Moon Stone
The Moon Stone (Japanese: つきのいし Moon Stone) is a type of evolutionary stone introduced in Generation I.
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In the core series games
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In the Generation V games, the Moon Stone can be sold to an item maniac inside the Icirrus City Pokémon Center for $3000.
Effect
Can be used to evolve one of several Pokémon. This consumes the Moon Stone.
- Causes Nidorina to evolve into Nidoqueen
- Causes Nidorino to evolve into Nidoking
- Causes Clefairy to evolve into Clefable
- Causes Jigglypuff to evolve into Wigglytuff
- Causes Skitty to evolve into Delcatty
- Causes Munna to evolve into Musharna
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Appearance
This is the appearance of the Moon Stone in the Sinnoh Underground.
 
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| Moon Stone |
Artwork
Moon Stone artwork from Generation I
In spin-off games
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
The Moon Stone appears in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky, and Gates to Infinity.
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Effect
Can be used to evolve one of several Pokémon by offering it at the Luminous CaveRB or Luminous SpringTDS or by using it in a dungeonGtI. This consumes the Moon Stone.
- Causes Nidorina to evolve into Nidoqueen
- Causes Nidorino to evolve into Nidoking
- Causes Clefairy to evolve into Clefable
- Causes Jigglypuff to evolve into Wigglytuff
- Causes Skitty to evolve into Delcatty
- Causes Munna to evolve into Musharna
If thrown, it will deal 1RBTDS/2GtI damage (2 if sticky). In Red Rescue Team, Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky, using this item in a dungeon will consume it, with no effect.
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| Sprite from Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team |
Sprite from Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky |
Sprite from Gates to Infinity |
Model from Gates to Infinity* |
Pokémon Conquest
In Pokémon Conquest, Jigglypuff and Munna evolve into Wigglytuff and Musharna, respectively, if their link is improved while their Warrior is equipped with a Moon Stone.
A Moon Stone can be purchased from the traveling merchant for 5000 gold, and sold for 2500-3250 gold.
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In Pokémon Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR!
The Moon Stone card is available in Pokémon Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR!.
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In the Pokémon Pinball series
In Pokémon Pinball and Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire, the player gets three Moon Stone symbols in order to evolve any of the Pokémon below.
| Evolves from | Evolves into | Pokémon Pinball | Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire |
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| Nidorina | Nidoqueen | ✔ | ✘ |
| Nidorino | Nidoking | ✔ | ✘ |
| Clefairy | Clefable | ✔ | ✘ |
| Jigglypuff | Wigglytuff | ✔ | ✔ |
| Skitty | Delcatty | ✘ | ✔ |
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Sprite from Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire |
In the anime
In Clefairy and the Moon Stone, a giant Moon Stone appeared deep within Mt. Moon, being worshipped by a group of Clefairy who lived there. It was soon stolen by Team Rocket, and ultimately ended up being blown up; the shards from the shattered giant Moon Stone rained down on the Clefairy and caused some of them to evolve into Clefable. In this episode, the characters speculated that the Moon Stone was how various Pokémon—Clefairy in particular—arrived in the Pokémon world. Another giant Moon Stone was later seen in the same location in A Real Cleffa-Hanger.
A flashback in Delcatty Got Your Tongue revealed that Abby decided to study to become a Pokémon Doctor shortly after winning the title of Top Coordinator. Dr. Moss took her under his wing and taught her how to treat Pokémon, and in recognition of her efforts gave her a Moon Stone, which Abby used to evolve her Skitty, nicknamed Johnny, into Delcatty.
In Mystery on a Deserted Island!, the Moon Stone was featured along with all of the other evolutionary stones available as of Generation V.
A full set of evolutionary stones was seen on display in a stone shop in Geosenge Town in The Cave of Trials!.
A Moon Stone appeared in a fantasy in A Dream Encounter!, where it was revealed that Lusamine had used one to evolve her Clefairy into Clefable.
A giant Moon Stone
Seymour inspecting a Moon Stone in Clefairy and the Moon Stone
In the manga
In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga
In Clefairy Tale, Ash, Professor Oak, and Bill witnessed a Clefairy evolution ceremony involving a large Moon Stone.
The focus of the chapter To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question! was evolutionary stones, including the Moon Stone.
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Red, Green & Blue arc
A Moon Stone was first mentioned by Professor Oak in Gyarados Splashes In! as a rock with a crescent moon-shaped indentation that boosts a Pokémon's power immensely. In the next round, Team Rocket searched for one in Mt. Moon. However, it was Red who eventually found it. In The Winged Legends, Red used his Moon Stone to evolve Green's Clefairy into a Clefable in order to fight Thu-Fi-Zer during the Silph Co. showdown with Team Rocket.
Ruby & Sapphire arc
In Guile from Mawile, Ruby's Kiki evolved into a Delcatty due to being exposed to one of Steven's Moon Stones. Another one of Steven's Moon Stones was seen in Ring Ring Goes Beldum.
FireRed & LeafGreen arc
In Give It Your Best, Blastoise, during the battle against the Deoxys Duplicates, Green evolved her Jiggly and Nido into Wigglytuff and Nidoqueen, respectively, using two Moon Stones.
Black & White arc
In Homecoming, it was revealed that Black's Musha evolved into a Musharna using a Moon Stone received from Caitlin.
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A Moon Stone in the Ruby & Sapphire arc
Two Moon Stones in the FireRed & LeafGreen arc
In the TCG
- Main article: Moon Stone (Vending S1)
The Moon Stone was released as a Trainer card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the Japanese Original Era with Extended Sheet 1. The card was only ever released in Japanese and has never been reprinted. It allows the player to add 1 Colorless Evolution card from their deck to their hand.
Unrelated to the other TCG card, a Moon Stone appears as a held item on the Secret Wonders Clefairy card. It allows Clefairy to evolve on the turn it is played.
Trivia
- From Generation IV onward, the Moon Ball is more likely to catch Pokémon that evolve via Moon Stone. While this was intended to be the case in Generation II, the Moon Ball always has 1× effectiveness there due to a bug.
- Though six known Pokémon families evolve with Moon Stones, only the four introduced in Generation I can be caught in the games in which Moon Balls are obtainable.
- Through a glitch in the Generation I games, Pokémon that would normally require an evolutionary stone to evolve can be evolved without it, provided that the Pokémon levels up in the battle and the player has sent out a specific Pokémon in the same battle. In the case of the Moon Stone, this Pokémon is Exeggutor.
- The Moon Stone shares its name with an actual gemstone.
- In the Chuang Yi translation of Pokémon Pocket Monsters, the Moon Stone is called "Moon Rock".
In other languages
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