Submission

TM49

Substitute

TM01

Super Fang

Substitute creates a small copy of your Pokémon. Creating a substitute removes 25% of your Pokémon's original HP; the sub can suffer exactly that many points of damage before it breaks. Once it is created, and until it breaks, all damaging attacks on your Pokémon hit the sub instead. On the turn that a sub breaks, no damage spills over to your Pokémon (eg, if the sub only has 20 HP, and it is hit by a Hyper Beam doing 200 points of damage, your Pokémon will still take no damage). (See the entry on Hyper Beam for more information on its interaction with substitutes in the RBY game.)

A sub has nearly all of the same properties as the Pokémon that created it. Its statistics (other than HP) are the same, although this is not relevant for Attack, Speed, or the offensive aspect of Special, since subs do not actually attack. (Your Pokémon can still attack, however: the sub simply moves out of the way momentarily.)

Any modifications to your Pokémon's statistics at the time the sub is created are also present in the sub. Once the sub is created, statistic-modifying attacks (such as Screech and the Speed-lowering effect of Bubblebeam) by enemy Pokémon cannot affect your Pokémon or the sub, but self-modifiers (such as Amnesia) will apply to both your Pokémon and the sub.

Subs have the same type(s) as the Pokémon that create them.

Subs cannot have their status changed. If a poisoned, burnt, or paralyzed Pokémon creates a sub, the sub itself will not suffer from any of those effects. (Note that this is a moot point in the case of paralyzation: your Pokémon still suffers the Speed reduction and will occasionally be fully paralyzed.)

Subs are also immune to status-changes after creation. However, the protection they provide to their creators is limited: Pokémon with subs can still be put to sleep and paralyzed. Disable and Leech Seed also ignore substitutes (Leech Seed draws HP from the Pokémon, not the sub). Recoil damage from moves like Submission is also taken by the Pokémon. Haze affects the Pokémon, not the sub.

On the other hand, subs protect their creators from poison, burns, and freezing. However, if a burnt or poisoned Pokémon creates a sub, the Pokémon continues to take damage: none of it is absorbed by the sub. Confusion attacks (Confuse Ray, Supersonic) also fail against subs; however, Pokémon with subs can still confuse themselves using Petal Dance or Thrash. All self-inflicted confusion damage is taken by the Pokémon, not the sub. A successful One-hit KO attack on a sub simply breaks it; the Pokémon suffers no damage.

The damage absorbed by the sub can be released with Bide.

If Explosion or Selfdestruct is used against a sub, and causes it to break, the Exploding/Destructing Pokémon does not faint, as would normally be the case. Its picture will no longer be visible, but it can continue to fight normally.

Subs also make the Pokémon immune to sleep and paralysis attacks.

Also, the Explosion/Selfdestruct trick does not work in Stadium.

Mr.Mime

All Pokémon (except for Caterpie, Metapod, Weedle, Kakuna, Magikarp, and Ditto) can learn this TM.

This TM can be purchased from the Celadon Coin Exchange for 7700 coins.