Spore (move)

Spore キノコのほうし Mushroom Spore

The user scatters bursts of spores that induce sleep.

Battles Type  Grass Category  Status PP  15 (max. 24) Power  — Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect either foe, but not the ally

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

Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  3 ♥♥♥ Badly startles those that have made appeals.

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

Spore on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Spore on Eevee's Movedex

Spore (Japanese: キノコのほうし Mushroom Spore) is a non-damage-dealing Grass-type move introduced in Generation I. Up until Generation III, it was Paras and Parasect's signature move.

Effect

Generation I-II

Spore puts the target to sleep. It will not affect a target that already has a major status ailment. In Stadium, Spore can't affect a target that has a Substitute.

Generation III and on

Spore's effects remain the same, except that now it can't affect targets with Insomnia or Vital Spirit as their ability.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

The user will make all Pokémon in the room fall asleep, all other effects are the same.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 046 Paras Bug Grass 27 047 Parasect Bug Grass 30 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 II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 046 Paras Bug Grass 25 047 Parasect Bug Grass 28 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 046 Paras Bug Grass 25 047 Parasect Bug Grass 27 285 Shroomish Grass 54 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 046 Paras Bug Grass 17 047 Parasect Bug Grass 17 285 Shroomish Grass 45 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

	Parasect
The user scatters bursts of spores that induce sleep.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Parasect	Parasect releases a yellow powder from the hole under its mushroom that puts the opponent to sleep.
Cassandra's Parasect	The Problem with Paras		Debut
Paras	Paras releases a white powder from the mushrooms on its back and puts the opponent to sleep.
A Coordinator's Paras	Borrowing on Bad Faith!		None

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Esporos
• French: Spore
• German: Pilzspore
• Spanish: Espora
• Italian: Spora

This move article is part of Project MoveDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each move.