Nasty Plot (move)

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Nasty Plot
わるだくみ Sinister Plot

The user stimulates its brain by thinking bad thoughts. It sharply raises the user's Sp. Atk.

Battles

Type	Dark
Category	Status
PP	20 (max. 32)
Power	—
Accuracy	—%
Priority	{{{priority}}}
Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock

Target

Foe	Foe
Self	Ally
Affects the user

Availability

Introduced	Generation IV
Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests

Category	Cute
Appeal	0
Jam	0
Points of next appeal doubles

Super Contests

Category	Cute
Appeal	0
Earn double the score in the next turn.

Nasty Plot (Japanese: わるだくみ Sinister Plot) is a non-damaging Dark-type move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Nasty Plot raises the user's Special Attack stat by two stages. It will have no effect if the user's Special Attack is already at six stages or at a value of 999.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#	Pokémon	Type		Level
038	Ninetales	Fire		--
052	Meowth	Normal		38
053	Persian	Normal		44
096	Drowzee	Psychic		43
097	Hypno	Psychic		55
151	Mew	Psychic		90
172	Pichu	Electric		18
190	Aipom	Normal		39
199	Slowking	Water	Psychic	39
228	Houndour	Dark	Fire	53
229	Houndoom	Dark	Fire	60
275	Shiftry	Grass	Dark	--
311	Plusle	Electric		51
312	Minun	Electric		51
390	Chimchar	Fire		23
424	Ambipom	Normal		39
430	Honchkrow	Dark	Flying	35
442	Spiritomb	Ghost	Dark	37
453	Croagunk	Poison	Fighting	36
454	Toxicroak	Poison	Fighting	36
461	Weavile	Dark	Ice	24
474	Porygon-Z	Normal		--
482	Azelf	Psychic		46
491	Darkrai	Dark		75^Pt
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
041	Zubat	Poison	Flying	Honchkrow
175	Togepi	Normal		Honchkrow Plusle,Minun Pikachu,Raichu
228	Houndour	Dark	Fire	Ninetales Meowth, Persian Aipom, Ambipom Slowking Houndour, Houndoom Shiftry Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape Weavile
273	Seedot	Grass		Ninetales Meowth, Persian Aipom, Ambipom Slowking Houndour, Houndoom Shiftry Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape Weavile
302	Sableye	Dark	Ghost	Drowzee, Hypno Croagunk, Toxicroak
352	Kecleon	Normal		Ninetales Meowth, Persian Aipom, Ambipom Slowking Houndour, Houndoom Shiftry Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape Weavile
441	Chatot	Normal	Flying	Honchkrow
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.