Chilly Reception (move)

Chilly Reception さむいギャグ Cold Gag

Battles Type  Ice Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by Mirror Move Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Both Sides: Affects the entire field

Availability Introduced  Generation IX Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IX

Chilly Reception (Japanese: さむいギャグ Cold Gag) is a non-damaging Ice-type move introduced in Generation IX. It is the signature move of Slowking and one of the signature moves of Galarian Slowking.

Effect

Chilly Reception creates snow on the battlefield and switches the user out. Snow instigated by this move lasts five turns (or eight turns if the user is holding an Icy Rock). The user will still switch out even if there is already snow on the field when the move is used. If there are no other teammates to switch to, it will only change the weather to snow.

If the move is selected directly, before using the move, the following message is displayed: "<Pokémon> is preparing to tell a chillingly bad joke!" even if the move fails to execute. Using this move through a move that calls another move will not display the aforementioned message.

Description

Games Description SV The user tells a chillingly bad joke before switching places with a party Pokémon in waiting. This summons a snowstorm lasting five turns.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Level
						IX
						SV
0199		Slowking		Monster	Water 1	Rem.
0199		Slowking Galarian Form		Monster	Water 1	Rem.
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

In other games

Pokémon Masters EX

Name	Category	Move gauge cost	MP (uses)	Base power	Max power	Accuracy	Target	Effect tag	Description	Playable sync pair(s)
Buddy move
Classy Chilly Reception	Status	2	1	—	—	—	All opponents	Sure Hit	Activation Condition: When a circle is applied to the allied field of play. Deactivation Condition: When there are no longer any circles applied to the allied field of play. Never misses. Lowers the Defense, Sp. Def, and evasiveness of all opposing sync pairs by three stat ranks. Causes a hailstorm. Applies the No Stat Increases effect to the opponents' field of play. Applies the Stat Reduction Defense effect to the allied field of play. Returns lowered stats of all allied sync pairs to normal.	Avery & Slowking

In other generations

Spin-off series games

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD: Time, Darkness, and Sky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Trivia

• In Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, a "cold" joke is often used to refer to a joke that has no punchline, or one that fails to get a laugh from its audience. An unamused audience may remark that the room is suddenly cold. A similar joke in the English language is to pretend to only hear crickets respond to a bad joke. An exaggeration of this response in media, particularly in comedies, is to have the room literally become cold as a result of a bad joke. This is reflected in-game by the user creating a snowstorm, then leaving the battlefield, presumably ashamed of its terrible joke.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 冷笑話 Láahng Siuwá Mandarin 冷笑話 / 冷笑话 Lěng Xiàohuà French Neigeux de Mots German Eisige Stimmung Italian Freddura Korean 썰렁개그 Sseolleong Gag Spanish Fría Acogida

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