Confuse Ray

あやしいひかり Bewitching Light

Introduced:	Generation I

Battle Data

Type:
Category:
Power:	--
Accuracy:	100%
PP:	10 ^{(Max. 16)}
Priority:	0
Contact:	No

Affected by

Magic Coat:	Yes
Magic Bounce:	Yes
Bright Powder:	Yes
Detect/Protect:	Yes
Snatch:	No
Mirror Move:	Yes
King's Rock:	No

Contest Data

Contests (RS E)

Condition:	Smart
Appeal:	3 ♥♥♥
Jam:	0
Scrambles the order of appeals on the next turn.

Super Contests (DP Pt)

Condition:	Smart
Appeal:	2 ♥♥
Lowers the Voltage of all judges by one each.

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Condition:	Clever
Appeal:	2 ♥♥
Jam:	1 ♥
Badly startles Pokémon that the judges have high expectations for.

Confuse Ray is a Ghost-type move introduced in Generation I.

Description

Games	Description
GS C	A move that causes confusion.
RS E	A sinister ray that confuses the foe.
FRLG DP PtHGSS	The foe is engulfed in a sinister that triggers confusion.
BWB2W2 XYORAS	The target is engulfed in a sinister that triggers confusion.
SMUSUMPE	The target is exposed to a sinister ray that triggers confusion.

Effect

In battle

Confuse Ray causes the target to become confused. In a Double Battle, Confuse Ray can target any Pokémon around the user. In a Triple Battle, Confuse Ray can only target a Pokémon that's adjacent to the user. Confuse Ray will have no effect on Pokémon that are already confused, Pokémon that are using Safeguard, or Pokémon with Own Tempo.

Learnset

By leveling up

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII
	Vulpix	fire		28	19	21	17	17 ^(BW) 15 ^(B2W2)	15 ^(XY) 12 ^(ORAS)	12	20
	Vulpix	ice								12	20
	Ninetales	fire			1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Ninetales	ice/fairy								1	1
	Zubat	poison/flying		21	19	26	21	21 ^(BW) 19 ^(B2W2)	19 ^(XY) 17 ^(ORAS)	17	45
	Golbat	poison/flying		21	19	28	21	21 ^(BW) 19 ^(B2W2)	19 ^(XY) 17 ^(ORAS)	17	55
	Gastly	ghost/poison		1	28	28 ^(RSE) 21 ^(FRLG)	19	19	19	19	1
	Haunter	ghost/poison		1	28	31 ^(RSE) 21 ^(FRLG)	19	19	19	19	1
	Gengar	ghost/poison		1	28	31 ^(RSE) 21 ^(FRLG)	19	19	19	19	1
	Staryu	water							40	40	8
	Starmie	water/psychic			37	33	28	28 ^(BW) 22 ^(B2W2)	22 ^(XY) 40 ^(ORAS)	40	1
	Magmar	fire		39	49	49	25	26	26	26	20
	Lapras	water/ice		31	22	19	7	7	7	7	25
	Crobat	poison/flying			19	28	21	21 ^(BW) 19 ^(B2W2)	19 ^(XY) 17 ^(ORAS)	17	55
	Chinchou	water/electric			29	29	17	12	17	17	16
	Lanturn	water/electric			33	32	17	17	17	17	16
	Natu	psychic/flying			40	40	23	23	23	23	15
	Xatu	psychic/flying			50	50	23	23	23	23	15
	Mareep	electric						25 ^(B2W2)	25	25
	Flaaffy	electric						29 ^(B2W2)	29	29
	Ampharos	electric						29 ^(B2W2)	29	29
	Umbreon	dark			30	30	29	29 ^(BW) 17 ^(B2W2)	17	17	20
	Misdreavus	ghost			12	17	14	14	14	14
	Mantine	water/flying			49	50	37	37 ^(BW) 11 ^(B2W2)	11	11
	Stantler	normal			49	43 ^(RSE) 41 ^(FRLG)	23	23	23	23
	Magby	fire			43	43	25	25 ^(BW) 26 ^(B2W2)	26	26	20
	Shedinja	bug/ghost				31	31	31	31 ^(XY) 29 ^(ORAS)	29	15
	Sableye	dark/ghost				37	46	46	46 ^(XY) 31 ^(ORAS)	31	6
	Volbeat	bug				5	9	9	9 ^(XY) 8 ^(ORAS)	8
	Spoink	psychic				25	18	18	18	18
	Grumpig	psychic				25	18	18	18	18
	Lileep	rock/grass				29	22	22	22 ^(XY) 13 ^(ORAS)	13	8
	Cradily	rock/grass				29	22	22	22 ^(XY) 13 ^(ORAS)	13	1
	Duskull	ghost				23	17	17	17 ^(XY) 30 ^(ORAS)	30	12
	Dusclops	ghost				23	17	17	17 ^(XY) 30 ^(ORAS)	30	12
	Vespiquen	bug/flying					7	7 ^(BW) 1 ^(B2W2)	1	1	1
	Bronzor	steel/psychic					14	14 ^(BW) 11 ^(B2W2)	11	11	4
	Bronzong	steel/psychic					14	14 ^(BW) 11 ^(B2W2)	11	11	1
	Spiritomb	ghost/dark					1	1	1	1	1
	Mantyke	water/flying					37	37 ^(BW) 11 ^(B2W2)	11	11
	Magmortar	fire					25	26	26	26	20
	Dusknoir	ghost					17	17	17 ^(XY) 30 ^(ORAS)	30	16
	Froslass	ghost/ghost					19	19	19 ^(XY) 32 ^(ORAS)	32	35
	Rotom	electric/ghost					1	1	1	1	10
	Regigigas	normal					1	1	1	1	1
	Watchog	normal						20	20	Evolve
	Litwick	ghost/fire						10	10	10	12
	Lampent	ghost/fire						10	10	10	12
	Chandelure	ghost/fire						1	1	1	1
	Cryogonal	ice						45	45	41	4
	Phantump	ghost/grass							1	1	12
	Trevenant	ghost/grass							1	1	12
	Pumpkaboo	ghost/grass							1	1	8
	Gourgeist	ghost/grass							1	1	1
	Morelull	grass/fairy								25	4
	Shiinotic	grass/fairy								26	1
	Minior	rock/flying								10
	Lunala	psychic/ghost								13	14
	Blacephalon	fire/ghost									20
	Orbeetle	bug/psychic									4
	Eternatus	poison/dragon									1
	Spectrier	ghost									24
	Calyrex	psychic/ghost									1
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.