Tearful Look functions as a technical status-class move that simultaneously reduces the target's Attack and Special Attack by one stage. This maneuver ignores evasiveness changes and effectively penetrates protective barriers such as Protect, ensuring reliable stat manipulation during intense competitive encounters.
Tearful Look functions as a specialized utility move designed to simultaneously decrease both the Attack and Special Attack stats of a single target by one stage. This ability to pierce through protection measures provides a reliable method for neutralizing offensive pressure, requiring players to weigh its consistent debuff utility against the inherent limits of its non-damaging Normal-type status classification.
Power
0
Accuracy
101%
Priority
0
Effect rate
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Lowers the target's Attack and Sp. Atk stats by 1 stage. This move ignores the target's evasiveness and can hit a target using a move such as Protect.
Tearful Look functions as a specialized status effect that bypasses standard defensive barriers, including Protect, while ignoring target evasiveness to ensure accuracy. Recognizing the absence of contact, sound, or bullet flags confirms why this move operates independently of common mitigation traits found in other mechanics. This data clarifies how current move properties influence competitive performance in real-time scenarios.
This move does not pick up any of the tracked Pokemon Champions interaction traits above.
Tearful Look functions as a powerful status-based debuff, yet its overall effectiveness relies heavily on which Pokemon can successfully integrate it into a battle set. Reviewing these specific learners clarifies how various base stats and type synergies accommodate this unique drop to opposing Attack and Sp. Atk power. Discovering the full range of potential users empowers precise team building.
Examine moves sharing similar stat-reduction profiles or targeting conditions to understand how Tearful Look fits into specialized support roles. Comparing these related attacks allows for a deeper evaluation of role overlap and effectiveness within specific battle scenarios without relying on singular, absolute tactical conclusions.
Primary effect
During the turn this move is used if the user takes damage from a move that would knock it out it will endure the hit with 1 HP. With each consecutive use this move's chance of success becomes 1/3 of what it was before.
Primary effect
The user protects itself from incoming moves for the turn. With each consecutive use this move's chance of success becomes 1/3 of what it was before.
Primary effect
Can be used only if the user is asleep. The user uses one of the other moves it knows at random.
Primary effect
The user loses 1/4 of its max HP to create a substitute. The substitute will be hit by moves instead of the user and it will vanish when it takes damage equal to 1/4 of the user's max HP.
Primary effect
Boosts the power of an ally's move by 50% during the turn this move is used.
Continue refining battle strategies by examining additional status-inflicting moves and defensive interaction profiles. Compare various utility options to optimize defensive pressure and tactical control against opposing team compositions.