Foul Play (move)

Foul Play イカサマ Trickery

Battles Type  Dark Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  95 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Makes 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 V Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

(Japanese: イカサマ Trickery) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation V.

Effect

Foul Play inflicts damage. It uses the target's Attack stat to calculate damage, as opposed to the user's Attack stat.

Learnset

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying 45 0228 Houndour Dark Fire 45 0229 Houndoom Dark Fire 45 0302 Sableye Dark Ghost 50 0430 Honchkrow Dark Flying 45 0551 Meguroco Meguroco Ground Dark 37 0552 Waruvile Waruvile Ground Dark 40 0553 Waruvial Waruvial Ground Dark 42 0570 Zorua Dark 29 0571 Zoroark Dark 29 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" | 0052 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Meowth
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Houndour, Houndoom
Meguroco, Waruvile, Waruvial
Zorua, Zoroark |- | 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" | Houndour, Houndoom
Meguroco, Waruvile, Waruvial
Zorua, Zoroark |- | 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" | Houndour, Houndoom
Meguroco, Waruvile, Waruvial
Zorua, Zoroark |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0434 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Stunky
| colspan="1" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison || style="background:#624D4E" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Dark | style="background: #FFF" | Houndour, Houndoom
Meguroco, Waruvile, Waruvial
Zorua, Zoroark |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0509 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Choroneko | style="background: #FFF" | Choroneko
| colspan="2" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark | style="background: #FFF" | Houndour, Houndoom
Meguroco, Waruvile, Waruvial
Zorua, Zoroark

|- | 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

• Foul Play is the strongest Template:Type2 move with a standard power as of Generation V.