Frenzy Plant (move)

Frenzy Plant ハードプラント Hard Plant

Battles Type  Grass Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  150 Accuracy  90% 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 adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation III Move Tutor in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Move Tutor in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Move Tutor in Pokémon Platinum Move Tutor in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Move Tutor in Pokémon Black and White

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jams the others, and misses one turn of appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Frenzy Plant (Japanese: ハードプラント Hard Plant) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

As of Generation III, Frenzy Plant is the most powerful Grass-type move. It inflicts damage and then forces the user to recharge during the next turn. Unless this attack misses, the user will always have to recharge.

Learnset

By move tutor

Various move tutors will teach Frenzy Plant to the fully evolved Template:Type2 starters if their happiness rating is sufficiently high:

• In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, an elderly woman on Cape Brink will teach Frenzy Plant to Venusaur only.
• In Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, an elderly man appears on Route 228 in the Battle Zone, and will teach the move to all four fully evolved Template:Type2 starters.
• In HeartGold and SoulSilver, the Move Tutor for Frenzy Plant can be found in the Move Deleter/Move relearner's house in Blackthorn City.
• In Black and White, the Move Tutor that can teach Frenzy Plant appears in a house on Route 13, and will teach it to all five fully evolved Template:Type2 starters.

#	Pokémon		Type		Game
					FRLG	E	XD	DP	Pt	HGSS	BW	B2W2
003		Venusaur	Grass	Poison				✔			✔	✔	✔	✔
154		Meganium	Grass		Grass							✔	✔	✔	✔
254		Sceptile	Grass		Grass							✔	✔	✔	✔
389		Torterra	Grass	Ground							✔	✔	✔	✔
497		Serperior	Grass		Grass										✔
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

Special move

Generation III

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0152 Chikorita Grass Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness 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

File:Torterra Frenzy Plant 2.png Torterra File:Torterra Frenzy Plant.png Torterra's roots File:Venusaur Frenzy Plant.png Venusaur
Giant roots come out of the ground due to the user's stomp.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Venusaur's body glows light green and it stomps on the ground. Giant roots with spikes on them come out of the ground and strike the opponent.
Jeremy's Venusaur	Weekend Warrior		Debut
A Coordinator's Venusaur	May, We Harley Drew'd Ya!		None
	Torterra's body becomes outlined in green and it slams its front two legs into the ground. Giant roots with spikes on them come out of the ground and strike the opponent.
Paul's Torterra	Top-Down Training!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Venusaur Meganium and Sceptile
The user releases two powerful roots from its body at the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Venusaur's body becomes surrounded in an aura and it releases two energy beams from the sides of the flower on its back at the opponent. The beams twist around each other as they fire at the opponent. Eventually, the energy around the beams fade into two giant roots with large thorns on them, or two powerful and large vines come out of underneath the leaves on Venusaur's back and hit the opponent.
Red's Saur	Legend - Grass and Fire		Debut
	Sceptile turns around and releases one beam of energy from each seed on its back at the opponent.
Emerald's Sceptile	The Final Battle VIII		None
	Meganium releases two beams of energy from in between the flower on its neck and its skin at the opponent.
Crys's Megaree	The Final Battle VIII		None

Trivia

• Smeargle is the only Pokémon that is not a Template:Type2 starter Pokémon able to learn Frenzy Plant, due to Sketch.
• Mew, though repeatedly said on the Pokédex to be able to learn any move, is not able to learn Frenzy Plant because it can only be taught to Grass-type starter Pokémon.
• In Pokémon Colosseum, this attack was erroneously named Solid Plant.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 瘋狂機器 Fēngkuáng Jīqì Dutch Woekerplant French Végé-Attak German Fauna-Statue Greek Φρενώδης Βλάστηση Hindi Jungli Powda Italian Radicalbero Korean 하드플랜트 Hard Plant Portuguese Brazil Planta de Fúria Portugal Planta Feroz Serbian Luda Biljka Spanish Planta Feroz

Variations of the move Hyper Beam
Giga Impact • Rock Wrecker Hyper Beam • Blast Burn • Hydro Cannon • Frenzy Plant • Roar of Time

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