Icicle Spear (move)

Icicle Spear つららばり Icicle Needle

File:Icicle spear.png

Battles Type  Ice Category  Physical PP  30 (max. 48) Power  10 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  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles Pokémon that made a same-type appeal.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Allows performance of the same move twice in a row.

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

Icicle Spear (Japanese: つららばり Icicle Needle) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III. It is the signature move of Shellder and Cloyster.

Effect

Generation III

Icicle Spear does damage, hitting 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2 times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a 12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Each attack made has an equal chance to land a critical hit.

Icicle Spear will end immediately if it breaks a Substitute. Bide and Counter will only acknowledge the last hit of this move.

Generation IV

Same as Generation III, except it will continue attacking after a Substitute is broken.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0090 Shellder Water 8 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" | 0086 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Seel
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Corsola |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0090 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Shellder
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Shellder, Cloyster |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0220 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Swinub
| colspan="1" style="background:#3DCEF3; text-align: center;" | Ice || style="background:#915121" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Seel, Dewgong |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0222 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Corsola
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Shellder, Cloyster

|- | 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 0090 Shellder Water 13 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" | 0086 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Seel
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Corsola |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0090 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Shellder
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Shellder, Cloyster |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0220 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Swinub
| colspan="1" style="background:#3DCEF3; text-align: center;" | Ice || style="background:#915121" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Seel, Dewgong |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0222 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Corsola
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Shellder, Cloyster

|- | 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:Shelldericiclespear.png Shellder
The user fires ice shaped like icicles at the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Shellder fires sharp, thin icicle shaped ice shards from its mouth at the opponent.
A Coordinator's Shellder	Old Rivals, New Tricks!		Debut

In other languages

• Dutch: IJsspeer
• Brazilian Portuguese: Lança de Gelo
• Spanish: Carámbano
• Italian: Gelolancia
• German: Eisspeer

Variations of the move Bullet Seed
Bullet Seed • Icicle Spear

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