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Flash フラッシュ
The user flashes a light that cuts the foe's accuracy. It can also be used to illuminate caves.
Battles
Type	Normal
Category	Status
PP	20 (max. 32)
Power	—
Accuracy	100%
Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock
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Contests
Category	Beauty
Appeal	3 ♥♥♥
Jam	0
Shifts the judge's attention from the others.
Super Contests
Category	Beauty
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Lowers the Voltage of all Judges by one each.
Flash on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Flash on Eevee's Movedex

Flash (Japanese: フラッシュ Flash) is a mostly accurate non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Contents 1 Effect 1.1 In battle 1.2 Outside of battle 2 In the anime 2.1 Pokémon 3 Learnset 3.1 Generation I 3.1.1 By HM05 3.2 Generation II 3.2.1 By HM05 3.3 Generation III 3.3.1 By HM05 3.4 Generation IV 3.4.1 By leveling up 3.4.2 By TM70 4 In other languages 5 Trivia

Effect

In battle

Flash decreases the opponent's accuracy by 1 level.

Flash will do nothing if the opponent's accuracy level is at -6, and will fail if the opponent has a Substitute or is under the effect of Mist.

Outside of battle

Outisde of battle, Flash will illuminate dark caves. The effect will last until the player exits the cave. When the player re-enters the cave, it will be dark again.

In the anime

Saturn's Bronzor using Flash.

Pokémon

Bronzor. A beam of light shines out from the inner circle.

• Used by Saturn's Bronzor to explore the Solaceon Ruins in DP060.

Learnset

Generation I

Generation II

Generation III

Generation IV

In other languages

• French: Flash
• German: Blitz
• Italian: Flash
• Spanish: Destello

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

Generation I TMs
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Generation I HMs
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Generation II TMs
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Generation II HMs
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Generation IV HMs
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Trivia

• Flash is used to open the Ancient Tomb, Registeel's cave, in Pokémon Emerald.