Wonder Skin (Ability)

Wonder Skin ミラクルスキン
Miracle Skin
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Generation V
Makes status-changing moves more likely to miss.
Generation VI
Makes status moves more likely to miss.
Generation VII
Makes status moves more likely to miss.
Generation VIII
Makes status moves more likely to miss.
Generation IX
Makes status moves more likely to miss the Pokémon.

Wonder Skin (Japanese: ミラクルスキン Miracle Skin) is an Ability introduced in Generation V.

Effect

In battle

Wonder Skin lowers the accuracy of status moves used against the Pokémon with this Ability to 50%. If the move's accuracy is already below 50%, it does not change. Other effects may still be able to modify the accuracy after Wonder Skin's effect.

Wonder Skin does not affect moves used by Pokémon with Mold Breaker, Teravolt, or Turboblaze.

Outside of battle

Wonder Skin has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Wonder Skin

# Pokémon Types First Ability Second Ability Hidden Ability
0049   Venomoth
Bug Poison Shield Dust Tinted LensGen IV+ Wonder Skin
0300   Skitty
Normal Normal Cute Charm NormalizeGen IV+ Wonder Skin
0301   Delcatty
Normal Normal Cute Charm NormalizeGen IV+ Wonder Skin
0561   Sigilyph
Psychic Flying Wonder Skin Magic Guard Tinted Lens
0779   Bruxish
Water Psychic Dazzling Strong Jaw Wonder Skin
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 games

Description

Games Description
MDGtI Unavailable
SMD It makes it easier for the Pokémon to dodge status moves!


Trivia

  • Unlike Abilities that provide complete protection against status changes (e.g. Immunity or Keen Eye), the "Pokémon's Ability" message is not displayed when Wonder Skin takes effect.

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 奇跡皮膚 Kēijīk Pèihfū
Mandarin 奇跡皮膚 / 奇迹皮肤 Qíjī Pífū / Qíjì Pífū
  French Peau Miracle
  German Wunderhaut
  Italian Splendicute
  Korean 미라클스킨 Miracle Skin
  Spanish Piel Milagro
  Vietnamese Da thần kỳ
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