Early Bird (Ability)

Early Bird	はやおき
	Early Rising
Flavor text Generation III Awakens quickly from sleep. Generation IV The Pokémon awakens quickly from sleep. Generation V The Pokémon awakens quickly from sleep. Generation VI The Pokémon awakens quickly from sleep. Generation VII The Pokémon awakens twice as fast as other Pokémon from sleep. Generation VIII The Pokémon awakens from sleep twice as fast as other Pokémon. Generation IX The Pokémon awakens from sleep twice as fast as other Pokémon.

Early Bird (Japanese: はやおき Early Rising) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Early Bird halves the sleep duration. When the Pokémon is put to sleep, the number of turns it will remain asleep is preset, between 1 and 5 (the range depends on the generation). This number of turns is halved for a Pokémon with Early Bird, rounded down if it is odd. So if only 1 turn is preset, it is rounded down to 0, causing the Pokémon to wake up the next time it moves.

This also applies to the self-induced sleep from Rest, reducing its length from 2 turns to 1 turn asleep (not counting the turn in which Rest is used).

Outside of battle

Early Bird has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Early Bird

#	Pokémon	Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
	Doduo	Normal	Flying	Run Away	Early Bird	Tangled Feet
	Dodrio	Normal	Flying	Run Away	Early Bird	Tangled Feet
	Kangaskhan	Normal		Normal	Early Bird	Scrappy	Inner Focus
	Ledyba	Bug	Flying	Swarm	Early Bird	Rattled
	Ledian	Bug	Flying	Swarm	Early Bird	Iron Fist
	Natu	Psychic	Flying	Synchronize	Early Bird	Magic Bounce
	Xatu	Psychic	Flying	Synchronize	Early Bird	Magic Bounce
	Sunkern	Grass		Grass	Chlorophyll	Solar Power	Early Bird
	Sunflora	Grass		Grass	Chlorophyll	Solar Power	Early Bird
	Girafarig	Normal	Psychic	Inner Focus	Early Bird	Sap Sipper
	Houndour	Dark	Fire	Early Bird	Flash Fire	Unnerve
	Houndoom	Dark	Fire	Early Bird	Flash Fire	Unnerve
	Seedot	Grass		Grass	Chlorophyll	Early Bird	Pickpocket
	Nuzleaf	Grass	Dark	Chlorophyll	Early Bird	Pickpocket
	Shiftry	Grass	Dark	Chlorophyll	Early Bird	Pickpocket
	Smoliv	Grass	Normal	Early Bird	None	Harvest
	Dolliv	Grass	Normal	Early Bird	None	Harvest
Please note that this is only 100% accurate to Generation IX games. For Generation III games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation IV or later and Hidden Abilities. For Generation IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities. For Generation V games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VI or later. For Generation VI games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VII or later. For Generation VII games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VIII or later. For Generation VIII games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation IX or later.

Pokéstar Studios opponents with Early Bird

Black Door  Grass  Early Bird HP Atk Def SpA SpD Spd 100 100 100 100 100 100

In other games

Description

Games Description MDRB Awakens quickly from sleep. MDTDS Helps the Pokémon awaken more quickly from sleep. BSL ねむっても はやく めが さめる MDGtI Unavailable SMD When the Pokémon gets the sleep, napping, yawning, or nightmare status condition, the status will be healed within fewer turns. MDRTDX When the Pokémon gets the Sleep, Napping, Yawning, or Nightmare status condition, the condition will be healed within fewer turns.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• In volume 25, Yellow's Dodrio, Dody, was revealed to have Early Bird as his Ability.
• In volume 42, Crystal's Xatu, Natee, was revealed to have Early Bird as her Ability.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 早起 Jóuhéi Mandarin 早起 Zǎoqǐ Dutch Vroege vogel French Matinal German Frühwecker Italian Sveglialampo Korean 일찍 기상 Iljjik Gisang Brazilian Portuguese Madrugar Spanish Madrugar Thai ตื่นเช้า Turkish Erkenci Kuş Vietnamese Dậy sớm

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