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 damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation III, in which it was Castform's signature move.

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 249 Lugia Psychic Flying --HGSS 250 Ho-Oh Fire Flying --HGSS 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.

By breeding^HGSS

#   Pokémon Type Father 069 Bellsprout Grass Poison Roserade 361 Snorunt Ice Castform Roserade 420 Cherubi Grass Castform Roserade 425 Drifloon Ghost Flying Castform 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.

Trivia

• Bellsprout is the only Pokémon to learn Weather Ball through breeding that cannot have Castform as a parent.
• All Pokémon who can learn Weather Ball are weak to at least one type of Weather Ball. Ho-Oh is weak to Water-type and Rock-type Weather Ball. Roserade, Bellsprout, Snorunt, and Cherubi are weak to Fire-type Weather Ball. Lugia, Roserade, Bellsprout, Cherubi, and Drifloon are weak to Ice-type Weather Ball. A Castform with its ability negated or changed will retain the type it was when its ability was negated or changed, so Sunny Castform will be weak to Water-type or Rock-type Weather Ball and Snow-Cloud Castform will be weak to Fire-type or Rock-type Weather Ball.

In other languages

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

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