Synchronize (Ability)

Not to be confused with Synchronoise.

Synchronize	シンクロ
	Synchro
Flavor text Generation III Passes on status problems. Generation IV Passes on a burn, poison, or paralysis to the foe. Generation V Passes a burn, poison, or paralysis to the foe. Generation VI Currently unknown Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Synchronize (Japanese: シンクロ Synchro) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Fifteen Pokémon have this Ability; all but one of them are Template:Type2s.

Effect

In battle

Generation III to IV

Synchronize passes on status problems to the opponent that caused the problem. Synchronize will not pass on the Sleep or Frozen status conditions, or if the status condition was obtained from items such as the Flame Orb. Synchronize will have no effect if the other Pokémon has a type or ability that prevents them from being Poisoned, Paralyzed, or Burned. The badly poisoned condition is passed on as regular poison.

Generation V

Synchronize now passes the badly poisoned condition on as bad poison, rather than normal poison.

Outside of battle

From Emerald onwards, if the Pokémon with this Ability is leading the party, Synchronize gives a 50% chance of encountering a wild Pokémon with the same nature. However, this does not apply to any Pokémon created with Method 1 of the random number generator. This includes Emerald's 'one-off' Pokémon such as legendaries, Castform, and Beldum, as well as Generation IV's roaming legendaries and its non-legendary one-offs, including Bebe's Eevee and the Porygon in Veilstone City.

The Ability is also nullified when a Pokémon with Synchronize is strolling in the Pokéwalker.

Pokémon with Synchronize

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0063		Abra	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	Inner Focus	Magic Guard
0064		Kadabra	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	Inner Focus	Magic Guard
0065		Alakazam	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	Inner Focus	Magic Guard
0151		Mew	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	None	None
0177		Natu	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	Early Bird	Magic Bounce
0178		Xatu	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	Early Bird	Magic Bounce
0196		Espeon	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	None	Magic Bounce
0197		Umbreon	Dark		Dark	Synchronize	None	Inner Focus
0280		Ralts	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	Trace	Telepathy
0281		Kirlia	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	Trace	Telepathy
0282		Gardevoir	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	Trace	Telepathy
0517		Munna	Psychic		Psychic	Forewarn	Synchronize	Telepathy
0518		Musharna	Psychic		Psychic	Forewarn	Synchronize	Telepathy
0605		Elgyem	Psychic		Psychic	Telepathy	Synchronize	Analytic
0606		Beheeyem	Psychic		Psychic	Telepathy	Synchronize	Analytic
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 manga

Pokémon Adventures

The user inflicts its status condition on the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	When Kirlia is inflicted with a status condition, the same status condition appears on the opponent's body, but on the opposite side as Kirlia's.
Ruby's Kirlia	VS. Kirlia		Debut

Trivia

• Umbreon is the only non-Psychic-type Pokémon to have Synchronize.
• No Pokémon have this Ability as their Hidden Ability.

In other languages

• French: Synchro
• German: Synchro
• Greek: Συγχρονισμός
• Italian: Sincronismo
• Korean: 싱크로 Synchro
• Portuguese: Sincronizar
• Spanish: Sincronía

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.