Captivate (move)

Captivate (Japanese: ゆうわく Allure) is a non-damaging move introduced in Generation IV. It was TM78 in Generation IV.

Effect
Captivate lowers the stat of the target by two stages, if it is the opposite gender of the user. It targets all adjacent opponents. Genderless Pokémon and Pokémon with the Ability are unaffected by this move. It always does nothing if the user of Captivate is genderless.

If powered up by a Normalium Z into Z-Captivate, the user's stat is raised by two stages.

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Trivia

 * is the only genderless Pokémon that can learn this move: Mew is able to learn any TM, and can learn it by TM78 in Generation IV.
 * It is likely that cannot learn Captivate because all moves a Nincada has are transferred to a shed-off  when it evolves into, thus giving the genderless Shedinja a useless move. The same is the case with.

In other languages
Liebreiz Seducción Séduction Incanto ゆうわく 诱惑（招式）