Intimidate (ability)

Intimidate (Japanese: いかく Intimidation) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Nineteen Pokémon have this ability.

In Mystery Dungeon, Pokémon attacking a Pokémon with this ability with a physical attack will have a 20% attack penalty.

Effect

In battle

Intimidate lowers the opponent's Attack stat by one stage upon entering the battle. It is triggered both when a battle begins and when a Pokémon with Intimidate switches into battle. In a double battle, both opponents are affected.

Intimidate's activation message reads: "[Pokémon]'s Intimidate cuts [opponent]'s attack!".

Intimidate has no effect on Pokémon who are immune to Attack stat reductions, such as Pokémon with Clear Body, Hyper Cutter, or White Smoke.

Outside of battle

Outside of battle, if the Pokémon with Intimidate is leading the party, Intimidate decreases the chance of encountering a lower-level wild Pokémon by 50%. See also Keen Eye.

Pokémon with Intimidate

Single ability

#	Pokémon		Type
130		Gyarados	Water	Flying
284		Masquerain	Bug	Flying
373		Salamence	Dragon	Flying
397		Staravia	Normal	Flying
398		Staraptor	Normal	Flying

Dual ability

#	Pokémon		Type		Other ability
023		Ekans	Poison		Shed Skin
024		Arbok	Poison		Shed Skin
058		Growlithe	Fire		Flash Fire
059		Arcanine	Fire		Flash Fire
128		Tauros	Normal		Anger Point
209		Snubbull	Normal		Run Away
210		Granbull	Normal		Quick Feet
234		Stantler	Normal		Frisk
237		Hitmontop	Fighting		Technician
262		Mightyena	Dark		Quick Feet
303		Mawile	Steel		Hyper Cutter
403		Shinx	Electric		Rivalry
404		Luxio	Electric		Rivalry
405		Luxray	Electric		Rivalry

Trivia

• Although most Pokémon with this ability have menacing physical features, some Pokémon (like Hitmontop and Staravia) do not have obvious physical attributes that would inspire fear or unease, the most notorious one being Shinx, who can even be classified as a "cute" Pokémon. Its evolutions, Luxio and Luxray, however, would have these attributes.
• Interestingly, all five Pokémon that can only have this ability are part-Flying-type.

In other languages

• Italian: Prepotenza
• Spanish: Intimidación