Cotton Spore (move)

Cotton Spore わたほうし Cotton Spore

Battles Type  Grass Category  Status PP  40 (max. 64) Power  — Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

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

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Subtracts 5 appeal points from any Pokémon in Combo Standby who appealed prior to the user. Subtracts 1 point from any Pokémon not in Combo Standby.

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

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

Cotton Spore (Japanese: わたほうし Cotton Spore) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Generation II to IV

Cotton Spore lowers the target's Speed stat by two stat levels, and has an Accuracy of 85. It will fail if the target's Speed stat has reached a stat level of -6 or a value of 1, if the target has a Substitute, or is under the effect of Mist.

Generation V

The Accuracy of Cotton Spore is increased to 100.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0179 Mareep Electric 23 0180 Flaaffy Electric 27 0181 Ampharos Electric 27 0187 Hoppip Grass Flying 25 0188 Skiploom Grass Flying 29 0189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 33 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0179 Mareep Electric 23 0180 Flaaffy Electric 27 0181 Ampharos Electric 27 0187 Hoppip Grass Flying 25 0188 Skiploom Grass Flying 29 0189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 33 0331 Cacnea Grass 41 0332 Cacturne Grass 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 breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0315 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff
Cacnea, Cacturne

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0179 Mareep Electric 19 0180 Flaaffy Electric 20 0181 Ampharos Electric 20 0187 Hoppip Grass Flying 28 0188 Skiploom Grass Flying 32 0189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 32 0331 Cacnea Grass 49 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark 59 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 breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0315 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff
Cacnea, Cacturne |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0406 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Budew
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff
Cacnea, Cacturne

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0179 Mareep Electric 19 0180 Flaaffy Electric 20 0181 Ampharos Electric 20 0187 Hoppip Grass Flying 34 0188 Skiploom Grass Flying 40 0189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 44 0331 Cacnea Grass 49 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark 59 0546 Cottonee Grass 17 0547 Whimsicott Grass -- 0556 Maractus Grass 18 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 breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0315 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff
Cacnea, Cacturne
Cottonee, Whimsicott
Maractus |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0406 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Budew
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff
Cacnea, Cacturne
Cottonee, Whimsicott
Maractus

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

In the anime

Cacturne
The user releases cottonlike spores that cling to the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Cacturne releases multiple fluffy, white cottonballs from its mouth that float around the opponent.
Harley's Cacturne	A Hurdle for Squirtle		Debut
	Cottonee releases multiple fluffy, white cottonballs from the cotton on its body that float around the opponent.
Multiple wild Cottonee	BW032		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Jumpluff Cotton Spore Adventures.png Jumpluff
The user releases cotton-like spores that cling to the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Jumpluff holds its arms above its head and sprays the opponent with cotton-like spores from the cotton puffs on its hands and head. The cotton sticks to the opponent and makes them unable to see Jumpluff.
Eusine's Jumpluff	Great Girafarig		Debut
Orm's Jumpluff	Battling Place in the Space		None

Trivia

• No Pokémon introduced in Generation IV or Generation I can learn Cotton Spore by level up, and only Budew can learn it by other methods, in this case by breeding.

In other languages

• French: Spore Coton
• German: Baumwollsaat
• Greek: Βαμβακόσπορος
• Italian: Cottonspora
• Korean: 목화포자 Mokhwa Poja
• Portuguese (Brazilian animé): Sementes de algodão
• Spanish: Esporagodón
• Serbian: Spora od Vate

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