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 ♥♥♥  ???

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

Spore puts the target to sleep.

Spore can't affect a target that already has a major status ailment.

In Stadium, Spore can't affect a target that has a Substitute.

In the anime

Pokémon

Parasect. Parasect releases a yellow powder from the hole under its mushroom.

• Used by Cassandra's Parasect in The Problem with Paras.

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 other languages

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

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