Spooky Plate

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	Introduced in Generation IV
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Generation VIII	Other Items (BDSP)
Generation VIII	Key items (LA)
Generation IX	Other Items
Fling
Power	90

The Spooky Plate (Japanese: もののけプレート Specter Plate) is a type of held item introduced in Generation IV. It is a Key Item in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. It is one of the Plates, which are associated with Arceus.

In the core series games

Price

Games	Cost	Sell price
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2 XY ORAS SM USUM BDSP	N/A	$500

Effect

In battle

Boosts the power of the holder's Ghost-type moves by 20%. If the holder uses Judgment, it becomes a Ghost-type move.

Multitype changes an Arceus holding this item to its Ghost-type form. From Generation V onward, item-manipulating effects (such as Trick and Fling) cannot give Arceus a Plate or remove a Plate from Arceus. In Generation IV, item-manipulating effects cannot affect Pokémon with Multitype.

Outside of battle

Multitype changes an Arceus holding this item to its Ghost-type form.

In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, the Spooky Plate can used from the satchel on Arceus, changing it to the Ghost type.

The Spooky Plate can be read, and has the following engraving: "The other side of this world was given by the Original One to its raging third."

Description

Games	Description
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2	An item to be held by a Pokémon. It is a stone tablet that boosts the power of Ghost-type moves.
XY ORAS SM USUM PE SwSh BDSP	An item to be held by a Pokémon. It's a stone tablet that boosts the power of Ghost-type moves.
LA	A stone tablet imbued with the essence of ghosts. When used on a certain Pokémon, it allows that Pokémon to gain the power of the Ghost type.
SV	An item to be held by a Pokémon. This stone tablet is imbued with the essence of ghosts and boosts the power of the holder’s Ghost-type moves.

Acquisition

Games	Finite methods	Repeatable methods
DP Pt	Amity Square, Underground
HGSS	S.S. Aqua (from the captain after obtaining all 16 Gym Badges)
BW B2W2	Abyssal Ruins
XY	Chamber of Emptiness
ORAS	Route 127 (underwater)
SM USUM	Hau'oli Cemetery
BDSP	Amity Square	Grand Underground
LA	Temple of Sinnoh (reward for defeating Volo and Giratina during Mission 26: "Seeking the Remaining Plates")
SV	Porto Marinada auction (if the player owns an Arceus)

Distribution

As a held item

Games	Event	Language/Region	Distribution period
XY ORAS	Dahara City Arceus	Japanese, Taiwanese	March 7 to August 31, 2015 November 20 to December 17, 2015

Gallery

Artwork

Artwork from
Scarlet and Violet

Sprites

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Reason: The Underground sprite from Platinum must be checked if it's different from the DP sprite, since the bag sprite was updated during that time.


Bag sprite from Diamond and Pearl	Bag sprite from Platinum	Underground sprite from Diamond, Pearl and Platinum	Grand Underground sprite from Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl	Bag sprite from Legends: Arceus

In the anime

Plates in the anime

The Spooky Plate, alongside the other 15 Plates at the time, appeared in Arceus and the Jewel of Life, where Arceus used them to change its type, and almost died when it lost all of the Plates after having destroyed a meteor that endangered what would become Michina Town. Damos found one of these lost Plates and returned it to Arceus, giving it the strength to recall the other 15 Plates.

The Spooky Plate, alongside the other 17 type-based Plates, appeared in The Arceus Chronicles (Part 4), under Arceus's possession.

In the manga

The Plates in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

HeartGold & SoulSilver arc

Petrel was collecting the Plates for Team Rocket's plan. After Silver stole the few Plates he had managed to find, Petrel decided to let him gather all 16 Plates, just to get them back at once later. With his Weavile leaving messages for Sneasel and Weavile across Johto, Silver soon indeed gathered all 16 Plates for himself. At the Sinjoh Ruins, Gold surrendered the Plates to Archer, who used them to seemingly take control of Arceus, ordering it to recreate Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina. When the Pokédex holders used their Pokémon's ultimate attacks to stop the creation, all the Plates were absorbed by Arceus.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	妖怪石板 Yīugwaai Sehkbáan * 妖怪板塊 Yīugwaai Báanfaai *
Chinese	Mandarin	妖怪石板 Yāoguài Shíbǎn * 妖怪板塊 Yāoguài Bǎnkuài *
French		Plaque Fantô* Plaque Fantôme*
German		Spuktafel
Italian		Lastratetra
Korean		원령플레이트 Wollyeong Plate
Spanish		Tabla Terror
Vietnamese		Phiến thạch Ma quái