Keen Eye (Ability)

Keen Eye	するどいめ
	Keen Eye
Flavor text Generation III Prevents loss of accuracy. Generation IV Prevents the Pokémon from losing accuracy. Generation V Prevents other Pokémon from lowering accuracy. Generation VI Prevents other Pokémon from lowering accuracy. Generation VII Keen eyes prevent other Pokémon from lowering this Pokémon's accuracy. Generation VIII Keen eyes prevent other Pokémon from lowering this Pokémon's accuracy. Generation IX The Pokémon's keen eyes prevent its accuracy from being lowered.

Keen Eye (Japanese: するどいめ Keen Eye) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Generation III

Keen Eye prevents other Pokémon from lowering the accuracy stat stage of the Pokémon with this Ability. It does not prevent Spectral Thief from stealing (i.e., resetting) positive stat changes.

Effects that decrease accuracy without using stat stages, such as Wonder Skin and Sand Veil, are unaffected by Keen Eye.

This Ability can be ignored with Mold Breaker, Teravolt, and Turboblaze.

Generation VI

Keen Eye now also ignores the target's evasion stages.

Outside of battle

From Pokémon Emerald onward, if a Pokémon with Keen Eye is in the first place in the party (even if fainted), there is a 50% chance it will prevent a random wild encounter that would have occurred if the wild Pokémon would be at least 5 levels lower than the Pokémon with Keen Eye. It shares this effect with Intimidate.

Pokémon with Keen Eye

#	Pokémon	Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
	Pidgey	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled Feet	Big Pecks
	Pidgeotto	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled Feet	Big Pecks
	Pidgeot	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled Feet	Big Pecks
	Spearow	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	None	Sniper
	Fearow	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	None	Sniper
	Farfetch'd	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Inner Focus	Defiant
	Hitmonchan	Fighting		Fighting	Keen Eye	Iron Fist	Inner Focus
	Sentret	Normal		Normal	Run Away	Keen Eye	Frisk
	Furret	Normal		Normal	Run Away	Keen Eye	Frisk
	Hoothoot	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
	Noctowl	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
	Sneasel	Dark	Ice	Inner Focus	Keen Eye	Pickpocket
	Sneasel Hisuian Form	Fighting	Poison	Inner Focus	Keen Eye	Pickpocket
	Skarmory	Steel	Flying	Keen Eye	Sturdy	Weak Armor
	Wingull	Water	Flying	Keen Eye	Hydration	Rain Dish
	Pelipper	Water	Flying	Keen Eye	Drizzle	Rain Dish
	Sableye	Dark	Ghost	Keen Eye	Stall	Prankster
	Starly	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	None	Reckless
	Glameow	Normal		Normal	Limber	Own Tempo	Keen Eye
	Stunky	Poison	Dark	Stench	Aftermath	Keen Eye
	Skuntank	Poison	Dark	Stench	Aftermath	Keen Eye
	Chatot	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled Feet	Big Pecks
	Skorupi	Poison	Bug	Battle Armor	Sniper	Keen Eye
	Drapion	Poison	Dark	Battle Armor	Sniper	Keen Eye
	Patrat	Normal		Normal	Run Away	Keen Eye	Analytic
	Watchog	Normal		Normal	Illuminate	Keen Eye	Analytic
	Ducklett	Water	Flying	Keen Eye	Big Pecks	Hydration
	Swanna	Water	Flying	Keen Eye	Big Pecks	Hydration
	Rufflet	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Sheer Force	Hustle
	Braviary	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Sheer Force	Defiant
	Braviary Hisuian Form	Psychic	Flying	Keen Eye	Sheer Force	Tinted Lens
	Espurr	Psychic		Psychic	Keen Eye	Infiltrator	Own Tempo
	Meowstic Male	Psychic		Psychic	Keen Eye	Infiltrator	Prankster
	Meowstic Female	Psychic		Psychic	Keen Eye	Infiltrator	Competitive
	Pikipek	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Skill Link	Pickup
	Trumbeak	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Skill Link	Pickup
	Toucannon	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Skill Link	Sheer Force
	Rockruff	Rock		Rock	Keen Eye	Vital Spirit	Steadfast
	Lycanroc Midday Form	Rock		Rock	Keen Eye	Sand Rush	Steadfast
	Lycanroc Midnight Form	Rock		Rock	Keen Eye	Vital Spirit	No Guard
	Rookidee	Flying		Flying	Keen Eye	Unnerve	Big Pecks
	Corvisquire	Flying		Flying	Keen Eye	Unnerve	Big Pecks
	Bombirdier	Flying	Dark	Big Pecks	Keen Eye	Rocky Payload
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.

In other games

Description

Games Description MDRB Prevents Accuracy from going down. MDTDS Prevents the Pokémon's accuracy from being reduced. BSL めいちゅうが さがらない Conq. Prevents the Pokémon from losing accuracy. MDGtI Prevents accuracy from being lowered.* Accuracy won't be lowered! Never ever!* SMD The Pokémon's accuracy won't be lowered! Never ever! The Pokémon won't be affected by the enemy's boosted evasiveness, either! MDRTDX The Pokémon's accuracy won't be lowered–never ever! The Pokémon won't be affected by an enemy's boosted evasiveness, either.

In the anime

	Meowstic
The Pokémon's keen eyes make it difficult for opponents to dodge the Pokémon's attacks.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Meowstic	Meowstic can redirect its attacks, making them extremely difficult to evade.
Olympia's Meowstic	All Eyes on the Future!		Debut

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• Blue's Pidgeot is revealed to have Keen Eye as his Ability.
• Falkner's Skarmory is revealed to have Keen Eye as its Ability.
• Skyla's Swanna is revealed to have Keen Eye as its Ability.
• Three Patrat belonging to the BW Agency are revealed to have Keen Eye as their Ability.
• Professor Oak's Fearow is revealed to have Keen Eye as its Ability.

Pocket Monsters BW: The Heroes of Fire and Thunder

	Watchog
The Pokémon's vision cannot be obscured.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
Watchog	Watchog focuses its vision to see through obscurities.
Togari's Watchog	Justice Trainer Shin Appears!		Debut

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 銳利目光 Yeuihleih Muhkgwōng Mandarin 銳利目光 / 锐利目光 Ruìlì Mùguāng Danish Skarpt Blik Finnish Tarkka silmä French Regard Vif German Adlerauge Italian Sguardofermo Korean 날카로운 눈 Nalkaroun Nun Norwegian Keen Eye Polish Bystre Oko Portuguese Brazil Olhar Aguçado Portugal Olhar Apurado Russian Острое Зрение Ostroye Zreniye Spanish Vista Lince Swedish Klarsynthet Vietnamese Tinh Mắt Mắt Tinh Tường*

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