Sand Veil (Ability)

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Sand Veil すながくれ
Hidden in Sand
Flavor text
Generation III
Ups evasion in a sandstorm.
Generation IV
Boosts the Pokémon's evasion in a sandstorm.
Generation V
Boosts the Pokémon's evasion in a sandstorm.
Generation VI
Currently unknown
Generation VII
Currently unknown
Generation VIII
Currently unknown
Generation IX
Currently unknown

Sand Veil (Japanese: すながくれ Hidden in Sand) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Eighteen Pokémon can have Sand Veil as their Ability.

Effect

In battle

Sand Veil increases the evasion of a Pokémon by 20% in a sandstorm and if on a Pokémon whose type does not already, grants immunity to damage taken from sandstorms.

In Generation V, Sand Veil lowers the accuracy threshold (user accuracy/target evasion) by 20% resulting in an overall 25% boost to evasion — not 20% as stated in game.

Outside of battle

From Pokémon Emerald onwards, if the Pokémon with Sand Veil is leading the party in an area with a sandstorm, such as Route 228 in Sinnoh, Sand Veil decreases the wild Pokémon encounter rate by 50%.

Pokémon with Sand Veil

# Pokémon Types First Ability Second Ability Hidden Ability
0027   Sandshrew
Ground Ground Sand Veil None Sand Rush
0028   Sandslash
Ground Ground Sand Veil None Sand Rush
0050   Diglett
Ground Ground Sand Veil Arena Trap Sand Force
0051   Dugtrio
Ground Ground Sand Veil Arena Trap Sand Force
0074   Geodude
Rock Ground Rock Head Sturdy Sand Veil
0075   Graveler
Rock Ground Rock Head Sturdy Sand Veil
0076   Golem
Rock Ground Rock Head Sturdy Sand Veil
0207   Gligar
Ground Flying Hyper Cutter Sand Veil Immunity
0231   Phanpy
Ground Ground Pickup None Sand Veil
0232   Donphan
Ground Ground Sturdy None Sand Veil
0246   Larvitar
Rock Ground Guts None Sand Veil
0331   Cacnea
Grass Grass Sand Veil None Water Absorb
0332   Cacturne
Grass Dark Sand Veil None Water Absorb
0443   Gible
Dragon Ground Sand Veil None Rough Skin
0444   Gabite
Dragon Ground Sand Veil None Rough Skin
0445   Garchomp
Dragon Ground Sand Veil None Rough Skin
0472   Gliscor
Ground Flying Hyper Cutter Sand Veil Poison Heal
0618   Stunfisk
Ground Electric Static Limber Sand Veil
Please note that abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later.
  • For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

Trivia

  • Cacnea and Cacturne are the only Pokémon that have this Ability that aren't already immune to sandstorm damage.
    • Also, all of the Pokémon (excluding Cacnea and Cacturne) have Ground as one of their types, despite Sandstorm being a Rock-type move.

In other languages

Language Title
Mandarin Chinese 沙裡隱身 Shālǐ Yǐnshēn
  French Voile Sable
  German Sandschleicher
  Greek Πέπλο Άμμου
  Italian Sabbiavelo
  Korean 모래숨기 Morae Sumgi
  Portuguese Véu de Areia
  Spanish Velo Arena


Variations of the Ability Sand Veil
Sand VeilSnow Cloak
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