Light of Ruin (move)

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Light of Ruin はめつのひかり Light of Ruin

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Battles Type  Fairy Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  140 Accuracy  90% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone adjacent to the user

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

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beautiful Appeal  6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jamming  0   A very appealing move, but after using this move, the user is more easily startled.

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

Light of Ruin (Japanese: はめつのひかり Light of Ruin) is a damage-dealing Fairy-type move introduced in Generation VI. It is the signature move of the Eternal Flower Floette.

Effect

Light of Ruin deals damage and causes the user to receive recoil damage equal to 1/2 of the damage done to the target.

Description

Games Description XYORAS SM Drawing power from the Eternal Flower, the user fires a powerful beam of light. This also damages the user quite a lot.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Level
						I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
670E		Floette Eternal Flower		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	50	50
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.

Trivia

• In the room service of Hotel Richissime, there is a food style option which is named after a move where Light of Ruin is mentioned.
• Light of Ruin has the highest base power of all Fairy-type moves.
• Light of Ruin is the only special move that inflicts recoil damage (excluding Volt Tackle in Generation III).

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 破滅之光 Pomiht-jī Gwōng Mandarin 破滅之光 / 破灭之光 Pòmiè-zhī Guāng French Lumière du Néant German Lux Calamitatis Italian Luce Nefasta Korean 파멸의빛 Pamyeol-yi Bit Spanish Luz Aniquiladora

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