Morning Sun (move)

Morning Sun あさのひざし Morning Sunlight

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  5 (max. 8) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

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

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  0   The appeal's quality varies depending on its timing.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Increased Voltage is added to the performance score.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Morning Sun (Japanese: あさのひざし Morning Sunlight) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Generation II

Morning Sun restores the user's current HP based on the weather conditions and time of day. Normal conditions will restore ½ of the total HP.

Generation III

Morning Sun restores the user's current HP based on the weather conditions in the battle. Sunny conditions restore full HP, normal conditions restore ½ HP, and other conditions restore ¼ HP.

Generation IV

Morning Sun restores the user's current HP based on the weather conditions in the battle. Sunny conditions restore ⅔ HP, normal conditions restore ½ HP, and other conditions restore ¼ HP.

In the anime

• Beautifly using Morning Sun.
  Beautifly using Morning Sun.

The Pokémon issues rays of light to different directions and sparks to restore HP. Sometimes its body glows.

Pokémon

Beautifly. The light is yellow. With the sufficient experience its entire body can glow.

• Used by Janet's Beautifly in All Things Bright and Beautifly!' in the final battle of the Rustboro City contest against her friend Chaz. Debut.
• Used by May's Beautifly from Cruisin' for a Losin' in the presentation round of a couple of Pokémon Contests, the first time used was in the Rubello Town Contest.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0196 Espeon Psychic 52 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0196 Espeon Psychic 52 0267 Beautifly Bug Flying 20 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 purification

#   Pokémon Type Game 0012 Butterfree Bug Flying XD 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison XD 0114 Tangela Grass XD 0123 Scyther Bug Flying XD 0146 Moltres Fire Flying XD Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0196 Espeon Psychic 71 0267 Beautifly Bug Flying 20 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

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Scyther, Scizor
Beautifly

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Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
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Trivia

• Morning Sun was Espeon's signature move in Generation II. From Generation III onwards, only Espeon and Beautifly can learn Morning Sun by level up, and coincidentally, the two are the only Pokémon in Sakura's team in the anime.

In other languages

• French: Aurore.
• German: Morgengrauen.
• Italian: Mattindoro.
• Spanish: Sol Matinal.

Variations of the move Moonlight
Moonlight • Morning Sun • Shore Up • Synthesis

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