Double Team (move)

Double Team かげぶんしん Shadow Divide

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  15 (max. 24) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Self: Affects the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I TM32 in Generation I TM32 in Generation II TM32 in Generation III TM32 in Generation IV TM32 in Generation V

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   Can avoid being startled by other once.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Enables the user to perform first in the next turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Double Team (Japanese: かげぶんしん Shadow Divide) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Double Team increases the user's evasion by one stage. Double Team will do nothing if the user's evasion has reached a stage of +6.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

• SSBB Double Team Start.png

  Lucario about to use Double Team.

• SSBB Double Team Miss.png

  Lucario using Double Team.

• SSBB Double Team Hit.png

  Lucario attacking.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Double Team is Lucario's down Special move. When Lucario uses Double Team, it creates copies of itself for its opponent to attack, while the real Lucario sneaks up from behind to counterattack.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0025 Pikachu Electric 15 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 24 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 TM32

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation I can learn Double Team.

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0025 Pikachu Electric 15 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 48 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 13 0212 Scizor Bug Steel 48 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 TM32

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation II can learn Double Team.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0025 Pikachu Electric 15 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 41 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 13 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 12 0212 Scizor Bug Steel 41 0276 Taillow Normal Flying 19 0277 Swellow Normal Flying 19 0280 Ralts Psychic 11 0281 Kirlia Psychic -- 11 0282 Gardevoir Psychic -- 11 0291 Ninjask Bug Flying 20 0313 Volbeat Bug 9 0359 Absol Dark 31 0361 Snorunt Ice 7 0362 Glalie Ice -- 7 0386 Deoxys Psychic 10 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 TM32

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation III can learn Double Team.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0025 Pikachu Electric 18 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 37 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 11 0276 Taillow Normal Flying 19 0277 Swellow Normal Flying 19 0280 Ralts Psychic 10 0281 Kirlia Psychic -- 10 0282 Gardevoir Psychic -- 10 0291 Ninjask Bug Flying 20 0313 Volbeat Bug 5 0359 Absol Dark 33 0361 Snorunt Ice 4 0362 Glalie Ice -- 4 0386 Deoxys Psychic 17 0396 Starly Normal Flying 13 0397 Staravia Normal Flying 13 0398 Staraptor Normal Flying 13 0469 Yanmega Bug Flying -- 11 0475 Gallade Psychic Fighting -- 10 0478 Froslass Ice Ghost -- 4 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0488 Cresselia Psychic -- 0491 Darkrai Dark 47 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 TM32

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation IV can learn Double Team.

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0025 Pikachu Electric 21 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 37 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 11 0276 Taillow Normal Flying 19 0277 Swellow Normal Flying 19 0280 Ralts Psychic 10 0281 Kirlia Psychic -- 10 0282 Gardevoir Psychic -- 10 0291 Ninjask Bug Flying 20 0313 Volbeat Bug 5 0359 Absol Dark 33 0361 Snorunt Ice 4 0362 Glalie Ice -- 4 0386 Deoxys Psychic 17 0396 Starly Normal Flying 13 0397 Staravia Normal Flying 13 0398 Staraptor Normal Flying 13 0469 Yanmega Bug Flying -- 11 0475 Gallade Psychic Fighting -- 10 0478 Froslass Ice Ghost -- 4 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 15 0488 Cresselia Psychic -- 0491 Darkrai Dark 47 0566 Aaken Aaken Rock Flying 8 0567 Archeos Archeos Rock Flying 8 0587 Emonga Emonga Electric Flying 19 0617 Agirudaa Agirudaa Bug -- 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 TM32

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation V can learn Double Team.

In the anime

File:Hatooboo Double Team.png Hatooboo File:Panpour Double Team.png Panpour File:Gabite Double Team.png Gabite Darkrai
By moving rapidly, the user makes illusory copies of itself.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Gloom's body becomes outlined in blue, then it glows white and it creates multiple copies of itself.
Florinda's Gloom	Make Room for Gloom		Debut
	Golbat creates a copy and uses it as a decoy. After the opponent attacks it, Golbat appears behind the opponent.
Mandi's Golbat	Round One - Begin!		None
	Scyther's body glows multicolored, then it creates two or more copies of itself.
Jeanette Fisher's Scyther	The Fourth Round Rumble		None
Tracey's Scyther	Tracey Gets Bugged		None
Bugsy's Scyther	Gettin' the Bugs Out		None
	Poliwrath creates multiple copies of itself.
Tad's Poliwrath	Charizard Chills		None
	Eevee creates multiple copies of itself.
Gary's Eevee	The Rivalry Revival!		None
	Alakazam creates multiple copies of itself.
Alex Davis's Alakazam	Power Play!		None
	Yanma creates multiple copies of itself.
Zachary Evans's Yanma	Wings 'N' Things		None
	Skiploom creates multiple copies of itself.
Ephraim's Skiploom	The Grass Route		None
	Murkrow flies around so fast it looks like a blur, and it moves fast so it looks like there are multiple other Murkrow.
Multiple wild Murkrow	All That Glitters!		None
	Teddiursa creates two other copies of itself that does anything it does.
A wild Teddiursa	UnBEARable		None
	Golem creates two other copies of itself.
Goneff's Golem	The Wayward Wobbuffet		None
	Scizor creates multiple copies of itself. Sometimes, its body glows white before it multiplies.
Iron-Masked Marauder's Scizor	Celebi: Voice of the Forest		None
Katie's Scizor	A Judgment Brawl		None
McCann's Scizor	Mastering Current Events!		None
	Tyrogue's body glows white and creates multiple copies of itself.
Kiyo's Tyrogue	A Tyrogue Full of Trouble		None
	Magby's body glows white, then makes multiple copies of itself.
Satchel's Magby	You're a Star, Larvitar!		None
	Furret's body glows white, then creates multiple copies of itself.
Salvador's Furret	A Claim to Flame!		None
	Slugma's body glows white then creates two other copies of itself.
Macy's Slugma	Love, Pokémon Style		None
	Magneton glows white then creates multiple copies of itself.
Jackson's Magneton	Tie One On!		None
	Wingull's body glows white, then creates multiple copies of itself.
A Coordinator's Wingull	Having a Wailord of a Time		None
	Mightyena's body glows white and creates multiple copies of itself.
Tabitha's Mightyena	The Spheal of Approval		None
	Delcatty's body glows white, then it creates multiple copies of itself.
Georgio's Delcatty	A Date with Delcatty		None
	When Ninjask is about to get hit with an attack, it disappears, or Ninjask's body glows white and it creates multiple copies of itself.
Colonel Hansen's two Ninjask	The Princess and the Togepi		None
Brandon's Ninjask	Pace - The Final Frontier!		None
	Magcargo's body glows white then creates multiple copies of itself.
Flannery's Mag	Going, Going, Yawn		None
	Taillow's body glows white then creates five copies of itself.
Ritchie's Rose	Celebi and Joy!		None
	Ludicolo's body glows whitish-green and it creates multiple copies of itself.
Poncho's Ludicolo	Go Go Ludicolo!		None
	Deoxys raises its tentacles and creates hundreds of copies of itself. The copies are purple in color and have no pupils. The copies then do whatever the user tells them to do. When the copies are hit, they disintegrate.
Deoxys (Purple Crystal)	Destiny Deoxys		None
	Luvdisc's body glows white, then creates multiple copies of itself.
Misty's Caserin	Luvdisc is a Most Splendored Thing!		None
	Salamence's body glows white, then creates multiple copies of itself.
Silver's Salamence	The Search for the Legend		None
	Swellow's body glows white and creates multiple copies of itself.
Ash's Swellow	Solid as a Solrock		None
	Surskit's body glows white and creates multiple copies of itself.
Kent's Surskit	A Cacturne for the Worse		None
	Snorunt's body glows white and creates multiple copies of itself.
Ash's Snorunt	Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt		None
	Meowth's body glows white and creates multiple copies of itself.
Tyson's Meowth	Saved by the Beldum		None
	Glalie's body glows white and creates multiple copies of itself.
Ash's Glalie	Shocks and Bonds		None
	Multiple shadows come out of Gengar's body that take the shape of it.
Agatha's Gengar	The Scheme Team		None
	Multiple shadows come out of Shiftry's body and take the form of Shiftry, or Shiftry moves quickly, leaving behind afterimages of itself.
Angela's Shiftry	From Cradle to Save		None
Spenser's Shiftry	Ka Boom with a View!		None
	Tauros splits into multiple copies of itself.
Ash's Tauros	Second Time's the Charm!		None
	Pidgeot moves quickly to create multiple afterimages of itself.
Solidad's Pidgeot	Channeling the Battle Zone!		None
	Aipom's body glows white or becomes outlined in white and it creates multiple copies of itself.
Dawn's Aipom	Aipom and Circumstance!		None
	Starly creates multiple copies of itself.
Paul's Starly	When Pokémon Worlds Collide!		None
	Altaria's body glows white and it creates multiple copies of itself.
Unknown Trainer's Altaria	Not on MY Watch Ya Don't!		None
	Misdreavus splits into three other copies of itself.
Zoey's Misdreavus	Mounting a Coordinator Assault!		None
	Geodude's whole body glows white and it creates multiple copies of itself.
Unknown Trainer's Geodude	All Dressed Up with Somewhere to Go!		None
	Darkrai's body glows red and it creates faded copies of itself that circles around the opponent.
Darkrai (movie 10)	The Rise of Darkrai		None
	Ambipom's body glows white and it creates multiple copies of itself. Sometimes, its body doesn't even glow at all.
Dawn's Ambipom	The Psyduck Stops Here!		None
	Raichu's body glows white and it creates multiple copies of itself.
A Raichu Ash used briefly	Camping it Up!		None
	Phione's body glows white and it creates multiple copies of itself.
A wild Phione	Hold the Phione!		None
	Mr. Mime's body glows white and it creates five identical copies of itself.
Clayton's Mr. Mime	Short and To the Punch!		None
	Gabite's body glows white and it creates multiple copies of itself.
Ursula's Gabite	Opposites Interact!		None
	Mismagius's body glows white and it creates multiple copies of itself.
Zoey's Mismagius	Coming Full - Festival Circle!		None
	Leafeon's body glows white and it creates multiple copies of itself.
Zoey's Leafeon	Coming Full - Festival Circle!		None
	Luxray's body flashes white and it creates multiple copies of itself.
Volkner's Luxray	The Eighth Wonder of the Sinnoh World!		None
	Panpo's body glows white and it creates copies of itself.
Corn's Panpour	BW005		None
	Hatooboo's body glows white and it creates copies of itself.
Shooti's Hatooboo	BW010		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Poliwrath File:Aibo Double Team.png Aipom Crobat Cranidos
The user creates multiple copies of themselves.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Poliwrath disappears right before its about to get hit by an attack, creating an afterimage. It then appears somewhere else.
Red's Poli	Just a Spearow Carrier		Debut
	When Aipom is about to get hit by an attack, it disappears, creating an afterimage when it does. It then reappears somewhere else.
Gold's Aibo	Number One Donphan		None
	When Quilava is about to get hit by an attack, it disappears, creating an afterimage when it does. It then reappears somewhere else.
Gold's Exbo	Tyranitar War		None
	Crobat creates multiple copies of itself.
Janine's Crobat	Your Shadow, Crobat!		None
	Tyrogue creates four copies of itself.
Bruno's Tyrogue	The Last Battle X		None
	Plusle runs around in circles around the opponent, running so fast that it seems like there are multiple Plusle running around it.
Ruby's Plusle	VS. Plusle & Minun II		None
	Minun runs around in circles around the opponent, running so fast that it seems like there are multiple Minun running around it.
Sapphire's Minun	VS. Plusle & Minun II		None
	Combusken holds its arms out like a 'T' and it creates multiple copies of itself.
Sapphire's Toro	VS. Altaria		None
	Cranidos creates multiple copies of itself.
Roark's Cranidos	VS. Cranidos		None

Trivia

• This move's Japanese name is a reference to a ninja technique commonly known in English as shadow clone. Bunshin can mean "one's other self" or clone or duplicate. With kage meaning shadow, you get shadow clone. It's a very common technique in ninja works, such as anime, manga, and novels.

In other languages

• Dutch: Dubbel team
• Finnish: Parijoukkue (original series), Tuplatiimi (Advanced Generation)
• French: Reflet
• German: Doppelteam
• Greek: Διπλή Ομάδα
• Hindi: Dohri Team, Dugni Team
• Italian: Doppioteam
• Korean: 그림자분신 Geurimja Bunsin
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Multiplicar
• Portuguese (European): Duplicar (Pokémon Chronicles); Equipa Dupla (Diamond and Pearl Series)
• Spanish: Doble Equipo
• Serbian: Udvostručenje