Petal Dance (move)

Petal Dance はなびらのまい Petal Dance

Battles Type  Grass Category  Special PP  20 (max. 32) Power  90 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: Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Petal Dance (Japanese: はなびらのまい Petal Dance) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Petal Dance does damage for 2-3 (chosen randomly) turns. Once used (even if it misses on the turn of its use), 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 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 Generation I-III this move has a power of 70.

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

In the anime

Pokémon

Roselia. Roselia spins around and pink petals fly out and spiral towards the opponent. Once hit, the opponent becomes confused.

• Used by Drew's Roselia in Now That's Flower Power!.

Bulbasaur. Petals are released from the opening in Bulbasaur's bulb. Once hit, the opponent becomes confused.

• Used by May's Bulbasaur in Where's Armaldo!.

Vileplume. Petals are released from the opening in Vileplume's flower. The petals then spiral towards the opponent and once hit, the opponent is confused.

• Used by Nicolette's Vileplume in May's Egg-Cellent Adventure!.

Roserade. Roserade spins around and pink petals fly out and spiral towards the opponent. Once hit, the opponent becomes confused.

• Used by Forsythia's Roserade in Oh Do You Know the Poffin Plan!

• DrewsRoseliaPetalDance.PNG

  Drew's Roselia using Petal Dance.

• PetalDanceAffectingBeautifly.PNG

  May's Beautifly getting hit from Roselia's Petal Dance.

• Vileplume Petal Dance.jpg

  Nicolette's Vileplume using Petal Dance.

• BulbasaurpetaldanceonBeautifly.jpg

  May's Bulbasaur using Petal Dance while riding on Beautifly.

• BulbasaurPetalDance.jpg

  May's Bulbasaur using Petal Dance.

• Petal Dance.JPG

  Forsythia's Roserade using Petal Dance.

• Petal Dance 2.jpg

  The petals from Petal Dance spiraling towards Team Rocket.

• Petal Dance 3.jpg

  Team Rocket cofused because of Petal Dance.

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. |} |}

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 39 0044 Gloom Grass Poison 44 0045 Vileplume Grass Poison 44 0182 Bellossom Grass 44 0192 Sunflora Grass 37 0315 Roselia Grass Poison 49 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
Roselia

|- | 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. |} |}

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0003 Venusaur Grass Poison 32 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 41 0044 Gloom Grass Poison 53 0045 Vileplume Grass Poison 53 0154 Meganium Grass 32 0192 Sunflora Grass 33 0315 Roselia Grass Poison 40 0421 Cherrim Grass 25 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" | Venusaur
Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
Meganium
Sunflora
Roselia, Roserade
Cherrim

|- | 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 other languages

• French: Danse-fleur
• German: Blättertanz
• Spanish: Danza Pétalo
• Italian: Petalo Danza

Variations of the move Thrash
Thrash • Outrage • Raging Fury Petal Dance