String Shot (move)

String Shot decreases the targets' Speed stat by one stage.

In battles with multiple opponents, String Shot targets all adjacent foes.

String Shot now decreases the targets' Speed stat by two stages.

String Shot can also be used as part of a Contest Spectacular combination, causing any of the moves Electroweb, Spider Web and Sticky Web to give an extra three appeal points if used in the next turn.

If powered up by a Buginium Z into Z-String Shot, the user's Speed stat is raised by one stage.

In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, and Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, String Shot is a move with 16PP and 75% accuracy. The attack travels up to 10 tiles away, and hits the first Pokémon it encounters, ally or enemy, lowering its Movement Speed by one level. This move is affected by Magic Coat and Taunt.

In Gates To Infinity it travels in a straight line until it hits a wall or enemy. If an enemy is hit from an adjacent tile they become unable to move. If hit from farther they lose speed.

Spewpa	Charjabug	Caterpie	Larvesta
The foe is bound with silk blown from the user's mouth.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Caterpie	Caterpie shoots white string from its mouth at the opponent, tying them up. Caterpie can also shoot it from its rear end to hang from trees.
Ash's Caterpie	Ash Catches a Pokémon		Debut
Multiple Caterpie from the Azalea Gym	Gettin' the Bugs Out		None
Bucky's Caterpie	The Dunsparce Deception		None
Multiple wild Caterpie	Celebi: The Voice of the Forest		None
Multiple wild Caterpie	For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll!		None
Zander's Caterpie	Caterpie's Big Dilemma		None
A wild Caterpie	Butterfree and Me!		None
Goh's Caterpie	Getting More Than You Battled For!		None
Spinarak	Spinarak shoots a white string from its mouth or its abdomen and ties the opponent up.
Officer Jenny's Spinarak	Spinarak Attack		None
Bugsy's Spinarak	Gettin' the Bugs Out		None
A wild Spinarak	Pikachu and Pichu		None
Dr. Anna's Spinarak	Hassle in the Castle		None
Multiple wild Spinarak	Ariados, Amigos		None
Multiple wild Spinarak	Celebi: The Voice of the Forest		None
Multiple wild Spinarak	For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll!		None
Three wild Spinarak	Hocus Pokémon		None
A wild Spinarak	Abandon Ship!		None
Metapod	Metapod shoots white string from the middle of its body and ties up the opponent.
Multiple Metapod from the Azalea Gym	Gettin' the Bugs Out		None
Ash's Metapod	I Choose You!		None
Weedle	Weedle shoots white string from its mouth and ties up the opponent.
Multiple Weedle from the Azalea Gym	Gettin' the Bugs Out		None
Multiple wild Weedle	Celebi: The Voice of the Forest		None
Multiple wild Weedle	For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll!		None
Kakuna	Kakuna shoots white string from the hole right below its head at the opponent, tying it up. It can also shoot string from the back of its head to hang from trees.
Multiple Kakuna from the Azalea Gym	Gettin' the Bugs Out		None
Ariados	Ariados shoots multiple white strings from its mouth or abdomen at the opponent, tying it up.
Tōkichi's Ariados	Ariados, Amigos		None
Multiple wild Ariados	For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll!		None
Oakley's Ariados	Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias		None
Forrester Franklin's Ariados	All in a Day's Wurmple		None
Harley's Ariados	A Hurdle for Squirtle		None
A Trainer's Ariados	From Cradle to Save		None
Multiple wild Ariados	Following a Maiden's Voyage!		None
J's Ariados	Mutiny in the Bounty!		None
An Ariados captured by Kellyn's Capture Styler	Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu! Part 1		None
An Ariados Angie used briefly	One Team, Two Team, Red Team, Blue Team!		None
A wild Ariados	Historical Mystery Tour!		None
Multiple wild Ariados	DPS01		None
A wild Ariados	A Slippery Encounter!		None
A wild Ariados	Defending the Homeland!		None
A ninja's Ariados	The Legend of the Ninja Hero!		None
A wild Ariados	Time After Time!		None
Doctor Zed's four Ariados	Secrets of the Jungle		None
Ilunas's Ariados	Night and Day, You are the Ones!		None
Beautifly	Beautifly shoots a white string from its mouth at the opponent, tying it up.
Janet's Beautifly	All Things Bright and Beautifly!		None
May's Beautifly	Now That's Flower Power!		None
Wurmple	Wurmple shoots white string from its mouth at the opponent. It can also shoot string from in between the two large horns behind it to hang from trees.
May's Wurmple	All in a Day's Wurmple		None
Jessie's Wurmple	Which Wurmple's Which?		None
Goh's two Wurmple	Best Friend...Worst Nightmare!		None
Silcoon	One of Silcoon's horns come out and it releases a thin white string from it and it can hang from it, or it shooots white string from the front of its face at the opponent, tying it up.
May's Silcoon	A Mudkip Mission		None
Cascoon	Cascoon releases a thin white string from the front of its face at the opponent, tying it up.
Jessie's Cascoon	The Three Team Scheme!		None
Skitty	Skitty releases a white string from a white orb on its paw at the opponent, tying it up.
May's Skitty	All Torkoal, No Play		Used via Assist
Sewaddle	Sewaddle releases a stream of white sticky string from its mouth at the opponent. It can also shoot string from the back of its head to hang from trees.
Ash's Sewaddle	Sewaddle and Burgh in Pinwheel Forest!		None
Leavanny	Leavanny releases a stream of sticky white string from its mouth at the opponent.
Burgh's Leavanny	Sewaddle and Burgh in Pinwheel Forest!		None
Ash's Leavanny	Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 1		None
A Trainer's Leavanny	Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!		None
Team Rocket's Leavanny	JN094		None
Swadloon	Swadloon opens its mouth and fires three or one white sticky strings from its mouth at the opponent. When the strings reach the opponent, they wrap themselves around its body.
Ash's Swadloon	Battling For The Love of Bug-Types!		None
A Trainer's Swadloon	Lost at the Stamp Rally!		None
A Trainer's Swadloon	Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!		None
Larvesta	Larvesta releases a white stream of sticky string from its mouth at the opponent. When the string hits the opponent, it wraps itself around its body.
Luke's Larvesta	The Club Battle Hearts of Fury: Emolga Versus Sawk!		None
Galvantula	Galvantula releases a thick white stream of sticky string from its mouth at the opponent. When the string gets near the opponent, it wraps itself around its body.
Two wild Galvantula	Crisis at Chargestone Cave!		None
Spewpa	Spewpa shoots a stream of white thread from its mouth at the opponent, preventing it from moving by tying it up.
A wild Spewpa	To Catch a Pokémon Smuggler!		None
Grubbin	Grubbin shoots a stream of white thread from its mouth at the opponent, preventing it from moving by tying it up.
A wild Grubbin	First Catch in Alola, Ketchum-Style!		None
A wild Grubbin	Secrets of the Jungle		None
Charjabug	Charjabug shoots a stream of white thread from its mouth at the opponent, preventing it from moving by tying it up.
Sophocles's Charjabug	Mounting an Electrifying Charge!		None
Vikavolt	Vikavolt shoots a stream of white thread from its mouth at the opponent, preventing it from moving by tying it up.
Sophocles's Vikavolt	A High-Speed Awakening!		None

• In The Treasure Is All Mine!, Sebastian told his Spinarak to use String Shot on James, but James had his Mime Jr. confuse Sebastian and Spinarak with Teeter Dance before the move could be used.

Spinarak	Caterpie	Galvantula	Metapod and Kakuna
The user shoots white thread at the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
Caterpie	Caterpie shoots a thick white thread from its mouth at the opponent.
Yellow's Kitty	Ekans the Ecstasy		Debut
Spinarak	Spinarak shoots a thick white thread from its mouth, creating a cage of webs.
Al's Spinarak	Great Girafarig		None
Metapod	Metapod shoots a thick white thread from its mouth at the opponent.
Bugsy's two Metapod	Hurray for Heracross		None
Kakuna	Kakuna shoots a thick white thread from its mouth at the opponent.
Bugsy's two Kakuna	Hurray for Heracross		None
Leavanny	Leavanny swings its leaf-like hand and shoots a thick white thread from it at the opponent.
Burgh's Leavanny	The Case of the Missing Pokémon		None
Galvantula	Galvantula shoots an electrically-charged thread from its mouth at the opponent.
Black's Tula	Up in the Air		None

• Janine's Ariados was revealed to know String Shot on the official web site, but he was never shown using the move.

	Kakuna
The user shoots silky string.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
Kakuna	Kakuna shoots silky string.
Bugsy's Kakuna	Let's Aim For The Goal!		Debut

• Bugsy's Metapod was told to use String Shot in Let's Aim For The Goal! but it was not shown using the move.