 Gengar  Regigigas  Drapion  Gardevoir |
| The foe is exposed to a sinister ray that triggers confusion. |
| Pokémon | Method |
| User | First Used In | Notes |
| Haunter charges an orange ball of energy in its hands, then shoots it at the opponent. The opponent's eyes turn red and it gets confused; or, Haunter fires a purple ring of energy from its eyes toward the opponent, confusing it. |
| Captain's Haunter | A Shipful of Shivers | Debut |
| Morty's Haunter | From Ghost to Ghost | None |
| Gengar's eyes glow blue, purple, or red, causing the opponent to become confused. |
| Drake's Gengar | Hello, Pummelo! | None |
| Morty's Gengar | From Ghost to Ghost | None |
| Natu's eyes glow a rainbow hue and the opponent becomes confused. |
| McKenzie's Naughty | Doin' What Comes Natu-rally | None |
| The orbs at the end of Chinchou's antennae glow purple and release a light purple ray that confuses the opponent. |
| Trinity's Chinchou | The Perfect Match! | None |
| Spoink's pearl glows purple, then it fires a purple beam from the pearl at the opponent, confusing it. |
| Spoink (recurring) | Pearls Are a Spoink's Best Friend | None |
| Mantine charges a purple ball in between its antennae. Then, Mantine releases a huge purple flash, which makes any Pokémon who see it become confused. |
| A Mantine captured by Jack Walker's Capture Styler | Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea | None |
| Dusclops's eye glows red and emits a bright purple light from it, making the opponent confused. |
| Brandon's Dusclops | Gathering the Gang of Four! | None |
| The large orb on Misdreavus's neck glows purple, and it shoots four silhouettes of itself at the opponent from the necklace; or, Misdreavus forms multiple purple balls of energy around its body and fires them at the opponent. When the balls hit the opponent, it starts hallucinating. |
| Zoey's Misdreavus | Mounting a Coordinator Assault! | None |
| Goh's Misdreavus | Finding a Legend! | None |
| Mismagius's eyes glow purple. If the opponent sees the attack, it begins to see illusions. |
| A wild Mismagius | Malice in Wonderland! | None |
| Bronzor's eyes glow purple and it releases dark purple beams from its body at the opponent. When the opponent is affected, its eyes glow red. |
| Saturn's Bronzor | Journey to the Unown! | None |
| Regigigas's body becomes surrounded in a maroon aura and the braille pattern on its face glows the same color. The opponent's eyes then glow red and Regigigas can control them. |
| A wild Regigigas | Pillars of Friendship! | None |
| Murkrow looks deeply into the opponent's eyes and causes it to see illusions. |
| Mitchell's Murkrow | Try for the Family Stone! | None |
| Watchog holds its arms out and five golden orbs of light appear and circle around its body. When it raises its arms in the air, the five orbs fire at the opponent and stop above it. The orbs then circle around the opponent and float down to the middle of its body. They then float back up above the opponent's head and grow larger until they explode in a flash of white light, confusing the opponent. |
| Lenora's Watchog | Rematch at the Nacrene Gym! | None |
| Solosis's body glows gold faintly and six golden orbs of energy appear around its body and spin around it clockwise. Solosis's body then flashes white and it fires the six orbs of energy at the opponent. When the orbs reach the opponent, they surround it and latch onto its body, completely enveloping it. The orbs then glow gold brightly and explode, confusing the opponent. |
| Doyle's Solosis | Where Did You Go, Audino? | None |
| Chandelure fires six golden orbs of energy at the opponent. When the orbs reach the opponent, they surround it and latch onto its body, completely enveloping it. The orbs then glow gold brightly and explode, confusing the opponent. |
| A wild Chandelure | Climbing the Tower of Success! | None |
| Jellicent fires six golden orbs of energy at the opponent. When the orbs reach the opponent, they surround it and latch onto its body, completely enveloping it. The orbs then glow gold brightly and explode, confusing the opponent. |
| Rizzo's two Jellicent | Guarding the Guardian of the Mountain! | None |
| Vespiquen forms multiple brown-gold balls around itself and fires them at the opponent. |
| A wild Vespiquen | A Shockingly Cheeky Friendship! | None |
| Trevenant forms multiple brown-gold balls of energy around itself and fires them at the opponent. When the orbs reach the opponent, they surround it and explode, putting the opponent to sleep in the process. |
| A wild Trevenant | Forging Forest Friendships! | None |
| Drapion forms multiple golden balls of aura around itself and they grow into larger golden balls with purple and white colored aura inside of them and then they fly towards the opponent, circle around the opponent and converge into a singular ball, that is a brighter version of the balls and it disappears, confusing the opponent or putting them to sleep. |
| Celosia's Drapion | A Towering Takeover! | None |
| Umbreon forms multiple purple balls of energy around its body and fires them at the opponent. When the balls hit the opponent, it becomes confused. |
| Gary's Umbreon | Battling in the Freezing Raid! | None |
| Gardevoir forms a purple ball of energy in between its hands. The ball then multiplies around Gardevoir's body and is fired at the opponent. When the balls hit the opponent, it becomes confused. |
| Horace's Gardevoir | Narrowing the Chaser Chase! | None |