Perish Song (move)

Perish Song ほろびのうた Perish Song

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  5 (max. 8) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock Is a sound-based move

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally Affects all Pokémon on the field

Availability Introduced  Generation II Not a TM, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Badly startles all Pokémon that made good appeals.

Super Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Lowers the Voltage of all Judges by one each.

Perish Song on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Perish Song on Eevee's Movedex

Perish Song (Japanese: ほろびのうた Perish Song) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

After 3 turns, all Pokémon that were on the field when Perish Song was used will faint unless they switch out. Perish Song does not affect Pokémon with the Ability Soundproof. If a Pokémon switches out with Baton Pass, Perish Song will still be in effect on the Pokémon switched in, even if it has the Ability Soundproof.

Mystery Dungeon

Any Pokémon in the player's Rescue Party affected by Perish Song will faint in 3 turns. However, it can be prevented by entering the stairs to the next floor or by sending home an affected partner before the third turn. It can also be prevented via any move, Ability, or item that heals all status effects (as opposed to a particular status effect), such as Heal Bell, Shed Skin, or a Heal Seed.

Description

Games Description Stad2 A malevolent melody that causes both the user and the opponent to faint in three turns. GSC Both user and foe faint in 3 turns. RSEColo.XD Any Pokémon hearing this song faints in 3 turns. FRLG Any battler that hears this faints in three turns unless it switches. DPPtHGSSBWB2W2 Any Pokémon that hears this song faints in three turns, unless it switches out of battle.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V
124		Jynx	Ice	Psychic	51			57			49				55
131		Lapras	Water	Ice	29			25			27				27
186		Politoed	Water		Water	35			35			--				--
200		Misdreavus	Ghost		Ghost	46			45			41				46
238		Smoochum	Ice	Psychic	45			49			41				45
251		Celebi	Psychic	Grass	50			50			91				91
333		Swablu	Normal	Flying	no			48			50				55	48
334		Altaria	Dragon	Flying	no			54			62				70	57
359		Absol	Dark		Dark	no			46			65				65
402		Kricketune	Bug		Bug	no			no			38		50	50
493		Arceus	Normal		Normal	no			no			90				90
648		Meloetta	Normal	Psychic	no			no			no				85
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

By breeding

#	Pokémon		Type		Father
					I		II		III		IV		V
086		Seel	Water		Water
092		Gastly	Ghost	Poison
104		Cubone	Ground		Ground
174		Igglybuff*	Normal		Normal
183		Marill	Water		Water
198		Murkrow	Dark	Flying	no
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

By event

Generation V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained in 104 Cubone Ground Dream World - Icy Cave Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

	Misdreavus	Altaria
Any Pokémon that hears this song faints.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Misdreavus	Misdreavus sings loudly and black waves of energy come out of its mouth, hurting Misdreavus and making crimson static appear over the opponent, hurting them as well.
Marina's Little Miss	The Legend of Thunder!		Debut
Altaria	Altaria flies into the air and sings. As it does a trail of gold light with multicolored sparkles in it comes out from behind its body.
Nando's Altaria	Last Call - First Round!		None

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

	Politoed
Any Pokémon that hears this song faints.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Politoed	Politoed sings a quiet song into its opponent's ear. After a while, both the opponent and Politoed faint.
Gold's Polibo	The Last Battle VI		Debut

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	FRLG	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battle Revolution (alternative animation)	Battrio	Mystery Dungeon	PMD: Red and Blue	PMD: Time, Darkness, Sky	Rumble	Rumble Blast

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 滅亡之歌 Mièwáng-zhī Gē French Requiem German Abgesang Greek Κύκνειο Άσμα Hindi मारने का गाना Maarne Ka Gaana Italian Ultimocanto Korean 멸망의 노래 Myeolmang-yi Norae Brazilian Portuguese Canção da Ruína Serbian Pesma Stradanja Spanish Canto Mortal

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