Stun Spore (move)

Stun Spore しびれごな Numbing Powder

The user scatters a cloud of paralyzing powder. It may paralyze the target.

Battles Type  Grass Category  Status PP  30 (max. 48) Power  — Accuracy  75% 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 anyone but the user

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

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

Super Contests Category  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Stun Spore on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Stun Spore on Eevee's Movedex

Stun Spore (Japanese: しびれごな Numbing Powder) is a non-damaging Grass-type move introduced in Generation I.

It appears to be a paralyzing counterpart to PoisonPowder and Sleep Powder, as the accuracy, contest group, appeal, effects, Japanese names and animation are the same or very similar. They are also usually learned at the same level or in a similar pattern.

Effect

Stun Spore paralyzes the target.

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

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

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 16RGB 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 14Y 043 Oddish Grass Poison 17 044 Gloom Grass Poison -- 044 Gloom Grass Poison 17 045 Vileplume Grass Poison -- 045 Vileplume Grass Poison 17 046 Paras Bug Grass 13 047 Parasect Bug Grass -- 047 Parasect Bug Grass 13 048 Venonat Bug Poison 30 049 Venomoth Bug Poison -- 049 Venomoth Bug Poison 30 069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 21 070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 23 102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 32 114 Tangela Grass 36 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 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 14 043 Oddish Grass Poison 16 044 Gloom Grass Poison 16 045 Vileplume Grass Poison -- 046 Paras Bug Grass 7 047 Parasect Bug Grass -- 047 Parasect Bug Grass 7 048 Venonat Bug Poison 28 049 Venomoth Bug Poison 28 069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 19 070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 19 102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 25 114 Tangela Grass 34 182 Bellossom Grass -- 187 Hoppip Grass Flying 15 188 Skiploom Grass Flying 15 189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 15 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 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 14 043 Oddish Grass Poison 16 044 Gloom Grass Poison 16 045 Vileplume Grass Poison -- 046 Paras Bug Grass 7 047 Parasect Bug Grass -- 047 Parasect Bug Grass 7 048 Venonat Bug Poison 28 049 Venomoth Bug Poison 28 069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 19 070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 19 102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 25 114 Tangela Grass 37 182 Bellossom Grass -- 187 Hoppip Grass Flying 15 188 Skiploom Grass Flying 15 189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 15 267 Beautifly Bug Flying 17 284 Masquerain Bug Flying 40 285 Shroomish Grass 7 286 Breloom Grass Fighting -- 286 Breloom Grass Fighting 7 315 Roselia Grass Poison 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 12 043 Oddish Grass Poison 15 044 Gloom Grass Poison 15 045 Vileplume Grass Poison -- 046 Paras Bug Grass 6 047 Parasect Bug Grass -- 047 Parasect Bug Grass 6 048 Venonat Bug Poison 23 049 Venomoth Bug Poison 23 069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 17 070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 17 102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 19 114 Tangela Grass 29 182 Bellossom Grass -- 187 Hoppip Grass Flying 14 188 Skiploom Grass Flying 14 189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 14 267 Beautifly Bug Flying 17 284 Masquerain Bug Flying 33 285 Shroomish Grass 9 286 Breloom Grass Fighting -- 286 Breloom Grass Fighting 9 315 Roselia Grass Poison 10 406 Budew Grass Poison 10 465 Tangrowth Grass 29 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 455 Carnivine Grass Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom Paras, Parasect Exeggcute , Exeggutor Tangela , Tangrowth Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff Shroomish, Breloom Roselia, Roserade 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

Parasect	Venonat	Venomoth	Venonat
The user scatters a cloud of paralyzing powder.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Butterfree	Butterfree flies over the foe and a orange mist comes out of its wings, paralyzing it.
Ash's Butterfree	The Water Flowers of Cerulean City		Debut
Multiple wild Butterfree	Mewtwo Returns		None
Tangela	Tangela shakes its body and waves of orange powder comes out of it and hits the opponent, paralyzing it.
Erika's Tangela	Pokémon Scent-sation		None
Venonat	Venonat shakes its fur and an orange mist is released from. Any Pokémon that gets trapped in the mist becomes paralyzed.
Aya's Venonat	The Ninja Poké-Showdown!		None
A Venonat trained briefly by Conway	Camping it Up!		None
Venomoth	An orange mist is released by Venomoth flapping its wings. Any Pokémon that gets trapped in the mist becomes paralyzed.
Koga's Venomoth	The Ninja Poké-Showdown!		None
A wild Venomoth	The Bug Stops Here!		None
Chaz's Venomoth	All Things Bright and Beautifly!		None
Paras	Paras shakes its mushrooms and a orange powder comes out of them.
Cassandra's Paras	The Problem with Paras		None
Vileplume	A tornado of topaz mist comes of the hole on Vileplume's head, paralyzing anyone who comes into contact with the dust.
Jessiebelle's Vileplume	Holy Matrimony!		None
A wild Vileplume	A Stun Spore Detour		None
Multiple wild Vileplume	Whichever Way the Wind Blows		None
Nicolette's Vileplume	May's Egg-Cellent Adventure!		None
Oddish	Oddish lowers the leaves in front on its head and a orange powder is released from them, paralyzing anyone who comes into contact with the dust.
Mariah's Oddish	Foul Weather Friends		None
Victreebel	Victreebel releases a orange mist from its mouth. If the mist makes contact with the foe, it becomes paralyzed.
James's Victreebel	The Fortune Hunters		None
Bellossom	Bellossom releases an orange mist from the flowers on its head.
Multiple wild Bellossom	Whichever Way the Wind Blows		None
Noa's Bellossom	DP138		None
Parasect	Parasect shakes its mushroom and a orange powder comes out of it, or Parasect releases an orange powder from under its mushroom.
A wild Parasect	Hocus Pokémon		None
Officer Jenny's Parasect	Gulpin it Down		None
Shroomish	Shroomish releases a stream or cloud of orange powder from the hole on its head.
Alex's Shroomish	Taming of the Shroomish		None
A wild Shroomish	A Corphish Out of Water		None
Coordinator's Shroomish	Win, Lose or Drew!		None
Roselia	Roselia releases an orange powder from the flowers on its hands and paralyzes the foe.
Drew's Roselia	Now That's Flower Power!		None
Dustox	Same as above.
Jessie's Dustox	Crossing Paths		Dustox cannot legally learn Stun Spore.
Breloom	An orange mist is released from Breloom by pushing hard.
Kenny's Breloom	Team Shocker!		None
Jumpluff	A yellow mist is released from Jumpluff's cotton.
A Coordinator's Jumpluff	DP146		None

Cure

According to Team Rocket, the effects of Stun Spore are cured by consuming a dose of salveyo weed, presumably the anime equivalent of Parlyz Heal.

In other languages

• French: Para Spore
• German: Stachelspore
• Italian: Paralizzante
• Norwegian: Sjokkbølger ("Shock Waves")
• Spanish: Paralizador
• Portuguese: Esporos Paralizantes

Variations on the move Glare
	Glare | Stun Spore

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