Reflect Type (move)

Reflect Type ミラータイプ Mirror Type

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 Normal: May affect anyone adjacent to the user

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

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Reflect Type (Japanese: ミラータイプ Mirror Type) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation V.

Effect

Reflect Type changes the user's type to match the type or types of the target. Reflect Type works through Illusion, but fails when used by a Pokémon with Multitype.

Description

Games Description The user reflects the target's type, making it the same type as the target.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
073		Tentacruel	Water	Poison				--
120		Staryu	Water		Water	46	40	'
151		Mew	Psychic		Psychic	--			'
380		Latias	Dragon	Psychic	70			'
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 event

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0352 Kecleon Normal Dream World - Dream Park Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Trivia

• Reflect Type's effect is that of Conversion in Generation I. From Generation II onward, however, Conversion has instead changed the user's type to that of one of its moves (aside from Curse, when the move was ???-type).

In other languages

Language Title French Copie Type German Typenspiegel Italian Riflettipo Korean 미러타입 Mirror Type Brazilian Portuguese Tipo Refletido Spanish Clonatipo

Variations of the move Camouflage
Camouflage • Reflect Type

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