Transform (move)

Transform へんしん Transformation

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Not 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 Unknown

Availability Introduced  [[Generation {{{gen}}}]] Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0   Can be repeatedly used without boring the Judge.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  1 ♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon gets the lowest score.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IX

Transform (Japanese: へんしん Transformation) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Transform changes the user's current type(s), current stats, current stat levels, current move(s), current species, current cry, and current catch rate to the opponent's current type(s), current stats, current stat levels, current move(s), current species, current cry, and current catch rate. Each move copied by Transform will have 5 PP.

Transform does not copy the opponent's status ailments, level, current or maximum HP, base experience, palette colors, or the generic minimize image. The current stat changes due to Transform will be ignored by critical hits, since critical hits use a Pokémon's original stats. Transform affects the user, not the opponent, so it is not affected by accuracy and evasion modifiers, and no move besides Taunt can prevent the successful execution of Transform.

In-game, if a wild Pokémon uses Transform and is subsequently caught, it will become a Ditto, regardless of what species it originally was. It will then have all the stats and moves of a Ditto, except for its current HP, which will remain unaltered by this change.

In Stadium, Transform will not work if the opponent's current species is Ditto.

Generation II-IV

Transform, if used by a shiny Pokémon, will cause the Pokémon species transformed into to appear shiny. Likewise, a normal Pokémon transforming into a shiny opponent's species will appear as a normal version.

In the anime

The Pokémon briefly glows and then takes on the appearance of the other Pokémon.

Pokémon

Ditto

• Duplica owns two Dittos and likes to 'transform' with them. Her second, Mini-Dit, has the unusual problem of not being able to change its size in transformation.
• Ash's Orange League battle with Drake began with Pikachu having to face a copy of itself thanks to Ditto's transformation. Many trainers cannot compete with this, though Ash succeeded.

Mew

• The Mew in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew could transform into any Pokémon, even if a member of that species was not around.

Latias

• In Pokémon Heroes, Latias is able to Transform into people, however, it's suggested it's merely an illusion of light reflection, as Latias' body shape appears the same when looked through heat vision googles.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

• Ditto at Lv.--
• Mew at Lv.10

Generation II

By leveling up

• Ditto at Lv.--
• Mew at Lv.10

Generation III

By leveling up

• Ditto at Lv.--
• Mew at Lv.10

Generation IV

By leveling up

• Ditto at Lv.--
• Mew at Lv.--

In other languages

French: Morphing, German: Wandler, Italian: Transformaz., Spanish: Transform