Tinted Lens (Ability)
| Tinted Lens | いろめがね | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tinted Lens (Japanese: いろめがね Tinted Glasses) is an ability introduced in Generation IV.
Effect
In battle
Tinted Lens doubles the power of any moves that the Pokémon uses that are "not very effective" against its targets. If a move is regularly not very effective, and thus normally does half damage, it would therefore do normal damage, while a doubly-resisted move (such as a Template:Type2 move against the Steel/Flying Skarmory) will do half damage rather than one quarter damage.
Outside of battle
Tinted Lens has no effect outside of battle.
Pokémon with Tinted Lens
| # | Pokémon | Types | First Ability | Second Ability | Hidden Ability | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0012 | 
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Butterfree |
Bug | Flying | Compoundeyes | None | Tinted Lens |
| 0048 | 
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Venonat |
Bug | Poison | Compoundeyes | Tinted Lens | Run Away |
| 0049 | 
|
Venomoth |
Bug | Poison | Shield Dust | Tinted Lens | Miracle Skin |
| 0163 | 
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Hoothoot |
Normal | Flying | Insomnia | Keen Eye | Tinted Lens |
| 0164 | 
|
Noctowl |
Normal | Flying | Insomnia | Keen Eye | Tinted Lens |
| 0314 | 
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Illumise |
Bug | Oblivious | Tinted Lens | Teasing Heart | |
| 0414 | 
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Mothim |
Bug | Flying | Swarm | None | Tinted Lens |
| 0469 | 
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Yanmega |
Bug | Flying | Speed Boost | Tinted Lens | Frisk |
| 0561 | Shinbora | Shinbora |
Psychic | Flying | Miracle Skin | Magic Guard | Tinted Lens |
Please note that abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later.
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Origin
This is probably a reference to the idiom "viewing the world through rose-tinted glasses," an expression which means to see good where there is none.
In other languages
- French: Lentiteintée
- German: Aufwertung
- Italian: Lentifumé
- Korean: 색안경 Saek'angyeong
- Spanish: Cromolente
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