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| “ | A glare from its single scarlet eye makes even burly grown-ups freeze in utter fear. It is a nocturnal Pokémon that roams about under the cloak of darkness. | „ |
| ~ Pokemon Emerald Pokedex entry |
| “ | Making itself invisible, it silently sneaks up to prey. It has the ability to slip through thick walls. | „ |
| ~ Pokemon Shield Pokedex entry |
| “ | Dusclops absorbs anything, however large the object may be. This Pokémon hypnotizes its foe by waving its hands in a macabre manner and by bringing its single eye to bear. The hypnotized foe is made to do Dusclops's bidding. | „ |
| ~ Pokemon Alpha Saphire Pokedex entry |
| “ | Dusclops's body is completely hollow - there is nothing at all inside. It is said that its body is like a black hole. This Pokémon will absorb anything into its body, but nothing will ever come back out. | „ |
| ~ Pokemon Ruby Pokedex entry |
| “ | This feared Pokémon is said to travel to worlds unknown. Some even believe that it takes lost spirits along with it. | „ |
| ~ Heart Gold Pokédex entry |
| “ | The antenna on its head captures radio waves from the world of spirits that command it to take people there. | „ |
| ~ Diamond Pokédex entry |
| “ | It is said to take lost spirits into its pliant body and guide them home. | „ |
| ~ Platinum Pokédex entry |
Summary
Dusknoir is a final form ghost-type Pokémon introduced in Gen IV. It evolves from Duskull into Dusclops, and from Dusclops into Dusknoir by holding a Reaper Cloth and being traded.
The antenna on Dusknoir's head allows it to receive transmissions from the spirit world, which tell it to bring people there. The band on its body can open, similar to a mouth. It uses this ability to take spirits into its body and carry them home or as it travels to unknown places.
Powers and Stats
Tier: At most Low 7-B | 7-B | High 7-A
Name: Dusknoir
Origin: Pokémon
Gender: Varies
Age: Varies
Classification: Third Form Pokémon, Gripper Pokémon
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Superhuman Speed, Self-Sustenance (Types 1 and 2), Invisibility (Duskull is able to make itself invisible), Intangibility and Incorporeality (Dusknoir's line is a native from the Ghost World, another plane of existence where the spirits of deceased humans and pokémon reside, as well as other ghost-type pokémon. Dusknoir's body is intangible and completely hollow, and inside there is only a void and spectral flames. Dusknoir also should be comparable to Pokémon like Gengar), Levitation, Limited Accelerated Development (Via Exp. Elite), Elemental Manipulation (Of the Darkness, Hellfire, Life Force Absorption (Via Pain Split), Statistics Reduction (Via Leer, Shadow Ball, Frighten and Memento), Stealth Mastery and Camouflage (Duskull can hide among the shadows and is an excellent tracker), Ectoplasm Manipulation (Via Ghost-Type moves), Enhanced Senses (Via Stair Sensor. The antenna on its head captures radio waves from another worlds), Water Walking (Via All-Terrain Hiker), Telekinesis (Via Psychic), Immortality (Type 1 and 7), Dimensional Travel, Teleportation, Smoke Manipulation and Negation (Via Haze), Power Nullification (Via Disable, Mean Look and Imprison. Dusknoir can inflict the "Paused" status, which prevents the opponent from using moves temporarily), Fear Manipulation (A glare from the single scarlet eye of Duskull makes even burly grown-ups freeze in utter fear), Minor Sealing (Via Mean Look), Curse Manipulation (Via Curse and Grudge), Limited Probability Manipulation (Via Type-Advantage Master and Sharpshooter), Status Effect Inducement, Perception Manipulation (Via Night Shade), Illusion Creation (Its pre-evolution, Duskull, can create illusions to frighten or deceive its opponents), Light Manipulation (Via Confuse Ray), Precognition and Time Manipulation (Future Sight allows the user to observe and attack the target in the future, bypassing Force fields and Precognition in the process), Invisibility Negation and Illusion, Durability Negation (Via Curse, Pain Split and Soul Manipulation), Damage Boost (Via Payback, Hex and Pursuit), Damage Transferal (Via Pain Split), Non-Physical Interaction (Can harm non-corporeal Pokemon), Dynamax, Resistance to Poison and Bug moves, Immunity to Normal and Fighting moves, Resistance to Gravity Manipulation.
Same as Duskull to a greater extent, additionally Homing Attack (Shadow Punch), Resistance Negation (Via TCG Shadow Punch), Limited Immunity Negation, Fire, Ice, and Electricity variety), Gravity Manipulation (Via Gravity), Damage Transferal (Via Destiny Bond), Absorption (Dusclops can absorb anything, however large the object may be), Mind Manipulation (Dusclops can hypnotize its foe by waving its hands in a macabre manner and by bringing its single eye to bear. The hypnotized foe is made to do Dusclops's bidding)
Same as Dusclops but to a greater extent, additionally Air Manipulation (Via Ominous Wind), possibly Portal Creation (Dusknoir can travel and teleport to other worlds and places, its PMD counterpart can create portals), Body Control, Soul Absorption (Dusknoir can absorb souls), Possession (Of an empty body), Empathic Manipulation (Via Dark Pulse. Dusknoir can shoot orbs imbued with loathsome emotions), Aura (Explosive and Fear type; Via Dark Pulse), Sleep Manipulation (Via Sleep Charm), Void Manipulation (Inside Dusknoir's body there is a void, everything that absorbs this void will never come back), Dimensional/Spiritual BFR (Dusknoir can drag souls to other dimensions), Berserk Mode, Danmaku, Negation (Via Foresight), Mind Reading (Via Foresight), Statistics Amplification (Via Ominous Wind), Soul Manipulation (The spectral ball of fire that Dusknoir generates inside its body steal the soul instantly from those who look at it. Dusknoir can tear the soul directly from its opponents and can harm ghosts and souls), Pseudo-Black Hole Creation, Can swap passive abilities via Skill Swap, Can do more damage when things are looking desperate, Takes down stamina twice as quick
Attack Potency: At most Small City level (should be comparable, though slightly inferior to Rhyhorn, who can shatter mountains. Can go to toe to toe with the likes of Piplup) | City level (Is comparable, if not superior to a mid-level Dragonair, who can obliterate a city. Should be far superior to the likes of Rhyhorn, who can shatter mountains and should be comparable to Pupitar) | Large Mountain level+ (Comparable to other 3rd stage Pokémon like Charizard, Tyranitar, or Salamence)
Speed: Massively Hypersonic+ | Massively Hypersonic+ | FTL (His PMD counterpart can do this. Dusknoir's pre-evolution has a body which acts like a black hole, which light can likely not escape from. Comparable to Lycanroc)
Lifting Strength: Class 25 | Class K | Class M (Commonly grapples with comparable Pokémon, superior to Brock's Happiny)
Striking Strength: At most Small City level | City level | Large Mountain level+
Durability: At most Small City level | City level | Large Mountain level+
Stamina: Superhuman (The average Pokémon is hardwired for battle and can go on fighting for lots of time despite being injured. Capable of spending a day on foot while fighting hordes of enemies in mystery dungeons with little to no breaks)
Range: Standard Melee Range, Tens of Kilometers with most attacks
Standard Equipment: Reaper Cloth
Intelligence: Below Average normally (Capable of coherent speech between other Pokémon, a degree of understanding of commands and social situations, and can solve minor puzzles, though still mostly driven by instinct), Above Average in battle as Duskull and Dusclops (Pokémon are hard-wired for battle and even in the wild can master many moves and fight the likes of Machop which train in all martial arts), Gifted in battle as Dusknoir (Should be superior to 1st and 2nd stage Pokémon and are able to consistently fight the likes of Machamp which have mastered all martial arts, as well as Alakazam)
Weaknesses: Dark moves as well as other Ghost moves
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Pressure: Dusknoir makes the opponent expend twice as much energy, tiring them out twice as quickly.
- Frisk: When it enters a battle, Dusknoir can check an opponent's held item.
- Black Hole: Enemies adjacent to the Pokémon cannot move.
- Frighten: Reduces nearby enemies Speed.
- Interference: Reduces nearby enemies accuracy.
- Last-Ditch Effort: Increases damage when things are looking desperate.
- Shadow Punch: Dusknoir throws a fist composed of shadows at the opponent with unerring accuracy.
- Future Sight: Dusknoir prepares a powerful psychic attack which strikes the opponent later on. It ignores moves like Protect and Detect, meaning barriers and precog don't help against it. Future Sight has a second ability that allows the user to see into the future.
- Fire Punch: Dusknoir sets its hands ablaze, and punches, which can cause burns.
- Ice Punch: Dusknoir envelopes its hand in ice and punches his foe, this may leave his foe frozen.
- Thunder Punch: Dusknoir releases a powerful punch charged with electricity that can potentially paralyze the target.
- Gravity: Dusknoir pins its foe down by rapidly increasing gravity around its target.
- Bind: Dusknoir squeezes its targets with its whole body.
- Sleep Charm: Leaves the foe asleep.
- Leer: Dusknoir looks at the opponent intimidatingly, which lowers the defense of the opponent.
- Night Shade: Dusknoir uses its ghostly powers to dupe the target into witnessing a frightening mirage.
- Disable: Dusknoir nullifies the use of the attack last used by the opponent.
- Astonish: Dusknoir attacks the opponent while attempting to scare them. It has a chance to make them flinch.
- Foresight: Dusknoir identifies the opponent, allowing non-corporeal entities to be hit, this also enables an evasive target to be hit. Foresight can also negate illusions and make visible invisible objects or beings.
- Shadow Sneak: Dusknoir extends its shadow and attacks the opponent from behind, almost always managing to hit first.
- Pursuit: Dusknoir attacks the opponent with dark energy, and does double damage if the opponent attempted to flee.
- Will O' Wisp: Dusknoir shoots a bluish-white flame that burns upon contact.
- Confuse Ray: Dusknoir emits an odd light that confuses the one it hits.
- Curse: Dusknoir evokes a curse by reducing as much of half of its own health. The opponent is then "cursed" and gradually sapped of their own health until either unconsciousness or death.
- Hex: Dusknoir fires a hex that inflicts direct damage on opponents; however, against foes under the influence of malignant status conditions (severe burns, paralysis, body-freezing, forcible sleep), the damage is doubled.
- Shadow Ball: Dusknoir hurls a powerful black blob of shadow at the foe, and it has a chance to lower special defense.
- Mean Look: Dusknoir fixes a dark, arresting look at the opponent, freezing their actions on the spot and preventing further escape. Even abilities like teleportation are ineffectual.
- Payback: Dusknoir begins to store up its energy reserves, reserving it for a retaliatory strike of dark energy against the opponent's prior attack. The nature of the energy appears to enable Dusknoir to augment the strike beyond its standard power if it occurs after a previous offensive blow from the foe.
- Dark Pulse: Dusknoir focuses its negative and violent thoughts into a visibly dark aura, before projecting the aura outwards as an omnidirectional "wave" of dark energy. This may also make the target flinch.
- Destiny Bond: Dusknoir links its life and fate with its opponent, so if it falls in battle, so does the opponent. This doesn't translate the other way around though.
- Feint Attack: Dusknoir hits the opponent with a darkness move as soon as the moment arises. It has a hard time missing.
- Grudge: Dusknoir casts another curse on the opponent. This time, if Dusknoir succumbs to its injuries and is defeated, the opponent becomes incapable of using the move that did Dusknoir in.
- Haze: Dusknoir emits a haze, which resets all statistics, and has also been used as a smokescreen.
- Imprison: Dusknoir manifests a psychic seal inscribed with the character 封 (the first kanji of 封 印, which translates to English as "seal") on the target's body, preventing them from using any techniques that Dusknoir also has complete knowledge of.
- Memento: Dusknoir sacrifices itself to sharply lower the physical and special attack of the opponent. This is pretty much useless in a versus match.
- Ominous Wind: Dusknoir blows a blast of repulsive and ghostly wind. This has a chance to raise the physical and special attack and defense, as well as speed, of Dusknoir, on top of the damage.
- Pain Split: Dusknoir adds its HP to the target's HP, then equally shares the combined HP with the target.
- Skill Swap: Dusknoir employs its psychic power to exchange Abilities with the target.
- Shadow Punch (TCG): Similar to the conventional Shadow Punch, but ignores resistance.
- Psychic: Dusknoir uses a strong psychokinesis for offensive, defensive, and supplementary means such as lifting the target in question or simply blasting them. It may also lower their special defense.
(Can be disabled at will unless stated otherwise.)
- Course Checker: A skill all partners must know, regardless of IQ Group or amount of IQ Points, and exclusive to them. If targeting an enemy, Dusknoir will instinctively check for things that will get in the way, and will stop if such an obstacle exists to conserve stamina.
- Status Checker: Dusknoir knows to not beat a dead horse and will not use a status move that'll cause a status effect that the opponent already has.
- Non-Traitor: Dusknoir, if confused or cowering, will not damage allies with out-of-control attacks.
- PP Saver: Dusknoir will occasionally use a move without consuming PP.
- Self-Curer: Dusknoir recovers faster than usual from status problems.
- Type-Advantage Master: Dusknoir's critical hit rate skyrockets if attacking one with a type of disadvantage.
- Weak-Type Picker: When near several enemies, Dusknoir will target the one that has a type of disadvantage.
- Gap Prober: Dusknoir can send thrown items and deliver moves through team members to target only enemies.
- Wary Fighter: If Dusknoir misses its attack, it takes a step back to distance itself from its target.
- Sharpshooter: Boosts the critical-hit ratios of Dusknoir's moves and attacks.
- Hit-and-Runner: Dusknoir may avoid a counter-attack that the enemy uses in response to being struck with an attack or move.
- Multitalent: Adds 5 to Dusknoir's max PP. Cannot be turned off.
- Exp. Elite: Dusknoir earns extra Exp. Points after defeating enemies.
- All-Terrain Hiker: Dusknoir can walk on water, lava and valleys.
- Stair Sensor: When she reaches a new floor, Dusknoir uses its intuition to know where the floor's stairway is.
- No-Charger: The Pokémon charges then unleashes any move that normally requires 2 turns in only one turn. Powering up these charge-up moves so quickly consumes 2 PP, however.
- Pierce Hurler: Throwing items hurled by Dusknoir pierces through walls and other Pokémon, without showing signs of stopping.
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