Shadow moves (Japanese:ダークわざDark moves) aremoves known only byShadow Pokémon.
Mechanics
Shadow moves have notype and display a blank space where the type would normally go on thesummary and battle screens. InPokémon Colosseum, there is only one Shadow move,Shadow Rush, which has regular effectiveness against any type. InPokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Shadow moves are super effective on any non-Shadow Pokémon and are not very effective on Shadow Pokémon. All Shadow moves have unlimitedPP, and display "--" (two dashes) as their current and maximum PP at all times. Shadow moves cannot be copied byMimic orSketch. UsingMirror Move on a Shadow move will result in Mirror Move failing.
In Pokémon XD, the area on the summary screen that would normally display type effectiveness instead displays no icon at all for every type (instead of either a super effective, effective, not very effective, or immune icon).
Damage-dealing Shadow moves can be eitherphysical orspecial, despite damage categories being otherwise solely dependent on type at the time. Other moves would not be categorized separately from type untilthe following generation.
Since Shadow Pokémon cannot betraded, all of these moves are exclusive to the twoGameCube games, with all but Shadow Rush exclusive to Pokémon XD. This also excludes them from use inContests, as there are no Contests inOrre.
AllLegendary Shadow Pokémon in Pokémon XD have asignature Shadow move. This move appears as a dark, corrupted counterpart of a move that the Pokémon would normally learn, and has lower basepower than its non-Shadow counterpart, but still inflicts more damage due to usually being in a situation where it will be super effective.
Moves
Pokémon Colosseum
| Game | Move | Category | Power | Accuracy | Range | Description |
|---|
| C | Shadow Rush | Physical | 90 | 100% | | An attack that is so harsh, it also hurts the attacker. |
|---|
Pokémon XD
Trivia
- Shadow moves introduced in XD are the only damage-dealing moves which are incapable of dealing neutral damage.
- All Shadow status moves inflict negative effects to the opponent and non-Shadow Pokémon, with none of the moves providing positive stat changes to the user.
