Shield Dust (Ability)

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Shield Dust りんぷん
Scales
Flavor text
Generation III
Prevents added effects.
Generation IV
Blocks the added effects of attacks taken.
Generation V
Blocks the added effects of attacks taken.
Generation VI
Blocks the additional effects of attacks taken.
Generation VII
Currently unknown
Generation VIII
Currently unknown
Generation IX
Currently unknown

Shield Dust (Japanese: りんぷん Scales) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Eight Pokémon can have this Ability, all of which are Bug types.

Effect

In battle

When the Pokémon is damaged by an attack, any additional effects are negated (similar to the attacker having Sheer Force, but without increasing damage). For example, Body Slam would only deal damage and not have its usual 30% chance of causing Paralysis. It does not stop moves that do not cause damage, like Thunder Wave.

Outside of battle

Shield Dust has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Shield Dust

# Pokémon Types First Ability Second Ability Hidden Ability
0010   Caterpie
Bug Bug Shield Dust None Run Away
0013   Weedle
Bug Poison Shield Dust None Run Away
0049   Venomoth
Bug Poison Shield Dust Tinted Lens Wonder Skin
0265   Wurmple
Bug Bug Shield Dust None Run Away
0269   Dustox
Bug Poison Shield Dust None Compound Eyes
0664   Scatterbug
Bug Bug Shield Dust Compound Eyes Friend Guard
0666   Vivillon
Bug Flying Shield Dust Compound Eyes Friend Guard
0??? Cutiefly Cutiefly
Bug Fairy Honey Gather Shield Dust Unknown
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

  • Shield Dust essentially prevents the Pokémon from being frozen in battle by any Pokémon (except those with Mold Breaker or one of its variants), as the Freeze status ailment is always caused as a secondary effect of an opponent's move, and the status cannot be passed to another Pokémon via Baton Pass or Synchronize.

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 鱗粉 Lèuhnfán
Mandarin 鱗粉 / 鳞粉 Línfěn
  French Écran Poudre
  German Puderabwehr
  Italian Polvoscudo
  Korean 인분 Inbun
  Portuguese Escudo de Pó
  Russian Пылевой Щит Pylevoy Shchit
  Spanish Polvo Escudo


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