Screech (move)

Screech
いやなおと Unpleasant Tone
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Type  Normal
Category  Status
PP  40 (max. 64)
Power  —
Accuracy  85%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
Does not affect any Pokémon*
Availability
Introduced  Generation I
Condition  Smart
Appeal  1
Jam  3 ♥♥♥
???
Condition  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Lowers the Voltage of all Judges by one each.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Screech (Japanese: いやなおと Unpleasant Tone) is a mostly accurate non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Screech decreases the opponent's Defense by two levels.

Screech will do nothing if the opponent's Defense 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.

In the anime

Pokémon

Golbat. Golbat opens its mouth and a glass-shattering shriek is released.

Onix. Onix opens its mouth and roars loudly.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0023   Ekans
Poison 31
0024   Arbok
Poison 36
0052   Meowth
Normal 24
0053   Persian
Normal 24
0056   Mankey
Fighting 45
0057   Primeape
Fighting 45
0072   Tentacool
Water Poison 40
0073   Tentacruel
Water Poison 43
0081   Magnemite
Electric 47
0082   Magneton
Electric 54
0088   Grimer
Poison 48
0089   Muk
Poison 53
0095   Onix
Rock Ground --
0100   Voltorb
Electric --
0101   Electrode
Electric --
0108   Lickitung
Normal 39
0125   Electabuzz
Electric 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.

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0023   Ekans
Poison 29
0024   Arbok
Poison 33
0042   Golbat
Poison Flying --
0052   Meowth
Normal 35
0053   Persian
Normal 38
0054   Psyduck
Water 23
0055   Golduck
Water 23
0056   Mankey
Fighting 45
0057   Primeape
Fighting 54
0073 Tentacool Tentacool
Water Poison 43
0073   Tentacruel
Water Poison 47
0081   Magnemite
Electric Steel 39
0082   Magneton
Electric Steel 43
0088   Grimer
Poison 31
0089   Muk
Poison 31
0095   Onix
Rock Ground --
0100   Voltorb
Electric 9
0101   Electrode
Electric --
0101   Electrode
Electric 9
0108   Lickitung
Normal 43
0125   Electabuzz
Electric 36
0158   Totodile
Water 43
0159   Croconaw
Water 45
0160   Feraligatr
Water 47
0167   Spinarak
Bug Poison 45
0168   Ariados
Bug Poison 53
0169   Crobat
Poison Flying --
0190   Aipom
Normal 36
0193   Yanma
Bug Flying 43
0197   Umbreon
Dark 47
0206   Dunsparce
Normal 30
0207   Gligar
Ground Flying 44
0208   Steelix
Steel Ground --
0215   Sneasel
Dark Ice 17
0239   Elekid
Normal 33
0246   Larvitar
Rock Ground 15
0247   Pupitar
Rock Ground --
0247   Pupitar
Rock Ground 15
0248   Tyranitar
Rock Dark --
0248   Tyranitar
Rock Dark 15
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" | 0019 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Rattata
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Meowth, Persian
Psyduck, Golduck
Mankey, Primeape
Aipom
Umbreon
Dunsparce
Sneasel |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0046 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Paras
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#3FA129" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Yanma
Gligar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0048 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Venonat
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Yanma
Gligar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0050 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Diglett
| colspan="2" style="background:#915121; text-align: center;" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Meowth, Persian
Psyduck, Golduck
Mankey, Primeape
Aipom
Umbreon
Dunsparce
Sneasel |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0090 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Shellder
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Tentacool, Tentacruel |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0104 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Cubone
| colspan="2" style="background:#915121; text-align: center;" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Lickitung
Totodile, Croconaw
Feraligatr
Larvitar, Pupitar, Tyranitar
Mareep, Flaaffy, Ampharos |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0109 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Koffing
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer, Muk |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0170 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Chinchou
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#FAC000" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Remoraid, Octillery |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0179 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Mareep
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Meowth, Persian
Psyduck, Golduck
Mankey, Primeape
Lickitung
Totodile, Croconaw, Feraligatr
Aipom
Umbreon
Dunsparce
Sneasel
Larvitar, Pupitar, Tyranitar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0200 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Misdreavus
| colspan="2" style="background:#704170; text-align: center;" | Ghost | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer, Muk |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0222 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Corsola
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Psyduck, Golduck
Tentacool, Tentacruel
Totodile, Croconaw, Feraligatr |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0223 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Remoraid
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Psyduck, Golduck
Totodile, Croconaw, Feraligatr

|- | 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 III

By leveling up

Generation IV

By leveling up

In other languages

  • Spanish: Chirrido
  • French: Grincement
  • German: Kreideschrei
  • Portuguese: Uivo

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