Everything to Know About the New Abilities Introduced in the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

Published 11/27/2022, 3:10 PM EST

After much wait, the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are available on the shelves. But these ninth-generation Pocket Monster games had to face a lot of criticism from the fans due to glitches and performance issues. But if moved past that criticism, these two titles are still fun to watch.

Game Freak and The Pokemon Company tried introducing many new features to the game, like new Pokemons, Terastallizing, and the open-world setting. These two games also introduced lots of new Pokemon Abilities in the game.

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What are Pokemon Abilities?

Ability is a feature that the developers introduced in the third-generation games. These helped the players to experience better gameplay during battles by offering a special effect. But these abilities can provide an upper hand or be an annoyance in a fight.

Players spend hours searching for the Pokemon with the desired personality. If a player gets a Pocket Monster with an unwanted personality, they can’t change it. But these unique creatures can change their Abilities upon evolution.

All new Abilities in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are the first installments of the ninth generation of games in the famous Pokemon series. The two new titles are set in the Paldea region, where players can find many Pokemon, including new and old. Players can find Pokemon with 31 new Abilities. Let’s get to know more about them.

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Ability	Effect
Anger Shell	This Ability is unique to Klawf, but it should get angry by an attack that causes its HP to drop more than half. Anger Shell provides Attack, Special Attack, and Speed boost while sacrificing some Defense and Special Defense stat.
Armor Tail	Opponent Pocket Monster would be unable to use a priority move because of a mysterious tail covering the player Pokemon’s head. Seeing the requirement for this Ability, it’s limited to Farigiraf.
Beads of Ruin	The Pokemon with a ruinous bead can have the power to lower the Special Defense stats of all Pokemon around itself. This one is also exclusive to Chi-Yu.
Commander	It is a unique power Ability limited to Tatsugiri, where the small Dragon/Water-type sits inside the mouth of an ally Dondozo on the field and attacks from there.
Coaster	Flamigo is the only Pokemon with this Ability that it uses upon entering a battlefield. It helps Flamigo to copy an ally’s stat changes.
Cud Chew	A Pokemon with this Ability can use a held berry twice in a battle by regurgitating it. Only Farigiraf and Tauros can have this Ability.
Earth Eater	It is Orthworm’s Ability where it gets the HP restored upon getting hit by a Ground-type move.
Electromorphosis	Bellibolt has this Ability to get charged when taking damage and then uses it to power up its next Electric-type move.
Good as Gold	Gholdengo is the only Pokemon with this Ability which provides the Pokemon with immunity to the opponent’s status moves.
Guard Dog	A Mabosstiff can be found with this skill. It helps the Pokemon to not get intimidated and nullifies the effect of a move that forces it to switch out.
Hadron Engine	This one turns the ground into Electric Terrain when the Miraidon enters a battle and also gives it a boost in Special Attack on the Electric Terrain. However, only Violet’s legendary mascot Pokemon can use it.
Lingering Aroma	This is Oinkologne’s Ability that changes the opponent’s Ability to Lingering Aroma too.
Mycelium Might	The Pokemon will always act more slowly when using status moves, but its moves will be unimpeded by the Ability of the target. But only Toedscool and its evolution Toedscruel can use it.
Opportunist	An Espathra can get the same stat boost as its opponent using this unique Ability limited to this Psychic-type.
Orichalcum Pulse	Not only Miraidon but Scarlet’s legendary mascot Koraidon also has an exclusive Ability called Orichalcum Pulse. It makes the sunlight harsh when Koraidon enters a battle and increases its Attack stat.
Protosynthesis	This Ability provides a boost to Pokemon’s most proficient stat in harsh sunlight or if it’s holding a Booster Energy. Many Titans in Pokemon Scarlet can be found with this unique skill.
Purifying Salt	Nacli and its two evolution can use this Ability, where they use pure salt to protect themselves from any status conditions while halving the damage from a Ghost-type attack.
Quark Drive	This Ability has a similar effect to Protosynthesis. Instead of harsh sunlight, it works in Electric Terrain or holding a Booster Energy. Many Titans in Pokemon Violet can be found with this unique skill.
Rocky Payload	Bombirdier is the only one with this Ability that powers up Rock-type moves.
Seed Sower	Arboliva is the only one who can use it to turn the ground into Grassy Terrain when hit by an attack. The special Terrain boosts up Grass-type moves.
Sharpness	Pokemon with this Ability has stronger slicing moves like Air Cutter and Slash.
Supreme Overlord	It is Kingambit’s skill that activates when it enters a fight. This Ability boosts the Attack and Special Attack stats of the already fainted Pokemon in the party.
Sword of Ruin	Chien-Pao has this Ability where the power of its ruinous sword lowers the Defense stats of all Pokemon around itself.
Tablets of Ruin	Wo-Chien can use this skill by using its ruinous wooden tablets to decrease the Attack of every Pokemon around itself.
Thermal Exchange	Frigibax and its two evolutions can use this exclusive skill to boost the Attack stat when attacked by a Fire-type move. Further, the Pokemons don’t get burned using it.
Toxic Debris	It is a special power limited to Glimmet and Glimmora. The two Pokemon can spread toxic spikes around the opposition’s feet after receiving damage from physical moves.
Vessel of Ruin	Ting-Lu can use this Ability with the help of its ruinous vessel to decrease the Special Attack of every Pokemon except itself.
Well-Baked Body	Dachsbun can use this Ability that provides it immunity to Fire-type moves. Instead, increases the Defense upon taking one.
Wind Power	Wattrel and its evolution Kilowattrel can use to charge their next Electric-type move upon taking damage from a wind move.
Wind Rider	Bramblin and its evolution Brambleghast can use it to boost its Attack stat upon taking damage from wind move. Further, it develops immunity to wind moves.
Zero to Hero	This Ability is exclusive to Palafin. Using it, the Pokemon can transform into its Hero form when switches out in a battle.

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These are all the new Abilities introduced in the ninth-generation Pokemon game for Nintendo Switch. Let us know if this guide helped you play Scarlet and Violet.

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Ripan Majumdar is an esports and F1 writer at Essentially Sports. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor's in Science from West Bengal State University, Kolkata. Ripan is a massive Red Bull Racing and Sergio Perez fan.

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Jito Tenson

Everything to Know About the New Abilities Introduced in the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

What are Pokemon Abilities?

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All new Abilities in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet