Intimidate (Ability)

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Intimidate いかく
Intimidation
Flavor text
Generation III
Lowers the foe’s Attack.
Generation IV
Lowers the foe’s Attack stat.
Generation V
Lowers the foe's Attack stat.
Generation VI
Lowers the opposing Pokémon's Attack stat.
Generation VII
The Pokémon intimidates opposing Pokémon upon entering battle, lowering their Attack stat.
Generation VIII
Currently unknown
Generation IX
Currently unknown

Intimidate (Japanese: いかく Intimidation) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Generation III

When a Pokémon with Intimidate enters the battle, it lowers the Attack stat of all adjacent opponents by one stage

In Generations III and IV, Intimidate's activation message reads, "<Pokémon>'s Intimidate cuts <opponent>'s attack!" In Generation V, the message changed to "<Opponent>'s Attack fell!"

Intimidate has no effect on Pokémon who are immune to Attack stat reductions, such as Pokémon with Clear Body, Hyper Cutter, or White Smoke. This Ability will not affect a target with a substitute.

Generation IV onward

Intimidate now also activates when a Pokémon gains the Ability, such as via Skill Swap or Mega Evolution.

In a Triple Battle, Intimidate does not affect non-adjacent Pokémon.

Intimidate does not affect Pokémon with the Full Metal Body Ability.

Wild Pokémon are more likely to call for help when facing a Pokémon with Intimidate. It shares this effect with Pressure and Unnerve.

If a Pokémon holding an Adrenaline Orb is affected by Intimidate, the item will be consumed and increase the holder's Speed by one stage.

Outside of battle

From Pokémon Emerald onwards, if a Pokémon with Intimidate is in the first place in the party (even if fainted), there is a 50% chance that a Pokémon that would be encountered will not appear if its level would be 5 levels or more below the leading Pokémon's. It shares this effect with Keen Eye.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

In the Mystery Dungeon series, Pokémon attacking a Pokémon with this Ability with a physical attack will have a 20% attack penalty.

Pokémon with Intimidate

# Pokémon Types First Ability Second Ability Hidden Ability
0023   Ekans
Poison Poison Intimidate Shed Skin Unnerve
0024   Arbok
Poison Poison Intimidate Shed Skin Unnerve
0058   Growlithe
Fire Fire Intimidate Flash Fire Justified
0059   Arcanine
Fire Fire Intimidate Flash Fire Justified
0128   Tauros
Normal Normal Intimidate Anger Point Sheer Force
0130   Gyarados
Water Flying Intimidate None Moxie
0209   Snubbull
Fairy Fairy Intimidate Run Away Rattled
0210   Granbull
Fairy Fairy Intimidate Quick Feet Rattled
0211   Qwilfish
Water Poison Poison Point Swift Swim Intimidate
0234   Stantler
Normal Normal Intimidate Frisk Sap Sipper
0237   Hitmontop
Fighting Fighting Intimidate Technician Steadfast
0262   Mightyena
Dark Dark Intimidate Quick Feet Moxie
0284   Masquerain
Bug Flying Intimidate None Unnerve
0303   Mawile
Steel Fairy Hyper Cutter Intimidate Sheer Force
310M Manectric Manectric
Electric Electric Intimidate None None
0373   Salamence
Dragon Flying Intimidate None Moxie
0397   Staravia
Normal Flying Intimidate None Reckless
0398   Staraptor
Normal Flying Intimidate None Reckless
0403   Shinx
Electric Electric Rivalry Intimidate Guts
0404   Luxio
Electric Electric Rivalry Intimidate Guts
0405   Luxray
Electric Electric Rivalry Intimidate Guts
0507   Herdier
Normal Normal Intimidate Sand Rush Scrappy
0508   Stoutland
Normal Normal Intimidate Sand Rush Scrappy
0551   Sandile
Ground Dark Intimidate Moxie Anger Point
0552   Krokorok
Ground Dark Intimidate Moxie Anger Point
0553   Krookodile
Ground Dark Intimidate Moxie Anger Point
0559   Scraggy
Dark Fighting Shed Skin Moxie Intimidate
0560   Scrafty
Dark Fighting Shed Skin Moxie Intimidate
645T Landorus Landorus
Ground Flying Intimidate None None
0725   Litten
Fire Fire Blaze None Intimidate
0726   Torracat
Fire Fire Blaze None Intimidate
0727   Incineroar
Fire Dark Blaze None Intimidate
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 Adventures manga


In the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga


Trivia

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 威嚇 Wāihaak
Mandarin 威嚇 / 威吓 Wēi​hè
  French Intimidation
  German Bedroher
  Italian Prepotenza
  Korean 위협 Wihyeop
  Portuguese Intimidar
  Spanish Intimidación
  Vietnamese Hăm dọa


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