Spooky Plate


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The Spooky Plate (Japanese: もののけプレート Specter Plate) is a type of held item introduced in Generation IV. It is one of the Plates, which are associated with.

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In battle
Boosts the power of the holder's moves by 20%. If the holder uses, it becomes a Ghost-type move.

changes an holding this item to its Ghost-type form. From Generation V onward, item-manipulating effects (such as and ) cannot give Arceus a Plate or remove a Plate from Arceus. (In Generation IV, item-manipulating effects cannot affect Pokémon with Multitype.)

Outside of battle
changes an holding this item to its  form.

Description

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Acquisition

 * Amity Square, The Underground
 * S.S. Aqua (from the captain after obtaining all 16 Gym Badges)
 * Abyssal Ruins
 * Abyssal Ruins
 * Chamber of Emptiness
 * (underwater)
 * Hau'oli Cemetery
 * Hau'oli Cemetery
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 * Abyssal Ruins
 * Abyssal Ruins
 * Chamber of Emptiness
 * (underwater)
 * Hau'oli Cemetery
 * Hau'oli Cemetery
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 * Chamber of Emptiness
 * (underwater)
 * Hau'oli Cemetery
 * Hau'oli Cemetery
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 * Hau'oli Cemetery
 * Hau'oli Cemetery
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 * Hau'oli Cemetery
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Appearance
This is the appearance of the Spooky Plate in the Sinnoh Underground.

In the anime
The Spooky Plate, alongside the other 15 Plates at the time, appeared in Arceus and the Jewel of Life, where used them to change its type, and almost died when it lost all of the Plates after having destroyed a meteor that endangered what would become Michina Town. Damos found one of these lost Plates and returned it to Arceus, giving it the strength to recall the other 15 Plates.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
The Plates first appeared in the, in which Petrel was collecting them for Team Rocket's plan. After stole the few Plates he had managed to find, Petrel decided to let him gather all 16 Plates, just to get them back at once later. With his leaving messages for  and  across Johto, Silver soon indeed gathered all 16 Plates for himself. At the Sinjoh Ruins, surrendered the Plates to Archer, who used them to seemingly take control of, ordering it to recreate , , and. When the Pokédex holders used their Pokémon's ultimate attacks to stop the creation, all the Plates were absorbed by Arceus.