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Confuse Ray (move)

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Confuse Ray
あやしいひかり Bewitching Light
File:Confuse Ray.png
Type  Ghost
Category  Status
PP  10 (max. 16)
Power  —
Accuracy  100%
Priority  0
Range
Opponent Opponent Opponent
Self Ally Ally
Unknown
Availability
Introduced  Generation I
Condition  Smart
Appeal  3 ♥♥♥
Jam  0  
Scrambles the order of appeals on the next turn.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Lowers the Voltage of all Judges by one each.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Confuse Ray (Japanese: あやしいひかり Bewitching Light) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Confuse Ray causes the target to become confused. Confuse Ray will fail if the target has a Substitute, is already confused, or has the ability Own Tempo.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0037 Vulpix Vulpix
 Fire 28
0041 Zubat Zubat
 Poison Flying 21
0042 Golbat Golbat
 Poison Flying 21
0092 Gastly Gastly
 Ghost Poison --
0093 Haunter Haunter
 Ghost Poison --
0094 Gengar Gengar
 Ghost Poison --
0126 Magmar Magmar
 Fire 39
0131 Lapras Lapras
 Water Ice 31
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
0037 Vulpix Vulpix
 Fire 19
0038 Ninetales Ninetales
 Fire --
0041 Zubat Zubat
 Poison Flying 19
0042 Golbat Golbat
 Poison Flying 19
0092 Gastly Gastly
 Ghost Poison 28
0093 Haunter Haunter
 Ghost Poison 31
0094 Gengar Gengar
 Ghost Poison 31
0121 Starmie Starmie
 Water Psychic 37
0126 Magmar Magmar
 Fire 49
0131 Lapras Lapras
 Water Ice 22
0169 Crobat Crobat
 Poison Flying 19
0170 Chinchou Chinchou
 Water Electric 29
0171 Lanturn Lanturn
 Water Electric 33
0177 Natu Natu
 Psychic Flying 40
0178 Xatu Xatu
 Psychic Flying 50
0197 Umbreon Umbreon
 Dark 30
0200 Misdreavus Misdreavus
 Ghost 12
0226 Mantine Mantine
 Water Flying 49
0234 Stantler Stantler
 Normal 49
0240 Magby Magby
 Fire 43
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 event

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with
0072 072 Tentacool Water Poison New York City Pokémon Center
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
0037 Vulpix Vulpix
 Fire 21
0038 Ninetales Ninetales
 Fire --
0041 Zubat Zubat
 Poison Flying 26
0042 Golbat Golbat
 Poison Flying 28
0092 Gastly Gastly
 Ghost Poison 28
0092 Gastly Gastly
 Ghost Poison 21
0093 Haunter Haunter
 Ghost Poison 31
0093 Haunter Haunter
 Ghost Poison 21
0094 Gengar Gengar
 Ghost Poison 31
0094 Gengar Gengar
 Ghost Poison 21
0121 Starmie Starmie
 Water Psychic 33
0126 Magmar Magmar
 Fire 49
0131 Lapras Lapras
 Water Ice 19
0169 Crobat Crobat
 Poison Flying 28
0170 Chinchou Chinchou
 Water Electric 29
0171 Lanturn Lanturn
 Water Electric 32
0177 Natu Natu
 Psychic Flying 40
0178 Xatu Xatu
 Psychic Flying 50
0197 Umbreon Umbreon
 Dark 30
0200 Misdreavus Misdreavus
 Ghost 17
0226 Mantine Mantine
 Water Flying 50
0234 Stantler Stantler
 Normal 43
0234 Stantler Stantler
 Normal 41
0240 Magby Magby
 Fire 43
0292 Shedinja Shedinja
 Bug Ghost 31
0302 Sableye Sableye
 Dark Ghost 37
0313 Volbeat Volbeat
 Bug 5
0325 Spoink Spoink
 Psychic 25
0326 Grumpig Grumpig
 Psychic 25
0345 Lileep Lileep
 Rock Grass 29
0346 Cradily Cradily
 Rock Grass 29
0355 Duskull Duskull
 Ghost 23
0356 Dusclops Dusclops
 Ghost 23
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

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0072 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Tentacool | style="background: #FFF" | Tentacool
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Lileep, Cradily |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0140 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Kabuto | style="background: #FFF" | Kabuto
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#2980EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
Mantine
Lileep, Cradily |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0198 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Murkrow | style="background: #FFF" | Murkrow
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Zubat, Golbat, Crobat
Natu, Xatu |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0222 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Corsola | style="background: #FFF" | Corsola
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
Mantine
Lileep, Cradily |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0349 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Feebas | style="background: #FFF" | Feebas
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
Mantine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0366 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Clamperl | style="background: #FFF" | Clamperl
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
Mantine

|- | colspan="6" | 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. |} |}

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0037 Vulpix Vulpix
 Fire 17
0038 Ninetales Ninetales
 Fire --
0041 Zubat Zubat
 Poison Flying 21
0042 Golbat Golbat
 Poison Flying 21
0092 Gastly Gastly
 Ghost Poison 19
0093 Haunter Haunter
 Ghost Poison 19
0094 Gengar Gengar
 Ghost Poison 19
0121 Starmie Starmie
 Water Psychic 28
0126 Magmar Magmar
 Fire 25
0131 Lapras Lapras
 Water Ice 7
0169 Crobat Crobat
 Poison Flying 21
0170 Chinchou Chinchou
 Water Electric 17
0171 Lanturn Lanturn
 Water Electric 17
0177 Natu Natu
 Psychic Flying 23
0178 Xatu Xatu
 Psychic Flying 23
0197 Umbreon Umbreon
 Dark 29
0200 Misdreavus Misdreavus
 Ghost 14
0226 Mantine Mantine
 Water Flying 37
0234 Stantler Stantler
 Normal 23
0240 Magby Magby
 Fire 25
0292 Shedinja Shedinja
 Bug Ghost 31
0302 Sableye Sableye
 Dark Ghost 46
0313 Volbeat Volbeat
 Bug 9
0325 Spoink Spoink
 Psychic 18
0326 Grumpig Grumpig
 Psychic 18
0345 Lileep Lileep
 Rock Grass 22
0346 Cradily Cradily
 Rock Grass 22
0355 Duskull Duskull
 Ghost 17
0356 Dusclops Dusclops
 Ghost 17
0416 Vespiquen Vespiquen
 Bug Flying 7
0436 Bronzor Bronzor
 Steel Psychic 14
0437 Bronzong Bronzong
 Steel Psychic 14
0442 Spiritomb Spiritomb
 Ghost Dark --
0458 Mantyke Mantyke
 Water Flying 37
0467 Magmortar Magmortar
 Fire 25
0477 Dusknoir Dusknoir
 Ghost 17
0478 Froslass Froslass
 Ice Ghost 19
0479 Rotom Rotom
 Electric Ghost --
0479 Rotom Rotom
 Electric Ghost --
0479 Rotom Rotom
 Electric Ghost --
0479 Rotom Rotom
 Electric Ghost --
0479 Rotom Rotom
 Electric Ghost --
0479 Rotom Rotom
 Electric Ghost --
0486 Regigigas Regigigas
 Normal --
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

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0054 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Psyduck | style="background: #FFF" | Psyduck
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Vulpix, Ninetales
Lapras
Umbreon
Mantine
Stantler
Spoink, Grumpig |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0072 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Tentacool | style="background: #FFF" | Tentacool
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Lileep, Cradily |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0122 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Mr. Mime | style="background: #FFF" | Mr. Mime
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Magmar, Magmortar
Sableye
Volbeat |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0140 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Kabuto | style="background: #FFF" | Kabuto
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#2980EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
Mantine
Lileep, Cradily |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0198 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Murkrow | style="background: #FFF" | Murkrow
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Zubat, Golbat, Crobat
Natu, Xatu |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0222 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Corsola | style="background: #FFF" | Corsola
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
Mantine
Lileep, Cradily |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0280 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Ralts | style="background: #FFF" | Ralts
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus, Mismagius
Gastly, Haunter, Gengar
Duskull, Dusclops, Dusknoir
Spiritomb |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0349 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Feebas | style="background: #FFF" | Feebas
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
Mantine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0353 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Shuppet | style="background: #FFF" | Shuppet
| colspan="2" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus, Mismagius
Gastly, Haunter, Gengar
Duskull, Dusclops, Dusknoir
Spiritomb |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0366 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Clamperl | style="background: #FFF" | Clamperl
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Lapras
Mantine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0439 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Mime Jr. | style="background: #FFF" | Mime Jr.
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Magmar, Magmortar
Sableye
Volbeat |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0451 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Skorupi | style="background: #FFF" | Skorupi
| colspan="1" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison || style="background:#91A119" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Tentacool, Tentacruel
Starmie
Kabuto, Kabutops
Corsola
Vespiquen

|- | colspan="6" | 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

The foe is exposed to a sinister ray that triggers confusion.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
Haunter Haunter charges an orange ball in its hands, then shoots it at the opponent. The opponent's eyes turn red and it gets confused, or it shoots a purple circle from its eyes towards the opponent.
Captain's Haunter A Shipful of Shivers Debut
Morty's Haunter From Ghost to Ghost None
Gengar Gengar's eyes glow blue, purple, or red. Then the opponent becomes confused.
Drake's Gengar Hello, Pummelo! None
Morty's Gengar From Ghost to Ghost None
Natu Natu's eyes glow a rainbow hue and the opponent becomes confused.
Mackenzie's Naughty Doin' What Comes Natu-rally None
Chinchou The orbs at the end of Chinchou's antennae glow purple and release a light purple ray that confuses the opponent.
Trinity's Chinchou The Perfect Match! None
Spoink Spoink's pearl glows purple, then it fires a purple beam from the pearl at the opponent, confusing it.
A wild Spoink Pearls Are a Spoink's Best Friend None
Mantine Mantine charges a purple ball in between its antennae. Then, Mantine releases a huge purple flash, which makes any Pokémon who see it become confused.
A Mantine captured by Jack Walker's Capture Styler Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea None
Dusclops Dusclops's eye glows red and emits a bright purple light from it, making the opponent confused.
Brandon's Dusclops Gathering the Gang of Four! None
Misdreavus The large orb on Misdreavus's neck glows purple and it shoots four sillouettes of itself at the opponent from the necklace.
Zoey's Misdreavus Mounting a Coordinator Assault! None
Mismagius Mismagius's eyes glow purple. If the opponent sees the attack, it begins to see illusions. Or the orb in Mismagius's body glows purple and it releases Puple-red tentacles which Mismagius can control
A wild Mismagius Malice in Wonderland! None
Zoey's Mismagius DP176 None
Bronzor Bronzor's eyes glow purple and it releases dark purple beams from its body at the opponent. When the opponent is affected, its eyes glow red.
Saturn's Bronzor Journey to the Unown! None
Regigigas Regigigas's body becomes surrounded in a maroon aura and the braille pattern on its face glows the same color. The opponent's eyes then glow red and Regigigas can control them.
A wild Regigigas Pillars of Friendship! None
Murkrow Murkrow looks deeply into the opponent's eyes and causes it to see illusions.
Mitchell's Murkrow Try for the Family Stone! None


In other languages

  • Dutch: Verwarstraal
  • French: Onde Folie
  • German: Konfustrahl
  • Italian: Stordiraggio
  • Spanish: Rayo Confuso
  • Korean: 이상한빛 e-sanghanbit

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