Powder Snow (move)

Powder Snow こなゆき Powder Snow

The user attacks with a chilling gust of powdery snow. It may also freeze the target.

Battles Type  Ice Category  Special PP  25 (max. 40) Power  40 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally Affects both foes

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

Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0 A highly appealing move.

Super Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Powder Snow on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Powder Snow on Eevee's Movedex

Powder Snow (Japanese: こなゆき Powder Snow) is a damage-dealing Ice-type move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Generation II

Powder Snow inflicts damage and has a 9.8% chance of freezing the target. Powder Snow cannot freeze the target if it has a Substitute or already has a major status ailment.

Generation III onward

The effects are the same as the previous generation; however, it has a 10% chance of freezing the target instead.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 13 144 Articuno Ice Flying -- 220 Swinub Ice Ground 10 221 Piloswine Ice Ground -- 10 238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 13 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 13 144 Articuno Ice Flying -- 220 Swinub Ice Ground 10 221 Piloswine Ice Ground -- 10 238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 13 351 Castform Normal 10 361 Snorunt Ice -- 362 Glalie Ice -- 363 Spheal Ice Water -- 364 Sealeo Ice Water -- 365 Walrein Ice Water -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 11 144 Articuno Ice Flying -- 220 Swinub Ice Ground 8 221 Piloswine Ice Ground -- 8 238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 11 351 Castform Normal 10 361 Snorunt Ice -- 362 Glalie Ice -- 363 Spheal Ice Water -- 364 Sealeo Ice Water -- 365 Walrein Ice Water -- 459 Snover Grass Ice -- 460 Abomasnow Grass Ice -- 473 Mamoswine Ice Ground -- 8 478 Froslass Ice Ghost -- 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

The user attacks with a chilling gust of powdery snow.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Swinub	Swinub shakes its nose and blue powder comes out of it towards the opponents, freezing them.
Rory's Su	Spring Fever		Debut
Rory's Ein	Spring Fever		Debut
Rory's Ub	Spring Fever		Debut
Articuno	Articuno flaps its wings and a mini-blizzard comes out and freezes anything it tounches.
A wild Articuno	Freeze Frame		None
Jynx	Jynx blows out snow from its mouth and it freezes the opponents.
Nurse Joy's Jynx	The Ice Cave!		None
Snover	An avalanche of snow come towards the foe when it surrounds the opponent it freezes them into a big ice cube.
A wild Snover	The Lonely Snover!		None

In other languages

• Dutch: Poedersneeuw
• French: Poudreuse
• German: Pulverschnee
• Italian: Polneve
• Spanish: Nieve polvo
• Hindi: Barfeela Powder

Trivia

• Castform is the only non-Ice-type Pokémon to learn this move.
  • However, Castform can be an Ice-type, so every Pokémon that can learn this move can potentially get STAB from it.

Variations on the move Ember
	Ember | ThunderShock | Powder Snow

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