Darkinium Z

The Darkinium Z (Japanese: アクＺ Evil Z) is a type of Z-Crystal introduced in Pokémon Sun and Moon. It is the type-specific Z-Crystal associated with the Dark type and allows Pokémon to upgrade their Dark-type moves to Z-Moves.

Darkinium Z アクＺ Evil Z

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Introduced in Generation VII Pocket Generation VII Z-Crystals

In the core series games

Price

Games Cost Sell price SMUSUM N/A N/A

Effect

Bag item

Can create Darkinium Z held items for Pokémon in the party.

Held item

In battle

Allows the holder to upgrade its Dark-type damaging moves to the Z-Move Black Hole Eclipse or upgrade its Dark-type status moves into Z-Moves.

Unaffected by item negating effects (such as Embargo and Klutz). Item manipulating effects (such as Trick and Fling) cannot remove a Z-Crystal from a Pokémon.

Multitype changes an Arceus holding this item to its Dark-type form. Rayquaza cannot Mega Evolve if it holds a Z-Crystal.

Outside of battle

A held Darkinium Z is automatically removed if the Pokémon is traded between players.

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

Description

Bag item

Games Description SMUSUM It converts Z-Power into crystals that upgrade Dark-type moves to Dark-type Z-Moves.

Held item

Games Description SMUSUM This is a crystallized form of Z-Power. It upgrades Dark-type moves to Z-Moves.

Acquisition

Games Finite methods Repeatable methods SM Malie City (from Nanu for defeating him in the Ula'ula Island grand trial) USUM Malie City (from Nanu for defeating him in the Ula'ula Island grand trial)

In the anime

A Darkinium Z in the anime

Team Rocket obtained a Darkinium Z in A Team-on-Team Tussle!, which some Team Skull Grunts also tried to obtain from a nest of Alolan Rattata and Raticate, with one of the Raticate being a Totem Pokémon. The same Z-Crystal reappeared in Acting True to Form!, where Jessie and James believed that they could use it with the Alolan Meowth they had just met. However, they were dismayed upon being told that they would also need a Z-Ring to do so. They were finally able to perform Black Hole Eclipse with James's Mareanie in SM073 after obtaining a Z-Power Ring from Nanu.

Nanu used a Darkinium Z in SM077 to have his Alolan Persian perform Black Hole Eclipse during his grand trial battle against Ash. After Ash defeated Nanu, Nanu contemplated giving Ash a Darkinium Z as a prize, but then quickly decided to give him a Lycanium Z instead.

A full set of replicas of the type-specific Z-Crystals, including the Darkinium Z, also appeared in A Team-on-Team Tussle!, where they were shown to Ash and his classmates by Professor Kukui.

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

The Darkinium Z debuted in The Delivery of Rotom and the Girl under the ownership of Nanu.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 惡Ｚ Ok-Z Mandarin 惡Ｚ / 恶Ｚ È-Z French Ténébrozélite German Noctium Z Italian Obscurium Z Korean 악Z Ak-Z Spanish Nictostal Z

External links

• On Smogon's Itemdex:
  • Generation VII

This item article is part of Project ItemDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on all items.