Magic Bounce (Ability)

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Magic Bounce	マジックミラー
	Magic Mirror
Flavor text Generation V Reflects status-changing moves. Generation VI Reflects status moves. Generation VII Reflects status moves, instead of getting hit by them. Generation VIII Reflects status moves instead of getting hit by them. Generation IX The Pokémon reflects status moves instead of getting hit by them.

Magic Bounce (Japanese: マジックミラー Magic Mirror) is an Ability introduced in Generation V.

Effect

In battle

Generations V to VI

Magic Bounce reflects certain status moves back at the attacker. Reflectable moves match Magic Coat's list of reflectable moves.

Moves reflected by Magic Bounce can still miss. If Parting Shot is reflected, the Pokémon that originally used Parting Shot has its stats lowered while the Pokémon with Magic Bounce is switched out.

Even if the Pokémon with Magic Bounce is immune to a move due to its type or species (e.g. a Ground-type Pokémon targeted by Thunder Wave, or Dugtrio targeted by Telekinesis), Magic Bounce will still reflect the move. However, it will not activate if the Pokémon with Magic Bounce is protected from that move. Magic Bounce can reflect a move even if the move would fail (e.g. Disable used on a Pokémon that has not used a move or is already disabled) or have no effect on the target (e.g. Feather Dance when the target already has -6 Attack).

Magic Bounce does not activate if the move is used by a Pokémon with Teravolt, Turboblaze, or Mold Breaker. Magic Bounce cannot reflect a move that was just reflected by Magic Coat or Magic Bounce. If a Pokémon with this Ability is in the semi-invulnerable turn of a move like Fly, Magic Bounce will not activate.

If a move targets multiple Pokémon individually (such as Heal Block or Growl), it will still affect each Pokémon that does not have Magic Bounce as normal, then each Pokémon that has Magic Bounce will reflect the move individually. If a move targets an entire side (such as entry hazard moves), if any Pokémon on that side reflects the move with Magic Bounce then the whole side is unaffected; even if multiple Pokémon on that side have Magic Bounce, only one of the Pokémon on that side will have its Magic Bounce activate.

Generation VII

	This Ability effect may be in need of research. Reason: If all opponents have Magic Bounce in a Battle Royal, will each reflect Spikes or only one? Confirm that Z-Parting Shot works the same in v1.1. You can discuss this on the talk page.

Magic Bounce can reflect status Z-Moves (but not their Z-Power effects) and moves used via Dancer or Instruct. If Z-Parting Shot is reflected, the Pokémon switched in does not have its HP restored.

Generation VIII

A Dynamax Pokémon reflecting Parting Shot will still be forced to switch out.

Generation IX

Magic Bounce will not activate if the opponent has the Ability Mycelium Might.

Outside of battle

Magic Bounce has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Magic Bounce

#	Pokémon	Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
	Natu	Psychic	Flying	Synchronize	Early Bird	Magic Bounce
	Xatu	Psychic	Flying	Synchronize	Early Bird	Magic Bounce
	Espeon	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	None	Magic Bounce
	Sableye Mega Sableye	Dark	Ghost	Magic Bounce	None	None
	Absol Mega Absol	Dark		Dark	Magic Bounce	None	None
	Diancie Mega Diancie	Rock	Fairy	Magic Bounce	None	None
	Hatenna	Psychic		Psychic	Healer	Anticipation	Magic Bounce
	Hattrem	Psychic		Psychic	Healer	Anticipation	Magic Bounce
	Hatterene	Psychic	Fairy	Healer	Anticipation	Magic Bounce
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

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, Magic Bounce is Espeon's Ability after evolving. When Espeon would be affected by a hindrance (including slow), the hindrance is negated and Eevee becomes immune to hindrances for a short time. At the same time, this ability deals damage to the enemy that attempted to inflict the hindrance and applies a 30% slow for 1s. Hindrances that have multiple hits, such as Pikachu's Volt Tackle, will have only the first hit negated. This Ability has 45 second cooldown.

Description

Games Description MDGtI Unavailable SMD It reflects status moves! MDRTDX The Pokémon reflects status moves and the effects of wands. Not all moves can be reflected.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• In the Japan Mini-volume 6 for the X & Y chapter, Y's Absol, Solsol, was revealed to have Magic Bounce as his Ability when Mega Evolved.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 魔法鏡 Mōfaat Geng Mandarin 魔法鏡 / 魔法镜 Mófǎ Jìng French Miroir Magik German Magiespiegel Italian Magispecchio Korean 매직미러 Magic Mirror Brazilian Portuguese Espelho Mágico Spanish Espejo MágicoVI+ EspejomágicoV

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.