Night Shade (move)

Night Shade (Japanese: ナイトヘッド Night Head) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Night Shade inflicts damage equal to the user's level. Although Night Shade deals Ghost-type damage, its type does not alter the amount of damage it inflicts. Night Shade hits both Template:Type2 Pokémon and Template:Type2 Pokémon, both of which have immunities to Ghost-type moves during Generation I.

Generation II and on

After Generation I, the type mechanics were altered so that Night Shade and all other Ghost-type moves hit Psychic-type Pokémon, leaving only Normal-type Pokémon immune to Night Shade. Night Shade will inflict damage equal to the user's level.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison -- 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison -- 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison -- 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 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 21 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 21 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 21 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison 17 0168 Ariados Bug Poison 17 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 10 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying -- 10 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying 26 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 0163 Hoothoot Normal Flying 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 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 21 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 16 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 21 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 16 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 21 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 16 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison 17 0168 Ariados Bug Poison 17 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 10 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying 10 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying 27 0302 Sableye Dark Ghost 9 0353 Shuppet Ghost 13 0354 Banette Ghost -- 13 0355 Duskull Ghost -- 0356 Dusclops Ghost -- 0386 Deoxys Psychic 5 0386 Deoxys Psychic 5 0386 Deoxys Psychic 5 0386 Deoxys Psychic 5 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 move tutor

In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

#   Pokémon Type 0151 Mew Psychic 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 15 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 15 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 15 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison 15 0168 Ariados Bug Poison 15 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 6 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying 6 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying 21 0302 Sableye Dark Ghost 8 0353 Shuppet Ghost 8 0354 Banette Ghost -- 5 0355 Duskull Ghost -- 0356 Dusclops Ghost -- 0386 Deoxys Psychic 9 0386 Deoxys Psychic 9 0386 Deoxys Psychic 9 0386 Deoxys Psychic 9 0477 Dusknoir Ghost -- 0491 Darkrai Dark -- 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" | 0163 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Hoothoot
| colspan="1" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Natu, Xatu
Murkrow, Honchkrow |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0441 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Chatot
| colspan="1" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Natu, Xatu
Murkrow, Honchkrow

|- | 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

File:Gastly nightshade.jpg Gastly
The user fires a black beam at the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Gengar fires a black beam, outlined in red or blue from its eyes or hands at the opponent.
A giant Gengar	The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis		Debut
Drake's Gengar	Hello, Pumello!		None
Morty's Gengar	A Ghost of a Chance		None
Gengar of Team Meanies	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters out of the Gate!		None
Fantina's Gengar	A Shield with a Twist!		None
	Gastly fires black beams from its eyes, or Gastly fires a light purple beam from its body at the opponent.
Captain's Gastly	A Shipful of Shivers		None
Multiple wild Gastly	A Ghost of a Chance		None
Morty's Gastly	Ghost to Ghost		None
	Haunter's eyes glow red, then it fires black beams from its eyes at the opponent.
Morty's Haunter	Ghost to Ghost		None
Multiple wild Haunter	Hoenn Alone!		None
	Ariados's horn glows black and it fires black beam from its horn at the opponent, or Ariados shoots two black beams from its eyes at the opponent.
Oakley's Ariados	Pokémon Heroes		None
Forrester Franklin's Ariados	All in a Day's Wurmple		None
	Sableye's eyes glow red and it fires two black beam from them at the opponent.
A wild Sableye	Ready, Willing, and Sableye		None
	A black-purple energy with a blue outline covers over Dusclops's eye and Dusclops releases it at the opponent as a beam.
Butler's Dusclops	Jirachi: Wish Maker		None
	Deoxys releases a black energy beam at the opponent from the crystal on its chest.
Deoxys (Purple Crystal)	Destiny Deoxys		None
Deoxys (Green Crystal)	Destiny Deoxys		None

In other languages

• French: Ténèbres
• German: Nachtnebel
• Italian: Ombra Notturna
• Spanish: Tinieblas

Template:Project MoveDex notice