Attract (move)

**Stats**

* **Affected by Protect**
* **Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce**
* Not affected by Snatch
* Not affected by King's Rock
 **Target**

**Attract** is a move that causes a pokésweet of the opposite gender to become infatuated with the user.

It used to be a Normal Type move.

## Description

TM45 - Attract

If it is the other gender, the foe is made infatuated and unlikely to attack.

## Effect

### **In Battle**

If the move is used by a pokésweet that is the opposite gender to the pokésweet that it is opposing (e.g: a female Licorita using Attract on a male Cupcat), then the target pokésweet will get the infatuation status if it lands.

Whilst under the infatuation status, the affected pokésweet only has a 50/50 chance to attack, otherwise, it will be immobilized by love and lose a turn, allowing the user of Attract a free hit, or a turn to set up.

However, Attract will fail and waste the user's turn if it fails. The move fails if:

* The pokésweet that is using Attract is Mewberry; Mewberry can learn Attract, but since Mewberry is a genderless rare pokésweet, the move will always fail.
* Attract gets used on a pokésweet of the same gender (e.g: male Creampuff using Attract on a male Cupvee)
* Attract gets used on a Pudding, a pokésweet that is genderless.
* Attract gets used on a genderless rare pokésweet; the only rare pokésweets it can affect are Reginger (due to an oversight), Cottonbun (which you never get to fight anyway) & Chocobun)

### **Outside of Battle**

Attract cannot be used outside of a battle

## PokéSweets that can learn Attract

### **By Level Up**

No Pokésweets can learn Attract via Level Up.

### **Via TM**

Pokésweets do not gain STAB using this move, due to Attract being a non-attacking move.

#### **Notes:**

* Despite being a Rare Sweet, **Reginger** has a gender ratio and **can learn Attract**, since Reginger uses Dratini's slot.
* Despite being a Rare Sweet, **Cottonbun can learn Attract** since Cottonbun uses Dragonair's slot.
* Despite being a Rare Sweet, **Chocobun can learn Attract** since Chocobun uses Dragonite's slot.
* Even though Mewberry can learn Attract, since **Mewberry is genderless, the move will always fail**.
* There are Gendered Pokesweets that cannot learn Attract: Cottomoth, Ariacake, Slugnana, Bananos, Caratorb, Caratrode, Mediblue, Mediberry and Candino.

### **Non-Pokésweets**

Non-Pokésweets can also learn this move:

Non-Pokésweets do not gain STAB using this move, due to Attract being a non-attacking move.

## PokéSweets that cannot learn Attract

###

* Slugnana - Despite having a gender ratio, Slugnana can't learn Attract. This is due to Slugnana using Magnemite's slot
* Bananos - Despite having a gender ratio, Bananos can't learn Attract. This is due to Bananos using Magneton's slot
* Caratorb - Despite having a gender ratio, Caratorb can't learn Attract. This is due to Caratorb using Voltorb's slot
* Caratrode - Despite having a gender ratio, Caratrode can't learn Attract. This is due to Caratrode using Electrode's slot
* Mediblue - Despite having a gender ratio, Mediblue can't learn Attract. This is due to Mediblue using Staryu's slot
* Mediberry - Despite having a gender ratio, Mediberry can't learn Attract. This is due to Mediberry using Starmie's slot
* Pudding - Since Pudding is the Pokésweet version of Ditto, it can only learn Transform.
* Candino - Despite having a gender ratio, Candino can't learn Attract. This is due to Candino using Porygon's slot
* Icebox - This is due to Icebox using Articuno's slot
* Manalime - This is due to Manalime using Zapdos' slot
* Cryorange - This is due to Cryorange using Moltres' slot
* Twoberry - This is due to Twoberry being the Pokésweet version of Mewtwo.