Sheer Cold (move)

Sheer Cold
ぜったいれいど Absolute Zero
Sheer Cold VII.png
Sheer Cold VII 2.png
Type  Ice
Category  Special
PP  5 (max. 8)
Power  —
Accuracy  30%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
  • Does not make contact
  • Affected by Protect
  • Not affected by Magic Coat
  • Not affected by Snatch
  • Not affected by Mirror Move
  • Not affected by King's Rock
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
May affect anyone adjacent to the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Jam  1
Badly startles all Pokémon that made good appeals
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  0  
Earn +15 if all the Pokémon choose the same Judge.
Condition  Beautiful
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Jamming  1
Badly startles all Pokémon that successfully showed their appeal.

Sheer Cold (Japanese: ぜったいれいど Absolute Zero) is an Ice-type one-hit knockout move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Generations III to VI

If Sheer Cold hits, it will inflict damage equal to the opponent's current HP, therefore knocking out the target. It will fail if the target's level is higher than the user's level. Sheer Cold's chance of hitting is independent of accuracy and evasion stats; instead, it depends on the level of the user and the level of the target and is worked out with the formula

Accuracy = ((level of user - level of target) + 30)%.

Sheer Cold can be used as part of a Pokémon Contest combination, with the user gaining an extra two appeal points if either Hail or Mind Reader was used in the prior turn. It is also part of a Contest Spectacular combination and will give an extra three appeal points if any of the moves Lock-On, Mind Reader and Miracle Eye was used in the prior turn.

Generation VII

Sheer Cold's accuracy is now displayed as 30%.

Ice-type Pokémon are now immune to Sheer Cold. Additionally, the move's accuracy is lowered to 20% if the user is not an Ice-type Pokémon. The accuracy formula for non-Ice-types is shown below:

Accuracy = ((level of user - level of target) + 20)%.

Description

Games Description
RSEColo.XD A chilling attack that causes fainting if it hits.
FRLG The foe is attacked with ultimate cold that causes fainting if it hits.
DPPtHGSSPBR The foe is attacked with a blast of absolute-zero cold. The foe instantly faints if it hits.
BWB2W2 The target is attacked with a blast of absolute-zero cold. The target instantly faints if it hits.
XYORAS The target is attacked with a blast of absolute-zero cold. The target faints instantly if this attack hits.
SMUSUM The target faints instantly. It's less likely to hit the target if it's used by Pokémon other than Ice types.


Learnset

By leveling up

# Pokémon Types Egg Groups Level
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX
037A  
Vulpix
Alola Form
  Field Field 50
0087    
 
Water 1 Field 34 34 34 34 1, Evo.
0131    
 
Monster Water 1 55 55 55 50 50
0144    
 
style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" | Undiscovered style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" | Undiscovered 85 78 78 1, 78 99
0245     style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" | Undiscovered style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" | Undiscovered 1
0362     Fairy Mineral 61 59 59 1, 59XY
1, 61ORAS
1, 61
0363    
 
Water 1 Field 49 49 49 49XY
46ORAS
46
0364    
 
Water 1 Field 55 55 55 55XY
52ORAS
52
0365    
 
Water 1 Field 61 65 65 65XY
60ORAS
60
0382     style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" | Undiscovered style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" | Undiscovered 60 60DPPt
75HGSS
75 75XY
65ORAS
65
0459    
 
Monster Grass 46 46 46 46
0460    
 
Monster Grass 58 58 58 58
0582     Mineral Mineral 53 53 53
0583     Mineral Mineral 58 58 58
0584     Mineral Mineral 67 1, 67 1, 67
0613     Field Field 57 57 57
0614     Field Field 66 1, 66 1, 66
0615     Mineral Mineral 61 1, 61 1, 57
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

Generation IV

# Pokémon Types Egg Groups Obtained with
0245     style="text-align:center; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" width="140px" colspan="2" | Undiscovered style="text-align:center; display:none; background:#Template:Undiscovered egg color;" | Undiscovered Shiny Crown Suicune
Korean Crown Suicune
GameStop Suicune
Winter 2011 Suicune
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.


In other games

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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

Sheer Cold will cause a Pokémon to instantly faint through "calamitous damage" (changed to "It's a one-hit KO!" in Gates to Infinity), regardless of level, but is prone to missing.

Description

Games Description
MDRB Defeats the target in one shot--if it hits.
MDTDS Defeats the target in one shot if it hits successfully.
BSL てきポケモンを いちげきで たおしてしまうが めいちゅうしにくい
MDGtI
SMD
When the move hits, it knocks out an enemy in a single blow.*
The enemy will faint instantly if this attack hits, but it's hard to land this move.*


In the anime

 
Lapras
 
Beartic
 
Vanillish
 
Glalie
The foe is attacked with a blast of absolute-zero cold. The foe instantly faints if it hits.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
  Lapras's body glows light blue and releases a wave of light blue energy, freezing anything around it.
Solidad's Lapras May, We Harley Drew'd Ya! Debut
  Abomasnow raises both of its arms in the air and multiple ice pillars shoot out from around it in a circle. A line of ice pillars then jut out straight at the opponent and hit it, or its body becomes surrounded in a light blue aura. It then opens its mouth and the inside of it starts to glow light blue; firing a white- blue beam towards the opponent.
A wild Abomasnow Pikachu's Ice Adventure None
Morana's Abomasnow Survival of the Striaton Gym! None
  Beartic's body becomes outlined in light blue aura and it pulls its head back and opens its mouth. When it does, a spinning orb of bright blue energy forms in front of it. Beartic then fires a powerful light blue beam of energy with light blue snowflake-shaped sparkles from the orb at the opponent.
Two wild Beartic The Beartic Mountain Feud! None
  Vanillish's body becomes surrounded in a light blue aura. It then opens its mouth and the inside of it starts to glow light blue. A spinning wind then comes out of Vanillish's mouth and it fires a powerful light blue beam of energy surrounded in light blue sparkles and wind from its mouth at the opponent. As the light blue beam travels at the opponent, large icy pillars jut out of the ground around the beam. The beam then disappears and multiple ice pillars continue to jut out of the ground at the opponent.
Cryogonal Man's Vanillish The Mighty Accelguard to the Rescue! None
  Glalie's body becomes surrounded by a blue aura and the inside of its mouth shines white. The ground around Glalie begins to freeze and any opponent standing in its wake are frozen and instantly knocked out.
Morana's Glalie Survival of the Striaton Gym! None
  Mega Abomasnow freezes everything around itself.
A Trainer's Abomasnow Mega Evolution Special I None
  A light blue field of energy forms around Primal Kyogre. The energy field then grows in size, freezing everything it touches.
Kyogre (anime) Mega Evolution Special III None


In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga


In the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team manga


In other generations

Core series games

Side series games

Spin-off series games

Trivia

  • Sheer Cold is the only OHKO move introduced outside of Generation I, and the only special OHKO move. Prior to Generation VII, it was the only OHKO move that no Pokémon had a type-based immunity to.

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 絕對零度 Jyuhtdeui Lìhngdouh
Mandarin 絕對零度 / 绝对零度 Juéduì Língdù
  Dutch IJskoud
  French Glaciation
  German Eiseskälte
  Greek Δριμύ Ψύχος
  Italian Purogelo
  Korean 절대영도 Jeoldae Yeongdo
  Polish Polarny Chłód
Portuguese   Brazil Frio Absoluto
Frio Extremo (TCG)
  Portugal Frio Polar
  Serbian Potpuno zamrzavanje
Spanish   Latin America Frío Extremo
  Spain Frío Polar
  Vietnamese 0 Độ Tuyệt Đối


One-hit knockout moves
  GuillotineHorn DrillFissure
  Sheer Cold



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