Captivate (move)

Captivate ゆうわく Allure

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  100% 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

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

Availability Introduced  Generation IV TM78 in Generation IV

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  2 ♥♥ Lowers next Pokémon's points by 2

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

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Captivate is a Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Captivate harshly lowers the Special Attack of targets of the opposite gender. It will fail if the targets has Oblivious or is of the same gender.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

• Butterfree at Lv.36
• Nidoran♀ at Lv.43
• Nidorina at Lv.50
• Nidoran♂ at Lv.43
• Nidorino at Lv.50
• Vulpix at Lv.37
• Meowth at Lv.46
• Persian at Lv.56
• Stantler at Lv.49
• Miltank at Lv.35
• Gardevoir at Lv.53
• Skitty at Lv.42
• Milotic at Lv.25
• Gorebyss at Lv.28
• Luvdisc at Lv.40
• Wormadam (Grass) at Lv.35
• Vespiquen at Lv.33
• Glameow at Lv.32
• Purugly at Lv.32
• Finneon at Lv.26
• Lumineon at Lv.26
• Froslass at Lv.31
• Wormadam (Ground) at Lv.35
• Wormadam (Steel) at Lv.35

By TM78

• ALL Pokémon that can learn TMs and HMs (and have genders) can learn Captivate (except for Nincada).

By breeding

• Luvdisc

In other languages

• French: Séduction
• Spanish: Seducción
• Italian: Incanto
• German: Liebreiz