Chilly Reception
Pokémon Champions
Starts Snow. User switches out.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- —
- PP
- 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
- Hits
- The whole field
Changes over time
How Chilly Reception changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 10 → 12 Buffed
Numbers: PokéAPI’s changelog. Descriptions: Pokémon Showdown’s for each generation, PokéAPI’s notes where Showdown’s don’t differ. Champions: Pokémon Showdown.
See it in the games
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How it works in Champions
For 5 turns, the weather becomes Snow. The user switches out even if it is trapped and is replaced immediately by a selected party member. The user does not switch out if there are no unfainted party members.
“The user tells a chillingly bad joke before switching places with a party Pokémon in waiting. This summons a snowstorm lasting five turns.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Chilly Reception, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
1
- Prankster+1 priority
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
Good to know
- Can't be used through: Metronome.
- Sets the weather for 5 turns, 8 with the matching rock.Weather moves
Who runs Chilly Reception on Showdown
Smogon · Showdown Champions VGC · Sep 2026: Smogon’s usage stats from Pokémon Showdown, not the in-game ladder.
On the ladder today
Ranked Doubles Pokémon with Chilly Reception among their most used moves.
Who learns Chilly Reception
2 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
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