Insect Plate

Insect Plate たまむしプレート Jewel Beetle Plate

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The Insect Plate (Japanese: たまむしプレート Jewel Beetle 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

Effect

In battle

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

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

Description

Acquisition

Appearance

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

Insect Plate

In the anime

Plates in the anime

The Insect 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 having destroyed a meteor. Damos found one of these lost Plates and returned it to Arceus, giving it the strength to recall the other 15 Plates. That act earned its trust and prompted it to detach the Earth Plate, Splash Plate, Meadow Plate, Zap Plate, and Draco Plate in the form of the Jewel of Life so Damos could make Michina Town flourish.

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 玉蟲石板 Yuhkchùhng Sehkbáan * 玉蟲板塊 Yuhkchùhng Báanfaai * Mandarin 玉蟲石板 / 玉虫石板 Yùchóng Shíbǎn * 玉蟲板塊 Yùchóng Bǎnkuài * French Plaque Insecte German Käfertafel Italian Lastrabaco Korean 비단벌레플레이트 Silkworm Plate Spanish Tabla Bicho

External links

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

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