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
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.

Contents

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 75Pt
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.

In other languages

  • Spanish: Maquinación
  • German: Ränkeschmied
  • Italian: Congiura
  • French : Machination.
Variations on the move Acid Armor
Status Acid Armor | Agility | Amnesia | Barrier
Swords Dance | Iron Defense | Tail Glow
Acupressure | Nasty Plot | Rock Polish


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