Phantom Force (move)

Phantom Force ゴーストダイブ Ghost Dive

Battles Type  Ghost Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  90 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by Mirror Move Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation VI Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  1 ♥ Jamming  0   Prevents the user from being startled until the turn ends.

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Phantom Force (Japanese: ゴーストダイブ Ghost Dive) is a damage-dealing Ghost-type move introduced in Generation VI.

Effect

Generation VI

Phantom Force causes the user to "vanish" on the turn it is used, making it semi-invulnerable, and then reappear the next turn causing damage.

Phantom Force hits the target even if it is protected by a protection move, and removes the effects of protection moves from the target for the remainder of the turn; if it hits a target that is protected by protection move that affects its whole side of the field, it removes the protection move from that entire side of the field (even if the protection move would not affect Phantom Force, such as Crafty Shield). If Phantom Force hits a Pokémon protected by a move with a negative effect (such as Spiky Shield), the user will not suffer the negative effect of the protection move. Phantom Force cannot remove the effects of protecting moves if it does not affect the target (such as if the target is Normal-type).

If the target has used Minimize, Phantom Force deals double its regular damage and bypasses accuracy checks to always hit, unless the target is in the semi-invulnerable turn of a move such as Dig or Fly.

If a Power Herb is held by the user, Phantom Force can be executed in one turn.

Generation VII

Phantom Force no longer bypasses accuracy checks nor deals double its regular damage if the target has used Minimize.

Description

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Level
						I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
0292		Shedinja		Mineral		Mineral	47XY 45ORAS	45
0353		Shuppet		Amorphous		Amorphous	54ORAS	54
0354		Banette		Amorphous		Amorphous	1, 64ORAS	1, 64
0426		Drifblim		Amorphous		Amorphous	1, 65	1, 65
0429		Mismagius		Amorphous		Amorphous	1	1
0623		Golurk		Mineral		Mineral	1, 75	76
0708		Phantump		Grass	Amorphous	45	45
0709		Trevenant		Grass	Amorphous	45	45
0711		Gourgeist		Amorphous		Amorphous	1, 57	1, 57
0717		Yveltal		style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" | Undiscovered	style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" | Undiscovered	55	55
0720		Hoopa Confined		style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" | Undiscovered	style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" | Undiscovered	46XY 35ORAS	35
0724		Decidueye		Flying		Flying		1USUM
0781		Dhelmise		Mineral		Mineral		54
0792		Lunala		style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" | Undiscovered	style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" | Undiscovered		61
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By breeding

#	Pokémon		Types	Parent Egg Groups		Egg Move
						II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
0353		Shuppet		Amorphous		Amorphous	✔	✔
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

Special move

Generation VII

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Obtained with
0724		Decidueye		Flying		Flying	Hidden Ability Pokémon Bank DecidueyeSM
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By event

Generation VI

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Obtained with
0491		Darkrai		style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" | Undiscovered	style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" | Undiscovered	Wonderland Darkrai Mysterious World Darkrai February 2015 Darkrai
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

In other games

Description

In the anime

Appearing from a portal Lunala
The user vanishes somewhere, then strikes the target on the next turn.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Lunala creates a thin purple portal beneath itself and sinks into it. Seconds later, another portal appears behind the opponent, and Lunala comes out of it before attacking the opponent.
Lunala (anime)	Full Moon and Many Arms!		Debut

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Mismagius Yveltal; disappearing Yveltal; attacking
The user disappears from sight before reappearing to attack the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Yveltal creates a shadowy portal that it dives inside. It then emerges from another portal to stab the opponent with its tail.
Malva's Yveltal	Yveltal Steals		Debut
	Mismagius hides in its opponent's shadow. It then emerges from the shadow and charges at the opponent.
Anabel's Mismagius	PASM20		None

In other generations

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 潛靈奇襲 Chìhmlīng Kèijaahp * Mandarin 潛靈奇襲 / 潜灵奇袭 Qiánlíng Qíxí * 幽靈潛水 Yōulíng Qiánshuǐ * French Hantise German Phantomkraft Italian Spettrotuffo Korean 고스트다이브 Ghost Dive Polish Siła Fantomu Brazilian Portuguese Golpe Fantasma Spanish Golpe Fantasma

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