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Overgrow (Japanese: しんりょく Fresh Greenery) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Thirteen Pokémon have this ability; each one of them is a member of the evolution family of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, or Isshu's Template:Type2 starter Pokémon.

Effect

In battle

When a Pokémon with Overgrow uses a Template:Type2 move, the power will increase by 1.5x if the user has less than or equal to 33% of its maximum HP remaining.

Outside of battle

Overgrow has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Overgrow will deal double the damage if the Pokémon using it is below 25% of its HP.

Pokémon with Overgrow

Single ability

#	Pokémon		Type
001		Bulbasaur	Grass	Poison
002		Ivysaur	Grass	Poison
003		Venusaur	Grass	Poison
152		Chikorita	Grass		Poison
153		Bayleef	Grass		Poison
154		Meganium	Grass		Poison
252		Treecko	Grass		Poison
253		Grovyle	Grass		Poison
254		Sceptile	Grass		Poison
387		Turtwig	Grass		Poison
388		Grotle	Grass		Poison
389		Torterra	Grass	Ground
494		Tsutarja	Grass		Poison
495		Janobii	Grass		Poison

Dual ability

No Pokémon have Overgrow as one of their two abilities.

In the anime

• OvergrowGrovyle.jpg

  Grovyle's ability activated

Grovyle. Grovyle's body becomes surrounded by a green aura, and the leaves on its arms glow green.

• Activated by Ash's Grovyle in Balance of Power. Debut.

Sceptile. Sceptile's body becomes surrounded by a green aura.

• Activated by Ash's Sceptile in Once More with Reeling!.

In other languages

• Chinese: 茂盛 Luxuriant
• Dutch: Woekergroei
• Italian: Erbaiuto
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Super Crescimento
• Spanish: Espesura

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.