Powder Snow
Scarlet & Violet
10% chance to freeze the foe(s).
- Power
- 40
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 25
- Hits
- Both foes (spread move)
Changes over time
How Powder Snow changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen III
10% chance to freeze the
dropped: target.added: foe(s).
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 Gen IX
Has a 10% chance to freeze the target.
“The user attacks with a chilling gust of powdery snow. This may also leave opposing Pokémon frozen.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Powder Snow, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
3
- Sheer Force×1.3, loses the effect
- Serene Gracedoubles the chance
- Technician×1.5
Blocks or weakens it
2
- Shield Dustblocks the effect
Covert Cloakblocks the effect
Changes how it works
1
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Who learns Powder Snow
It isn’t in Pokémon Champions.