Fake Tears (move)

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Fake Tears
うそなき Fake Crying
The user feigns crying to make the foe feel flustered, sharply lowering its Sp. Def stat.
Battles
Type  Dark
Category  Status
PP  20 (max. 32)
Power  —
Accuracy  100%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
Target
Foe Foe
Self Ally
May affect either foe, but not the ally
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
Contests
Category  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Jam  0
 ???
Super Contests
Category  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Fake Tears (Japanese: うそなき Fake Crying) is a non-damaging Dark-type move introduced in Generation III.

Contents

Effect

Fake Tears lowers the target's Special Defense stat by two stages.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
124 Jynx Ice Psychic 41
216 Teddiursa Normal 19
217 Ursaring Normal 19
238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 37
303 Mawile Steel 6
311 Plusle Electric 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 breeding

#   Pokémon Type Father
174 Igglybuff Normal Mawile
Plusle
216 Teddiursa Normal Teddiursa, Ursaring
Mawile
285 Shroomish Grass Mawile
Plusle
300 Skitty Normal Teddiursa, Ursaring
Mawile
Plusle
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
124 Jynx Ice Psychic 25
216 Teddiursa Normal --
217 Ursaring Normal --
238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 25
303 Mawile Steel 6
311 Plusle Electric 21
31
312 Minun Electric 31
438 Bonsly Rock --
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
133 Eevee Normal Teddiursa, Ursaring
Mawile
173 Cleffa Normal Mawile
Plusle
Minun
174 Igglybuff Normal Mawile
Plusle
Minun
216 Teddiursa Normal Teddiursa, Ursaring
Mawile
285 Shroomish Grass Mawile
Plusle
Minun
298 Azurill Normal Mawile
Plusle
Minun
300 Skitty Normal Teddiursa, Ursaring
Mawile
Plusle
Minun
417 Pachirisu Electric Teddiursa, Ursaring
Mawile
Plusle
Minun
427 Buneary Normal Teddiursa, Ursaring
Mawile
431 Glameow Normal Teddiursa, Ursaring
Mawile
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

Sudowoodo
The user cries fake tears that cause others to believe its innocence.
Pokémon Method
User First Episode Used In Notes
Bonsly Bonsly cries.
Wild Bonsly Lucario and the Mystery of Mew None
Brock's Bonsly Episode unknown None
Sudowoodo Sudowoodo cries.
Brock's Sudowoodo DP125 None

Trivia

  • Even though Fake Tears is a Dark-type move, no Dark Pokémon can learn it. However, Umbreon can know the move if bred onto an Eevee and evolved at night by happiness.

In other languages

  • Spanish: Llanto Falso
  • German: Trugträne
  • Italian: Falselacrime


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