Tinted Lens (Ability)

Tinted Lens

いろめがね

Tinted Glasses

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Generation IV
Doubles the power of this Pokémon's "not very effective" attacks.


Generation V
Powers up "not very effective" moves.


Generation VI
Currently unknown


Generation VII
Currently unknown


Generation VIII
Currently unknown


Generation IX
Currently unknown

Tinted Lens (Japanese: いろめがね Tinted Glasses) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV. Nine Pokémon can have this Ability.

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 Bug-type 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

#		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0012	Butterfree	Bug	Flying	Compoundeyes	None	Tinted Lens
0048	Venonat	Bug	Poison	Compoundeyes	Tinted Lens	Run Away
0049	Venomoth	Bug	Poison	Shield Dust	Tinted Lens	Wonder Skin
0163	Hoothoot	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
0164	Noctowl	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
0314	Illumise	Bug		Bug	Oblivious	Tinted Lens	Prankster
0414	Mothim	Bug	Flying	Swarm	None	Tinted Lens
0469	Yanmega	Bug	Flying	Speed Boost	Tinted Lens	Frisk
0561	Sigilyph	Psychic	Flying	Wonder Skin	Magic Guard	Tinted Lens
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.

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

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		有色眼鏡 Yǒusè Yǎnjìng
French		Lentiteintée
German		Aufwertung
Italian		Lentifumé
Korean		색안경 Saek'angyeong
Portuguese		Lentes Escurecidas
Spanish		Cromolente

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.