Perish Song (move)

Perish Song ほろびのうた Perish Song

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  5 (max. 8) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock Is a sound-based move

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally All: Affects all Pokémon on the field

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

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Badly startles all Pokémon that made good appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Lowers the Voltage of all Judges by one each.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Perish Song (Japanese: ほろびのうた Perish Song) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

After 3 turns, all Pokémon that were on the field when Perish Song was used will faint unless they switch out. Perish Song does not affect Pokémon with the Ability Soundproof. If a Pokémon switches out with Baton Pass, Perish Song will still be in effect on the Pokémon switched in, even if it has the Ability Soundproof.

Mystery Dungeon

Any Pokémon in the player's Rescue Party affected by Perish Song will faint in 3 turns. However, it can be prevented by entering the stairs to the next floor or by sending home an affected partner before the third turn. It can also be prevented via any move, Ability, or item that heals all status effects (as opposed to a particular status effect), such as Heal Bell, Shed Skin, or a Heal Seed.

Description

Games Description A malevolent melody that causes both the user and the opponent to faint in three turns. Both user and foe faint in 3 turns. RSE Any Pokémon hearing this song faints in 3 turns. FRLG Any battler that hears this faints in three turns unless it switches. Any Pokémon that hears this song faints in three turns, unless it switches out of battle.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
124		Jynx	Ice	Psychic	51			57			49				55			--, 55
131		Lapras	Water	Ice	29			25			27				27			27
186		Politoed	Water		Water	35			35			--				--			--
200		Misdreavus	Ghost		Ghost	46			45			41				46			46
238		Smoochum	Ice	Psychic	45			49			41				45			45
251		Celebi	Psychic	Grass	50			50			91				91			'
333		Swablu	Normal	Flying				48			50				55	48	48
334		Altaria	Dragon	Flying				54			62				70	57	57
359		Absol	Dark		Dark				46			65				65			--, 65
402		Kricketune	Bug		Bug							38		50	50			'
493		Arceus	Normal		Normal							90				90			'
648		Meloetta	Normal	Psychic											85			'
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
086		Seel	Water		Water
092		Gastly	Ghost	Poison
104		Cubone	Ground		Ground
174		Igglybuff*	Normal		Normal
183		Marill	Water	Fairy
198		Murkrow	Dark	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 0104 Cubone Ground 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.

In the anime

Misdreavus Altaria
Any Pokémon that hears this song faints.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Misdreavus sings loudly and black waves of energy come out of its mouth, hurting Misdreavus and making crimson static appear over the opponent, hurting them as well.
Marina's Little Miss	The Legend of Thunder!		Debut
	Altaria flies into the air and sings. As it does a trail of gold light with multicolored sparkles in it comes out from behind its body.
Nando's Altaria	Last Call - First Round!		None

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Politoed
Any Pokémon that hears this song faints.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Politoed sings a quiet song into its opponent's ear. After a while, both the opponent and Politoed faint.
Gold's Polibo	The Last Battle VI		Debut

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD: Time, Darkness, and Sky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 滅亡之歌 Mièwáng-zhī Gē French Requiem German Abgesang Greek Κύκνειο Άσμα Hindi मारने का गाना Maarne Ka Gaana Italian Ultimocanto Korean 멸망의노래 Myeolmang-yi Norae Brazilian Portuguese Canção do Perecer Serbian Pesma Stradanja Spanish Canto Mortal

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