Disable

Disable is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

The move disables an attack of the target for a number of turns (fixed to four since Generation V). In the later generation, the move disables the last used attack by a Pokémon. If Disable is used while Encore is active on a target, the target will be forced to use Struggle until either Encore's effects wear off or the move is no longer disabled.

In the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, Disable will instead paralyzes the target instead.

Description

Games	Description
Pokémon Gold Version and Pokémon Silver Version	Disables the foe's most recent move.
Pokémon Crystal Version
Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire Version	Psychically disables one of the foe's moves.
Pokémon Emerald Version
Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version	For a few turns, it prevents the foe from using the move it last used.
Pokémon Diamond Version and Pokémon Pearl Version	For several turns, this move prevents the foe from using the move it last used.
Pokémon Platinum Version
Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version
Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version	For four turns, this move prevents the target from using the move it last used.
Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2
Pokémon X and Pokémon Y
Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire
Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon
Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!
Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl
Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet	For four turns, the target will be unable to use whichever move it last used.

Learnset

By leveling up

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
				I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Vulpix	fire	Field								4SwShBDSP	4
	Vulpix	ice	Field								4SwShBDSP	4
	Ninetales	fire	Field								1SwShBDSP	Rem.
	Ninetales	ice/fairy	Field								1SwShBDSP	Rem.
	Jigglypuff	normal/fairy	Fairy	14	14	14	13	13	13XY 15ORAS	14SMUSUM 16PE	1SwShBDSP	1
	Wigglytuff	normal/fairy	Fairy	1	1	1	1	1	1	1SMUSUM	1SwShBDSP	1
	Venonat	bug/poison	Bug	1	1	1	1	1	1	1SMUSUM 4PE	1BDSP	1
	Venomoth	bug/poison	Bug	1	1	1	1	1	1	1SMUSUM 1, 4PE	1BDSP	1
	Psyduck	water	Water 1/Field	31	10	10	14	14BW 11B2W2	11XY 22ORAS	19SMUSUM 23PE	15SwShBDSP	15
	Golduck	water	Water 1/Field	1, 31	1, 10	1, 10	14	14BW 11B2W2	11XY 22ORAS	19SMUSUM 23PE	15SwShBDSP	15
	Kadabra	psychic	Human-Like	1, 20RGB 20Yl	18	18	18	18	18	18SMUSUM 1, 6PE	1SwShBDSP
	Alakazam	psychic	Human-Like	1, 20RGB 20Yl	18	18	18	18	18	18SMUSUM 1, 6PE	1SwShBDSP
	Slowpoke	water/psychic	Monster/Water 1	18	29	29RSE 24FRLG	20	19	19	19SMUSUM 24PE	15SwShBDSP	15
	Slowpoke	psychic	Mosnter/Water 1								15SwSh	15
	Slowbro	water/psychic	Monster/Water 1	1, 18	29	29RSE 24FRLG	20	19	19	19SMUSUM 24PE	15SwShBDSP	15
	Slowbro	poison/psychic	Mosnter/Water 1								15SwSh	15
	Grimer	poison	Amorphous	1	10	8	12	12	12	12SMUSUM 18PE	12BDSP	12
	Grimer	poison/dark	Amorphous							12SMUSUM 18PE		12
	Muk	poison	Amorphous	1	37	8	12	12	12	12SMUSUM 18PE	12BDSP	12
	Muk	poison/dark	Amorphous							12SMUSUM 18PE		12
	Gengar	ghost/poison	Amorphous							1PE
	Drowzee	psychic	Human-Like	12	10	10RSE 7FRLG	7	5	5	5SMUSUM 4PE	5BDSP	5
	Hypno	psychic	Human-Like	1, 12	1, 10	1, 10RSE 1, 7FRLG	1, 7	1, 5	1, 5	1, 5SMUSUM 1, 4PE	1, 5BDSP	1
	Lickitung	normal	Monster	15	31	34	25	25	25	25SMUSUM 20PE	24SwShBDSP
	Seadra	water	Water 1/Dragon							1PE
	Mewtwo	psychic	Undiscovered	1	1	1	1	1	1	1SMUSUMPE	1SwShBDSP	1
	Igglybuff	normal/fairy	Undiscovered								16SwShBDSP	16
	Slowking	water/psychic	Monster/Water 1		29	29RSE 24FRLG	20	19	19	19	15SwShBDSP	15
	Corsola	ghost	Water 1/Water 3								10SwSh
	Sableye	dark/ghost	Human-Like								15SwShBDSP	15
	Zangoose	normal	Field									Rem.
	Kecleon	normal	Field								16BDSP
	Duskull	ghost	Amorphous			5	6	6	6	6	4SwShBDSP	4
	Dusclops	ghost	Amorphous			1, 5	1, 6	1, 6	1, 6	1, 6	1SwShBDSP	1
	Lickilicky	normal	Monster				25	25	25	25	24SwShBDSP
	Dusknoir	ghost	Amorphous				1, 6	1, 6	1, 6	1, 6	1SwShBDSP	1
	Darkrai	dark	Undiscovered				1	1	1	1	1BDSP	1
	Yamask	ghost	Mineral/Amorphous					5	5	5	12
	Yamask	ground/ghost	Mineral/Amorphous								12SwSh
	Cofagrigus	ghost	Mineral/Amorphous					1, 5	1, 5	1, 5	12
	Yveltal	dark/flying	Undiscovered						35	35	15
	Salazzle	poison/fire	Monster/Dragon							1	1	1
	Bruxish	water/psychic	Water 2							20		20
	Tapu Bulu	grass/fairy	Undiscovered							1	10
	Cursola	ghost	Water 1/Water 3								1
	Runerigus	ground/ghost	Mineral/Amorphous								12
	Spectrier	ghost	Undiscovered								60	60
	Calyrex	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered								1	1
	Bramblin	grass/ghost	Grass									29
	Brambleghast	grass/ghost	Grass									29
	Scream Tail	fairy/psychic	Undiscovered									1
	Iron Valiant	fairy/fighting	Undiscovered									1
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

By breeding

Special move

Generation V

By event

Generation VI

Gallery

v · d · e List of Normal-type moves
Generation I · Generation II · Generation III · Generation IV · Generation V · Generation VI · Generation VII · Generation VIII · Generation IX
A	Acupressure After You Assist Attract
B	Barrage Baton Pass Belly Drum Bestow Bide Bind Bite Block Blood Moon Body Slam Boomburst
C	Camouflage Captivate Celebrate Charm Chip Away Comet Punch Confide Constrict Conversion Conversion 2 Copycat Court Change Covet Crush Claw Crush Grip Cut
D	Defense Curl Disable Dizzy Punch Doodle Double Hit Double Slap Double Team Double-Edge
E	Echoed Voice Egg Bomb Encore Endeavor Endure Entrainment Explosion Extreme Speed
F	Facade Fake Out False Swipe Feint Fillet Away Flail Flash Focus Energy Follow Me Foresight Frustration Fury Attack Fury Swipes
G	Giga Impact Glare Growl Growth Guillotine Gust
H	Happy Hour Harden Head Charge Headbutt Heal Bell Helping Hand Hidden Power Hold Back Hold Hands Horn Attack Horn Drill Howl Hyper Beam Hyper Drill Hyper Fang Hyper Voice
J	Judgment
K	Karate Chop
L	Laser Focus Last Resort Leer Lock-On Lovely Kiss Lucky Chant
M	Me First Mean Look Mega Kick Mega Punch Metronome Milk Drink Mimic Mind Reader Minimize Moonlight Morning Sun Multi-Attack
N	Natural Gift Nature Power Noble Roar
O	Odor Sleuth
P	Pain Split Pay Day Perish Song Play Nice Population Bomb Pound Power Shift Present Protect Psych Up
Q	Quick Attack
R	Rage Raging Bull Rapid Spin Razor Wind Recover Recycle Reflect Type Refresh Relic Song Retaliate Return Revelation Dance Revival Blessing Roar Rock Climb Round
S	Safeguard Sand Attack Scary Face Scratch Screech Secret Power Self-Destruct Sharpen Shed Tail Shell Smash Simple Beam Sing Sketch Skull Bash Slack Off Slam Slash Sleep Talk Smelling Salts Smokescreen Snore Soft-Boiled Sonic Boom Spike Cannon Spit Up Splash Spotlight Stockpile Stomp Strength Struggle Stuff Cheeks Substitute Super Fang Supersonic Swagger Swallow Sweet Kiss Sweet Scent Swift Swords Dance
T	Tackle Tail Slap Tail Whip Take Down Tearful Look Teatime Techno Blast Teeter Dance Tera Blast Tera Starstorm Terrain Pulse Thrash Tickle Tidy Up Transform Tri Attack Trump Card
U	Uproar
V	Vise Grip
W	Weather Ball Whirlwind Wish Work Up Wrap Wring Out
Y	Yawn
See also	Bug-type Dark-type Dragon-type Electric-type Fairy-type Fighting-type Fire-type Flying-type Ghost-type Grass-type Ground-type Ice-type Poison-type Psychic-type Rock-type Steel-type Water-type
Moves

v · d · e List of move variations
Damage-dealing	A Acid Bubble Ember Powder Snow Thunder Shock Aeroblast Spacial Rend Ancient Power Ominous Wind Silver Wind Arm Thrust Water Shuriken Aqua Jet Accelerock B Barb Barrage Infernal Parade Bite Heart Stamp Blizzard Hurricane Thunder Bolt Beak Fishious Rend Bone Rush Rock Blast Brine Hex Venoshock Bullet Seed Icicle Spear C Catastropika Pulverizing Pancake Circle Throw Dragon Tail Collision Course Electro Drift Counter Mirror Coat Cross Chop Stone Edge Crush Claw Razor Claw Crunch Flash Cannon Shadow Ball D Dig Dive Discharge Lava Plume Double-Edge Brave Bird Flare Blitz Wave Crash Wood Hammer Volt Tackle Drill Peck Dragon Claw Power Gem Seed Bomb Strength X-Scissor Dynamax Cannon Behemoth Bash Behemoth Blade Dynamic Punch Inferno E Earthquake Judgment Eruption Dragon Energy Water Spout F False Swipe Hold Back Fire Punch Ice Punch Signal Beam Thunder Punch Relic Song Fire Spin Clamp Sand Tomb Whirlpool Flail Reversal Flame Charge Chilling Water Pounce Struggle Bug Trailblaze Flamethrower Ice Beam Thunderbolt Fury Attack Barrage Fusion Flare Fusion Bolt G Giga Drain Drain Punch Horn Leech Gyro Ball Electro Ball H Hammer Arm Ice Hammer Heavy Slam Heat Crash Hyper Beam Blast Burn Frenzy Plant Giga Impact Hydro Cannon Meteor Assault Roar of Time Rock Wrecker Hyper Fang Zen Headbutt I Icy Wind Electroweb Mud Shot Snarl Iron Tail Dragon Rush J Jump Kick Supercell Slam K Karate Chop Poison Tail L Last Respects Rage Fist Leaf Blade Attack Order Low Kick Grass Knot Lunge Apple Acid Drum Beating Grav Apple Fire Lash Luster Purge Mist Ball M Megahorn Power Whip Precipice Blades Metal Burst Comeuppance N Needle Arm Force Palm O Octazooka Mirror Shot Mud Bomb Overheat Draco Meteor Fleur Cannon Leaf Storm P Pluck Bug Bite Pound Branch Poke Fairy Wind Gust Leafage Scratch Tackle Psybeam Aurora Beam Bubble Beam Chatter Low Sweep Sludge Spark Psyblade Hydro Steam Psychic Bug Buzz Earth Power Energy Ball Psyshock Body Press Q Quick Attack Bullet Punch Ice Shard Mach Punch Shadow Sneak Vacuum Wave R Return Frustration Revenge Avalanche Rollout Ice Ball S Sacred Fire Diamond Storm Seismic Toss Night Shade Shadow Bone Liquidation Skull Bash Electro Shot Sky Attack Freeze Shock Ice Burn Slash Aqua Cutter Cross Poison Night Slash Psycho Cut Shadow Claw Sludge Wave Moonblast Springtide Storm Bleakwind Storm Sandsear Storm Wildbolt Storm Steel Beam Chloroblast Stomp Steamroller Stomping Tantrum Lash Out Temper Flare Stone Axe Ceaseless Edge Stored Power Power Trip Sucker Punch Thunderclap Sunsteel Strike Moongeist Beam Photon Geyser Superpower Armor Cannon Close Combat Dragon Ascent Headlong Rush Super Fang Nature's Madness Ruination Surf Hyper Voice Land's Wrath Petal Blizzard Thousand Arrows Thousand Waves Swift Aerial Ace Feint Attack Magical Leaf Magnet Bomb Shadow Punch Shock Wave T Techno Blast Multi-Attack Thief Covet Thrash Outrage Petal Dance Raging Fury U U-turn Volt Switch W Waterfall Dark Pulse Extrasensory Iron Head Poison Jab Scald Zing Zap Weather Ball Terrain Pulse Wring Out Crush Grip Hard Press Elemental fangs Fire Fang Ice Fang Thunder Fang One-hit knockout moves Fissure Guillotine Horn Drill Sheer Cold Pledge moves Fire Pledge Grass Pledge Water Pledge Let's Go Partner Pika Papow Veevee Volley Bouncy Bubble Buzzy Buzz Sizzly Slide Glitzy Glow Baddy Bad Sappy Seed Freezy Frost
Status	After You Quash Camouflage Reflect Type Charm Captivate Eerie Impulse Fake Tears Feather Dance Confide Play Nice Conversion Conversion 2 Destiny Bond Grudge Disable Embargo Heal Block Taunt Torment Follow Me Rage Powder Foresight Miracle Eye Odor Sleuth Forest's Curse Trick-or-Treat Guard Split Power Split Harden Sharpen Heal Bell Aromatherapy Heal Pulse Floral Healing Aqua Ring Ingrain Jungle Healing Lunar Blessing Magnetic Flux Gear Up Meditate Defense Curl Howl Withdraw Memento Lunar Dance Healing Wish Mind Reader Lock-On Mist Lucky Chant Safeguard Morning Sun Moonlight Shore Up Synthesis Mud Sport Water Sport No Retreat Clangorous Soul Poison Powder Stun Spore Protect Baneful Bunker Burning Bulwark Detect King's Shield Obstruct Silk Trap Spiky Shield Quick Guard Crafty Shield Wide Guard Quiver Dance Coil Recover Heal Order Milk Drink Roost Slack Off Soft-Boiled Roar Whirlwind Sand Attack Flash Smokescreen Screech Metal Sound Sing Grass Whistle Supersonic Skill Swap Guard Swap Heart Swap Power Swap Speed Swap Sleep Powder Lovely Kiss Sweet Kiss Soak Magic Powder Spider Web Block Mean Look Spikes Stealth Rock Sticky Web Toxic Spikes Splash Celebrate Hold Hands Stockpile Bulk Up Calm Mind Cosmic Power Dragon Dance Hone Claws Swords Dance Acid Armor Amnesia Autotomize Barrier Iron Defense Nasty Plot Rock Polish Tail Whip Leer Trick Switcheroo Trick Room Magic Room Wonder Room Worry Seed Entrainment Simple Beam Terrain moves Electric Terrain Grassy Terrain Misty Terrain Psychic Terrain Weather moves Hail Rain Dance Sandstorm Snowscape Sunny Day

v · d · e List of moves introduced in Generation I
Bug-type · Dark-type · Dragon-type · Electric-type · Fairy-type · Fighting-type · Fire-type · Flying-type · Ghost-type · Grass-type · Ground-type · Ice-type · Normal-type · Poison-type · Psychic-type · Rock-type · Steel-type · Water-type
A	Absorb Acid Acid Armor Agility Amnesia Aurora Beam
B	Barrage Barrier Bide Bind Bite Blizzard Body Slam Bone Club Bonemerang Bubble Bubble Beam
C	Clamp Comet Punch Confuse Ray Confusion Constrict Conversion Counter Crabhammer Cut
D	Defense Curl Dig Disable Dizzy Punch Double Kick Double Slap Double Team Double-Edge Dragon Rage Dream Eater Drill Peck
E	Earthquake Egg Bomb Ember Explosion
F	Fire Blast Fire Punch Fire Spin Fissure Flamethrower Flash Fly Focus Energy Fury Attack Fury Swipes
G	Glare Growl Growth Guillotine Gust
H	Harden Haze Headbutt High Jump Kick Horn Attack Horn Drill Hydro Pump Hyper Beam Hyper Fang Hypnosis
I	Ice Beam Ice Punch
J	Jump Kick
K	Karate Chop Kinesis
L	Leech Life Leech Seed Leer Lick Light Screen Lovely Kiss Low Kick
M	Meditate Mega Drain Mega Kick Mega Punch Metronome Mimic Minimize Mirror Move Mist
N	Night Shade
P	Pay Day Peck Petal Dance Pin Missile Poison Gas Poison Powder Poison Sting Pound Psybeam Psychic Psywave
Q	Quick Attack
R	Rage Razor Leaf Razor Wind Recover Reflect Rest Roar Rock Slide Rock Throw Rolling Kick
S	Sand Attack Scratch Screech Seismic Toss Self-Destruct Sharpen Sing Skull Bash Sky Attack Slam Slash Sleep Powder Sludge Smog Smokescreen Soft-Boiled Solar Beam Sonic Boom Spike Cannon Splash Spore Stomp Strength String Shot Struggle Stun Spore Submission Substitute Super Fang Supersonic Surf Swift Swords Dance
T	Tackle Tail Whip Take Down Teleport Thrash Thunder Thunder Punch Thunder Shock Thunder Wave Thunderbolt Toxic Transform Tri Attack Twineedle
V	Vine Whip ViceGrip
W	Water Gun Waterfall Whirlwind Wing Attack Withdraw Wrap
See also	Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX
Generation I