Cloud Nine (Ability)

Cloud Nine ノーてんき
No Weather
Flavor text
Generation III
Negates weather effects.
Generation IV
Eliminates the effects of weather.
Generation V
Eliminates the effects of weather.
Generation VI
Eliminates the effects of weather.
Generation VII
Eliminates the effects of weather.
Generation VIII
Eliminates the effects of weather.
Generation IX
Eliminates the effects of weather.

Cloud Nine (Japanese: ノーてんき No Weather) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Prior to Generation V, it was the signature Ability of Psyduck and Golduck.

Effect

In battle

When a Pokémon with Cloud Nine is in battle, all effects of weather are negated (though the weather itself does not disappear).

Generation V

When a Pokémon with Cloud Nine is brought out, the message "The effects of weather disappeared." will be displayed.

Generation VI

During extremely harsh sunlight, heavy rain, and strong winds, even if a Pokémon is negating the effects of weather with Cloud Nine, the moves Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Sandstorm, and Hail will still fail if used, and the Abilities Drought, Drizzle, Sand Stream, and Snow Warning will still fail to activate. However, all other effects of these weather conditions are negated by Cloud Nine.

Outside of battle

Cloud Nine has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Cloud Nine

# Pokémon Types First Ability Second Ability Hidden Ability
0054   Psyduck
Water Water Damp Cloud Nine Swift Swim
0055   Golduck
Water Water Damp Cloud Nine Swift Swim
0108   Lickitung
Normal Normal Own Tempo Oblivious Cloud Nine
0333   Swablu
Normal Flying Natural Cure None Cloud Nine
0334   Altaria
Dragon Flying Natural Cure None Cloud Nine
0463   Lickilicky
Normal Normal Own Tempo Oblivious Cloud Nine
0780   Drampa
Normal Dragon Berserk Sap Sipper Cloud Nine
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 other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, and Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, Cloud Nine changes the weather to Clear upon entering a floor, and then every subsequent 36 turns. Cloud Nine will take precedence over Drizzle, Drought, Sand Stream, and Snow Warning. Additionally, this Ability prevents the use of the moves Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Hail, and Sandstorm, and the items Sunny Orb, Rainy Orb, Sandy Orb, and Hail Orb become useless (trying to use one will still consume the item).

In Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, Cloud Nine nullifies the effects of the weather rather than changing the weather to Clear. Abilities such as Drizzle, and moves such as Rain Dance will still activate, but the effects of the weather will remain negated.

Description

Games Description
MDRB Changes the weather to clear.
MDTDS Changes the weather to a clear condition.
BSL てんきを はれに してしまう
MDGtI Unavailable
SMD It changes the floor to have ineffective weather!
MDRTDX This Ability causes the floor to have Ineffective Weather, removing the effects of weather.


In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Trivia

  • The Japanese name of this Ability is a double entendre, written so as to suggest ノー天気 nō tenki (no weather), but also homophonous to 能天気 nōtenki (carefree), in reference to Psyduck, originally the only Pokémon (in addition to Golduck) that had this Ability. The English name derives directly from the "carefree" meaning, while still maintaining a weak pun to connect it to the weather.

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 無關天氣 Mòuhgwāan Tīnhei *
樂天 Lohktīn *
Mandarin 無關天氣 / 无关天气 Wúguān Tiānqì *
樂天 / 乐天 Lètiān *
  French Ciel Gris
  German Wolke Sieben
  Italian Antimeteo
  Korean 날씨부정 Nalssi Bujeong
  Brazilian Portuguese Aclimatação
  Spanish Aclimatación
  Vietnamese Vô thời tiết


Variations of the Ability Air Lock
Air LockCloud Nine


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