Weather Ball (move)

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Weather Ball
ウェザーボール Weather Ball
Weather Ball V.png
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Type  Normal
Category  Special
PP  10 (max. 16)
Power  50
Accuracy  100%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
May affect anyone adjacent to the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
Condition  Smart
Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥
Jam  0  
A highly appealing move.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Earn +2 if the Judge's Voltage goes up.
Condition  Beautiful
Appeal  3 ♥♥♥
Jamming  0  
An appealing move that can be used repeatedly without boring the audience.

Weather Ball (Japanese: ウェザーボール Weather Ball) is a damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation III. Prior to Generation IV, it was the signature move of Castform.

Effect

When the weather is clear, Weather Ball is a Normal-type move. During any type of weather, Weather Ball's power doubles to 100 (type power-ups from the weather will be put into effect in addition to this boost).

Weather Ball's type changes depending on the weather at the time it is used.

Pokémon with Bulletproof are immune to Weather Ball, regardless of the weather.

Generation IV

Weather Ball is affected by Normalize.

Generation V onward

Weather Ball is unaffected by Normalize, Pixilate, Refrigerate, and Aerilate. However, it is affected by Ion Deluge (if the move would be Normal-type) and Electrify.

Description

Games Description
RSEColo.XD The move's type and power change with the weather.
FRLG An attack that varies in power and type depending on the weather.
DPPtHGSS
BWB2W2
XYORAS
An attack move that varies in power and type depending on the weather.


Learnset

By leveling up

# Pokémon Type Level
I II III IV V VI
249   Lugia Psychic Flying     1 1 1
250   Ho-Oh Fire Flying     1 1 1
351   Castform Normal Normal 30 30 40 30 30
25
407   Roserade Grass Poison   1 1 1
584   Vanilluxe Ice Ice     1 1
721   Volcanion Fire Water       40
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 breeding

# Pokémon Type Father
II III IV V VI
069   Bellsprout Grass Poison          
361   Snorunt Ice Ice               
420   Cherubi Grass Grass             
425   Drifloon Ghost Flying          
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 V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with
0361   Snorunt Ice Dream World - Icy Cave
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 event

Generation IV

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with
0243   Raikou Electric 13th Movie Event
GameStop Event
English Winter 2011
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 V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with
0001   Bulbasaur Grass Poison Sticker Promotional Kanto Starter Eggs
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 games

Description

Games Description
MDRB Inflicts damage on the target, even at a distance, using the weather's power.


In the anime

 
Rainy Castform
 
Sunny Castform
 
Roserade
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 from its mouth.
Bart's Castform Unfair Weather Friends Debut
Dealt Water-type damage
  Castform fires a red energy ball with fire streams around it at the opponent from its mouth.
Bart's Castform Unfair Weather Friends Dealt Fire-type damage
  Roserade holds its arms up and creates an orange ball with fire streams around it and fires it at the opponent.
Gardenia's Roserade The Grass Menagerie! Dealt Fire-type damage


In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga


In other generations

Normal-type

Fire-type

Water-type

Ice-type

Rock-type

???-type

Trivia

  • Despite Weather Ball becoming a Rock-type move in a sandstorm and a ???-type move in Shadow Sky, Castform itself will not change form under these conditions.
  • Prior to Generation IV, Weather Ball was one of the only two moves (along with Hidden Power) which could be either physical or special, due to the damage category being determined by the type.

In other languages

Language Title
Mandarin Chinese 氣象球 Qì​xiàng​ Qiú​
  Danish Vejr Bold
  Dutch Weerbal
  Finnish Sääpallo
  French Ball'Météo
  German Meteorologe
  Greek Μετεωρολογόσφαιρα
  Hindi Mausami Gola
  Indonesian Bola Cuaca
  Italian Palla Clima
  Korean 웨더볼 Weather Ball
  Polish Meteokula
  Brazilian Portuguese Esfera Climática
  Romanian Weather Ball
  Serbian Meteorološka Lopta
  Spanish Meteorobola


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