Top 10 Best Ideas for New Pokemon Abilities
Abilities were introduced in Generation 3, and some can make a Pokémon absolutely broken, ruin it, or just make it a bit better.Here are 10 Pokémon ability ideas. Feel free to add some of your own, but make sure to explain what you think they could do.
NOTE: I am not saying these will happen. This is simply meant to be fun and encourage creative thinking. Also, if you have better ideas for the effects of abilities that someone has already described, don't be afraid to suggest improvements.
Boosts sound-based moves and their effects. For example, it boosts Growl and Screech by one stage and increases the power of Hyper Voice.
Can't wait for my Jigglypuff to sing Metallica. Oh yeah, and it won't affect Sing because that would be kind of annoying if it increased the duration of how long the Pokémon will stay asleep.
I'm sure there's a Gen 8 ability that works this way. Maybe they should rework the Cacophony ability they removed a while back into this.
Would increase the chance of Pokémon with this ability causing the enemy Pokémon to flinch. I think it would be best if mostly Flying types had it.
Makes the Pokémon unable to be frozen. Mainly Fire types and very warm Pokémon will have this, like Magcargo.
It also decreases the damage taken from Ice-type moves, but it's the opposite for Water-type moves. I don't think too many Pokémon should have it because of that.
The Ice type has a huge problem: it's completely lacking in the resistances department. This ability would decrease damage taken from Normal, Flying, and Fighting-type moves. Imagine really thick ice. Hopefully, this helps the Ice type out.
Of course, Game Freak could just give it more resistances without this ability, but if they don't do that, at least make this ability a thing. This would, of course, be given to many Ice types.
I think they should just have Ice straight up resist Normal without the need for an ability, but good idea.
An ability given to heavy Pokémon that deals a bit of damage to every Pokémon that doesn't have Levitate or isn't a Flying type when it enters battle.
It doesn't hurt itself, of course, and this effect cannot be repeated.
If the enemy's move misses, then the enemy has a 50% chance of taking damage. Imagine the enemy Pokémon trying to keep up with its opponent but tripping and falling.
Fast Pokémon will have this ability.
An ability for Water types. When the Pokémon with this ability uses a Water-type attack, it has a chance of lowering the opposing Pokémon's Speed by one or two stages, depending on how strong the attack was.
The Pokémon with this ability can't have anything copied from it: its stat changes, moves, appearance, or typing.
However, the Pokémon with Unique can't copy those things either. Can't wait for a Unique Ditto.
An ability for Poison types that causes any move related to its mouth to have a chance to poison (just regular poison, not toxic). An example of a Pokémon with this ability is Garbodor, using Snore, Belch, and Acid Spray.
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I don't know if this is an ability already (if it is, then let me know, please), but my version of it would work like this: when the Pokémon with this ability is hit with a critical hit, the move they use next turn will be boosted and have a higher critical hit chance.
The Pokémon cannot use attacks. Instead, it hits back at the opposing Pokémon with twice the effect after they hit you.
Pokémon with Sneaky Thief have a 5% chance of stealing the opposing Pokémon's item. If they're already holding an item, they will just use it immediately on the next turn. The effect depends on the item.
Heh, this was actually my idea, and I forgot to post a description. This isn't really supposed to be a useful ability but more of a gimmicky one where the user's type changes every other turn.
Boosts the effects of berries, I don't know.