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 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, in which it was Castform's signature move.

Effect

When no weather condition is under effect, Weather Ball deals damage of the Template:Type2. 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:

• Template:Type2 if Sunny Day is under effect.
• Template:Type2 if Rain Dance is under effect.
• Template:Type2 if Hail is under effect.
• Template:Type2 if Sandstorm is under effect.
• Template:Type2 if Fog is under effect or there is no special weather condition in effect.
• Shadow move (and therefore typeless) if Shadow Sky is under effect (in Pokémon XD only).

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 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 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. |} |}

In the anime

File:Weather Ball Burn.jpg Turtwig getting hit File:Weather Ball Roserade.jpg 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, or it fires a red energy ball with fire streams around it at the opponent.
Bart's Castform	Unfair-Weather Friends		Debut
Bart's Castform	Unfair-Weather Friends		None
	A flaming yellow-orange ball forms between Roserade's hands. Roserade then fires it at the opponent. It then heavily burns the opponent.
Gardenia's Roserade	The Grass Menagerie!		None

Trivia

• Bellsprout is the only Pokémon to learn Weather Ball through breeding that cannot have Castform as a parent.
• All Pokémon who can learn Weather Ball are weak to at least one type of Weather Ball. Ho-Oh is weak to Water-type and Rock-type Weather Ball. Roserade, Bellsprout, Snorunt, and Cherubi are weak to Fire-type Weather Ball. Lugia, Roserade, Bellsprout, Cherubi, and Drifloon are weak to Ice-type Weather Ball. A Castform with its ability negated or changed will retain the type it was when its ability was negated or changed, so Sunny Castform will be weak to Water-type or Rock-type Weather Ball and Snow-Cloud Castform will be weak to Fire-type or Rock-type Weather Ball.

In other languages

• French: Ball'meteo
• German: Meteorologe
• Italian: Palla clima
• Spanish: Meteorobola.
• Hindi: Mausami Gola