So if you want to paralyze the opponent, this might be your best or only choice. Limber also prevents Paralysis, and now this makes Stunfisk having it redundant as it already cannot be paralyzed as an Electric-type, though as part Ground it has always been immune to many Electric-type paralysis attacks so it seems this was always kind of a joke Ability for it.Īnyway, with so many moves of different Types causing paralysis Stun Spore is useful to the Pokemon who learn it and can't gain access to the other moves-there are better paralysis moves out there, but you don't always have a choice. As of Generation VI Electric has "reclaimed" of sorts as they are naturally immune to the status effect, even when it's paralysis caused by a move like Body Slam as opposed to an electrical shock. While poison, burn, and freeze have traditionally mainly been associated with their corresponding Types-Poison, Fire, and Ice-Paralysis has somewhat been seen as the Electric-type status effect, but even from the beginning you have moves of other Types capable of causing it and currently ten different Types have a paralysis-inducing move. It's a useful status effect to nerf fast and powerful foes, though not all that effective on Pokemon who are already slow and defensive except for the chance of taking a turn away from them, but they're usually the ones ready to hit you with status effects too. Paralysis also has a 25% of making you unable to act, so it can get pretty annoying if your luck is bad. Well, with your Pokemon's Speed dropping that low in the older games you usually would end up slower unless there was a huge difference in Speed beforehand. Paralysis' biggest use is lowering the opponent's Speed, cutting it down 75% until Sun and Moon which nerfed it to 50%-this surprised me because every time I've been paralyzed I've always moved second, so I assumed paralysis caused you to always go last unless both Pokemon was paralyzed, in which Speed would determine order once more. And that reminds me, we haven't talked about paralysis in-depth-the only move I think we talked about was Thunder Punch and Body Slam, but I skipped it then. Stun Spore (or "Numbing Powder" in Japan, it seems the localization can't agree on which to use at times between spore and powder) is basically Poison Powder, except it causes paralysis. If powered up by a Grassium Z into Z-Stun Spore, the user's Special Defense stat raises one stage.
The user scatters a cloud of numbing powder that paralyzes the target. Once more it's another example of "organic" poison, as none of the pollutant/mutated Poison Pokemon pick it up. Though it's a Poison-type attack, it's mainly associated with Grass and Bug-type Pokemon, meant to be irritant "dust" that plants and certain bugs give off such as moths? I don't think every Grass or Bug Pokemon that learns it is based off a poisonous variant, really anything that could irritate you-I don't think cotton is poisonous, but Cottonee learns it I guess because cotton makes some people itch and such? Actually every Pokemon who learns it is one of those two Types, and there's no pure Poison-type Pokemon who learns it. This isn't necessarily Poison Powder's fault, rather the fact that Toxic is clearly superior to any move that simply poisons and is learnable by virtually every Pokemon of note. Though it will always cause poison if it hits it isn't super reliable due to the low accuracy of the attack itself, and all the examples who currently resist it has reduced its usefulness over the years. In addition like other moves that cause poison, Poison Powder has no effect on Poison or Steel-type Pokemon, as well as those with the Immunity Ability.
Poison Powder is our first "dust/spore" move, another subset of moves that consist of Status moves that cause the target to suffer different status effects, and though originally this connection was merely superficial much like Sound-based moves this has become a mechanically distinct category of moves as they are unable to effect Grass-type Pokemon, Pokemon with Overcoat, and those holding the Safety Goggles as of Generation VI. If powered up by a Poisonium Z into Z-Poison Powder, the user's Defense stat raises one stage. The user scatters a cloud of poisonous dust that poisons the target.
Today's entry is a bit dull-it's powder time!
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