Anticipation (Ability)
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Anticipation (Japanese: きけんよち Danger Premonition) is an ability introduced in Generation IV. Five Pokémon have this ability.
Effect
In battle
Anticipation causes the Pokémon to "shudder" upon entering battle against opponents with super-effective attacks, one-hit knockout attacks such as Sheer Cold, or the moves Selfdestruct or Explosion.
It will not notify the Pokémon in the case of a super-effective Hidden Power, Judgment, Weather Ball or Natural Gift, as they are nominally Template:Type2.
Outside of battle
Anticipation has no effect outside of battle.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness, a Pokémon detects super-effective moves by hitting the opponent with a regular attack.
Pokémon with Anticipation
Single ability
| # | Pokémon | Type | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 413 | 
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Wormadam | Bug | Grass | |
Dual ability
| # | Pokémon | Type | Other ability
Template:Abilityentry2 Template:Abilityentry2 Template:Abilityentry2 Template:Abilityentry2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Trivia
As of Generation IV, all Pokemon with this ability have a 4x Super Effective weakness, not counting Wormadam's ground form as it is technically still Wormadam.
In other languages
- Italian: Presagio
- Spanish: Anticipación
- German: Vorahnung
- French: Anticipation