Weather Ball (move)

Weather Ball ウェザーボール Weather Ball

Battles Type  Normal Category  Special PP  10 (max. 16) Power  50 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make 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 Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

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

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   A highly appealing move.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Judge's Voltage goes up.

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

Weather Ball (Japanese: ウェザーボール Weather Ball) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III. Prior to Generation IV, it was Castform's signature move.

Effect

When no weather condition is under effect, Weather Ball deals Normal-type damage. During any weather condition, Weather Ball attacks with a different type and its base power doubles to 100. The type that Weather Ball is depends on the weather conditions at the time it is used. It will be:

• Fire-type if it is sunny.
• Water-type if it is raining.
• Ice-type if it is hailing.
• Rock-type if there is a sandstorm.
• Normal-type if it is foggy or there is no special weather condition in effect.
• ???-type if Shadow Sky is under effect.

Type power-ups from the weather will be put into effect, as well as STAB caused by Castform's type changing from its ability, Forecast.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0351 Castform Normal 30 0351 Castform Fire 30 0351 Castform Water 30 0351 Castform Ice 30 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 0249 Lugia Psychic Flying -- 0250 Ho-Oh Fire Flying -- 0351 Castform Normal 30 0351 Castform Fire 30 0351 Castform Water 30 0351 Castform Ice 30 0407 Roserade Grass Poison -- 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^HGSS

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0069 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bellsprout
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Roserade |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0361 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snorunt
| colspan="2" style="background:#3DCEF3; text-align: center;" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Castform
Roserade |- | 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" | Castform
Roserade |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0425 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Drifloon
| colspan="1" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Castform

|- | 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 0243 Raikou Electric 13th Movie Event 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0249 Lugia Psychic Flying -- 0250 Ho-Oh Fire Flying -- 0351 Castform Normal 40 0351 Castform Fire 40 0351 Castform Water 40 0351 Castform Ice 40 0407 Roserade Grass Poison -- 0584 Baibanira Baibanira Ice -- 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" | 0069 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bellsprout
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Roserade |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0361 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snorunt
| colspan="2" style="background:#3DCEF3; text-align: center;" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Castform
Roserade, Baibanira |- | 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" | Castform
Roserade |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0425 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Drifloon
| colspan="1" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Castform

|- | 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. |} |}

In the anime

File:Weather Ball Burn.jpg Turtwig getting hit File:Roserade Weather Ball.png Roserade File:Weather Ball Fire Ball.JPG Fire-type Weather Ball
An attack move that varies in power and type depending on the weather.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Castform fires a blue energy ball with water streams around it at the opponent from its mouth.
Bart's Castform	Unfair-Weather Friends		Debut
	Castform fires a red energy ball with fire streams around it at the opponent from its mouth.
Bart's Castform	Unfair-Weather Friends		None
	Roserade holds its arms up and creates an orange ball with fire streams around it and fires it at the opponent.
Gardenia's Roserade	The Grass Menagerie!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Popo Weather Ball Ice.png Ice Type
The user fires a ball of energy at the opponent depending on the weather.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Castform takes a deep breath and fires a large snow ball from its mouth at the opponent.
Ruby's Popo	VS. Kyogre & Groudon X		Debut
	Castform releases a powerful ball of energy from its mouth at the opponent.
Ruby's Popo	VS. Spoink I		None

Trivia

• Bellsprout is the only Pokémon to learn Weather Ball through breeding that cannot have Castform as a parent.
• Weather Ball can reach up to a base power of 225, with a combination of; Sunny Day and STAB from Ho-oh or Castform, or Rain Dance and STAB from Castform.
• Despite Weather Ball becoming a Rock-type move in a sandstorm, Castform itself won't change form in this condition.

In other languages

• French: Ball'Météo
• German: Meteorologe
• Greek: Μετεωρολογόσφαιρα
• Hindi: Mausami Gola
• Italian: Palla Clima
• Korean: 웨더볼 Weather Ball
• Spanish: Meteorobola
• Serbian: Meteorološka Lopta

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.