Immunity (Ability)

"Immunity" redirects here. For the type mechanic, see Damage modification → Not effective.

Immunity	めんえき
	Immunity
Flavor text Generation III Prevents poisoning. Generation IV Prevents the Pokémon from getting poisoned. Generation V Prevents the Pokémon from getting poisoned. Generation VI Prevents the Pokémon from getting poisoned. Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Immunity (Japanese: めんえき Immunity) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Three Pokémon can have this Ability.

Effect

In battle

Immunity prevents the Pokémon from being afflicted by poison. If a poisoned Pokémon gains this Ability (such as via Skill Swap), it will be immediately cured of its poison. If a poisoned Pokémon gains Immunity by evolution or the Ability Capsule, it will remain poisoned, but will be cured of poison as soon as it is sent into battle.

Outside of battle

Pokémon with this Ability can't take damage from poison outside of battle.

Pokémon with Immunity

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0143		Snorlax	Normal		Normal	Immunity	Thick Fat	Gluttony
0207		Gligar	Ground	Flying	Hyper Cutter	Sand Veil	Immunity
0335		Zangoose	Normal		Normal	Immunity	None	Toxic Boost
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

In the Pokémon Battle Frontier manga

Zangoose
The user is unaffected by poison.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	If Zangoose was hit by a poisoning move, it will not receive the poison.
Enta's Zangoose	The Predestined Battle!		Debut

Trivia

• Zangoose's inspiration, the mongoose, is likely the reason it has this Ability, as mongooses may be resistant or immune to snake venom.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 免疫 Miǎn​yì​ French Vaccin German Immunität Italian Immunità Korean 면역 Myeon'yeok Portuguese Imunidade Spanish Inmunidad

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