Move card

Curse

Stats and effect
Ghost Status
Power —
Accuracy —
PP 10
Priority 0
Effect

Ghosts pay half their max HP to hurt the target every turn. Others decrease Speed but raise Attack and Defense.

Target: Specific move Introduced: Generation II (Johto) Learned by 502 Pokémon
Move properties
  • Bypasses Substitute — Affects a Pokémon hiding behind a Substitute.
Changes between games

Some moves had different values in earlier games. Below you can see what changed and from which game the value you see now applies.

Changes to move values between game releases.
Game Prop­erty Before
Black/White Type —
  • Type Ghost now

Each row is one change in one game. The Property column says what changed, Before shows the value that applied before that game, and Now is the value today.

Machines that teach this move
  • TM03 Gold/Silver, Crystal
  • TM224 Scarlet/Violet, Scarlet/Violet: The Indigo Disk
  • TM91 Legends: Z-A

The same move has different numbers in different games — check the number for your version before going after the machine.

Pokémon that learn this move (502)

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The tiles cover all games at once. “From Lv.” is the level from the latest game in which that species learns this move by level-up — hover over the number to see which game. No number means it never learns the move by level-up.