Weather Ball (move)

Weather Ball ウェザーボール Weather Ball

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Special PP  10 (max. 16) Power  50 Accuracy  100% 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 but the user (long-range)

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

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   A highly appealing move.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Judge's Voltage goes up.

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

Weather Ball (Japanese: ウェザーボール Weather Ball) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III, in which it was Castform's signature move.

Effect

When no weather condition is under effect, Weather Ball deals damage of the Template:Type2. During any weather condition, Weather Ball attacks with a different type and its base power doubles to 100. The type that Weather Ball is depends on the weather conditions at the time it is used. It will be:

• Template:Type2 if Sunny Day is under effect.
• Template:Type2 if Rain Dance is under effect.
• Template:Type2 if Hail is under effect.
• Template:Type2 if Sandstorm is under effect.
• Template:Type2 if Fog is under effect or there is no special weather condition in effect.
• Shadow move (and therefore typeless) if Shadow Sky is under effect (in Pokémon XD only).

Type power-ups from the weather will be put into effect, as well as STAB caused by Castform's type changing from its ability, Forecast.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0351 Castform Normal 30 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 0249 Lugia Psychic Flying -- 0250 Ho-Oh Fire Flying -- 0351 Castform Normal 30 0407 Roserade Grass Poison -- 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^HGSS

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0069 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bellsprout
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Roserade |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0361 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snorunt
| colspan="2" style="background:#3DCEF3; text-align: center;" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Castform
Roserade |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0420 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cherubi
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Castform
Roserade |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0425 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Drifloon
| colspan="1" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Castform

|- | 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 anime

File:Weather Ball Burn.jpg Turtwig getting hit File:Weather Ball Roserade.jpg Roserade File:Weather Ball Fire Ball.JPG Fire-type Weather Ball
An attack move that varies in power and type depending on the weather.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Castform fires a blue energy ball with water streams around it at the opponent.
Bart's Castform	Unfair-Weather Friends		Debut
	Castform fires a red energy ball with fire streams around it at the opponent.
Bart's Castform	Unfair-Weather Friends		None
	Roserade holds its arms up and creates an orange ball with fire streams around it and fires it at the opponent.
Gardenia's Roserade	The Grass Menagerie!		None

Trivia

• Bellsprout is the only Pokémon to learn Weather Ball through breeding that cannot have Castform as a parent.
• All Pokémon who can learn Weather Ball are weak to at least one type of Weather Ball. Ho-Oh is weak to Water-type and Rock-type Weather Ball. Roserade, Bellsprout, Snorunt, and Cherubi are weak to Fire-type Weather Ball. Lugia, Roserade, Bellsprout, Cherubi, and Drifloon are weak to Ice-type Weather Ball. A Castform with its ability negated or changed will retain the type it was when its ability was negated or changed, so Sunny Castform will be weak to Water-type or Rock-type Weather Ball and Snow-Cloud Castform will be weak to Fire-type or Rock-type Weather Ball.

In other languages

• French: Ball'meteo
• German: Meteorologe
• Italian: Palla clima
• Spanish: Meteorobola.
• Hindi: Mausami Gola