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Fling

Type

Dark Physical

Damage Dealt*

×2:	Ghost Psychic
×1:	Bug Dragon Electric Fire Flying Grass Ground Ice Normal Poison Rock Steel Water
×0.5:	Dark Fairy Fighting
×0:	N/A

Stats

Base Power	Power Points	Accuracy
*	10	100%
Effect Chance	Priority	Target
—%	0	Single non-user

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The user flings its held item at the target to attack. This move’s power and effects depend on the item.

Effect

Power and type are determined by the user's held item. The item is consumed, although items that would modify Fling's power will activate before use; Life Orb will increase Fling's power but will not damage the user.

Item	Power
All Berries, all Incenses, all Scarves, Air Balloon, Berserk Gene, Brave Bracer, Big Root, Bright Powder, Choice Band, Choice Scarf, Choice Specs, Destiny Knot, Expert Belt, Focus Band, Focus Sash, Lagging Tail, Leftovers, Mental Herb, Metal Powder, Muscle Band, Power Herb, Quick Powder, Reaper Cloth, Red Card, Ring Target, Shed Shell, Silk Scarf, Silver Powder, Smooth Rock, Soft Sand, Soothe Bell, White Herb, Wide Lens, Wise Glasses, Zoom Lens	10
All Wings	20
All medicines, all Potions, all herbal medicine, all Revives, all drinks, all Ethers and Elixirs, all Repels, all Vitamins, all Shards, all Mulches, all battle items, all Flutes, Absorb Bulb, Amulet Coin, Balm Mushroom, Beaked Mask, Berserk Helm, Big Mushroom, Big Nugget, Big Nugget, Big Pearl, Binding Band, Black Belt, Black Glasses, Black Sludge, Casteliacone, Cell Battery, Charcoal, Cleanse Tag, Comet Shard, Deep Sea Scale, Dragon Scale, Eject Button, Elite Scale, Escape Rope, Everstone, Exp. Share, Fire Stone, Flame Orb, Float Stone, Fluffy Tail, Heart Scale, Honey, Horned Mask, King's Rock, Lava Cookie, Leaf Stone, Life Orb, Light Ball, Light Clay, Lucky Egg, Magnet, Metal Coat, Metronome, Miracle Seed, Moon Stone, Mystic Water, Never-Melt Ice, Nugget, Old Gateau, Pass Orb, Pearl String, Pearl String, Pearl, Poké Doll, Poké Toy, Prism Scale, Razor Fang, Relic Copper, Relic Crown, Relic Gold, Relic Silver, Relic Statue, Relic Vase, Sacred Ash, Sage Crystal, Scope Lens, Shell Bell, Shoal Salt, Shoal Shell, Smoke Ball, Snow Crown, Soul Dew, Spell Tag, Star Piece, Stardust, Sun Stone, Sweet Heart, Thunder Stone, Tiny Mushroom, Toxic Orb, Twisted Spoon, Up-Grade, Water Stone	30
Eviolite, Icy Rock, Lucky Punch	40
Dubious Disc, Sharp Beak	50
Adamant Orb, Black Jewel, Damp Rock, Griseous Orb, Heat Rock, Lustrous Orb, Macho Brace, Rocky Helmet, Stick, White Jewel	60
All Drives, Dragon Fang, Poison Barb, Power Anklet, Power Band, Power Belt, Power Bracer, Power Lens, Power Weight	70
Dawn Stone, Dusk Stone, Electirizer, Logos Stone, Magmarizer, Odd Keystone, Oval Stone, Protector, Quick Claw, Razor Claw, Shiny Stone, Sticky Barb	80
All Plates, Deep Sea Tooth, Grip Claw, Thick Club	90
All Fossils, Hard Stone, Rare Bone	100
Iron Ball	130

Additionally, the following items cause an additional effect on the target when used with Fling:

Item	Effect	Power
Any Berry	That Berry's effect when consumed, if applicable	10
Flame Orb	Burns the target	30
King's Rock	Makes the target flinch	30
Light Ball	Paralyzes the target	30
Mental Herb	Cures the target of the effects of infatuation, Cursed Body/Disable, Encore, Taunt, and Torment	10
Poison Barb	Poisons the target	70
Razor Fang	Makes the target flinch	30
Toxic Orb	Badly poisons the target	30
White Herb	Resets the target's negative stat stages to 0	10

This move ignores Sticky Hold.

This move will fail if the user is not holding an item; if it is Genesect holding a Drive, Giratina holding a Griseous Orb, Athlauria holding a Gilded Crown or Wilted Crown, a Pokémon with Multitype holding a Plate, or a Pokémon holding its corresponding Mega Stone; if it is under the effect of Embargo, Klutz, Magic Room, or Unnerve (if the item is a Berry); if the item is any type of Gem or Poké Ball; or if its item has no set type and power.