New Dragon attack in Diamond, Pearl announced

CoroCoro contest winner announced

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Originally reported on Pokeani

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The name of the new powerful Dragon-type attack for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl has been announced in the May issue of CoroCoro. The contest was announced in the January issue, where the statistics for this attack were revealed.

Name: りゅうせいぐん Meteoric Swarm
Attack type: Dragon
Base power: 140
Effect: Sharply lowers Sp. Attack (two-step reduction)

It is yet unknown whether the attack will be learned by a variety of Pokémon by means of TM, as is the case with Overheat in the Generation III games. Another possibility is for the attack to be exclusive to a legendary Pokémon, similar to Deoxys' Psycho Boost.