Petal Dance (move)

Petal Dance
はなびらのまい Petal Dance

Battles

Type	Grass
Category	Special
PP	10* (max. 16)
Power	120*
Accuracy	100%
Priority	0
Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Range

Opponent	Opponent	Opponent
Self	Ally	Ally
Unknown

Availability

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

Contests

Condition	Beauty
Appeal	4 ♥♥♥♥
Jam	4 ♥♥♥♥
Jams the others, and misses one turn of appeals.

Super Contests

Condition	Beauty
Appeal	0
Earn a higher score the later the Pokémon performs.

Contest Spectaculars

Condition	Beauty
Appeal	0
Jamming	0

On Smogon's Movedex:

Petal Dance (Japanese: はなびらのまい Petal Dance) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. It was the signature move of Oddish and Gloom in this Generation.

Effect

Generation I-II

Petal Dance inflicts damage for 2 to 3 turns (chosen at random). Once selected, even if it misses, the user will only be able to use Petal Dance, and will not be able to switch out. At the end of this duration, the user will become confused.

If the Petal Dance duration is disrupted, such as by full paralysis or by hurting itself due to confusion, it will immediately end. The user will only become confused if Petal Dance is fully executed, without its duration being disrupted. Sleep, freeze, partial trapping, and flinching will pause but not disrupt the duration of Petal Dance.

In Stadium, after the duration of Petal Dance ends, there will be a notice that the user becomes confused.

This move has a power of 70 and has 20 PP.

Generation III

The move remains the same. However, in double battles its target is a randomly selected enemy.

Generation IV

The power of Petal Dance increases to 90. All other effects are the same.

Generation V

The power of Petal Dance increases to 120, and its PP is reduced to 10. All other effects are the same.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#	Pokémon	Type		Level
0043	Oddish	Grass	Poison	33
0044	Gloom	Grass	Poison	38
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 II

By leveling up

#	Pokémon	Type		Level
0043	Oddish	Grass	Poison	39
0044	Gloom	Grass	Poison	44
0045	Vileplume	Grass	Poison	--
0182	Bellossom	Grass		--
0192	Sunflora	Grass		31
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" | Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
Sunflora

|- | 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. |} |}

By event

#	Pokémon	Type		Obtained with
0054	Psyduck	Water		New York City Pokémon Center
0152	Chikorita	Grass		New York City Pokémon Center
0172	Pichu	Electric		New York City Pokémon Center
0173	Cleffa	Normal		New York City Pokémon Center
0174	Igglybuff	Normal		New York City Pokémon Center
0238	Smoochum	Ice	Psychic	New York City Pokémon Center
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.