Confusion

For the status condition, see Confusion (status condition).

Confusion
Information
Type	Psychic
Category	Special
Power	50
Accuracy	100%
PP	25 (max. 40)
Contests	ContestsRSE Condition Smart Appeal 2 ♥♥ Jamming 3 ♥♥♥ Super ContestsDPPt Condition Smart Appeal 3 ♥♥♥ Contest SpectacularsORAS Condition Clever Appeal 4 ♥♥♥♥ Jamming 0
Appears in	Generation I
Debut	Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version
In other languages
Japanese	Name ねんりき (Mindpower)
Japanese	Name ねんりき (Mindpower)

Confusion is a Psychic-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Confusion does damage and has a 10% chance of inflicting the target with the confusion volatile status condition. In a Double Battle, Confusion can target any Pokémon around the user. In a Triple Battle, Confusion can only target a Pokémon that's adjacent to the user.

Description

Games	Description
Pokémon Gold Version and Pokémon Silver Version	An attack that may cause confusion.
Pokémon Crystal Version
Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire Version	A psychic attack that may cause confusion.
Pokémon Emerald Version
Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version	A weak telekinetic attack that may also leave the foe confused.
Pokémon Diamond Version and Pokémon Pearl Version	The foe is hit by a weak telekinetic force. It may also leave the foe confused.
Pokémon Platinum Version
Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version
Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version	The target is hit by a weak telekinetic force. It may also leave the target confused.
Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2
Pokémon X and Pokémon Y	The target is hit by a weak telekinetic force. This may also confuse the target.
Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire
Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon
Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!
Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl
Pokémon Legends: Arceus	The target is hit with a weak telekinetic force to inflict damage.
Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet	The target is hit with a weak telekinetic force to inflict damage. This may also confuse the target.

Learnset

By leveling up

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
				I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Butterfree	bug/flying	Bug	1, 12RGB 1, 10Yl	1, 10	1, 10	1, 10	1, 10	1, 10	1, 11SMUSUM 1PE	8SwShBDSP
	Venonat	bug/poison	Bug	19Yl	17	17	11	11	11	11SMUSUM 12PE	11BDSP	11
	Venomoth	bug/poison	Bug	1Yl	17	17	11	11	11	11SMUSUM 1, 12PE	11BDSP	11
	Psyduck	water	Water 1/Field	36	16	16	18	18BW 15B2W2	15XY 11ORAS	10SMUSUM 14PE	6SwShBDSPLA	6
	Golduck	water	Water 1/Field	39	1, 16	16	18	18BW 15B2W2	15XY 11ORAS	10SMUSUM 1, 14PE	6SwShBDSPLA	1
	Kadabra	psychic	Human-Like	1, 16RGB 16Yl	1, 16	1, 16	1, 16	1, 16	1, 16	1, 16SMUSUM 1PE	1, Evo.SwShBDSP Evo.LA
	Alakazam	psychic	Human-Like	1, 16RGB 16Yl	1, 16	1, 16	1, 16	1, 16	1, 16	1, 16SMUSUM 1PE	1SwShBDSP 6LA
	Ponyta	psychic	Field								10SwSh
	Rapidash	psychic/fairy	Field								1SwSh
	Slowpoke	water/psychic	Monster/Water 1	1	20	20RSE 17FRLG	15	14	14	14SMUSUM 18PE	12SwShBDSP	12
	Slowpoke	psychic	Monster/Water 1								12SwSh	12
	Slowbro	water/psychic	Monster/Water 1	1	20	20RSE 17FRLG	15	14	14	14SMUSUM 18PE	12SwShBDSP	12
	Slowbro	poison/psychic	Monster/Water 1								12SwSh	12
	Drowzee	psychic	Human-Like	17	18	18RSE 11FRLG	9	9	9	9SMUSUMPE	9BDSP	9
	Hypno	psychic	Human-Like	1, 17	1, 18	1, 18RSE 1, 11FRLG	1, 9	1, 9	1, 9	1, 9SMUSUMPE	1, 9BDSP	1
	Exeggcute	grass/psychic	Grass		19	19	27	27	27	27SMUSUM 14PE	20SwShBDSP	20
	Exeggutor	grass/psychic	Grass		1	1	1	1	1	1SMUSUMPE	1SwShBDSP	1
	Exeggutor	grass/dragon	Grass							1SMUSUMPE	1	1
	Tangela	grass	Grass							10PE
	Mr. Mime	psychic/fairy	Human-Like	1, 15	6	5	1	1	1	1SMUSUMPE	12SwShBDSP 1LA
	Mr. Mime	ice/psychic	Human-Like								12SwSh
	Jynx	ice/psychic	Human-Like							12PE	12SwShBDSP
	Articuno	psychic/flying	Undiscovered								5SwSh	5
	Mewtwo	psychic	Undiscovered	1	1	1	1	1	1	1SMUSUMPE	1SwShBDSP	1
	Mew	psychic	Undiscovered							1PE
	Hoothoot	normal/flying	Flying		34	34	21	21	21	10	9SwShBDSP	9
	Noctowl	normal/flying	Flying		41	41	22	22	22	10	9SwShBDSP	9
	Espeon	psychic	Field		16	16	15	15BW 9B2W2	9	1, Evo.	1, Evo.SwShBDSP Evo.LA	Evo.
	Slowking	water/psychic	Monster/Water 1		20	20RSE 17FRLG	15	14	14	14	12SwShBDSP	12
	Slowking	poison/psychic	Monster/Water 1								12SwSh	12
	Misdreavus	ghost	Amorphous								1BDSP 6LA	1
	Girafarig	normal/psychic	Field		1, 7	13	1	1	1	1	5BDSP	5
	Stantler	normal	Field								5LA
	Smoochum	ice/psychic	Undiscovered		21	21	15	15	15	15	12SwShBDSP
	Celebi	psychic/grass	Undiscovered		1	1	1	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP
	Dustox	bug/poison	Bug			1, 10	1, 10	1, 10	1, 10XY 12ORAS	12	12BDSP Evo.LA
	Ralts	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous			6	6	6	6XY 4ORAS	4	6SwShBDSP 1LA	6
	Kirlia	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous			1, 6	1, 6	1, 6	1, 6XY 1, 4ORAS	1, 4	1SwShBDSPLA	1
	Gardevoir	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous			1, 6	1, 6	1, 6	1, 6XY 1, 4ORAS	1, 4	1SwShBDSPLA	1
	Meditite	fighting/psychic	Human-Like			9	8	8	8XY 7ORAS	7	7BDSP	1
	Medicham	fighting/psychic	Human-Like			1, 9	1, 8	1, 8	1, 8XY 1, 7ORAS	1, 7	1, 7BDSP	1
	Spoink	psychic	Field								1BDSP	7
	Grumpig	psychic	Field								1BDSP	1
	Lunatone	rock/psychic	Mineral			7	1	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP
	Solrock	rock/psychic	Mineral			7	1	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP
	Baltoy	ground/psychic	Mineral			1	1	1	1	1	6SwShBDSP
	Claydol	ground/psychic	Mineral			1	1	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP
	Chimecho	psychic	Amorphous			14	14	14	14XY 1, 10ORAS	1, 10	1, 10BDSP 6LA	1
	Gorebyss	water	Water 1			8	6	6	6XY 1ORAS	1	1BDSP
	Metang	steel/psychic	Mineral			20	1, 20	1, 20	1, 20	1, Evo.	1, Evo.SwShBDSP	Evo.
	Metagross	steel/psychic	Mineral			1, 20	1, 20	1, 20	1, 20	1	1SwShBDSP	1
	Latias	dragon/psychic	Undiscovered								15SwShBDSP	15
	Latios	dragon/psychic	Undiscovered								15SwShBDSP	15
	Jirachi	steel/psychic	Undiscovered			1	1	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP	1
	Wormadam	bug/grass	Bug				23	23	23	23	23BDSP 11LA
	Wormadam	bug/ground	Bug				23	23	23	23	23BDSP 11LA
	Wormadam	bug/steel	Bug				23	23	23	23	23BDSP 11LA
	Mothim	bug/flying	Bug				23	23	23	23	23BDSP 11LA
	Drifloon	ghost/flying	Amorphous								1LA
	Drifblim	ghost/flying	Amorphous								1LA
	Mismagius	ghost	Amorphous								1BDSP 6LA
	Chingling	psychic	Undiscovered				14	14	14XY 10ORAS	10	10BDSP 6LA	10
	Bronzor	steel/psychic	Mineral				1	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP 6LA	1
	Bronzong	steel/psychic	Mineral				1	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP 6LA	1
	Mime Jr.	psychic/fairy	Undiscovered				1	1	1	1	12SwShBDSP 1LA
	Gallade	psychic/fighting	Human-Like/Amorphous				1, 6	1, 6	1, 6XY 1, 4ORAS	1, 4	1SwShBDSPLA	1
	Uxie	psychic	Undiscovered				21DP 1PtHGSS	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP	1
	Mesprit	psychic	Undiscovered				21DP 1PtHGSS	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP	1
	Azelf	psychic	Undiscovered				21DP 1PtHGSS	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP	1
	Cresselia	psychic	Undiscovered				1	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP 6LA	1
	Phione	water	Water 1/Fairy								6LA
	Manaphy	water	Water 1/Fairy								6LA
	Arceus	normal	Undiscovered								6LA
	Victini	psychic/fire	Undiscovered					1	1	1	1
	Woobat	psychic/flying	Field/Flying					1	1	1	5
	Swoobat	psychic/flying	Field/Flying					1	1	1	1
	Sigilyph	psychic/flying	Flying								1
	Gothita	psychic	Human-Like					3	3	3	1	1
	Gothorita	psychic	Human-Like					1, 3	1, 3	1, 3	1	1
	Gothitelle	psychic	Human-Like					1, 3	1, 3	1, 3	1	1
	Solosis	psychic	Amorphous								1	1
	Duosion	psychic	Amorphous								1	1
	Reuniclus	psychic	Amorphous								1	1
	Elgyem	psychic	Human-Like					1	1	1	1
	Beheeyem	psychic	Human-Like					1	1	1	1
	Meloetta	normal/psychic	Undiscovered					11	11	1, 11		1
	Espurr	psychic	Field						9	9	9	9
	Meowstic	psychic	Field						9	1, 9	9	9
	Meowstic	psychic	Field						9	1, 9	9	9
	Hoopa	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered						1	1		1
	Hoopa	psychic/dark	Undiscovered						1	1		1
	Oranguru	normal/psychic	Field							1	1	1
	Bruxish	water/psychic	Water 2							9		9
	Tapu Lele	psychic/fairy	Undiscovered							1	1
	Lunala	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered							1	1	1
	Necrozma	psychic	Undiscovered							1	1	1
	Necrozma	psychic/steel	Undiscovered							1	1	1
	Necrozma	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered							1	1	1
	Dottler	bug/psychic	Bug								1, Evo.
	Orbeetle	bug/psychic	Bug								1
	Hatenna	psychic	Fairy								1	1
	Hattrem	psychic	Fairy								1	1
	Hatterene	psychic/fairy	Fairy								1	1
	Mr. Rime	ice/psychic	Human-Like								12
	Calyrex	psychic/grass	Undiscovered								1	1
	Calyrex	psychic/ice	Undiscovered								1	1
	Calyrex	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered								1	1
	Wyrdeer	normal/psychic	Field								5LA
	Rabsca	bug/psychic	Bug									1
	Flittle	psychic	Flying									5
	Espathra	psychic	Flying									5
	Farigiraf	normal/psychic	Field									5
	Munkidori	poison/psychic	Undiscovered									1
	Iron Crown	steel/psychic	Undiscovered									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.

By breeding

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Form change

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Gallery

• Games
• Anime

Main games

Confusion depicted in Generation I

Confusion depicted in Generation II

Confusion depicted in Generation III

Confusion depicted in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!

Spinoffs

Confusion depicted in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

Confusion depicted in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

Main series

Confusion being used by a Misty's Psyduck.

Confusion being used by a wild Golduck.

Confusion being used by Ash's Noctowl.

Confusion being used by Drew's Butterfree.

Confusion being used by Tate and Liza's Baltoy.

Confusion being used by Candice's Medicham.

Confusion being used by Ursula's Wormadam.

Confusion being used by Damon's Gothitelle.

Confusion being used by Liko's Hatenna.

Confusion being used by Liko's Hattrem.

Confusion being used by Liko's Hatterene.

Confusion being used by Chalce's Medicham.

Spin-offs and shorts

Confusion being used by Red's Mewtwo (In Pokémon Origins).

See also

• Psychic