Status effects

Status ailments are conditional agents that proteanly affect a Pokémon’s ability to battle while operatively active in-battle.

Status ailments are most commonly transmissible through specialistic status moves; however, they also exist as subsidiary effects for various multifunctional moves, in addition to causative abilities.

Due to various developmental incompletions and other amendations that were deemed necessary for the transmodal transition to an MMO environment, many status ailments may be inexistent; if certain functions from the official games are not delineated on this page, it is tacit that it is the case with them. The PvP Ruleset may codify its rules against such usage depending on whether or not the bugged mechanics and usage thereof are considered detrimental to the balance of the PvP venue.

Status ailments

Status ailments are debilitative effects that are onset in-battle. While there is a modal variability of the effects—some of which are even unilaterally beneficial to the user—most impinge the opponent by either by insidiously damaging their health or by inhibiting them from executing any move.

Status ailments effectuate as soon as they are onset; this means that the afflictee will sustain its effects on the contractive turn, and it will elapse as one turn in its duration (for those ailments that have a durational determinacy, namely the acute ones as described below).

There are two modal categories for status ailments: chronic and acute ones; chronic ones can only be expunged by medicinal remedies, Pokémon Center trips, or ailment-curative moves and abilities, whereas acute ones will only last for the duration of the battle or until the afflictee is switched out.

Chronic

Chronic ailments are more rigidly lasting ailments that remain continuously effective until it is cured by medical devices, such as curative items, Pokémon Center trips, and by other avenues. They will remain active out of battle and will be embossed by the corresponsive icon on Pokémon shells and hover-overs; see the pictorial illustration to the right.

Contradistinct to the official games, chronic ailments, which are homologically known as non-volatile ailments thereon, are not inoperative out of battle. While the status will still remain in effect outside of battle until cured and will be continually operationalized in-battle, they precipitate no operatively active effects outside of battle; for example, if a poisoned Pokémon were marshaled as the lead Pokémon, it would not incur damage from walking outside of battle.

Additionally, chronic and acute ailments are not differentiable statuses in the current battle system, meaning that they can not consolidate each other as compound effects; they will overwrite each other regardless of their classification.

Burn

It is a physiothermal condition that incrementally damages the afflictee, inflicting a damage equal to 1/16th of their maximal HP per turn. Additionally, it will halve the amount of damage that is inflictable by physical moves.

Pokémon of the associative Fire type and possessors of the Water Veil ability are insusceptible to the contraction of this status ailment.

It is curable by consumption of a Rawst Berry or application of a Burn Heal, in addition to usage of all of the all-conditional remedial agents.

Causative agents

Moves

Move	Type	Category	Power	Accuracy	PP
Blaze Kick	Fire	Physical	85	90	10
Ember	Fire	Special	40	100	25
Fire Blast	Fire	Special	110	85	5
Fire Fang	Fire	Physical	65	95	15
Fire Punch	Fire	Physical	75	100	15
Flamethrower	Fire	Special	90	100	15
Flame Wheel	Fire	Physical	60	100	25
Flare Blitz	Fire	Physical	120	100	15
Heat Wave	Fire	Special	95	90	10
Inferno	Fire	Special	100	50	5
Lava Plume	Fire	Special	80	100	15
Sacred Fire	Fire	Physical	100	95	5
Scald	Water	Special	80	100	15
Tri Attack	Normal	Special	80	100	10
Will-O-Wisp	Fire	Status	—	85	15

Abilities

Contactively attacking a Flame Body-possessor precipitates a 30% chance of the inflictor getting burned.

Items

The Flame Orb will burn the holder at the end of the turn.

Freeze

Frozen Pokémon will be immobilized, precluding them from making any move while encrusted in the glacial bank.

While the amount of afflictive turns is indeterminate, there is a 20% chance of defrosting it each turn; if successful, the Pokémon will be able to attack in the immediacy of extrication.

Additional counteragents for curing frozenness include an Ice Heal, an Aspear Berry, the Magma Armor ability, and the activation of the Hydration ability. Additionally, damage-dealing Fire-type moves inflicted on the Pokémon will instantaneously thaw them out of it.

Harsh sunlight will also preclude the Pokémon from being frozen; however, damage will still be sustained from non-status moves.

Causative moves

Move	Type	Category	Power	Accuracy	PP
Blizzard	Ice	Special	110	70	5
Ice Beam	Ice	Special	95	100	10
Ice Fang	Ice	Physical	65	95	15
Ice Punch	Ice	Physical	75	100	15
Powder Snow	Ice	Special	40	100	25
Tri Attack	Normal	Special	80	100	10

Paralysis

Paralysis incapacitates the target’s in-battle Speed stat, reducing it by 50%, and it onsets a 25% chance that the afflictee will capitulate their turn.

Pokémon of the associative Electric type are invulnerable to this ailment. While Ground-type Pokémon are insulated against all effects of damage-dealing Electric-type moves, the ailment is still inflictable by usage of status-based moves that are programmed to do so.

It is curable by consumption of a Cheri Berry or application of a Paralyze Heal, in addition to usage of any of the all-conditional remedial agents.

While the Smelling Salts move will be doubly powerful against paralyzed Pokémon, it will also cure them of it as a countereffect.

Causative agents

Moves

Move	Type	Category	Power	Accuracy	PP
Body Slam	Normal	Physical	80	100	15
Bounce	Flying	Physical	85	85	5
Discharge	Electric	Special	80	100	15
Dragon Breath	Dragon	Special	60	100	20
Force Palm	Fighting	Physical	60	100	10
Glare	Normal	Status	—	100	30
Lick	Ghost	Physical	30	100	30
Nuzzle	Electric	Physical	20	100	20
Spark	Electric	Physical	65	100	20
Stun Spore	Grass	Status	—	75	30
Thunder	Electric	Special	110	70	10
Thunder Fang	Electric	Physical	65	95	15
Thunder Punch	Electric	Physical	75	100	15
Thunderbolt	Electric	Special	90	100	15
Thunder Shock	Electric	Special	40	100	30
Tri Attack	Normal	Special	80	100	10
Volt Tackle	Electric	Physical	120	100	15
Zap Cannon	Electric	Special	120	50	5

Abilities

When contactive moves are deployed against possessors of the Static ability, there is a 10%-chance repercussion of paralysis on the inflictor. Additionally, paralysis is one of the ailmental eventualities of contactively attack an Effect Spore-possessor.

Poison

Poisoned Pokémon will sustain damage equalized to 1/8th of their maximal HP at the end of each turn, effectuating the concurrent turn that the status ailment is onset. If the afflictee’s opponent faints on a turn of this affliction, the afflictee will not sustain damage from it at the end of the turn.

A more pernicious threshold of the ailment is known as badly poisoned, wherein the damage rate deteriorates more exponentially. Badly poisoned Pokémon will initially lose 1/16th of their HP, and the damage output will incrementally increase by that proportional amount each turn. Toxic Spikes will badly poison only after being used twice.

The Poison and Steel types are impervious to becoming poisoned; however, they can still be poisoned by non-Poison-type moves, such as Twineedle.

An Antidote, a Pecha Berry, or any of the all-conditional ailment curatives can be used to expunge the ailment.

Causative agents

Moves

Statically poisonining

Move	Type	Category	Power	Accuracy	PP
Cross Poison	Poison	Physical	70	100	20
Gunk Shot	Poison	Physical	120	80	5
Poison Jab	Poison	Physical	80	100	20
Poison Powder	Poison	Status	—	75	35
Poison Sting	Poison	Physical	15	100	35
Poison Tail	Poison	Physical	50	100	25
Sludge	Poison	Special	65	100	20
Sludge Bomb	Poison	Special	90	100	10
Sludge Wave	Poison	Special	95	100	10
Smog	Poison	Special	30	70	20
Tri Attack	Normal	Special	80	100	10
Toxic Spikes	Poison	Status	—	—	20
Twineedle	Bug	Physical	25	100	20

Badly poisoning

Move	Type	Category	Power	Accuracy	PP
Poison Fang	Poison	Physical	50	100	15
Toxic	Poison	Status	—	90	10
Toxic Spikes	Poison	Status	—	—	20

Abilities

When contactive moves are deployed against possessors of the Poison Point, and Effect Spore abilities, there will variably be a chance of the inflictor becoming poisoned.

Items

The Toxic Orb will poison the holder at the end of each turn.

Sleep

When soporific moves or abilities send a Pokémon into sleep, they will be completely actionless while that is in effect.

While the Pokémon will wake up after 1-3 turns, they can be more instantaneously roused by usages of an Awakening, a Chesto Berry, or any of the all-conditional ailment curatives.

Insomnia— and Vital Spirit-possessors are not sedatable into sleep; this is also applicable to those that have transitorily inherited the Insomnia ability by an opponent’s usage of the Worry Seed move.

Causative agents

Moves

Move	Type	Category	Power	Accuracy	PP
Dark Void	Dark	Status	—	50	10
Grass Whistle	Grass	Status	—	55	15
Hypnosis	Psychic	Status	—	60	20
Lovely Kiss	Normal	Status	—	75	10
Rest	Psychic	Status	—	—	10
Sing	Normal	Status	—	55	15
Sleep Powder	Grass	Status	—	75	15
Spore	Grass	Status	—	100	15
Yawn	Normal	Status	—	—	10

Abilities

Sleep is one of the ailmental eventualities of the Effect Spore ability, which has an 11% chance of putting a Pokémon to sleep if they contactively attack a possessor of that ability.

Acute

Acute status ailments are transient effects that are not susceptible to being long-lastingly effective, typically subsiding after the Pokémon is switched out, when the battle ends, or after a determinate duration of turns.

Binding

Whenever a Pokémon becomes bound by a constrictive of engulfing move it will lose 1/16th of its maximal HP per turn. The effect lasts for 4-5 turns.

Causative Moves

Move	Type	Category	Power	Accuracy	PP
Bind	Normal	Physical	15	85	20
Clamp	Water	Physical	35	85	15
Fire Spin	Fire	Special	40	100	25
Infestation	Bug	Special	20	100	20
Magma Storm	Fire	Special	100	75	5
Sand Tomb	Ground	Physical	35	85	15
Whirlpool	Water	Special	35	85	15
Wrap	Normal	Physical	15	90	20

Confusion

Confusion will addle the Pokémon, instilling a 50% chance that the Pokémon will attack itself. The self-inflicted damage is calculated with the attributes of a typeless move of 40 base-power points.

The ailment will subside after 1-4 turns wherein the afflictee attacked or by usage of a Persim Berry or any of the all-conditional ailment curatives.

Causative moves

Move	Type	Category	Power	Accuracy	PP
Chatter	Flying	Special	65	100	20
Confuse Ray	Ghost	Status	—	100	10
Confusion	Psychic	Special	50	100	25
Dizzy Punch	Normal	Physical	70	100	10
Dynamic Punch	Fighting	Physical	100	50	5
Flatter	Dark	Status	—	100	15
Hurricane	Flying	Special	110	70	10
Psybeam	Psychic	Special	65	100	20
Rock Climb	Normal	Physical	90	85	20
Signal Beam	Bug	Special	75	100	15
Supersonic	Normal	Status	—	55	20
Swagger	Normal	Status	—	90	15
Sweet Kiss	Fairy	Status	—	75	10
Teeter Dance	Normal	Status	—	100	20
Water Pulse	Water	Special	60	100	20

Leech Seed

This ailment is inimitably exclusive to the Leech Seed attack. It seeds the opposing Pokémon, sapping them of 1/8th of their maximal HP, recuperating the afflictor’s HP by the same amount.

Grass-type Pokémon are invulnerable to this affliction.

Infatuation

When infatuated, there is a 50%-chance probability that the afflicted Pokémon will refuse to attack the infatuator, feeling too endeared by them to violently act on them.

Infatuation is evoked by contrasexual Pokémon by usage of the Attract technique and Cute Charm ability.

The Oblivious ability immunizes the possessor from infatuation.

Curability

In addition to the type-specially tailored curatives that are noted in each ailment-respective subsection, more general, all-conditional items, moves, abilities, and other convalescent agents can be used to instantaneously cure the Pokémon of its ailment, as noted below.

Items

Item	Function
	Full Heal	Expunges the burn, sleep, poison, paralysis, confusion, and freeze ailments.
	Full Restore	Expunges the burn, sleep, poison, paralysis, confusion, and freeze ailments while recuperating all deprived HP of the consumptive Pokémon.
	Lum Berry	A wildcard berry that will cure any status ailment that the consumer may be afflicted by..

Moves

Rest will restore the user’s maximal amount of HP and supplant the previous status ailment, leaving them in a wholesome condition as soon as they wake up.

Psycho Shift transmits the user’s current ailment to the target, thereby expunging it from the user and afflicting the target with it.

Baton Pass will auto-switch the outgoing user and transmit most status ailments that it may be afflicted by to the incoming Pokémon.

Abilities

Main article: Abilities

Natural Cure will expunge any chronic status ailments of the possessor may be presentially afflicted by when they switch out or if they are the last-active Pokémon by the juncture that the battle ends.

Additionally, Shed Skin has a 30% chance of curing the possessor of any chronic ailments it may have.

See also

• Stat-modifying moves