Ripen (Ability)

Ripen	じゅくせい
	Ripen
Flavor text Generation VIII Ripens Berries and doubles their effect. Generation IX Ripens Berries and doubles their effect.

Ripen (Japanese: じゅくせい Ripen) is an Ability introduced in Generation VIII. It is the signature Ability of Applin, Flapple, and Appletun.

Effect

In battle

Ripen doubles the effects from held Berries when eaten in battle, including when a Pokémon with Ripen is targeted by a flung Berry. This affects Berries that restore HP or PP (such as Figy Berry and Leppa Berry), Berries that reduce damage (such as Occa Berry), Berries that raise stats (such as Starf Berry), and Berries that deal damage to Pokémon attacking the holder (such as Rowap Berry).

The only Berries that have in-battle effects that Ripen does not effect (although the message will still show for these) are the status condition-healing Berries (e.g. the Persim Berry and Lum Berry), the Lansat Berry (i.e. Ripen will not make it increase the critical hit stage by 4), the Micle Berry, and the Custap Berry.

Due to a glitch, when a Pokémon with Ripen uses certain non-Berry items or is targeted by a flung item that inflicts a secondary effect, Ripen displays a message and plays its animation, but has no other effect. The items affected are as below:

Sprite	Item	Notes
	Absorb Bulb	—
	Adrenaline Orb	—
	Berry Juice	—
	Blunder Policy	—
	Cell Battery	—
	Eject Button	—
	Eject Pack	—
	Electric Seed	—
	Focus Band	—
	Flame Orb	Flung only
	Grassy Seed	—
	King's Rock	Flung only
	Leftovers	—
	Light Ball	Flung only
	Luminous Moss	—
	Mental Herb	—
	Mirror Herb	—
	Misty Seed	—
	Poison Barb	Flung only
	Power Herb	—
	Psychic Seed	—
	Quick Claw	—
	Razor Fang	Flung only
	Room Service	—
	Snowball	—
	Throat Spray	—
	Toxic Orb	Flung only
	Weakness Policy	—
	White Herb	—

Outside of battle

Ripen has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Ripen

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0840		Applin	Grass	Dragon	Ripen	Gluttony	Bulletproof
0841		Flapple	Grass	Dragon	Ripen	Gluttony	Hustle
0842		Appletun	Grass	Dragon	Ripen	Gluttony	Thick Fat
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 languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 熟成 Suhksìhng Mandarin 熟成 Shúchéng French Mûrissement German Heranreifen Italian Maturazione Korean 숙성 Sukseong Spanish Maduración

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