Icicle Plate

	Pokémon Global Link artwork
	Introduced in Generation IV
Pocket
Generation IV	Items
Generation V	Items
Generation VI	Items
Generation VII	Items
Generation VIII	Other Items (BDSP)
Generation VIII	Key items (LA)
Generation IX	Other Items
Fling
Power	90

The Icicle Plate (Japanese: つららのプレート Icicle Plate) is a type of held item introduced in Generation IV. It is a Key Item in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. It is one of the Plates, which are associated with Arceus.

In the core series games

Price

Games	Cost	Sell price
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2 XY ORAS SM USUM BDSP	N/A	$500

Effect

In battle

Boosts the power of the holder's Ice-type moves by 20%. If the holder uses Judgment, it becomes an Ice-type move.

Multitype changes an Arceus holding this item to its Ice-type form. From Generation V onward, item-manipulating effects (such as Trick and Fling) cannot give Arceus a Plate or remove a Plate from Arceus. In Generation IV, item-manipulating effects cannot affect Pokémon with Multitype.

Outside of battle

Multitype changes an Arceus holding this item to its Ice-type form.

In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, the Icicle Plate can used from the satchel on Arceus, changing it to the Ice type.

The Icicle Plate can be read, and has the following engraving: "Two beings of time and space set free from the Original One."

Description

Games	Description
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2	An item to be held by a Pokémon. It is a stone tablet that boosts the power of Ice-type moves.
XY ORAS SM USUM PE SwSh BDSP	An item to be held by a Pokémon. It's a stone tablet that boosts the power of Ice-type moves.
LA	A stone tablet imbued with the essence of ice. When used on a certain Pokémon, it allows that Pokémon to gain the power of the Ice type.
SV	An item to be held by a Pokémon. This stone tablet is imbued with the essence of ice and boosts the power of the holder’s Ice-type moves.

Acquisition

Games	Finite methods	Repeatable methods
DP Pt	Route 217, Underground
HGSS	S.S. Aqua (from the captain after obtaining all 16 Gym Badges)
BW B2W2	Abyssal Ruins
XY	Route 17
ORAS	Route 130 (underwater)
SM USUM	Hau'oli City Beachfront
BDSP	Route 217	Grand Underground
LA	Icepeak Arena (reward for defeating the noble Hisuian Avalugg during Mission 12: "The Slumbering Lord of the Tundra")
SV	Porto Marinada auction (if the player owns an Arceus)

Distribution

As a held item

Games	Event	Language/Region	Distribution period
XY ORAS	Dahara City Arceus	Japanese, Taiwanese	March 7 to August 31, 2015 November 20 to December 17, 2015

Gallery

Artwork

Artwork from
Scarlet and Violet

Sprites


Underground sprite from Diamond, Pearl and Platinum	Grand Underground sprite from Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl	Bag sprite from Legends: Arceus

In animation

Plates in The Arceus Chronicles (Part 4)

Pokémon the Series

Arceus and the Jewel of Life

The Icicle Plate, alongside the other 15 Plates at the time, appeared in the movie Arceus and the Jewel of Life, where Arceus used them to change its type, and almost died when it lost all of the Plates after having destroyed a meteor that endangered the land that would eventually become Michina Town. Damos found one of these lost Plates and returned it to Arceus, giving it the strength to recall the other 15 Plates.

Pokémon: The Arceus Chronicles

The Icicle Plate, alongside the other 17 type-based Plates, appeared in The Arceus Chronicles (Part 4), under Arceus's possession.

In the manga

The Plates in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

HeartGold & SoulSilver arc

Petrel was collecting the Plates for Team Rocket's plan. After Silver stole the few Plates he had managed to find, Petrel decided to let him gather all 16 Plates, just to get them back at once later. With his Weavile leaving messages for Sneasel and Weavile across Johto, Silver soon indeed gathered all 16 Plates for himself. At the Sinjoh Ruins, Gold surrendered the Plates to Archer, who used them to seemingly take control of Arceus, ordering it to recreate Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina. When the Pokédex holders used their Pokémon's ultimate attacks to stop the creation, all the Plates were absorbed by Arceus.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	冰柱石板 Bīngchyúh Sehkbáan * 冰柱板塊 Bīngchyúh Báanfaai *
Chinese	Mandarin	冰柱石板 Bīngzhù Shíbǎn * 冰柱板塊 Bīngzhù Bǎnkuài *
French		Plaque Glace
German		Frosttafel
Italian		Lastragelo
Korean		고드름플레이트 Icicle Plate
Spanish		Tabla Helada
Vietnamese		Phiến thạch Trụ băng