Effect Spore (Ability)

Effect Spore	ほうし
	Spore
Flavor text Generation III Leaves spores on contact. Generation IV Contact may paralyze, poison, or cause sleep. Generation V Contact may poison or cause paralysis or sleep. Generation VI Contact may poison or cause paralysis or sleep. Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Effect Spore (Japanese: ほうし Spore) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Seven Pokémon can have this Ability, all of them Grass types.

Effect

In battle

Generation III-V

Effect Spore may inflict the foe with a status problem if they make contact. It has a 30% chance of inducing either paralysis, sleep or poison on the opponent when hit with a move that makes contact.

The chance of inflicting a given status is not the same for each status. Overall, Effect Spore has a 9% chance of inducing poison, 10% chance of inducing paralysis, and 11% chance of inducing sleep.

Generation VI

Grass-type Pokémon, Pokémon with Overcoat, and Pokémon holding the Safety Goggles are now immune to Effect Spore.

Outside of battle

Effect Spore has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Effect Spore

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0045		Vileplume	Grass	Poison	Chlorophyll	None	Effect Spore
0046		Paras	Bug	Grass	Effect Spore	Dry Skin	Damp
0047		Parasect	Bug	Grass	Effect Spore	Dry Skin	Damp
0285		Shroomish	Grass		Grass	Effect Spore	Poison Heal	Quick Feet
0286		Breloom	Grass	Fighting	Effect Spore	Poison Heal	Technician
0590		Foongus	Grass	Poison	Effect Spore	None	Regenerator
0591		Amoonguss	Grass	Poison	Effect Spore	None	Regenerator
Please note that Abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

Trivia

• Of the four Abilities that may inflict a non-volatile status condition upon contact, Effect Spore is the only one that has not yet been activated in the Pokémon anime.
• All of the Pokémon with Effect Spore as their first Ability have the species name "Mushroom Pokémon".
• Effect Spore is the only Ability that can cause sleep.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 孢子 Bāozǐ French Pose Spore German Sporenwirt Italian Spargispora Korean 포자 Poja Portuguese Efeito Esporos Spanish Espora de Efecto

References

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.