Vital Spirit (Ability)

Vital Spirit	やるき
	Willingness
Flavor text Generation III Prevents sleep. Generation IV Prevents the Pokémon from falling asleep. Generation V Prevents the Pokémon from falling asleep. Generation VI Prevents the Pokémon from falling asleep. Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Vital Spirit (Japanese: やるき Willingness) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Twelve Pokémon can have this Ability. It is one of three Abilities that prevent sleeping, the others being Insomnia and Sweet Veil.

Effect

In battle

Vital Spirit prevents the Pokémon from being afflicted by sleep and Yawn. Rest will fail when used by the Pokémon.

A Pokémon with this Ability will wake up if it is asleep in battle (such as if it gains the Ability outside of battle or by an effect like Skill Swap, or is put to sleep by a Pokémon with an Ability like Mold Breaker). If the Pokémon is holding a Chesto Berry or a Lum Berry, it will be eaten before Vital Spirit wakes up the Pokémon.

If a Pokémon with this Ability is drowsy due to Yawn, when it would fall asleep the Ability activates and keeps it awake.

Outside of battle

If a sleeping Pokémon gains Vital Spirit by evolution or the Ability Capsule, it will not wake up until sent into battle. Pokémon with Vital Spirit will not be put to sleep by the Gentleman's Kirlia in the Battle Pike nor the Battle Arcade's game board.

From Pokémon Emerald onwards, if a Pokémon with Vital Spirit is leading the party, the chance of encountering a higher-leveled wild Pokémon increases by 50%. It shares this effect with Hustle and Pressure.

In Generation V, Vital Spirit also prevented a Pokémon from visiting the Dream World before it was shut down.

Pokémon with Vital Spirit

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0056		Mankey	Fighting		Fighting	Vital Spirit	Anger Point	Defiant
0057		Primeape	Fighting		Fighting	Vital Spirit	Anger Point	Defiant
0125		Electabuzz	Electric		Electric	Static	None	Vital Spirit
0126		Magmar	Fire		Fire	Flame Body	None	Vital Spirit
0225		Delibird	Ice	Flying	Vital Spirit	Hustle	Insomnia
0236		Tyrogue	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	Steadfast	Vital Spirit
0239		Elekid	Electric		Electric	Static	None	Vital Spirit
0240		Magby	Fire		Fire	Flame Body	None	Vital Spirit
0288		Vigoroth	Normal		Normal	Vital Spirit	None	None
0466		Electivire	Electric		Electric	Motor Drive	None	Vital Spirit
0467		Magmortar	Fire		Fire	Flame Body	None	Vital Spirit
0506		Lillipup	Normal		Normal	Vital Spirit	Pickup	Run Away
0???	Rockruff	Rockruff	Rock		Rock	Keen Eye	Vital Spirit	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.

In the anime

Vigoroth
The user cannot fall asleep, and nullifies moves that cause sleep.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Vigoroth attacks and destroys moves that would cause it to fall asleep with its claws.
Marcel's Vigoroth	The Garden of Eatin'		Debut

Trivia

• Vital Spirit is the only variation of Limber that has been seen in the anime so far.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 幹勁 Gongihng * 過動 Gwoduhng * Mandarin 幹勁 / 干劲 Gànjìng * 元氣 Yuánqì * 過動 Guòdòng * Dutch Vitale kracht Finnish Elohenki French Esprit Vital German Munterkeit Italian Spiritovivo Korean 의기양양 Yigiyang'yang Portuguese Espírito Vital Russian Душевный Подъём Dushevnyy Podyom Spanish Espíritu Vital* Espír. Vital*

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