Frenzy Plant (move)

Frenzy Plant ハードプラント Hard Plant

The foe is slammed with an enormous tree. The user can't move on the next turn.

Battles Type  Grass Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  150 Accuracy  90% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation III Move tutor in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Move tutor in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Move tutor in Pokémon Platinum

Contests Category  Cool Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jams the others, and misses one turn of appeals.

Super Contests Category  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.

Frenzy Plant on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Frenzy Plant on Eevee's Movedex

Frenzy Plant (Japanese: ハードプラント Hard Plant) is a damage-dealing Grass-type move introduced in Generation III. In Pokémon Colosseum, it was erroneously named as Solid Plant.

Effect

Frenzy Plant inflicts damage and then forces the user to recharge during the next turn. Unless this attack misses, the user will always have to recharge.

Learnset

Generation III

By move tutor

In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, an elderly woman on Cape Brink will teach Venusaur Frenzy Plant. Like Hydro Cannon and Blast Burn, the Pokémon must have a very high happiness rating.

#		Pokémon	Type
003		Venusaur	Grass	Poison
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Special move

#		Pokémon	Type		Obtained in
152		Chikorita	Grass		Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By move tutor

In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and Pokémon Platinum

An elderly man, much like the woman on Cape Brink, appears on Route 228 in the Battle Zone, and will teach it to the three fully evolved Grass starters of the previous generations, as well as Torterra. He will also require that the Pokémon that is to learn the move has a high happiness rating.

#		Pokémon	Type
003		Venusaur	Grass	Poison
154		Meganium	Grass
254		Sceptile	Grass
389		Torterra	Grass	Ground
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

Venusaur	Glowing	Glowing	Torterra
Giant roots come out of the ground due to the user's stomp.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Venusaur	Venusaur glows and stomps on the ground and giant roots grow out and slam into the opponent.
Jeremy's Venusaur	Weekend Warrior!		None
Torterra	Torterra glows and stomps on the ground and giant roots grow out and slam into the opponent.
Paul's Torterra	Top-Down Training!		None

Trivia

• Smeargle is the only Pokémon that is not a Grass-type starter Pokémon able to learn Frenzy Plant, due to Sketch.
• Mew, though repeatedly said on the Pokédex to be able to learn any move, is not able to learn Frenzy Plant because it can only be taught to Grass-type starter Pokémon.

In other languages

• French: Vege-Attack
• German: Fauna-Statue
• Italian: Radicalbero
• Spanish: Planta Feroz

Variations on the move Hyper Beam
	Giga Impact | Rock Wrecker
	Hyper Beam | Blast Burn | Frenzy Plant Hydro Cannon | Roar of Time

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