Mirror Coat (move)

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Mirror Coat
ミラーコート Mirror Coat
A retaliation move that counters any special attack, inflicting double the damage taken.
Battles
Type  Psychic
Category  Special
PP  20 (max. 32)
Power  Varies
Accuracy  100%
Priority  -5
  • Does not make contact
  • Not affected by Protect
  • Not affected by Magic Coat
  • Not affected by Snatch
  • Not affected by BrightPowder
  • Not affected by King's Rock
Target
Foe Foe
Self Ally
May affect anyone but the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation II
Contests
Category  Beauty
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Jam  0
 ???
Super Contests
Category  Beauty
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Earns double the score on the final performance.

Mirror Coat (Japanese: ミラーコート Mirror Coat) is a Psychic-type move introduced in Generation II that deals a varying amount of damage.

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Effect

If the last amount of damage done before the use of Mirror Coat is greater than 0 and was dealt by a Special move, Mirror Coat will do twice as much damage to the opponent. Although Mirror Coat deals Psychic-type damage, its type does not alter the amount of damage it inflicts.

Mirror Coat is a decreased priority move. If the opponent does not use a decreased priority move during the round that it is used, Mirror Coat will go last regardless of the user's or opponent's speed. If the opponent also uses a decreased priority move during the same round, the attack order of the users will be determined normally.


Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
100 Voltorb Electric 41
101 Electrode Electric 48
202 Wobbuffet Psychic --
222 Corsola Water Rock 37
245 Suicune Water 61
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
007 Squirtle Water Corsola
072 Tentacool Water Poison Corsola
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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
100 Voltorb Electric 49
101 Electrode Electric 59
202 Wobbuffet Psychic --
222 Corsola Water Rock 39
245 Suicune Water 61
360 Wynaut Psychic 15
386 Deoxys
Defense Forme
Psychic 50
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
007 Squirtle Water Corsola, Feebas, Milotic
072 Tentacool Water Poison Corsola
258 Mudkip Water Corsola
345 Lileep Rock Grass Corsola
349 Feebas Water Corsola
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
100 Voltorb Electric 47
101 Electrode Electric 57
202 Wobbuffet Psychic --
222 Corsola Water Rock 48
245 Suicune Water 43
360 Wynaut Psychic 15
386 Deoxys
Defense Forme
Psychic 97
428 Lopunny Normal --
462 Magnezone Electric Steel --
471 Glaceon Ice 57
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
007 Squirtle Water Corsola, Mantine, Feebas, Milotic,
Shellos, Gastrodon
072 Tentacool Water Poison Corsola
203 Girafarig Normal Psychic Lopunny, Glaceon
226 Mantine Water Flying Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise, Corsola,
Feebas, Milotic, Shellos, Gastrodon
258 Mudkip Water Corsola
325 Spoink Psychic Lopunny, Glaceon
345 Lileep Rock Grass Corsola
349 Feebas Water Corsola
422 Shellos
West Sea
Water Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise, Wobbuffet,
Mudkip, Marshtomp, Swampert,
Feebas, Milotic
422 Shellos
East Sea
Water Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise, Wobbuffet,
Mudkip, Marshtomp, Swampert,
Feebas, Milotic
458 Mantyke Water Flying Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise, Corsola,
Feebas, Milotic,
Shellos, Gastrodon
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

Corsola Wobbuffet Glaceon
A retaliation move that counters any special attack, inflicting double the damage taken.
Pokémon Method
User First Episode Used In Notes
Corsola Corsola glows with an aura similar to the anime effect of Counter
Misty's Corsola Octillery The Outcast! None
Wobbuffet Wobbuffet becomes coated in a substance that looks like glowing ice.
Jessie's Wobbuffet Imitation Confrontation None
Tentacruel Wobbuffet becomes coated in a substance that looks like glowing ice.
Juan's Tentacruel The Great Eight Fate! None
Glaceon Glaceon becomes coated in a substance that looks like glowing ice.
May's Glaceon Strategy with a Smile! None

In other languages

  • German: Spiegelcape
  • Italian: Specchiovelo
  • Spanish: Manto Espejo
Variations on the move Counter
Physical Counter
Special Mirror Coat


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