Fake Tears (move)

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}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect 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 III Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

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 on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Fake Tears on Eevee's Movedex

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

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	Battling a Cute Drama!		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

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