Confuse Ray (move)

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

Effect

Confuse Ray causes the opponent to become confused.

Confuse Ray will fail if the opponent has a Substitute or is already confused.

In the anime

The Pokémon issues a pink and white ray that confuses the foe.

Pokémon

Spoink. The ray is created in the pearl of its head after it glows with the same colors.

• Used by a wild Spoink in Pearls are a Spoink's Best Friend against James's Cacnea and Jessie's Dustox.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

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

Generation III

By leveling up

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

In other languages

• French: Onde Folie
• German: Konfustrahl
• Italian: Stordiraggio
• Spanish: Rayo Confuso

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