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Spite

In Pokémon ChampionsGen II

Game

Pokémon Champions

GhostStatus

Lowers the PP of the target's last move by 4.

Power: –
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user

Properties

Through Substitute Reflectable

Changes over time

How Spite changed from game to game, newest first.

Champions
PP 10 → 12 Buffed
Gen IV
Causes the target's last move used to lose ~~dropped: 2 to 5 PP, at random.~~ added: 4 PP. Fails if the target has not made a move, if the move has 0 ~~dropped: or 1~~ PP, or if it no longer knows the move.
Gen III
… target has not made a move, ~~dropped: or~~ if the move has 0 ~~dropped: PP.~~ added: or 1 PP, or if it no longer knows the move.

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

Causes the target's last move used to lose 4 PP. Fails if the target has not made a move, if the move has 0 PP, or if it no longer knows the move.

“The user unleashes its grudge on the move last used by the target by cutting 4 PP from it.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

Abilities and items that boost Spite, block it, punish its user or change how it works.

Boosts it

1

Prankster+1 priority, but Dark-types are immune

Blocks or weakens it

1

Magic Bouncebounces it back

Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.

Good to know

Magic Coat sends it back to the user too.