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Screech
いやなおと Unpleasant Tone

Battles

Type	Normal
Category	Status
PP	40 (max. 64)
Power	—
Accuracy	85%
Priority	{{{priority}}}
Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock Is a sound-based move

Target

Foe	Foe	Foe
Self	Ally	Ally
Does not affect any Pokémon*

Availability

Introduced	[[Generation {{{gen}}}]]
Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests

Condition	Smart
Appeal	1 ♥
Jam	3 ♥♥♥
???

Super Contests

Condition	Smart
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Lowers the Voltage of all Judges by one each.

Contest Spectaculars

Condition	Smart
Appeal	0
Jamming	0

On Smogon's Movedex:
- Generation IX

Screech (Japanese: いやなおと Unpleasant Tone) is a mostly accurate non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Screech decreases the opponent's defense by 2 levels.

Screech will do nothing if the opponent's attack has reached a level of -6 or a value of 1, and will fail if the opponent has a Substitute or is under the effect of Mist. The effect of Screech is ignored by critical hits.