Synchronize (Ability)

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Flavor text Generation III Passes on status problems. Generation IV Passes on a burn, poison, or paralysis to the foe. Generation V Currently unknown Generation VI Currently unknown Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Synchronize (Japanese: シンクロ Synchro) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Eleven Pokémon have this ability, all but one of them Template:Type2.

Effect

In battle

Synchronize passes on status problems to the opponent that caused the problem. Synchronize will not pass on the Sleep or Frozen status conditions, or if the status condition was obtained from items such as the Flame Orb. Synchronize will have no effect if the other Pokémon has a type or ability that prevents them from being Poisoned, Paralyzed, or Burned. The badly poisoned condition is passed on as regular poison.

Outside of battle

From Emerald onwards, if the Pokémon with this ability is leading the party, Synchronize gives a 50% chance of encountering a wild Pokémon with the same nature. Strangely, although Synchronize does not have this effect on stationary legendaries in Emerald, it has worked on all Pokémon in every game released since.

Pokémon with Synchronize

Single ability

#	Pokémon		Type
151		Mew	Psychic
196		Espeon	Psychic
197		Umbreon	Dark

Dual ability

#	Pokémon		Type		Other ability

In other languages

• Italian: Sincronismo