Night Daze (move)

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Night Daze
ナイトバースト Night Burst
Type  Dark
Category  Special
PP  10 (max. 16)
Power  90
Accuracy  95%
Priority  0
Range
Opponent Opponent Opponent
Self Ally Ally
Normal: May affect anyone adjacent to the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation V
Condition  Cool
Appeal  0  
Jam  0  
Condition  Cool
Appeal  0  
Condition  Cool
Appeal  3 ♥♥♥
Jamming  0  
An appealing move that can be used repeatedly without boring the audience.

Night Daze (Japanese: ナイトバースト Night Burst) is a damage-dealing Dark-type move introduced in Generation V. Prior to Generation VII, it was the signature move of Unovan Zorua and Zoroark.

Effect

Night Daze deals damage and has a 40% chance of lowering the target's accuracy by one stage.

Generations V to VII

Night Daze has a base power of 85.

Generation VIII

Pokémon Sword and Shield

In this game only, due to a glitch, when Night Daze plays its animation and damages its target, and the target does not faint, the HP bar does not visibly change until the end of the turn or something else changes its HP.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Night Daze cannot be selected in a battle.

Generation IX

Pokémon Champions

Night Daze's base power was increased to 90.

Description

Games Description
BWB2W2 The user lets loose a pitch-black shock wave at its target. It may also lower the target's accuracy.
XYORAS
SMUSUMPE
SwShLA 		The user lets loose a pitch-black shock wave at its target. This may also lower the target's accuracy.
BDSP This move can't be used. It's recommended that this move is forgotten. Once forgotten, this move can't be remembered.
SV The user looses a pitch-black shock wave at the target to inflict damage. This may also lower the target's accuracy.
Champs Has a 40% chance of lowering the target's accuracy by 1 stage.


Learnset

By leveling up

# Pokémon Types Egg Groups Level
V VI VII VIII IX
0570 Zorua Field 57 57 57 40 40
0571 Zoroark Field 64 1, 64 1, 64 46 46
0792 Lunala
No Eggs Discovered 37 42 42
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

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

Night Daze inflicts damage and may lower the enemy's accuracy by one stage.

Game Base
Power 		Max
Power 		Base
PP 		Max
PP 		Base
Accuracy 		Max
Accuracy 		Range Target Cuts
corners
MDGtI 17 99 15 50 90% 98% 1 tile around user Enemy Yes
SMD 17 50 15 30 90% 98% 1 tile around user Enemy Yes
With some exceptions, Pokémon learnsets match those from the core series games:


Pokémon Conquest

 
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Stars: ★★★★
Power: 42
Accuracy: 95%
Effect: Has a 40% chance of lowering each target's accuracy.
Users: Zoroark
Grid assumes the user is in the square marked by > facing to the right, to act as their origin point.
A blue square indicates the user's position after performing the move, if the move changes their positioning at all.
Orange squares indicate spaces that are hit.
Red squares indicate the knockback on hit Pokémon.

Pokémon Rumble Rush

Night Daze
★★★★
Attack power 74.75748
Charge time 1.04 seconds
Range type Circular (self)
Number of hits 1
Number of projectiles 1
Critical hit rate 1.5%
Additional effect None

Pokémon Masters EX

Name Category Move gauge cost MP
(uses) 		Base power Max power Accuracy Target Effect tag Description Playable sync pair(s)
Night Daze Special 4 — 166 199 95% An opponent — Has a chance (40%) of lowering the target's accuracy by one stat rank. N (Summer 2022) & Zoroark
Brycen-Man & Zoroark
2 Arc Suit N & Zoroark
Buddy move
Almighty Obsidian Night Daze Special 2 1 250 300 —% An opponent Sure Hit Activation Condition: When there is at least one Pokémon with a lowered Type Rebuff on the opponent's field of play.

Deactivation Condition: When there are no longer any Pokémon with a lowered Type Rebuff on the opponent's field of play.

Never misses. The more the target's stats are lowered, the greater the power of this attack. Lowers the target's accuracy by one stat rank.

Arc Suit N & Zoroark
Sync move
Name Category State Base power Max power Target Effect tag Description Playable sync pair
Shape-Shifting Divine Night Daze Special Default 300 360 An opponent — Grants the following effect 10 times: Lowers one of the target's following stats by ten stat rank at random: Attack, Defense, Sp. Atk, Sp. Def, or Speed. Arc Suit N & Zoroark
6★ EX Lowers all opposing sync pairs' Type Rebuff for the following Type by one rank the first time the user's sync move is used each battle:
• Dark
6★ EX with EX role 450 540

Notes:

  • Night Daze: Arc Suit N & Zoroark's passive skill The Bridge Between Pokémon and Humans makes this move have a 100% chance of lowering the target's accuracy by six stat ranks with each hit.
  • Almighty Obsidian Night Daze: Arc Suit N & Zoroark's passive skill The Bridge Between Pokémon and Humans makes this move lower the target's accuracy by six stat ranks with each hit.

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, Zoroark's Unite Move, Nightfall Daze, is similar to Night Daze.

Description

Games Description
Conq. The user lets loose a pitch-black shock wave at its target. It may also lower the target's accuracy.

It damages nearby enemies. It could also lower their accuracy.

MDGtI It damages nearby enemies. It could also lower their accuracy.
SMD It damages enemies. It could lower their accuracy.*
It damages nearby enemies. It could also lower their accuracy.*


In animation

Pokémon animated series


Gladion's Zoroark
(disguised as Lycanroc)

Zoroark (M13)

Zorua

Gladion's Zoroark
The user slams the ground with its hands, creating a force field of energy that expands to damage the target.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
Zoroark Zoroark's eyes glow light blue and its body becomes surrounded by a crimson aura. It then raises its arms above its head. When it does, the aura around its forearms gets thicker. It then slams its arms down into the ground. A pink and crimson glowing force field of energy appears from the aura around Zoroark's arms and grows larger, spreading all around it. The thicker the aura is around Zoroark's arms, the more powerful the attack becomes.
Zoroark (M13) Zoroark: Master of Illusions Debut
Gladion's Zoroark Enter the Champion! None
Zorua Zorua's eyes glow light blue and it raises its front two paws into the air. Its body then becomes surrounded in a crimson aura. Zorua then brings its paws down to the ground and a pink and crimson force field of energy appears around Zorua's body and expands outwards throughout the whole battlefield.
Luke's Zorua Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"! None
Zoroark While disguised as Midnight Form Lycanroc, Zoroark's eyes glow red and it raises its front two paws into the air. Its body then becomes surrounded in a crimson aura. Zoroark then brings its paws down to the ground and a pink and crimson force field of energy appears around Zoroark's body and expands outwards throughout the whole battlefield.
Gladion's Zoroark Final Rivals! While disguised as Lycanroc

In other generations

Core series games
BW B2W2 Generation VI Generation VII

Generation VIII

Spin-off series games

MD: GTI SMD Masters EX

In other languages

Language Title
Catalan Pols Nocturn
Chinese Cantonese 暗黑爆破 Amhāk Baaupo *
黑夜爆裂 Hāakyeh Baauliht *
Mandarin 暗黑爆破 Ànhēi Bàopò *
黑夜爆裂 Hēiyè Bàoliè *
French Explonuit
German Nachtflut
Italian Urtoscuro
Korean 나이트버스트 Naiteubeoseuteu
Polish Błysk Nocy
Portuguese Brazil Ofuscamento Noturno (SM138–present, TCG)
Confusão Noturna (BW038)
Portugal Ofuscamento Noturno
Spanish Latin America Pulso Nocturno (games)
Aturdimiento Nocturno (animated series)
Spain Pulso Noche
Variations of the move Night Daze
Night Daze • Strange Steam
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