochum Ice Psychic Dream World - Spooky Manor 300 SkittyLv.10 Normal Dream World - Pleasant Forest 349 Feebas Water Dream World - Sparkling Sea 366 Clamperl Water Dream World - Sparkling Sea Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

	Wormadam
The user releases pink hearts.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Wormadam	Wormadam releases multiple pink hearts from its body at the opponent.
Ursula's Wormadam	Another One Gabites the Dust!		Debut

Trivia

• Mew is the only genderless Pokémon that can learn this move: Mew is able to learn any TM, and can learn it by TM78 in Generation IV.
• It is likely that Nincada cannot learn Captivate because all moves a Nincada has are transferred to a shed-off Shedinja when it evolves into Ninjask, thus giving the genderless Shedinja a useless move. The same is the case with Attract.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 誘惑 Yòuhuò French Séduction German Liebreiz Greek Σαγήνη Italian Incanto Korean 유혹 Yuhok Spanish Seducción

Variations of the move Charm
Captivate • Charm • Fake Tears • FeatherDance

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.