Tangled Feet (Ability)

Tangled Feet	ちどりあし
	Tottering Steps
Flavor text Generation IV Raises evasion if Pokémon is confused. Generation V Raises evasion if the Pokémon is confused. Generation VI Raises evasion if the Pokémon is confused. Generation VII Raises evasion if the Pokémon is confused. Generation VIII Raises evasiveness if the Pokémon is confused. Generation IX Boosts the Pokémon's evasiveness if it is confused.

Tangled Feet (Japanese: ちどりあし Tottering Steps) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

In battle

While a Pokémon with this Ability is confused, its evasion is doubled.

Outside of battle

Tangled Feet has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Tangled Feet

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0016		Pidgey	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled FeetGen IV+	Big Pecks
0017		Pidgeotto	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled FeetGen IV+	Big Pecks
0018		Pidgeot	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled FeetGen IV+	Big Pecks
0084		Doduo	Normal	Flying	Run Away	Early Bird	Tangled Feet
0085		Dodrio	Normal	Flying	Run Away	Early Bird	Tangled Feet
0327		Spinda	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Tangled FeetGen IV+	Contrary
0441		Chatot	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled Feet	Big Pecks
0866		Mr. Rime	Ice	Psychic	Tangled Feet	Screen Cleaner	Ice Body
0973		Flamigo	Flying	Fighting	Scrappy	Tangled Feet	Costar
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 Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky, Tangled Feet increases evasion by three stages when active.

Description

Games Description MDTDS Boosts the Pokémon's evasiveness when it is confused or cross-eyed. BSL こんらんしているか まどわしじょうたいに なると かいひしやすくなる MDGtI Unavailable SMD When the Pokémon is confused, its evasiveness goes up sharply! MDRTDX When the Pokémon is Confused, its evasiveness goes up sharply.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• In volume 40, Pearl's Chatot, Chatler, was revealed to have Tangled Feet as his Ability.

In the TCG

Tangled Feet debuted as an Ability in the Pokémon Trading Card Game with Spinda from the Paradox Rift expansion. It allows the player to flip a coin if the Pokémon with this Ability is Confused and is about to receive damage from an attack from the opponent's Pokémon; if heads, the damage is prevented.

The following is a list of Pokémon cards with the Tangled Feet Ability.

Pokémon cards with Tangled Feet Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	Mark	English Expansion		Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion		Rarity	#
Spinda			Paradox Rift			151/182	Ancient Roar			058/066

Trivia

• Tangled Feet is the first Generation IV Ability in index number order.
• Prior to Generation VIII, all Pokémon with this Ability were Normal-type and all except Spinda were Flying-type.
  • Mr. Rime is the only Pokémon that can have this ability but is not Normal or Flying type.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 蹣跚 Pùhnsāan Mandarin 蹣跚 / 蹒跚 Pánshān French Pieds Confus German TaumelschrittIX+ FußangelIV–VIII Italian Intricopiedi Korean 갈지자걸음 Galjija Geor'eum Brazilian Portuguese Pés Confusos Spanish Tumbos Vietnamese Lảo Đảo

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.