Quiver Dance (move)

Butterfly Dance ちょうのまい Butterfly Dance

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Battles Type  Bug Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) 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 Self: Affects the user

Availability Introduced  Generation V

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

(Japanese: ちょうのまい Butterfly Dance) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation V.

Effect

Butterfly Dance raises the user's Special Attack, Special Defense and Speed stats by one stage each.

Learnset

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0012 Butterfree Bug Flying 46 0049 Venomoth Bug Poison 63 0267 Beautifly Bug Flying 45 0269 Dustox Bug Poison 45 0284 Masquerain Bug Flying 68 0414 Mothim Bug Flying 50 0549 Doredia Doredia Grass 28 0637 Volcarona Bug Fire 59 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Trivia

• Butterfly Dance, along with Coil Around and Shell Smash, are the only moves that raise three stats at once.
• Doredia is the only Pokémon that can learn this move that is not based on a butterfly or moth, or is part Template:Type2. It also learns the move at the lowest level among all Pokémon that learn it.
• Despite the name being Butterfly Dance, only two of the Pokémon that learn it are actually based on butterflies; the rest, minus Doredia, are based on moths.

In other languages

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