Weather Ball (move)

Weather Ball ウェザーボール Weather Ball

An attack move that varies in power and type depending on the weather.

Battles Type  Normal Category  Special PP  10 (max. 16) Power  50 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 Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

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

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

Weather Ball on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Weather Ball on Eevee's Movedex

Weather Ball (Japanese: ウェザーボール Weather Ball) is a Normal-type move introduced in Generation III, in which it was Castform's signature move, and, like Castform, varies in type depending on the weather.

Effect

When no weather condition is under effect, Weather Ball deals damage of the Normal-type. During any weather condition, Weather Ball attacks with a different type and its base power doubles to 100. The type that Weather Ball is depends on the weather conditions at the time it is used. It will be:

• Fire-type if Sunny Day is under effect.
• Water-type if Rain Dance is under effect.
• Ice-type if Hail is under effect.
• Rock-type if Sandstorm is under effect.
• Normal-type if Fog is under effect or there is no special weather condition in effect.
• Shadow move (and therefore typeless) if Shadow Sky is under effect (in Pokémon XD only).

Type power-ups from the weather will be put into effect, as well as STAB caused by Castform's type changing from its ability, Forecast.

In the anime

Gardenia's Roserade using Weather Ball

Weather Ball as a Fire-type move

Ash's Turtwig being burned by Weather Ball

Pokémon

Fire-type Weather Ball

Roserade. A flaming yellow-orange ball forms between Roserade's hands. Roserade then fires it at the opponent. It then heavily burns the opponent.

• Used by Gardenia's Roserade in The Grass Menagerie!.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
351		Castform	Normal		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 IV

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
351		Castform	Normal		30
407		Roserade	Grass	Poison	--
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

• French: Ball'meteo
• German: Meteorologe
• Italian: Palla clima
• Spanish: Meteorobola.

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