Bubble Beam (move)

BubbleBeam does damage and has a 33.2% chance of lowering the target's Speed stat by one stage.

Bubble Beam now has a 10% chance of lowering the target's Speed stat by one stage.

Bubble Beam can also be used as part of a Pokémon Contest combination, with the user gaining an extra appeal point if the move Rain Dance was used in the prior turn.

In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, Bubblebeam has 6 base power, 19 PP and 100% accuracy. The attack travels up to 10 tiles away and hits the first Pokémon it encounters, ally or enemy, possibly lowering its Movement Speed by one level.

In Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, the move's PP has been decreased to 10, and its accuracy to 83.6%.

• Prior to Version 2.10.0 (from June 28, 2021): Has a very small chance of lowering the target's Speed.

Gyms & Raids

• July 30, 2016
  • Power: 25 → 30
• February 16, 2017
  • Power: 30 → 45
  • Energy cost: 25 → 33
  • Duration: 2.9 → 1.9 seconds
  • Damage window: 2.6 - 2.8 → 1.45 - 1.7 seconds

Trainer Battles

• September 27, 2019
  • Power: 45 → 25
  • Secondary effect added

Swanna	Popplio	Suicune	Tentacruel
The user forcefully ejects a spray of bubbles at the target.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Squirtle	Squirtle blows multiple clear or white bubbles from its mouth at the opponent.
Ash's Squirtle	Mewtwo Strikes Back		Debut
Mantine	Mantine releases a stream of light blue or clear bubbles from its mouth at the opponent at a great speed.
Molly's Mantine	Spell of the Unown: Entei		None
Dorian's Mantine	Just Add Water		None
Lola's Mantine	A Family That Battles Together Stays Together!		None
Multiple wild Mantine	Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea		None
Marill	Marill releases white bubbles from its mouth at the opponent at a great speed.
Pietra's Marill	Right On, Rhydon!		None
Suicune	A blue ball forms in Suicune's mouth. Suicune then shoots multiple amounts of blue bubbles at the opponent from the blue ball. When the attack is over, the last bubble explodes and sends the opponent back.
Suicune (M04)	Celebi: The Voice of the Forest		None
Azumarill	Azumarill releases white bubbles from its mouth at a great speed or the inside of Azumarill's mouth glows light blue and it fires multiple light blue bubbles from its mouth at the opponent.
A Trainer's Azumarill	Dueling Heroes		None
Jackson's Azumarill	Tie One On!		None
Officer Jenny's Azumarill	The Pirates of Decolore!		None
A wild Azumarill	The Power of Us		None
Corsola	A blue ball forms in Corsola's mouth and it releases a steam of blue bubbles from the orb.
Misty's Corsola	Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias		None
Juan's Corsola	The Great Eight Fate!		None
Tentacruel	Tentacruel releases multiple blue bubbles from under the large blue stinger on its face.
Kim's Tentacruel	Cerulean Blues		None
Kail's Tentacruel	Cerulean Blues		None
A Coordinator's Tentacruel	A Cacturne for the Worse		None
A Trainer's Tentacruel	Making Battles in the Sand!		None
Crawdaunt	Crawdaunt opens its pincers and releases light blue, multicolored, or blue bubbles at the opponent from both or one pincer.
A Team Aqua Grunt's Crawdaunt	Stairway to Devon		None
Shelly's Crawdaunt	Fight for the Meteorite!		None
Brodie's Ditto in the form of Crawdaunt	Unfair Weather Friends		Used via Transform
Mr. Saridakis's Crawdaunt	On Olden Pond		None
A Coordinator's Crawdaunt	Battling The Generation Gap!		None
Corphish	Corphish opens its pincers and fires light blue, multicolored, orange, or blue bubbles at the opponent from one or both of them.
Ash's Corphish	Gone Corphishin'		None
Rocko's Corphish	A Surface to Air Tag Battle Team!		None
Surskit	Surskit raises its front two legs and a light blue ball forms between them. It then lowers the ball and multiple light blue bubbles come out and hit the opponent.
Max's Surskit	Maxxed Out!		None
Viola's Surskit	Breaking Titles at the Chateau!		None
Staryu	The jewel in the middle of Staryu's body glows orange and it releases orange or blue bubbles from it at the opponent.
Misty's Staryu	The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon		None
Piplup	Piplup opens its beak and releases a stream of blue bubbles at the opponent. Sometimes, its beak glows light blue when it uses the attack.
A Piplup Dawn imagined	Following A Maiden's Voyage!		None
Dawn's Piplup	Following A Maiden's Voyage!		None
Piplup of Team Poképals	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness		None
Professor Rowan's Piplup	DPS01		None
Verity's Piplup	I Choose You!		None
Prinplup	The inside of Prinplup's beak glows light blue and it fires light blue bubbles at the opponent from its beak.
Kenny's Prinplup	Getting the Pre-Contest Titters!		None
Mime Jr.	The inside of Mime Jr.'s mouth glows light blue and it fires multiple light blue bubbles at the opponent from its mouth.
James's Mime Jr.	All Dressed Up With Somewhere To Go!		Used via Mimic
Mantyke	Mantyke fires multiple light blue bubbles from its mouth at the opponent.
A Coordinator's Mantyke	Dawn of a Royal Day!		None
Tympole	The inside of Tympole's mouth glows light blue and it takes in a deep breath. It then releases multiple light blue bubbles from its mouth at the opponent.
Multiple wild Tympole	Facing Fear with Eyes Wide Open!		None
Swanna	The inside of Swanna's beak glows light blue and it fires multiple light blue bubbles from its beak at the opponent.
Skyla's Swanna	Cilan Takes Flight!		None
Cameron's Swanna	Cameron's Secret Weapon!		None
Frillish	The inside of Frillish's mouth glows light blue and it fires multiple light blue bubbles from its mouth at the opponent.
A wild Frillish	A Surface to Air Tag Battle Team!		None
Frillish	The inside of Frillish's mouth glows light blue and it fires multiple light blue bubbles from its mouth at the opponent.
A wild Frillish	A Surface to Air Tag Battle Team!		None
Jessie's Frillish	New Places... Familiar Faces!		None
Vaporeon	The inside of Vaporeon's mouth glows light blue and it fires multiple light blue bubbles from its mouth at the opponent.
Virgil's Vaporeon	Team Eevee and the Pokémon Rescue Squad!		Vaporeon cannot legally learn Bubble Beam in Generation V
Clauncher	Clauncher shoots a beam of blue bubbles from one of its pincers at the opponent.
Rodman's Clauncher	Going for the Gold!		None
Lombre	Lombre shoots a beam of blue bubbles from its mouth at the opponent.
Multiple wild Lombre	One for the Goomy!		None
Crabrawler	Crabrawler shoots a beam of blue bubbles from the inside of its pincers at the opponent.
Hala's Crabrawler	Trial and Tribulation!		None
Popplio	Popplio shoots a stream of blue bubbles from in front of its nose at the opponent.
Lana's Popplio	They Might Not Be Giants!		None
Dewpider	Dewpider shoots a stream of blue bubbles out of its stinger at the opponent.
A wild Dewpider	Dewpider Ascending!		None
Brionne	Brionne shoots a stream of blue bubbles from in front of its nose at the opponent.
Lana's Brionne	The One That Didn't Get Away!		None
Tentacool	Tentacool shoots a stream of blue bubbles from its mouth at the opponent
A wild Tentacool	The Sinnoh Iceberg Race!		None
Seismitoad	Seismitoad shoots a stream of blue bubbles from its mouth at the opponent.
A wild Seismitoad	Everybody's Doing the Underground Shuffle!		None
Eevee	Eevee shoots a stream of blue bubbles from its mouth at the opponent.
Chloe's Eevee	Nightfall? Nightmares!		Used via Copycat
Alternate World Chloe's Eevee	JN090		Used via Copycat
Krabby	Krabby shoots a stream of blue bubbles from its mouth at the opponent.
Goh's Krabby	Trial on a Golden Scale!		None

• In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness, Corphish of Wigglytuff's Guild mentioned that he was capable of using Bubble Beam, but he was never shown using the move.
• In the dubbed version of Enter The Dragonite, Ash commanded his Squirtle to use Bubble. In the original version, it was commanded to use Bubble Beam instead.