Frenzy Plant (move)
Frenzy Plant (Japanese: ハードプラント Hard Plant) is a damage-dealing Grass-type move introduced in Generation III. Only Grass-type fully evolved starter Pokémon can learn this move.
Effect
Frenzy Plant inflicts damage and then forces the user to recharge during the next turn. Unless this attack misses, the user will always have to recharge.
Frenzy Plant can be used as the second move of a Pokémon Contest combination, with the user gaining 4 bonus appeal points if Growth was used in the previous turn.
Description
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Learnset
By TM
# | Pokémon | Types | Egg Groups | Machine | ||||||||
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IV -- |
V -- |
VI -- |
VII -- |
VIII -- |
IX TM155 | ||||||
0151 | No Eggs Discovered | ✔ | ||||||||||
0652 | |
Field | ✔ | |||||||||
0724 | |
Flying | ✔ | |||||||||
0812 | Field | Grass | ✔ | |||||||||
0000 | Meowscarada | |
Field | Grass | ✔ | |||||||
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation. |
By Move Tutor
Various Move Tutors will teach Frenzy Plant to a fully evolved Grass-type starter Pokémon. From Generation III to VII, the Pokémon also needs a maximized friendship rating. The Move Tutors are:
- FRLG: an elderly woman on Cape Brink.
- DPPtBDSP: an elderly man on Route 228.
- HGSS: an elderly man in the Move Deleter/Move Reminder's house in Blackthorn City.
- BW: a Roughneck in a house on Route 13.
- B2W2: a man outside the Pokémon World Tournament building.
- XY: a man in the southwestern house in Snowbelle City.
- ORAS: a man in the southeast of Mauville City's first floor.
- SMUSUM: a man on the second level of Hau'oli City's mall.
- SwSh: a man in a park in Wyndon.
# | Pokémon | Types | Egg Groups | Game | |||||||||||||
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FRLG | DP | Pt | HGSS | BW | B2W2 | XY | ORAS | SM | USUM | SwSh | BDSP | ||||||
0003 | |
Monster | Grass | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
0154 | Monster | Grass | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
0254 | Monster | Dragon | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
0389 | |
Monster | Grass | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
0497 | Field | Grass | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||
0652 | |
Field | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||||
0724 | |
Flying | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||||||||
0812 | Field | Grass | ✔ | ||||||||||||||
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation. |
Special move
Generation III
# | Pokémon | Types | Egg Groups | Obtained with | ||
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0152 | Monster | Grass | Mt. Battle ChikoritaXD | |||
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation. |
By event
Generation V
# | Pokémon | Types | Egg Groups | Obtained with | ||
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0001 | |
Monster | Grass | Sticker Promotional Egg Bulbasaur Kanto Starter Egg Bulbasaur | ||
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation. |
In other games
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
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In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, Frenzy Plant is a move with 30 base power, 10 PP and 84% accuracy. The user targets enemy in front, cutting corners. If the move hits target successfully, the user is inflicted with Paused status condition for 1-2 turns, preventing them from acting on these turns.
In Explorers of Time and Darkness, the move's PP is decreased to 6.
In Explorers of Sky, the move's power is raised to 45.
Since Frenzy Plant is exclusively a tutor move in main series, it is taught differently in Mystery Dungeon:
- In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, Venusaur will attempt to learn Frenzy Plant at level 99 if it has at least 333 IQ points. If this requirement is not met until after reaching level 99, Frenzy Plant can be relearned at the Gulpin Link Shop.
- In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky, an eligible Pokémon will attempt to learn Frenzy Plant at level 72 if it has at least 300 IQ points. If this requirement is not met until after level 72, Frenzy Plant can be relearned at Electivire Link Shop.
- In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Snivy can be taught Frenzy Plant via special TM available once Pokémon Paradise reaches Perfect Rank.
- In Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, the move can be taught at Hawlucha's Slam School by paying 11,000
- In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, the move can be taught at Gulpin Link Shop after completing the main story.
Pokémon Masters EX
Category | Move Gauge | MP | Base Power | Max Power | Accuracy | Target | Effect Tag | Description | Playable Users |
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Special | 4 | — | 178 | 213 | 90% | An opponent | — | No additional effect. | Sygna Suit Leaf & Venusaur (Direct link) |
Pokémon GO
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Description
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In the anime
Main series
The user slams the target with the roots of an enormous tree. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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User | First Used In | Notes | |
Venusaur's body becomes surrounded by a light green aura and it stomps on the ground. Giant, spiky roots then come out of the ground and strike the opponent. After using the move, Venusaur becomes unable to move for a while. | |||
Jeremy's Venusaur | Weekend Warrior | Debut | |
A Coordinator's Venusaur | May, We Harley Drew'd Ya! | None | |
Torterra's body becomes outlined in a green aura and it slams its front legs into the ground. Giant, spiky roots then come out of the ground and strike the opponent. After using the move, Torterra becomes unable to move for a while. | |||
Paul's Torterra | Top-Down Training! | None | |
Serperior's body becomes outlined in a green aura. It then sticks its tail in the ground and makes giant, spiky roots come out of the ground and strike the opponent. | |||
Trip's Serperior | Battling Authority Once Again! | None | |
Sceptile sticks its hands in the ground and makes giant roots come out of the ground and strike the opponent. | |||
Sawyer's Sceptile | Valuable Experience for All! | None | |
Mega Sceptile slams its hands together and sticks them into the ground, causing giant roots to come out of the ground and strike the opponent. | |||
Sawyer's Sceptile | A Riveting Rivalry! | None |
Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 Animated Trailer
The user attacks the opponent with giant roots from the ground. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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User | First Used In | Notes | |
Serperior lets out a cry, causing multiple giant, brown roots to grow out of the ground and slam into the opponent. | |||
Rosa's Serperior | Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 Animated Trailer | None |
In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
The user releases two powerful roots from its body at the opponent. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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User | First Chapter Used In | Notes | |
Venusaur's body becomes surrounded in an aura and it releases two energy beams from the sides of the flower on its back at the opponent. The beams twist around each other as they fire at the opponent. Eventually, the energy around the beams fade into two giant roots with large thorns on them, or two powerful and large vines come out of underneath the leaves on Venusaur's back and hit the opponent. | |||
Red's Saur | My, My, My Mimic | Debut First mentioned in Double Dealing with Deoxys Mastered in Red, Green, Blue and Mewtwo Too | |
Meganium releases two beams of energy from in between the flower on its neck and its skin at the opponent. | |||
Crystal's Megaree | The Final Battle VIII | First mentioned in The Final Battle III | |
Sceptile turns around and releases one beam of energy from each seed on its back at the opponent. | |||
Emerald's Sceptile | The Final Battle VIII | First mentioned in The Final Battle V Sceptile could not legally learn Frenzy Plant at the time |
Be the Best! Pokémon B+W
The user slams the target with the roots of an enormous tree. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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User | First Chapter Used In | Notes | |
Serperior jumps on the ground, causing it to shake. Afterwards, roots come out of the ground and strike the opponent. | |||
Monta's Serperior | Victini - A New Friend! | Debut |
In other generations
Core series games
Side series games
Spin-off series games
Trivia
- In Pokémon Colosseum, this attack was erroneously named Solid Plant, which is more aligned with its original Japanese name.
- Frenzy Plant has the highest base power of all Grass-type attacks, excluding Z-Moves, Max Moves, and G-Max Moves.
- A Bloom Doom based on Frenzy Plant has the highest base power of all Grass-type moves.
In other languages
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