Silver Wind (move)

Silver Wind ぎんいろのかぜ Silver Wind

File:Silver Wind DP.png

Battles Type  Bug Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  60 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 TM62 in Generation IV

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  0   Ups the user's condition and helps prevent nervousness.

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

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Silver Wind (Japanese: ぎんいろのかぜ Silver Wind) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Silver Wind inflicts damage. Afterward, it has a 10% chance of raising each one of the user's stats by one stage.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0012 Butterfree Bug Flying 47 0049 Venomoth Bug Poison -- 0267 Beautifly Bug Flying 34 0269 Dustox Bug Poison 34 0284 Masquerain Bug Flying 47 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" | 0123 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Scyther
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0165 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Ledyba
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0193 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Yanma
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0290 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Nincada
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#915121" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0313 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Volbeat
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0314 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Illumise
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain

|- | 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0012 Butterfree Bug Flying 28 0049 Venomoth Bug Poison -- 0165 Ledyba Bug Flying 25 0166 Ledian Bug Flying 29 0267 Beautifly Bug Flying 34 0269 Dustox Bug Poison 34 0284 Masquerain Bug Flying 40 0414 Mothim Bug Flying 38 0456 Finneon Water 49 0457 Lumineon Water 59 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 TM62

#   Pokémon Type 0012 Butterfree Bug Flying 0015 Beedrill Bug Poison 0049 Venomoth Bug Poison 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 0151 Mew Psychic 0163 Hoothoot Normal Flying 0164 Noctowl Normal Flying 0165 Ledyba Bug Flying 0166 Ledian Bug Flying 0176 Togetic Normal Flying 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying 0187 Hoppip Grass Flying 0188 Skiploom Grass Flying 0189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 0212 Scizor Bug Steel 0251 Celebi Grass Psychic 0267 Beautifly Bug Flying 0269 Dustox Bug Poison 0275 Shiftry Grass Dark 0284 Masquerain Bug Flying 0291 Ninjask Bug Flying 0313 Volbeat Bug 0314 Illumise Bug 0329 Vibrava Ground Dragon 0330 Flygon Ground Dragon 0357 Tropius Grass Flying 0402 Kricketune Bug 0414 Mothim Bug Flying 0416 Vespiquen Bug Flying 0425 Drifloon Ghost Flying 0426 Drifblim Ghost Flying 0442 Spiritomb Ghost Dark 0456 Finneon Water 0457 Lumineon Water 0468 Togekiss Normal Flying 0469 Yanmega Bug Flying 0487 Giratina Ghost Dragon 0487 Giratina Ghost Dragon 0493 Arceus Psychic 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" | 0123 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Scyther
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Ledyba, Ledian
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain
Mothim |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0165 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Ledyba
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Ledyba, Ledian
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain
Mothim |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0193 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Yanma
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Ledyba, Ledian
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain
Mothim |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0290 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Nincada
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#915121" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Ledyba, Ledian
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain
Mothim |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0313 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Volbeat
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Ledyba, Ledian
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain
Mothim |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0314 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Illumise
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Butterfree
Venomoth
Ledyba, Ledian
Beautifly
Dustox
Masquerain
Mothim

|- | 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

Mothim File:Beautifly Silver Wind.png Beautifly File:Yanmega silver wind.png Yanmega
The foe is attacked with powdery scales blown by wind.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Beautifly flaps its wings and a wind with silver cresents in it are released at the opponent. Sometimes, its wings flash white, or Beautifly's wings glow white and then only the yellow, blue, and red parts glow white. It then flaps its wings and a powerful gust with silver sparkles comes out of them and hits the opponent.
May's Beautifly	Now That's Flower Power!		Debut
Kiko's Beautifly	Arceus and the Jewel of Life		None
	Skitty releases a wind with silver cresents from a white orb on its paw at the opponent.
May's Skitty	Game Winning Assist		Used via Assist
	Masquerain flaps its wings and it releases a cyclone of wind that has silver cresents in it at the opponent.
Drew's Masquerain	Who, What, When, Where, Wynaut?		None
	Finneon's tailfins glow white and it releases a wind with silver crescents from them at the opponent.
Zoey's Finneon	Staging a Heroes' Welcome!		None
	Yanmega's wings flash white and it flaps them, releasing a wind with silver crescents in them at the opponent.
Jessie's Yanmega	Fighting Fear with Fear!		None
	Mothim flaps its wings and releases silver crescents.
A Trainer's Mothim	DP163		None
	Kricketune crosses its sycthes over its head and releases silver crescents.
Nando's Kricketune	DP176		None

Trivia

• Finneon and Lumineon are the only non-Bug-type Pokémon to learn Silver Wind by level up.
• Silver Wind is the only variant of Ancientpower which cannot be learnt via move tutor.

In other languages

• Dutch: Zilverwind
• French: Vent Argenté
• German: Silberhauch
• Hindi: Chandi Ki Hava
• Italian: Ventargenteo
• Korean: 은빛바람 eunbitbaram
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Vento de Prata
• Spanish (Latin American anime): Viento Plateado
• Spanish: Viento Plata