Tinted Lens (Ability)

Tinted Lens

いろめがね

Tinted Glasses

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Generation IV
Doubles the power of this Pokémon's "not very effective" attacks.


Generation V
Currently unknown


Generation VI
Currently unknown


Generation VII
Currently unknown


Generation VIII
Currently unknown


Generation IX
Currently unknown

Tinted Lens (Japanese: いろめがね Tinted Glasses) is an ability introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

In battle

Tinted Lens doubles the power of any moves that the Pokémon uses that are "not very effective" against its targets. If a move is regularly not very effective, and thus normally does half damage, it would therefore do normal damage, while a doubly-resisted move (such as a Template:Type2 move against the Steel/Flying Skarmory) will do half damage rather than one quarter damage.

Outside of battle

Tinted Lens has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Tinted Lens

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0012		Butterfree	Bug	Flying	Compoundeyes	None	Tinted Lens
0048		Venonat	Bug	Poison	Compoundeyes	Tinted Lens	Run Away
0049		Venomoth	Bug	Poison	Shield Dust	Tinted Lens	Miracle Skin
0163		Hoothoot	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
0163	Noctowl	Noctowl	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
0314		Illumise	Bug		Bug	Oblivious	Tinted Lens	None
0414		Mothim	Bug	Flying	Swarm	None	Tinted Lens
0469		Yanmega	Bug	Flying	Speed Boost	Tinted Lens	None
0561	Shinbola	Shinbola	Psychic	Flying	Miracle Skin	Magic Guard	Tinted Lens
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.

Origin

This is probably a reference to the idiom "wiewing the world through rose-tinted glasses", an expression which means to see good where there is none.

In other languages

Spanish: Cromolente
Italian: Lentifumé

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.