Vital Spirit (Ability)

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Flavor text Generation III Prevents sleep. Generation IV Prevents the Pokémon from falling asleep. Generation V Currently unknown Generation VI Currently unknown 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. Four Pokémon have this ability, all of them in the Ground egg group.

Effect

In battle

Vital Spirit prevents Sleep. If a Pokémon with Vital Spirit uses Rest, it will automatically fail.

Outside of battle

If the Pokémon with Vital Spirit is leading the party, then Vital Spirit increases the chance of battling a higher-leveled wild Pokémon by 50%.

Pokémon with Vital Spirit

Single ability

#	Pokémon		Type
288		Vigoroth	Normal

Dual ability

#	Pokémon		Type		Other ability

See also

• Hustle
• Insomnia
• Pressure

In other languages

• Spanish: Espír. vital (stands for Espíritu vital)