Trick-or-Treat (move)

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Trick-or-Treat ハロウィン Halloween

Battles Type  Ghost Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone adjacent to the user

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

Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jamming  1 ♥ Badly startles Pokémon that used a move of the same type.

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

Trick-or-Treat (Japanese: ハロウィン Halloween) is a non-damaging Ghost-type move introduced in Generation VI. It is the signature move of Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist.

Effect

Trick-or-Treat adds the Ghost type to the target, in addition to the Pokémon's original type(s). If it is used against a dual-type Pokémon, that Pokémon will have three types at once. If the target already has an additional type added to it by Forest's Curse, that type is replaced with the Ghost type.

Trick-or-Treat will fail if the target Pokémon is already Ghost-type.

Description

Games Description The user takes the target trick-or-treating. This adds Ghost type to the target's type.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
710		Pumpkaboo	Ghost	Grass	6, 23, 40
711		Gourgeist	Ghost	Grass	6, 23, 40, 63
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

Trivia

• Using Trick-or-Treat on a pure Normal-type or a Normal/Psychic-type Pokémon is the only way for a Pokémon to have a sole weakness to the Dark type.
• Using Trick-or-Treat on a Normal/Fairy-type Pokémon is the only way for a Pokémon to have a sole weakness to the Steel type.
• Unlike Forest's Curse, a Pokémon affected by this move cannot have an 8x weakness, as each of the two types the Ghost type is weak to is strong against only one other type.

In other languages

Language Title French Halloween German Halloween Italian Halloween Korean 핼러윈 Halloween Spanish Halloween

Variations of the move Forest's Curse
Forest's Curse • Trick-or-Treat

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