Victory Star (Ability)

Victory Star	しょうりのほし
	Victory Star
Flavor text Generation V Boosts the accuracy of its allies and itself. Generation VI Boosts the accuracy of its allies and itself. Generation VII Boosts the accuracy of its allies and itself. Generation VIII Boosts the accuracy of its allies and itself. Generation IX Boosts the accuracy of the Pokémon and its allies.

Victory Star (Japanese: しょうりのほし Victory Star) is an Ability introduced in Generation V. It is the signature Ability of Victini.

Effect

In battle

Victory Star increases the accuracy of moves used by the Pokémon with this Ability and its allies in battle by 10% of their original accuracy. Victory Star can stack and does so multiplicatively (which means if there are two ally Pokémon with this Ability, the accuracy increase is 21%).

Outside of battle

Victory Star has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Victory Star

#	Pokémon	Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
	Victini	Psychic	Fire	Victory Star	None	None
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

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U

Victini appears as a Poké Ball Pokémon, after playing 100-Man Smash at least once. It uses Victory Star, which causes fighters (and teammates, if any) who send it out to gain immunity to knockback and have their attack power boosted.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Victini returns as a Pokémon summoned from the Poké Ball, where it gives the summoner their Final Smash with Victory Star.

Description

Games Description MDGtI Raises the accuracy of moves used by the Pokémon and allies standing next to it.* The accuracy of moves goes up! It also affects allies who are next to the Pokémon.* SMD The accuracy of moves goes up! It also has effects on teammates who are next to the Pokémon.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• A Victini Blake used is revealed to have Victory Star as its Ability.

Be the Best! Pokémon B+W

• In The Birth of the Best Pokémon Trainer!, Cheren mentioned that Monta's Victini had Victory Star as its Ability but Victini couldn't activate it due to Serperior's Gastro Acid rendering it useless.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 勝利之星 Singleih-jī Sīng Mandarin 勝利之星 / 胜利之星 Shènglì-zhī Xīng Danish Sejrsstjerne Dutch Overwinningsster* Finnish Voitontähti French Victorieux German Triumphstern Italian Vittorstella Korean 승리의별 Seungni-yi Beol Brazilian Portuguese Estrela da Vitória Spanish Tinovictoria Swedish Segerstjärna

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.