Effect Spore (Ability)

Effect Spore	ほうし
	Spore
Flavor text Generation III Leaves spores on contact. Generation IV Contact may paralyze, poison, or cause sleep. Generation V Contact may poison or cause paralysis or sleep. Generation VI Contact may poison or cause paralysis or sleep. Generation VII Contact with the Pokémon may inflict poison, sleep, or paralysis on its attacker. Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Effect Spore (Japanese: ほうし Spore) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. All Pokémon that have this Ability are Grass types.

Effect

In battle

Generations III to V

When a Pokémon with this Ability is hit by a move that makes contact, there is a 30% chance that the attacking Pokémon will become poisoned, paralyzed or asleep: there is a 9% chance of poison, 10% chance of paralysis, and 11% chance of sleep.

If a Pokémon with this Ability is hit by a multi-strike move that makes contact (such as Fury Swipes), each hit has an independent chance to activate this Ability.

Generation VI onward

Grass-type Pokémon, Pokémon with Overcoat, and Pokémon holding Safety Goggles are now immune to Effect Spore.

Outside of battle

Effect Spore has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Effect Spore

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0045		Vileplume	Grass	Poison	Chlorophyll	None	Effect Spore
0046		Paras	Bug	Grass	Effect Spore	Dry Skin	Damp
0047		Parasect	Bug	Grass	Effect Spore	Dry Skin	Damp
0285		Shroomish	Grass		Grass	Effect Spore	Poison Heal	Quick Feet
0286		Breloom	Grass	Fighting	Effect Spore	Poison Heal	Technician
0590		Foongus	Grass	Poison	Effect Spore	None	Regenerator
0591		Amoonguss	Grass	Poison	Effect Spore	None	Regenerator
0755		Morelull	Grass	Fairy	Illuminate	Effect Spore	Rain Dish
0756		Shiinotic	Grass	Fairy	Illuminate	Effect Spore	Rain Dish
Please note that Abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

Trivia

• Of the four Abilities that may inflict a non-volatile status condition upon contact, Effect Spore is the only one that has not yet been activated in the Pokémon anime.
• Effect Spore is the only Ability that can cause sleep.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 孢子 Bāaují Mandarin 孢子 Bāozǐ French Pose Spore German Sporenwirt Italian Spargispora Korean 포자 Poja Portuguese Efeito Esporo Russian Эффект Споры Effekt Spory Spanish Efecto Espora* Efec. Espora*

References

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.