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Confusion ねんりき
The foe is hit by a weak telekinetic force. It may also leave the foe confused.
Battles
Type	Psychic
Category	Special
PP	25 (max. 40)
Power	50
Accuracy	100%
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
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Contests
Category	Smart
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Jam	3 ♥♥♥
Startles the Pokémon that appealed before the user.
Super Contests
Category	Smart
Appeal	3 ♥♥♥
A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.
Confusion on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Confusion on Eevee's Movedex

Confusion (Japanese: ねんりき Mindpower) is a Psychic-type move introduced in Generation I that deals a small amount of damage.

Contents 1 Effect 1.1 Generation I 2 In the anime 2.1 Pokémon 3 Learnset 3.1 Generation I 3.1.1 By leveling up 3.2 Generation II 3.2.1 By leveling up 3.2.2 By breeding 3.3 Generation III 3.3.1 By leveling up 3.3.2 By breeding 3.4 Generation IV 3.4.1 By leveling up 3.4.2 By breeding 4 In other languages

Effect

Generation I

Confusion does damage and has a 9.8% chance of confusing the opponent.

Confusion can't confuse an opponent that is already confused.

In Stadium, Confusion can't confuse an opponent that has a Substitute.

In the anime

Ash's Noctowl using Confusion.

Pokémon

Noctowl. It's eybrow tufts turn blue and release a blue light

• Used by Ash's Noctowl in From Ghost to Ghost to ???.

Learnset

Generation I

Generation II

Generation III

Generation IV

In other languages

Spanish: Confusión, Italian: Confusione, French: Choc Mental, German: Konfusion

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