Moon Stone
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The Moon Stone (Japanese: つきのいし Moon Stone) is a type of Evolution stone introduced in Generation I.
In the core series games
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In the Generation V games, the Moon Stone can be sold to an item maniac inside the Icirrus City Pokémon Center for $3000.
Effect
Can be used to evolve one of several Pokémon. This consumes the Moon Stone. Starting in Generation IV, Pokémon that evolve using this stone have an increased catch rate when attempting to catch them with the Moon Ball. This also applies to their evolutionary relatives in Generation IV.
- Causes Nidorina to evolve into Nidoqueen
- Causes Nidorino to evolve into Nidoking
- Causes Clefairy to evolve into Clefable
- Causes Jigglypuff to evolve into Wigglytuff
- Causes Skitty to evolve into Delcatty
- Causes Munna to evolve into Musharna
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As a held item
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Artwork from Scarlet and Violet |
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Grand Underground sprites from Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl |
Bag sprite from Legends: Arceus |
In the spin-off games
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
The Moon Stone appears in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team; Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky; and Gates to Infinity.
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Can be used to evolve one of several Pokémon by offering it at the Luminous CaveRB or Luminous SpringTDS or by using it in a dungeonGtI. This consumes the Moon Stone.
- Causes Nidorina to evolve into Nidoqueen
- Causes Nidorino to evolve into Nidoking
- Causes Clefairy to evolve into Clefable
- Causes Jigglypuff to evolve into Wigglytuff
- Causes Skitty to evolve into Delcatty
- Causes Munna to evolve into Musharna
If thrown, it will deal 1RBTDS/2GtI damage (2 if sticky). In Red Rescue Team, Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky, using this item in a dungeon will consume it, with no effect.
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| Sprite from Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team |
Sprite from Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky |
Sprite from Gates to Infinity |
Model from Gates to Infinity* |
Pokémon Conquest
In Pokémon Conquest, Jigglypuff and Munna evolve into Wigglytuff and Musharna, respectively, if their link is improved while their Warrior is equipped with a Moon Stone.
A Moon Stone can be purchased from the traveling merchant for 5000 gold, and sold for 2500-3250 gold.
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Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!
The Moon Stone card is available in Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!.
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Pokémon Pinball series
In Pokémon Pinball and Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire, the player gets three Moon Stone symbols in order to evolve any of the Pokémon below.
| Evolves from | Evolves into | Pokémon Pinball | Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire |
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| Nidorina | Nidoqueen | ✔ | ✘ |
| Nidorino | Nidoking | ✔ | ✘ |
| Clefairy | Clefable | ✔ | ✘ |
| Jigglypuff | Wigglytuff | ✔ | ✔ |
| Skitty | Delcatty | ✘ | ✔ |
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Counter from Pinball |
Sprite from Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire |
Pokémon Sleep
The Moon Stone is available in Pokémon Sleep.
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The Moon Stone is required to evolve certain Pokémon in Pokémon Sleep. It is consumed upon use.
- Clefairy requires
80 Clefairy Candy and a Moon Stone to evolve into Clefable. - Jigglypuff requires
80 Jigglypuff Candy and a Moon Stone to evolve into Wigglytuff.
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In animation
Pokémon the Series
Pokémon the Series: The Beginning
In Clefairy and the Moon Stone, a giant Moon Stone appeared deep within Mt. Moon, being worshipped by a group of Clefairy who lived there. It was soon stolen by Team Rocket, and ultimately ended up being blown up; the shards from the shattered giant Moon Stone rained down on the Clefairy and caused some of them to evolve into Clefable. In this episode, the characters speculated that the Moon Stone was how various Pokémon—Clefairy in particular—arrived in the Pokémon world.
Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire
A flashback in Delcatty Got Your Tongue revealed that Dr. Abby decided to study to become a Pokémon Doctor shortly after winning the title of Top Coordinator. Dr. Moss took her under his wing and taught her how to treat Pokémon, and in recognition of her efforts gave her a Moon Stone, which Abby used to evolve her Skitty, nicknamed Johnny, into Delcatty.
Another giant Moon Stone was seen at Mt. Moon in A Real Cleffa-Hanger.
Pokémon the Series: Black & White
In Mystery on a Deserted Island!, the Moon Stone was featured along with all of the other Evolution stones available as of Generation V.
Pokémon the Series: XY
A full set of Evolution stones was seen on display in a stone shop in Geosenge Town in The Cave of Trials!.
Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon
A Moon Stone appeared in a fantasy in A Dream Encounter!, where it was revealed that Lusamine had used one to evolve her Clefairy into Clefable.
Pokémon Journeys: The Series
Multiple Moon Stones appeared in Infinite Possibilities!, where a group of Clefairy used them in an evolution ritual.
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A giant Moon Stone
Seymour inspecting a Moon Stone in Clefairy and the Moon Stone
A Moon Stone in Mystery on a Deserted Island!
In the manga
The Electric Tale of Pikachu
In Clefairy Tale, Ash, Professor Oak, and Bill witnessed a Clefairy evolution ceremony involving a large Moon Stone.
The focus of the chapter To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question! was Evolution stones, including the Moon Stone.
Pokémon Adventures
Red, Green & Blue arc
A Moon Stone was first mentioned by Professor Oak in Gyarados Splashes In! as a rock with a crescent moon-shaped indentation that boosts a Pokémon's power immensely. In the next chapter, Team Rocket searched for one in Mt. Moon. However, it was Red who eventually found it. In The Winged Legends, Red used his Moon Stone to evolve Green's Clefairy into a Clefable in order to fight Thu-Fi-Zer during the Silph Co. showdown with Team Rocket.
Ruby & Sapphire arc
In Guile from Mawile, Ruby's Skitty, Kiki, evolved into a Delcatty due to being exposed to one of Steven's Moon Stones. Another one of Steven's Moon Stones was seen in Ring Ring Goes Beldum.
FireRed & LeafGreen arc
In Give It Your Best, Blastoise, during the battle against the Deoxys Duplicates, Green evolved her Jigglypuff, Jiggly, and her Nidorina, Nido, into Wigglytuff and Nidoqueen, respectively, using two Moon Stones.
Black & White arc
In Homecoming, it was revealed that Black's Munna, Musha, had evolved into a Musharna using a Moon Stone received from Caitlin.
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A Moon Stone in the Ruby & Sapphire arc
Two Moon Stones in the FireRed & LeafGreen arc
Pokémon Pocket Monsters
A Moon Stone appeared in Receive The Moon Stone!!, worn by Misty on a necklace. Red challenged her to a battle over it, but while his Clefairy succeeded in defeating her Blastoise, the Moon Stone was stolen by someone else in the meantime.
In the TCG
- Main article: Moon Stone (Vending S1)
The Moon Stone was released as a Trainer card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the Japanese Original Era with Expansion Sheet 1. The card was only ever released in Japanese and has never been reprinted. It allows the player to add 1 Colorless Evolution card from their deck to their hand.
Unrelated to the other TCG card, a Moon Stone appears as a held item on the Secret Wonders Clefairy card. It allows Clefairy to evolve on the turn it is played.
Trivia
- From Generation IV onward, the Moon Ball is more likely to catch Pokémon that evolve via Moon Stone. While this was intended to be the case in Generation II, the Moon Ball always has 1× effectiveness there due to a bug.
- Through a glitch in the Generation I games, Pokémon that would normally require an Evolution stone to evolve can be evolved without it, provided that the Pokémon levels up in the battle and the player has sent out a specific Pokémon in the same battle. In the case of the Moon Stone, this Pokémon is Exeggutor.
- The Moon Stone stands out from the other stones in some ways until Generation IV. It is the only stone that's:
- been unsellable.
- had the selling price of $0.
- been unable to be obtained an unlimited amount of times per game.
- The Moon Stone shares its name with an actual gemstone.
- In the Chuang Yi translation of Pokémon Pocket Monsters, the Moon Stone is called "Moon Rock".
- The description of the Moon Stone in the games describes it as black, but most depictions of the stone (including those in the games themselves) portray it as gray.
In other languages
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