Will-O-Wisp

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Needs Generation VIII

Will-O-Wisp

おにび Will-o'-the-Wisp

Generation:	III

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	N/A
Accuracy:	85%
PP:	15, max: ?
Affects:	Selected target
Secondary Effect:	None
Priority:	0
Contact:	No

Affected by

Magic Coat:	Yes
Magic Bounce:	Yes
Bright Powder:	Yes
Protect/Detect:	Yes
Snatch:	No
Mirror Move:	Yes
King's Rock:	No

Contest Data

Contests (RS E)

Type:
Appeal:	1 ♥
Jam:	4 ♥♥♥♥

Super Contests (DP Pt)

Type:
Appeal:

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

Will-O-Wisp is a Fire-type move introduced in Generation III.

Description

Games	Description
RS E	Inflicts a burn on the foe with intense fire.
FRLG	A sinister, bluish white flame is shot at the foe to inflict a burn.
DP Pt HGSS	The user shoots a sinister, bluish white flame at the foe to inflict a burn.
BW B2W2 XY ORAS SM USUM PE	The user shoots a sinister, bluish-white flame at the target to inflict a burn.
SwSh BDSP LA SV	The user shoots a sinister flame at the target to inflict a burn.

Effect

Will-O-Wisp inflicts a burn. It cannot set a burn on Fire-type Pokémon or Pokémon with the Flash Fire Ability.

Learnset

By leveling up

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Vulpix	fire	Field	17	14	31^BW 26^B2W2	26^XY 20^ORAS	20^SMUSUM 17^PE	24	24
	Ninetales	fire	Field						1	Rem.
	Gastly	ghost/poison	Amorphous					14^PE
	Haunter	ghost/poison	Amorphous					14^PE
	Gengar	ghost/poison	Amorphous					14^PE
	Marowak	fire/ghost	Monster					23^SMUSUM 24^PE	36
	Shuppet	ghost	Amorphous	32	23	23^BW 13^B2W2	13^XY 16^ORAS	16	16^BDSP	16
	Banette	ghost	Amorphous	32	23	23^BW 13^B2W2	13^XY 16^ORAS	16	16^BDSP	16
	Duskull	ghost	Amorphous	38	33	33	33^XY 25^ORAS	25	24	24
	Dusclops	ghost	Amorphous	41	33	33	33^XY 25^ORAS	25	24	24
	Dusknoir	ghost	Amorphous		33	33	33^XY 25^ORAS	25	24	24
	Froslass	ice/ghost	Fairy/Mineral					28	47	47
	Yamask	ghost	Mineral/Amorphous			21	21	21	16
	Cofagrigus	ghost	Mineral/Amorphous			21	21	21	16
	Litwick	ghost/fire	Amorphous			16	16	16	20	20
	Lampent	ghost/fire	Amorphous			16	16	16	20	20
	Chandelure	ghost/fire	Amorphous						1	1
	Fennekin	fire	Field				38	38		38
	Braixen	fire	Field				45	45		45
	Delphox	fire/psychic	Field				47	51		51
	Phantump	ghost/grass	Grass/Amorphous				31	31	16	16
	Trevenant	ghost/grass	Grass/Amorphous				31	31	16	16
	Blacephalon	fire/ghost	Undiscovered						55
	Crocalor	fire	Field							42
	Skeledirge	fire/ghost	Field							47
	Charcadet	fire	Human-Like							16
	Armarouge	fire/psychic	Human-Like							16
	Ceruledge	fire/ghost	Human-Like							16
	Chi-Yu	dark/fire	Undiscovered							15
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 TM

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Machine
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Charmander	fire	Monster/Dragon		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Charmeleon	fire	Monster/Dragon		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Charizard	fire/flying	Monster/Dragon		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Vulpix	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Ninetales	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Growlithe	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Growlithe	fire/rock	Field							TM107
	Arcanine	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Arcanine	fire/rock	Field							TM107
	Ponyta	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP
	Rapidash	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP
	Gastly	ghost/poison	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Haunter	ghost/poison	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61SM USUM TM11PE	TM38SwSh TM61BDSP	TM107
	Gengar	ghost/poison	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Marowak	fire/ghost	Monster					TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh
	Koffing	poison	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Weezing	poison	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Weezing	poison/fairy	Amorphous						TM38^SwSh	TM107
	Magmar	fire	Human-Like		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Tauros	fighting/fire	Field							TM107
	Flareon	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Moltres	fire/flying	Undiscovered		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Mewtwo	psychic	Undiscovered		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Mew	psychic	Undiscovered		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^SMUSUM TM11^PE	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Cyndaquil	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Quilava	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Typhlosion	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Typhlosion	fire/ghost	Field							TM107
	Misdreavus	ghost	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Slugma	fire	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Magcargo	fire/rock	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Corsola	ghost	Water 1/Water 3						TM38^SwSh
	Houndour	dark/fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Houndoom	dark/fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Magby	fire	Undiscovered		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Entei	fire	Undiscovered		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Ho-Oh	fire/flying	Undiscovered		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Torchic	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Combusken	fire/fighting	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Blaziken	fire/fighting	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Shiftry	grass/dark	Field/Grass							TM107
	Ralts	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Kirlia	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Gardevoir	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Shedinja	bug/ghost	Mineral		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP
	Sableye	dark/ghost	Human-Like		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Numel	fire/ground	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Camerupt	fire/ground	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Torkoal	fire	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Altaria	dragon/flying	Flying/Dragon							TM107
	Solrock	rock/psychic	Mineral		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP
	Shuppet	ghost	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Banette	ghost	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Duskull	ghost	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Dusclops	ghost	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Absol	dark	Field		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP
	Groudon	ground	Undiscovered							TM107
	Chimchar	fire	Field/Human-Like		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Monferno	fire/fighting	Field/Human-Like		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Infernape	fire/fighting	Field/Human-Like		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Drifloon	ghost/flying	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Drifblim	ghost/flying	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Mismagius	ghost	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Spiritomb	ghost/dark	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Magmortar	fire	Human-Like		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Gallade	psychic/fighting	Human-Like/Amorphous			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Dusknoir	ghost	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Froslass	ice/ghost	Fairy/Mineral					TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Rotom	electric/ghost	Amorphous		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Heatran	fire/steel	Undiscovered		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Giratina	ghost/dragon	Undiscovered		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38^SwSh TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Darkrai	dark	Undiscovered		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Arceus	normal	Undiscovered		TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61	TM61^BDSP	TM107
	Victini	psychic/fire	Undiscovered			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38
	Tepig	fire	Field			TM61	TM61	TM61		TM107
	Pignite	fire/fighting	Field			TM61	TM61	TM61		TM107
	Emboar	fire/fighting	Field			TM61	TM61	TM61		TM107
	Pansear	fire	Field			TM61	TM61	TM61
	Simisear	fire	Field			TM61	TM61	TM61
	Darumaka	fire	Field			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38
	Darumaka	ice	Field						TM38^SwSh
	Darmanitan	fire	Field			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38
	Darmanitan	ice	Field						TM38^SwSh
	Yamask	ghost	Mineral/Amorphous			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38
	Yamask	ground/ghost	Mineral/Amorphous						TM38^SwSh
	Cofagrigus	ghost	Mineral/Amorphous			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38
	Zorua	normal/ghost	Field							TM107
	Zoroark	normal/ghost	Field							TM107
	Frillish	water/ghost	Amorphous			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38
	Jellicent	water/ghost	Amorphous			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38
	Litwick	ghost/fire	Amorphous			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38	TM107
	Lampent	ghost/fire	Amorphous			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38	TM107
	Chandelure	ghost/fire	Amorphous			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38	TM107
	Heatmor	fire	Field			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38
	Larvesta	bug/fire	Bug			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38	TM107
	Volcarona	bug/fire	Bug			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38	TM107
	Reshiram	dragon/fire	Undiscovered			TM61	TM61	TM61	TM38	TM107
	Fennekin	fire	Field				TM61	TM61		TM107
	Braixen	fire	Field				TM61	TM61		TM107
	Delphox	fire/psychic	Field				TM61	TM61		TM107
	Fletchling	normal/flying	Flying						TM38
	Fletchinder	fire/flying	Flying				TM61	TM61	TM38	TM107
	Talonflame	fire/flying	Flying				TM61	TM61	TM38	TM107
	Litleo	fire/normal	Field				TM61	TM61		TM107
	Pyroar	fire/normal	Field				TM61	TM61		TM107
	Phantump	ghost/grass	Grass/Amorphous				TM61	TM61	TM38	TM107
	Trevenant	ghost/grass	Grass/Amorphous				TM61	TM61	TM38	TM107
	Pumpkaboo	ghost/grass	Amorphous				TM61	TM61	TM38
	Gourgeist	ghost/grass	Amorphous				TM61	TM61	TM38
	Volcanion	fire/water	Undiscovered				TM61	TM61	TM38	TM107
	Litten	fire	Field					TM61	TM38	TM107
	Torracat	fire	Field					TM61	TM38	TM107
	Incineroar	fire/dark	Field					TM61	TM38	TM107
	Salandit	poison/fire	Monster/Dragon					TM61	TM38	TM107
	Salazzle	poison/fire	Monster/Dragon					TM61	TM38	TM107
	Turtonator	fire/dragon	Monster/Dragon					TM61	TM38
	Mimikyu	ghost/fairy	Amorphous					TM61	TM38	TM107
	Lunala	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered					TM61	TM38	TM107
	Marshadow	fighting/ghost	Undiscovered					TM61	TM38
	Blacephalon	fire/ghost	Undiscovered					TM61^USUM	TM38
	Cinderace	fire	Field/Human-Like							TM107
	Rolycoly	rock	Mineral						TM38	TM107
	Carkol	rock/fire	Mineral						TM38	TM107
	Coalossal	rock/fire	Mineral						TM38	TM107
	Centiskorch	fire/bug	Bug						TM38
	Sinistea	ghost	Mineral/Amorphous						TM38	TM107
	Polteageist	ghost	Mineral/Amorphous						TM38	TM107
	Cursola	ghost	Water 1/Water 3						TM38
	Runerigus	ground/ghost	Mineral/Amorphous						TM38
	Drakloak	dragon/ghost	Amorphous/Dragon						TM38	TM107
	Dragapult	dragon/ghost	Amorphous/Dragon						TM38	TM107
	Spectrier	ghost	Undiscovered						TM38	TM107
	Calyrex	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered						TM38	TM107
	Fuecoco	fire	Field							TM107
	Crocalor	fire	Field							TM107
	Skeledirge	fire/ghost	Field							TM107
	Charcadet	fire	Human-Like							TM107
	Armarouge	fire/psychic	Human-Like							TM107
	Ceruledge	fire/ghost	Human-Like							TM107
	Scovillain	grass/fire	Grass							TM107
	Houndstone	ghost	Field							TM107
	Slither Wing	bug/fighting	Undiscovered							TM107
	Chi-Yu	dark/fire	Undiscovered							TM107
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 III

Crossover appearances

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

Will-O-Wisp is one of two moves that a Chandelure can use in the Smash Run mode of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, along with Fire Spin. Upon using the move, Chandelure creates three purple flames to shoot at the player's fighter, inflicting darkness-related damage if successful.

Trivia

This move is named after the will-o'-the-wisp, a ghost light seen at night over wetlands (bogs, swamps, marshes), fields, and cemeteries, hence why many Ghost-type Pokemon can learn this move.
Even though Will-O-Wisp is a non-damaging, status affliction move, its depiction in the anime is very similar to that of a standard damage-dealing attack, never causing any burns at all, and in one instance being shown to be equal to Charizard's Flamethrower in terms of attack power. This was later fixed in "Friends, Rivals, Lend Me Your Spirit," where the move is accurately depicted as inflicting a burn.

Gallery

Main games

Spinoffs

Main series

v · d · e List of Fire-type moves

Generation I · Generation II · Generation III · Generation IV · Generation V · Generation VI · Generation VII · Generation VIII · Generation IX

A	Armor Cannon

B	Bitter Blade Blast Burn Blaze Kick Blazing Torque Blue Flare Burn Up Burning Bulwark Burning Jealousy

E	Ember Eruption

F	Fiery Dance Fire Blast Fire Fang Fire Lash Fire Pledge Fire Punch Fire Spin Flame Burst Flame Charge Flame Wheel Flamethrower Flare Blitz Fusion Flare

H	Heat Crash Heat Wave

I	Incinerate Inferno

L	Lava Plume

M	Magma Storm Mind Blown Mystical Fire

O	Overheat

P	Pyro Ball

R	Raging Fury

S	Sacred Fire Searing Shot Shell Trap Sizzly Slide Sunny Day

T	Temper Flare Torch Song

V	V-create

W	Will-O-Wisp

See also	Bug-type Dark-type Dragon-type Electric-type Fairy-type Fighting-type Flying-type Ghost-type Grass-type Ground-type Ice-type Normal-type Poison-type Psychic-type Rock-type Steel-type Water-type

Moves

v · d · e List of moves introduced in Generation III

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	Aerial Ace Air Cutter Arm Thrust Aromatherapy Assist Astonish

B	Blast Burn Blaze Kick Block Bounce Brick Break Bulk Up Bullet Seed

C	Calm Mind Camouflage Charge Cosmic Power Covet Crush Claw

D	Dive Doom Desire Dragon Claw Dragon Dance

E	Endeavor Eruption Extrasensory

F	Facade Fake Out Fake Tears Feather Dance Flatter Focus Punch Follow Me Frenzy Plant

G	Grass Whistle Grudge

H	Hail Heat Wave Helping Hand Howl Hydro Cannon Hyper Voice

I	Ice Ball Icicle Spear Imprison Ingrain Iron Defense

K	Knock Off

L	Leaf Blade Luster Purge

M	Magic Coat Magical Leaf Memento Metal Sound Meteor Mash Mist Ball Mud Shot Mud Sport Muddy Water

N	Nature Power Needle Arm

O	Odor Sleuth Overheat

P	Poison Fang Poison Tail Psycho Boost

R	Recycle Refresh Revenge Rock Blast Rock Tomb Role Play

S	Sand Tomb Secret Power Sheer Cold Shock Wave Signal Beam Silver Wind Skill Swap Sky Uppercut Slack Off Smelling Salts Snatch Spit Up Stockpile Superpower Swallow

T	Tail Glow Taunt Teeter Dance Tickle Torment Trick

U	Uproar

V	Volt Tackle

W	Water Pulse Water Sport Water Spout Weather Ball Will-O-Wisp Wish

Y	Yawn

See also	Generation I Generation II Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Generation III