Dread Plate

Dread Plate こわもてプレート Frightening Plate

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The Dread Plate (Japanese: こわもてプレート Frightening Plate) is a type of held item introduced in Generation IV. It is one of the Plates, which are associated with Arceus.

In the core series games

Price

Games Cost Sell price DPPtHGSS BWB2W2 XYORAS N/A $500 SMUSUM $10,000 $500

Effect

In battle

Boosts the power of the holder's Dark-type moves by 20%. If the holder uses Judgment, it becomes a Dark-type move.

Multitype changes an Arceus holding this item to its Dark-type form. From Generation V onward, item-manipulating effects (such as Trick and Fling) cannot give Arceus a Plate or remove a Plate from Arceus. (In Generation IV, item-manipulating effects cannot affect Pokémon with Multitype.)

Outside of battle

Multitype changes an Arceus holding this item to its Dark-type form.

Description

Games Description DPPtHGSS BWB2W2 An item to be held by a Pokémon. It is a stone tablet that boosts the power of Dark-type moves. XYORAS SMUSUM An item to be held by a Pokémon. It's a stone tablet that boosts the power of Dark-type moves.

Acquisition

Games Finite methods Repeatable methods DPPt Old Chateau The Underground HGSS S.S. Aqua (from the captain after obtaining all 16 Gym Badges) BW Abyssal Ruins B2W2 Abyssal Ruins XY Lost Hotel ORAS Route 127 (underwater) SM Hau'oli City Mall (Antiquities of the Ages) USUM Hau'oli City Mall (Antiquities of the Ages)

Appearance

This is the appearance of the Dread Plate in the Sinnoh Underground.

Dread Plate

In the anime

Plates in the anime

The Dread Plate, alongside the other 15 Plates, appeared in Arceus and the Jewel of Life, where Arceus used them to change its type, and almost died when it lost all of the Plates after destroying a meteor that endangered the land that would become Michina Town. Damos found one of these lost Plates and returned it to Arceus. This gave it the strength to recall the other 15 Plates.

In the manga

The Plates in Pokémon Adventures

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

The Plates first appeared in the HeartGold & SoulSilver arc, in which Petrel was collecting them for Team Rocket's plan. After Silver stole the few Plates he had managed to find, Petrel decided to let him gather all 16 Plates, just to get them back at once later. With his Weavile leaving messages for Sneasel and Weavile across Johto, Silver soon indeed gathered all 16 Plates for himself. At the Sinjoh Ruins, Gold surrendered the Plates to Archer, who used them to seemingly take control of Arceus, ordering it to recreate Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina. When the Pokédex holders used their Pokémon's ultimate attacks to stop the creation, all the Plates were absorbed by Arceus.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 惡顏石板 Okngàahn Sehkbáan * 凶狠板塊 Hūnghán Báanfaai * Mandarin 惡顏石板 / 恶颜石板 È'yán Shíbǎn * 凶狠板塊 Xiōnghěn Bǎnkuài * French Plaque Ombre German Furchttafel Italian Lastratimore Korean 공포플레이트 Dread Plate Spanish Tabla Oscura Vietnamese Phiến thạch Dữ dằn

External links

• On Smogon's Itemdex:
  • Generation IV
  • Generation V
  • Generation VI
  • Generation VII

This item article is part of Project ItemDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on all items.