Flatter (move)

Flatter おだてる Flatter

Battles Type  Dark Category  Status PP  15 (max. 24) Power  — Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

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

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   Makes all Pokémon after the user nervous.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Flatter (Japanese: おだてる Flatter) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III. It can be seen as a dark type version of Swagger.

Effect

Flatter raises the target's Special Attack by one stage and then confuses it. Pokémon with the ability Own Tempo are immune to the side effect.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0029 Nidoran♀ Poison 38 0030 Nidorina Poison 43 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 38 0033 Nidorino Poison 43 0314 Illumise Bug 29 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 0029 Nidoran♀ Poison 33 0030 Nidorina Poison 38 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 33 0033 Nidorino Poison 38 0314 Illumise Bug 29 0453 Croagunk Poison Fighting 45 0454 Toxicroak Poison Fighting 54 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" | 0096 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Drowzee
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Croagunk, Toxicroak |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0179 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mareep
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂, Nidorino |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0302 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sableye
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#704170" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ghost | style="background: #FFF" | Croagunk, Toxicroak |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0417 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pachirisu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂, Nidorino

|- | 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. |} |}

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0029 Nidoran♀ Poison 33 0030 Nidorina Poison 38 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 33 0033 Nidorino Poison 38 0314 Illumise Bug 29 0453 Croagunk Poison Fighting 50 0454 Toxicroak Poison Fighting 62 0574 Gothita Psychic 28 0575 Gothorita Psychic 28 0576 Gothitelle Psychic 28 0629 Vullaby Dark Flying 19 0630 Mandibuzz Dark Flying 19 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" | 0096 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Drowzee
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Croagunk, Toxicroak
Gothita, Gothorita, Gothitelle |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0179 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mareep
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂, Nidorino, Nidoking |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0302 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sableye
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#704170" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ghost | style="background: #FFF" | Croagunk, Toxicroak
Gothita, Gothorita, Gothitelle |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0417 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pachirisu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂, Nidorino, Nidoking |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0527 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Woobat
| colspan="1" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂, Nidorino, Nidoking

|- | 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 manga

Pokémon Adventures

Illumise
The user releases multiple rings from its body at the opponent, confusing it.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Illumise releases multiple thin rings from its antennae at the opponent, confusing it.
The Battle Factory's Illumise	VS. Illumise		Debut

Trivia

• Before Generation V, the majority of Pokémon able to learn Flatter were Poison-type.

In other languages

• French: Flatterie
• German: Schmeichler
• Greek: Κολακεία
• Italian: Adulazione
• Korean: 부추기기 Buchugigi
• Spanish: Camelo
• Serbian: Laskanje

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.