Pokemon Moves Quiz

Based on the description, name the move.

Generations 1-3

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Last updated: December 31, 2014

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First submitted	June 13, 2012
Times taken	51,762
Average score	60.0%
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Hint	Answer
Magikarp uses it... but nothing happens!	Splash
HM used to move boulders	Strength
A move only Castform can learn; changes conditions	Weather Ball
A favorite defense moves of Silcoons and Metapods	Harden
HM that allows you to travel on water	Surf
The most basic Normal move, a favorite among Rattatas	Tackle
Creates illusory copies to raise evasiveness	Double Team
Ditto's specialty	Transform
In a double battle, randomly uses a partner's move	Assist
Dark move that feigns crying to lower defense	Fake Tears

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More extreme version of Absorb, that steals half the HP drained	Giga Drain
Copies the opponent's last move; known only by Smeargle	Sketch
40% chance of stealing opponent's item	Thief
Romantic move. Puts opponent to sleep	Lovely Kiss
Stores energy for two turns, then strikes on the third	Bide
Skitty favorite. Leaves opponents infatuated	Attract
Normal move that makes the opponent switch out or run away	Roar
Electrode favorite that causes user to faint	Selfdestruct
A powerful watery blast, but the user is immobilized next turn	Hydro Cannon
Allows Normal and Fighting moves to hit Ghosts, and raises evasiveness	Foresight

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49 Comments

Level 21

Apr 30, 2012

ah bummer, kept typing "snatch" for thief. great idea for quiz!

Level 15

May 14, 2012

I could picture what foresight looked like but all I was coming up with was "forclosure" which I know perfectly well isn't a move. And, Rachel24601, you should really put a warning about what generation this quiz is based off of somewhere.

Level 45

Jun 5, 2012

Done. :-)

Level 16

Jun 26, 2012

More than just Castform can learn Weather Ball, I'm pretty sure Victreebell, Raikou, Roserade and more get it.

Level 43

Aug 31, 2023

yes, i use it on hippowdon

Level 4

Jul 10, 2012

Plus mew can get it too :)

Level 22

Jul 18, 2012

Mew can learn anything lol..

Level 6

Apr 17, 2014

That is a lie. Mew does NOT learn Weather Ball, Sacred Fire, Aeroblast, Judgement, Shadow Force, Roar of Time, Spacial Rend, etc.

Level 17

Nov 14, 2025

It can learn weather ball

Level 12

May 3, 2014

I wish that were true

Level 65

Apr 16, 2016

Mew can only learn moves that can be taught by TM's, tutors and by its level uo moveset

Level 32

Jan 16, 2018

Mew learns every TM, not every move. Smeargle comes closest to learning every move by learning every move except Chatter and Struggle through Sketch. Therefore, it gets a STAB judgement, and can learn all the other moves.

Level 32

Jan 16, 2018

Also, Metronome can be nice sometimes allowing Mew to USE every move in the game, just not LEARN every move.

Level 61

Jul 25, 2012

Based on the fact Sketch is on here, Smeargle can also learn Weather Ball.

Level 17

Nov 14, 2025

smeargle can learn anything but the only move it can't use is dark void because the programmers coded it so that only darkrai can use it in later generations, so if metronome lands on dark void, it's just a splash attack

Level 20

Jul 30, 2012

Mew and Zorua can transform too

Level 6

Apr 17, 2014

For Zorua that's just it's ability. But yes, Mew can also Transform.

Level 20

Jul 30, 2012

Explosion should also be added

Level 74

Jun 10, 2014

Yeah, Electrode learns that too, and it does the same thing.

Level 52

Oct 23, 2016

Maybe it didn't exist as a move back when the quiz maker started pretending that no new Pokemon were "real".

Level 60

Apr 10, 2020

In the anime, voltorb is the one that uses self-destruct most of the time, whereas electrode does indeed use explosion.

Level 20

Jul 30, 2012

for creating a quiz, does anybody know how to add more answer boxes?

Level 8

Oct 5, 2012

good quiz, almost didn't get lovely kiss. :P

Level 16

Apr 22, 2013

great quiz

Level 60

Jul 2, 2013

original 150 FTW!

Level 13

Oct 30, 2013

well... Roserade can learn weatherball.

Level 56

Jan 7, 2014

I wouldn't say tackle is a favourite of Rattatas. All I could come up with was growl, scratch, and super fang. Does Rattata even know Tackle?

Level 12

Nov 27, 2014

i kept using superpower for strength and was so annoyed when it didnt work

Level 24

Mar 3, 2015

foresight doesn't raise evasiveness, it lowers the opponents evasiveness

Level 16

Aug 8, 2022

some moves got changed and doesn't work as they used to in the first,two and third generation.

Level 35

Apr 6, 2015

2:08 left. Give me my PokeDollars, baby~

Level 11

Feb 17, 2016

so can lugia

Level 17

Feb 22, 2016

I finished easily with 2:51 left. Also has anyone played heart gold?

Level 65

Apr 5, 2016

20/20 in 2 minutes. The only trouble was lovely kiss

Level 36

Mar 9, 2017

Fake tears is a fairy type move not dark so plese change that.

Level 56

Oct 17, 2023

No, Fake Tears has always been a dark type move. You might be thinking of Baby-Doll Eyes, which is a Fairy type status move that lowers Sp.Atk

Level 14

Nov 14, 2017

Amazing idea but kept putting hydro pump for hydro cannon and I always put snatch for thief

Level 50

Nov 22, 2017

Why only gen 1-3? I demand an explanation!

Level 18

Nov 26, 2018

Nice quiz! I made my own, too! It contains all 742 moves from the main series games! You should try it out! https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/238536/all-pokemon-moves-quiz

Also, the move Thief, when used, will always take the opponent's item.

Level 24

Oct 21, 2019

I don't think Foresight actually increases the user's evasiveness. It "removes" the target's evasiveness (or negates it somehow).

Level 14

Dec 1, 2020

This quiz is so easy plz make it harder

Level 46

Nov 10, 2021

Assist’s description should be changed; it can also be used in single battles; leaving it to double battles only is kind of misleading

Level 79

Dec 27, 2021

Can only manage to get half of them, used to be obsessed with this type of stuff

Level 44

Sep 7, 2023

-Weather Ball is learnt by many different Pokémon, and it doesn't change any condition, it adapts to the current weather.

-Assist can be used in single battles as well.

-Fake Tears lowers special defense.

-Thief doesn't have a 40% chance of stealing opponent's item: it either does or doesn't, depending if the user has an item or not.

-Foresight doesn't raise evasiveness, it only bypasses the accuracy check.

I know I'm being a nerd, but I don't like this many mistakes when the quiz is featured. If it were just a standalone quiz, I'd have no problem with it.

This comment will probably not matter anyway, considering this quiz hasn't been updated in nearly a decade, but it was worth trying.

Level 53

Mar 29, 2024

Quiz is 10 years outdated, and is just plain easy. Quizzes should really be forced to update if they've been abandoned for so damn long, and deleted if they don't update.

Level 21

Nov 26, 2024

This quiz is just wrong.

· Castform is not the only Pokémon that can learn Weather Ball.

· 'Silcoons' and 'Metapods' is incorrect. The plural form of a Pokémon's name is not different from the singular form.

· Arguably Waterfall is an HM that allows you to travel on water.

· Tackle being the 'most basic Normal move' is subjective.

· Double Team raises Evasion, not evasiveness.

· Assist doesn't work as described in the quiz. It can be used in single battles, and can call a move from any team member.

· Mega Drain also fits the criteria of a more extreme version of Absorb.

· Thief doesn't have a 40% chance to steal the opponent's item. It always does, if the user doesn't have an item and the target does. Covet also does the same.

· Electrode uses both Self-Destruct and Explosion, both which makes the user faint. Self-Destruct is also incorrectly written as 'Selfdestruct'.

· Foresight does not raise evasion but allows the user to bypass accuracy checks. Odor Sleuth has an identical effect.

Level 43

Feb 9, 2025

And all of these critiques would still have applied in 2014 (X and Y), when this quiz was last updated. I definitely don't get where the thief thing comes from.

Level 17

Nov 14, 2025

I think at the time of its release castform was the only species that could learn weather ball, you would use surf before you can use waterfall so while your not wrong and I do agree your still also using surf, I think assist chooses the move from the other field pokemon in a double battle. don't know for sure though, evasion and evasiveness is basically the same thing, I think with selfdestruct he went by what they mainly use in the anime, at the time of this quiz tackle was the most common first route move, it doesn't have to be rattata, could also be first route pokemon in general

Level 56

Dec 8, 2025

I want to correct something : the move that use random Pokemon team's attack isn't only in double