Icicle Spear (move)

Icicle Spear つららばり Icicle Needle

The user launches sharp icicles at the foe. It strikes two to five times in a row.

Battles Type  Ice Category  Physical PP  30 (max. 48) Power  10 Accuracy  100% 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 Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles Pokémon that made a same-type appeal.

Super Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Allows performance of the same move twice in a row.

Icicle Spear on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Icicle Spear on Eevee's Movedex

Icicle Spear (Japanese: つららばり Icicle Needle) is a damage-dealing Ice-type move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Generation III

Icicle Spear does damage, hitting 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2 times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a 12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Each attack made has an equal chance to land a critical hit.

Icicle Spear will end immediately if it breaks a Substitute. Bide and Counter will only acknowledge the last hit of this move.

Generation IV

Same as Generation III, except it will continue attacking after a Substitute is broken.

In the anime

Shellder. Shellder fires ice shaped like icicles at the opponent.

• Used by a Coordinator's Shellder in Old Rivals, New Tricks!.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 090 Shellder Water 8 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 086 Seel* Water Corsola 090 Shellder Water Shellder, Cloyster 220 Swinub* Ice Ground Seel, Dewgong 222 Corsola Water Rock Shellder, Cloyster 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 090 Shellder Water 13 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 086 Seel* Water Corsola 090 Shellder Water Shellder, Cloyster 220 Swinub* Ice Ground Seel, Dewgong 222 Corsola Water Rock Shellder, Cloyster 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 other languages

• Dutch: IJsspeer
• Brazilian Portuguese: Estalactites
• Spanish: Carámbano
• Italian: Gelolancia

Variations on the move Bullet Seed
	Bullet Seed | Icicle Spear

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