Bright Powder

Bright Powder ひかりのこな Light Powder

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Introduced in Generation II Pocket Generation II Items Generation III Items Generation IV Items Generation V Items (Held items) Generation VI Items Generation VII Items Generation VIII Other Items Fling Power 10

The Bright Powder (Japanese: ひかりのこな Light Powder) is a type of held item introduced in Generation II that decreases the opponent's accuracy. Prior to Generation VI, it was formatted as BrightPowder.

In the core series games

Price

Games Cost Sell price GSC RSEFRLG ColoXD DPPtHGSS BWB2W2 XYORAS N/A $5 SMUSUM SwSh N/A $2,000

Effect

Held item

Generation II

Moves targeted at the holder have an additional 20/256 (~8%) chance to miss.

Generation III onward

Bright Powder now reduces accuracy of moves targeting the holder by 10% of what their accuracy would be otherwise.

Description

Games Description GSC Lowers the foe's accuracy. (HOLD) RSEColoXD A hold item that casts a glare to reduce accuracy. FRLG An item to be held by a Pokémon. It casts a tricky glare that lowers the opponent's accuracy. DPPtHGSS BWB2W2 An item to be held by a Pokémon. It casts a tricky glare that lowers the opponent's accuracy. XYORAS SMUSUM SwSh An item to be held by a Pokémon. It casts a tricky glare that lowers the opposing Pokémon's accuracy.

Acquisition

Games Finite methods Repeatable methods GSC Held by Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Mewtwo when traded from Generation I RSE Battle Tower (streak of 35 or more)RS/Battle Frontier (64 BP)E FRLG Trade Colo Mt. Battle (10,000 Poké Coupons) XD Mt. Battle (8,000 Poké Coupons) DPPt Battle ParkDP/FrontierPt (48 BP) HGSS Goldenrod Radio Tower Battle Frontier (48 BP) BW Chargestone Cave Battle Subway (48 BP) B2W2 Route 4W2, Anville Town Battle Subway/PWT (12 BP) XY Battle Maison (48 BP) ORAS Battle Maison (48 BP) Held by wild Wurmple (5% chance), wild Volbeat (5% chance), and wild Illumise (5% chance) SMUSUM Route 5 (held by in-game trade BounsweetSM/NoibatUSUM) Battle Royal Dome (48 BP) SwSh Glimwood Tangle SwShIoA Cram-o-matic (Bug: 32-40 points)

Trivia

• In Pokémon Colosseum, during the cutscene battle between Eagun and Cipher Peon Skrub at the Relic Stone, Skrub's Shadow Hitmontop is holding a Bright Powder. However, when the player immediately afterwards battles Skrub and has a chance to snag Hitmontop, it's holding a Black Belt instead.
• In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, when pluralized or prefixed with the indefinite article, this item's name is rendered with a lowercase 'p' ("Brightpowder" and "a Brightpowder", respectively). In Pokémon Platinum and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, both of these instances are corrected to display with a capital 'P' ("BrightPowders" and "a BrightPowder", respectively), matching how the item's name would normally be rendered.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 光粉 Gwōngfán * 亮光之粉 Leuhnggwōng-jī Fán * Mandarin 光粉 Guāngfěn * 亮光之粉 Liàngguāng-zhī Fěn * French Poudre Claire* Poudreclaire* German Blendpuder Italian Luminpolvere Korean 반짝가루 Banjjak Garu Spanish Polvo Brillo

External links

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

This item article is part of Project ItemDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on all items.