Captivate (move)

Captivate ゆうわく Allure

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) 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 Unknown

Availability Introduced  Generation IV TM78 in Generation IV

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  2 ♥♥ Lowers next Pokémon's points by 2

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

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Captivate (Japanese: ゆうわく Allure) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Captivate lowers the Special Attack stat of the target by two stages, if it is the opposite gender. It will fail if the target has the ability Oblivious or is same gender as the user, or either Pokémon is genderless.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0012 Butterfree Bug Flying 36 0029 Nidoran♀ Poison 43 0030 Nidorina Poison 50 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 43 0033 Nidorino Poison 50 0037 Vulpix Fire 37 0052 Meowth Normal 46 0053 Persian Normal 56 0234 Stantler Normal 49 0241 Miltank Normal 35 0282 Gardevoir Psychic 53 0300 Skitty Normal 42 0300 Skitty Normal 46 0350 Milotic Water 25 0368 Gorebyss Water 28 0370 Luvdisc Water 40 0413 Wormadam Bug Grass 35 0413 Wormadam Bug Ground 35 0413 Wormadam Bug Steel 35 0416 Vespiquen Bug Flying 33 0431 Glameow Normal 32 0432 Purugly Normal 32 0456 Finneon Water 26 0457 Lumineon Water 26 0478 Froslass Ice Ghost 31 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 TM78

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation IV and have genders can learn Captivate, except Nincada. Mew can also learn Captivate.

By breeding

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Finneon, Lumineon

|- | 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. |} |}

Trivia

• Mew and Ditto are the only genderless Pokémon which can use this move: both can by transformation, while Mew, able to learn any TM, can also learn it by TM78.

In other languages

• French: Séduction
• Spanish: Seducción
• Italian: Incanto
• German: Liebreiz