Nasty Plot (move)

Nasty Plot わるだくみ Sinister Plot

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Battles Type  Dark Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Self: Affects the user

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

Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Jam  0   Points of next appeal doubles

Super Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Earn double the score in the next turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Nasty Plot (Japanese: わるだくみ Sinister Plot) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Nasty Plot raises the user's Special Attack stat by two stages. It will have no effect if the user's Special Attack is already at +6 stages.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0038 Ninetales Fire -- 0052 Meowth Normal 38 0053 Persian Normal 44 0096 Drowzee Psychic 43 0097 Hypno Psychic 55 0151 Mew Psychic 90 0172 Pichu Electric 18 0190 Aipom Normal 39 0199 Slowking Water Psychic 39 0228 Houndour Dark Fire 53 0229 Houndoom Dark Fire 60 0275 Shiftry Grass Dark -- 0311 Plusle Electric 51 0312 Minun Electric 51 0390 Chimchar Fire 23 0424 Ambipom Normal 39 0430 Honchkrow Dark Flying 35 0442 Spiritomb Ghost Dark 37 0453 Croagunk Poison Fighting 36 0454 Toxicroak Poison Fighting 36 0461 Weavile Dark Ice 24 0474 Porygon-Z Normal -- 0482 Azelf Psychic 46 0491 Darkrai Dark 75 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" | 0041 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Zubat
| colspan="1" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Honchkrow |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0122 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mr. Mime
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Drowzee, Hypno
Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape
Croagunk, Toxicroak |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0175 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Togepi
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Honchkrow
Plusle, Minun
Pikachu, Raichu |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0200 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus
| colspan="2" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost | style="background: #FFF" | Spiritomb |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0228 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Houndour
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#E62829" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Ninetales
Meowth, Persian
Aipom, Ambipom
Slowking
Houndour, Houndoom
Shiftry
Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape
Weavile |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0238 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Smoochum
| colspan="1" style="background:#3DCEF3; text-align: center;" | Ice || style="background:#EF4179" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Drowzee, Hypno
Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape
Croagunk, Toxicroak |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0273 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Seedot
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Ninetales
Meowth, Persian
Aipom, Ambipom
Slowking
Houndour, Houndoom
Shiftry
Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape
Weavile |- | 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" | Drowzee, Hypno
Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape
Croagunk, Toxicroak |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0331 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Drowzee, Hypno
Shiftry
Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape
Croagunk, Toxicroak |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0352 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Kecleon
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Ninetales
Meowth, Persian
Aipom, Ambipom
Slowking
Houndour, Houndoom
Shiftry
Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape
Weavile |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0439 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mime Jr.
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Drowzee, Hypno
Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape
Croagunk, Toxicroak |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0441 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Chatot
| colspan="1" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Honchkrow

|- | 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 other languages

• Spanish: Maquinación
• German: Ränkeschmied
• Italian: Congiura
• French : Machination.