Bright Powder

The Bright Powder (Japanese: ひかりのこな Light Powder), formatted BrightPowder prior to Generation VI, is a type of held item introduced in Generation II that decreases the opponent's accuracy.

Bright Powder ひかりのこな Light Powder

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Introduced in Generation II Pocket Generation II Items Generation III Items Generation IV Items Generation V Items (Held items) Generation VI Items Generation VII Items Generation VIII Other Items Generation IX Other Items Fling Power 10

In the core series games

Price

Games Cost Sell price GSC RSEFRLG ColoXD DPPtHGSS BWB2W2 XYORAS BDSP N/A $5 SMUSUM SwSh N/A $2,000 SV $30,000 $7,500

Effect

Held item

Generation II

Moves targeted at the holder have an additional 20/256 (~8%) chance to miss, including for one-hit knockout moves.

Generation III onward

Bright Powder now reduces accuracy of moves targeting the holder by 10% of what their accuracy would be otherwise. Bright Powder no longer affects one-hit knockout moves.

Description

Games Description GSC Lowers the foe's accuracy. (HOLD) RSEColoXD A hold item that casts a glare to reduce accuracy. FRLG An item to be held by a Pokémon. It casts a tricky glare that lowers the opponent's accuracy. DPPtHGSS BWB2W2 An item to be held by a Pokémon. It casts a tricky glare that lowers the opponent's accuracy. XYORAS SMUSUMPE SwShBDSPLA An item to be held by a Pokémon. It casts a tricky glare that lowers the opposing Pokémon's accuracy. SV An item to be held by a Pokémon. This glittery powder casts a tricky glare that lowers the accuracy of opposing Pokémon's moves.

Acquisition

Games Finite methods Repeatable methods GSC Held by Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Mewtwo when traded from Generation I RSE Battle Tower (35+ win streak)RS/Battle Frontier (64 BP)E FRLG Trade Colo Mt. Battle (10,000 Poké Coupons) XD Mt. Battle (8,000 Poké Coupons) DPPt Battle ParkDP/FrontierPt (48 BP) HGSS Goldenrod Radio Tower Battle Frontier (48 BP) BW Chargestone Cave Battle Subway (48 BP) B2W2 Route 4W2, Anville Town Battle Subway/PWT (12 BP) XY Battle Maison (48 BP) ORAS Battle Maison (48 BP) Held by wild Wurmple, wild Volbeat, and wild Illumise (5% chance each) SMUSUM Route 5 (held by in-game trade BounsweetSM/NoibatUSUM) Battle Royal Dome (48 BP) SwSh Glimwood Tangle SwShIA Cram-o-matic (Bug: 32-40 points) SwShCT Hidden recurring item (Ballimere Lake) BDSP Battle Park (48 BP) Held by wild Wurmple, wild Volbeat, and wild Illumise (5% chance each) SV Delibird Presents (Cascarrafa Branch, after completing the main storyline) Sparkling overworld item (Area Zero)

Distribution

As a held item

Games Event Language/Region Distribution period RS Ancient & Aliens Week Sableye United States August 14 to 20, 2004 B2W2 Strongest Class Single Battle Garchomp Japanese September 15 to October 28, 2012 Strongest Class Garchomp Korean February 24 to May 5, 2013

Gallery

Artwork

Artwork from Scarlet and Violet

Trivia

• In Pokémon Colosseum, during the cutscene battle between Eagun and Cipher Peon Skrub at the Relic Stone, Skrub's Shadow Hitmontop is holding a Bright Powder. However, when the player immediately afterwards battles Skrub and has a chance to snag Hitmontop, it's holding a Black Belt instead.
• In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, when pluralized or prefixed with the indefinite article, this item's name is rendered with a lowercase 'p' ("Brightpowders" and "a Brightpowder", respectively). In Pokémon Platinum and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, both of these instances are corrected to display with a capital 'P' ("BrightPowders" and "a BrightPowder", respectively), matching how the item's name would normally be rendered.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	光粉 Gwōngfán * 亮光之粉 Leuhnggwōng jī Fán *
	Mandarin	光粉 Guāngfěn * 亮光之粉 Liàngguāng zhī Fěn *
French		Poudre ClaireVI+ PoudreclaireII–V
German		Blendpuder
Italian		Luminpolvere
Korean		반짝가루 Banjjak Garu
Spanish		Polvo Brillo

External links

• On Smogon Itemdex:
  • Generation II – III – IV – V – VI – VII – VIII – IX

This item article is part of Project ItemDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on all items.