Grass Whistle (move)

GrassWhistle くさぶえ Grass Flute

File:Grasswhistle.png

Battles Type  Grass Category  Status PP  15 (max. 24) Power  — Accuracy  55% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock Is a sound-based move

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

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

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  3 ♥♥♥ Badly startles those that have made appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

GrassWhistle (Japanese: くさぶえ Grass Flute) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

GrassWhistle causes the target to fall asleep. It will fail if the target has a Substitute or already has a major status ailment.

In the anime

• NuzleafGrasswhistle.PNG

  Nuzleaf using GrassWhistle.

• Nando'sSunflora GrassWhistle.JPG

  Sunflora using GrassWhistle.

Pokémon

Nuzleaf. Nuzleaf blows on a leaf, like a harmonica.

• Used by a wild Nuzleaf in Turning Over a Nuzleaf!.

Sunflora. Sunflora puts its leaf into its mouth. It then blows on the leaf and slides it back and forth, like a violin.

• Used by Nando's Sunflora in Dawn's Early Night!.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0315 Roselia Grass Poison 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" | 0001 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0152 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Chikorita
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0191 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sunkern
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0331 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia

|- | 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. |} |}

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0191 Sunkern Grass 13 0192 Sunflora Grass 13 0315 Roselia Grass Poison 22 0459 Snover Grass Ice 13 0460 Abomasnow Grass Ice 13 0470 Leafeon Grass 57 0492 Shaymin Grass 82 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" | 0001 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Sunkern, Sunkern
Roselia
Snover, Abomasnow |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0152 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Chikorita
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Sunkern, Sunkern
Roselia
Snover, Abomasnow |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0191 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sunkern
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Sunkern, Sunkern
Roselia
Snover, Abomasnow |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0252 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Treecko
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Snover, Abomasnow |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0331 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Sunkern, Sunkern
Roselia
Snover, Abomasnow |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0420 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cherubi
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Sunkern, Sunkern
Roselia
Snover, Abomasnow

|- | 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

• Even though Nuzleaf is not able to learn GrassWhistle, it is commonly seen using it in the anime.
• In the anime, Pokémon use leaves for GrassWhistle's sound despite that the name refers to a whistling sound from a blade of grass.

In other languages

• Spanish: Silbato
• Italian: Meloderba
• German: Grasflöte

Variations of the move Sing
Grass Whistle • Sing • Supersonic

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