Silver Wind (move)

Silver Wind ぎんいろのかぜ Silver Wind

The foe is attacked with powdery scales blown by wind. It may also raise all the user's stats.

Battles Type  Bug Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  60 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation III TM62 in Generation IV

Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  0 Ups the user's condition and helps prevent nervousness.

Super Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Judge's Voltage goes up.

Silver Wind on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Silver Wind on Eevee's Movedex

Silver Wind (Japanese: ぎんいろのかぜ Silver Wind) is a damage-dealing Bug-type move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Silver Wind inflicts damage. Afterward, it has a 10% chance of raising each one of the user's stats by one stage.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 47 049 Venomoth Bug Poison -- 267 Beautifly Bug Flying 34 269 Dustox Bug Poison 34 284 Masquerain Bug Flying 47 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 123 Scyther Bug Flying Butterfree Venomoth Beautifly Dustox Masquerain 165 Ledyba Bug Flying Butterfree Venomoth Beautifly Dustox Masquerain 193 Yanma Bug Flying Butterfree Venomoth Beautifly Dustox Masquerain 290 Nincada Bug Ground Butterfree Venomoth Beautifly Dustox Masquerain 313 Volbeat Bug Butterfree Venomoth Beautifly Dustox Masquerain 314 Illumise Bug Butterfree Venomoth Beautifly Dustox Masquerain 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.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 28 049 Venomoth Bug Poison -- 165 Ledyba Bug Flying 25 166 Ledian Bug Flying 29 267 Beautifly Bug Flying 34 269 Dustox Bug Poison 34 284 Masquerain Bug Flying 40 414 Mothim Bug Flying 38 456 Finneon Water 49 457 Lumineon Water 59 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 TM62

#   Pokémon Type 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 015 Beedrill Bug Poison 049 Venomoth Bug Poison 123 Scyther Bug Flying 151 Mew Psychic 163 Hoothoot Normal Flying 164 Noctowl Normal Flying 165 Ledyba Bug Flying 166 Ledian Bug Flying 176 Togetic Normal Flying 177 Natu Psychic Flying 178 Xatu Psychic Flying 187 Hoppip Grass Flying 188 Skiploom Grass Flying 189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 193 Yanma Bug Flying 212 Scizor Bug Steel 251 Celebi Grass Psychic 267 Beautifly Bug Flying 269 Dustox Bug Poison 275 Shiftry Grass Dark 284 Masquerain Bug Flying 291 Ninjask Bug Flying 313 Volbeat Bug 314 Illumise Bug 329 Vibrava Ground Dragon 330 Flygon Ground Dragon 357 Tropius Grass Flying 402 Kricketune Bug 414 Mothim Bug Flying 416 Vespiquen Bug Flying 425 Drifloon Ghost Flying 426 Drifblim Ghost Flying 442 Spiritomb Ghost Dark 456 Finneon Water 457 Lumineon Water 468 Togekiss Normal Flying 469 Yanmega Bug Flying 487 Giratina Altered Forme Ghost Dragon 487 Giratina Origin Forme Ghost Dragon 493 Arceus Flying 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 123 Scyther Bug Flying Butterfree Venomoth Ledyba, Ledian Beautifly Dustox Masquerain Mothim 165 Ledyba Bug Flying Butterfree Venomoth Ledyba, Ledian Beautifly Dustox Masquerain Mothim 193 Yanma Bug Flying Butterfree Venomoth Ledyba, Ledian Beautifly Dustox Masquerain Mothim 290 Nincada Bug Ground Butterfree Venomoth Ledyba, Ledian Beautifly Dustox Masquerain Mothim 313 Volbeat Bug Butterfree Venomoth Ledyba, Ledian Beautifly Dustox Masquerain Mothim 314 Illumise Bug Butterfree Venomoth Ledyba, Ledian Beautifly Dustox Masquerain Mothim 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 the anime

	Beautifly	Yanmega
The foe is attacked with powdery scales blown by wind.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Beautifly	Beautifly flaps its wings and a wind with silver cresents in it are released. Sometimes, its wings flash white.
May's Beautifly	Now That's Flower Power!		Debut
Skitty	Skitty releases a wind with silver cresents from a white orb on its paw.
May's Skitty	Game Winning Assist		Used via Assist
Masquerain	Masquerain flaps its wings and it releases a cyclone of wind that has silver cresents in it at the opponent.
Drew's Masquerain	Who, What, When, Where, Wynaut?		None
Finneon	Finneon fires silver crescents from its tail.
Zoey's Finneon	Staging a Heroes' Welcome!		None
Yanmega	Yanmega's wings glow. It then flaps them and silver crescents are released.
Jessie's Yanmega	A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine!		None

Trivia

• Finneon and Lumineon are the only non-Bug-type Pokémon to learn Silver Wind by level up.

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Vento de Prata
• French: Vent Argenté
• Latin Amerian Spanish: Viento Plateado (anime)
• Spanish: Viento Plata
• Italian: Ventargenteo
• German: Silberhauch
• Korean: 은빛바람 eunbitbaram
• Dutch: Zilverwind
• Hindi: Chandi Ki Hava

Variations on the move AncientPower
	AncientPower | Silver Wind | Ominous Wind

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