Ominous Wind (move)
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| Ominous Wind あやしいかぜ Suspicious Wind | ||||||||||||
| The user creates a gust of repulsive wind. It may also raise all the user's stats at once. | ||||||||||||
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Ominous Wind (Japanese: あやしいかぜ Suspicious Wind) is a damage-dealing Ghost-type move introduced in Generation IV.
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Effect
After Ominous Wind inflicts damage, it has a 10% chance of raising every one of the user's stats by one stage each.
In the anime
 Drifloon using Ominous Wind |
Drifloon. Drifloon starts to spin, creating a vortex of purple wind which then hits the opponent.
- Used by Fantina's Drifloon in Playing the Leveling Field!. Debut.
Drifblim. Drifblim is surrounded by purple energy and then releases purple waves of wind toward its opponent.
- Used by Fantina's Drifblim in Shield with a Twist!.
Learnset
Generation IV
By leveling up
| # | Pokémon | Type | Level | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 177 | 
| Natu | Psychic | Flying | 39 |
| 178 | 
| Xatu | Psychic | Flying | 47 |
| 284 | 
| Masquerain | Bug | Flying | -- |
| 425 | 
| Drifloon | Ghost | Flying | 30 |
| 426 | 
| Drifblim | Ghost | Flying | 32 |
| 442 | 
| Spiritomb | Ghost | Dark | 25 |
| 478 | 
| Froslass | Ice | Ghost | 22 |
| 479 | 
| Rotom | Electric | Ghost | 29 |
| 487 | 
| Giratina Altered Forme | Ghost | Dragon | 10 |
| 487 | 
| Giratina Origin Forme | Ghost | Dragon | 10 |
| 491 | 
| Darkrai | Dark | --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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | 
| Misdreavus | Ghost | Drifloon, Drifblim Spiritomb | |
| 351 | 
| Castform | Normal | Drifloon, Drifblim Spiritomb | |
| 355 | 
| Duskull | Ghost | Drifloon, Drifblim Spiritomb | |
| 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. | |||||
By move tutor
In Pokémon Platinum
Trivia
- Natu, Xatu, Masquerain, and Darkrai are the only non-Ghost-type Pokémon to learn Ominous Wind by level up.
In other languages
- Spanish: Viento Aciago
- French: Vent mauvais
- Italiano: Funestovento
- German: Unheilböen
| Variations on the move AncientPower | |
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| AncientPower | Silver Wind | Ominous Wind |
| This move article is part of Project MoveDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each move. |
