Weather Ball (move)

Weather Ball ウェザーボール Weather Ball

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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 Unknown

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

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   ???

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 is a Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III that deals a small amount of damage normally, but has double the attack power in weather conditions.

Effect

The type that Weather Ball is depends on the weather conditions at the time it is used. It will be Fire if Sunny Day is under effect, Water if Rain Dance is under effect, Ice if Hail is under effect, Rock if Sandstorm is under effect, It will be a Shadow move (and therefore Template:Type2) if Shadow Sky is under effect in Pokémon XD, and Normal in any other circumstance. If it is used when any weather condition is in effect, its base power becomes 100. Type power-ups from rain or sunshine will be put into effect, as well as STAB caused by Castform's type changing from its ability, Forecast.

In Smart Contests, Weather Ball is the only move to score 4 hearts with no drawbacks.

In the anime

• Weather Ball Roserade.jpg

  Gardenia's Roserade using Weather Ball.

• Weather Ball Fire Ball.JPG

  Weather Ball as a Template:Type2 move.

• Weather Ball Launch.jpg

  Roserade's Weather Ball being launched at Ash's Aipom.

• Weather Ball Burn.jpg

  Ash's Turtwig being burned by Weather Ball.

Pokémon

As a Template:Type2 move

Roserade. A yellow-orange ball forms between Roserade's hands. Roserade then fires it at the opponent. It then burns the opponent.

• Used by Gardenia's Roserade in The Grass Menagerie!.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0351 Castform Normal 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 0351 Castform Normal 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.

In other languages

French: ball'meteo, German: meteorologe, Italian: palla clima, Spanish: meteorobola.

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