White Smoke (Ability)

White Smoke (Japanese: しろいけむり White Smoke) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Only two Pokémon Pokémon have this ability, both of which are the only non-legendary Pokémon without evolutionary relatives.

Effect

In battle

White Smoke prevents stat reduction. Therefore the Pokémon's stats cannot be reduced from moves such as Scary Face or abilities such as Intimidate. However, White Smoke does not prevent self-inflicted stat reduction from moves like Overheat.

Outside of battle

From Pokémon Emerald onwards, if the Pokémon with White Smoke is leading the party, then White Smoke decreases the wild Pokémon encounter rate by 50%.

Pokémon with White Smoke

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0324		Torkoal	Fire		Fire	White Smoke	None	Shell Armor
0631	Kuitaran	Kuitaran	Fire		Fire	Gluttony	Flash Fire	White Smoke
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

• French: Écran Fumée
• German: Pulverrauch
• Italian: Fumochiaro
• Korean: 하얀연기 Hayan Yeongi
• Portuguese: Fumaça Branca
• Spanish: Humo blanco

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.