Pressure (Ability)

Pressure (Japanese: プレッシャー Pressure) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

	This Ability effect may be in need of research. Reason: Interaction with multi-turn moves and consecutively executed moves You can discuss this on the talk page.

Generation III

When another Pokémon (including an ally) uses a move targeting a Pokémon that has Pressure, when PP is deducted from that move, one more PP than usual is deducted. If multiple targets have Pressure, each one results in additional PP being deducted.

Pressure deducts additional PP whenever PP would normally be deducted; this means that it still applies even if the move misses, has multiple targets, or is rendered ineffective due to a target's typing or use of Protect or Detect.

Pressure applies to moves that target the entire field, such as Rain Dance.

Pressure applies to Curse when used by non-Ghost-type Pokémon, but only when used by a wild Pokémon or in-game Trainer.

Generation IV

If a Pokémon that has Pressure is sent into battle, a message "<name> is exerting its Pressure!" is now displayed.

Generation V onward

Pressure now only affects opponents' moves.

Pressure increases the PP consumption of an opponent's Imprison and Snatch even though those are self-targeting moves; in Snatch's case the additional PP is consumed even if Snatch fails or snatches a move from a Pokémon other than the one with Pressure. It increases the PP consumption of Spikes, Stealth Rock, and Toxic Spikes, but not Sticky Web.

If a Pokémon uses Tera Blast while one of its opponents has Pressure, the additional PP will be deducted even if the Pressure Pokémon is not the move's target.

Wild Pokémon's calls for help are more likely to be answered when facing a Pokémon with Pressure. It shares this effect with Intimidate and Unnerve.

Outside of battle

	This Ability effect may be in need of research. Reason: Does Pressure have any effect on the levels of fished-up wild Pokémon in Gens VI and VII? You can discuss this on the talk page.

From Pokémon Emerald onwards, if a Pokémon with Pressure is in the first slot in the party (even if fainted), there's a 50% chance that a Pokémon will be forced to the upper bound of their encounter level range. It shares this effect with Hustle and Vital Spirit.

When fishing with a Pokémon with Pressure, Vital Spirit, or Hustle as its Ability leading the party in Pokémon Emerald, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, or any Generation IV game, it will trigger with its standard 50% activation rate. In the Generation V games, Pressure, Vital Spirit, and Hustle will not have any effect on the levels of wild Pokémon found through fishing.

Generation VIII

In Pokémon Sword and Shield, Pressure appears to have no effect on the level range of wild Pokémon.

Generation IX

In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Pressure appears to have no effect on the level range of wild Pokémon.

Pokémon with Pressure

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0142		Aerodactyl	Rock	Flying	Rock Head	Pressure	Unnerve
0144		Articuno	Ice	Flying	Pressure	None	Snow Cloak
0145		Zapdos	Electric	Flying	Pressure	None	StaticGen VI+
0146		Moltres	Fire	Flying	Pressure	None	Flame Body
0150		Mewtwo	Psychic		Psychic	Pressure	None	Unnerve
0243		Raikou	Electric		Electric	Pressure	None	Inner FocusGen VII+
0244		Entei	Fire		Fire	Pressure	None	Inner FocusGen VII+
0245		Suicune	Water		Water	Pressure	None	Inner FocusGen VII+
0249		Lugia	Psychic	Flying	Pressure	None	Multiscale
0250		Ho-Oh	Fire	Flying	Pressure	None	Regenerator
0320		Wailmer	Water		Water	Water Veil	Oblivious	Pressure
0321		Wailord	Water		Water	Water Veil	Oblivious	Pressure
0356		Dusclops	Ghost		Ghost	Pressure	None	FriskGen VI+
0359		Absol	Dark		Dark	Pressure	Super LuckGen IV+	Justified
0386		Deoxys Normal Forme	Psychic		Psychic	Pressure	None	None
0386		Deoxys Attack Forme	Psychic		Psychic	Pressure	None	None
0386		Deoxys Defense Forme	Psychic		Psychic	Pressure	None	None
0386		Deoxys Speed Forme	Psychic		Psychic	Pressure	None	None
0416		Vespiquen	Bug	Flying	Pressure	None	Unnerve
0442		Spiritomb	Ghost	Dark	Pressure	None	Infiltrator
0461		Weavile	Dark	Ice	Pressure	None	Pickpocket
0477		Dusknoir	Ghost		Ghost	Pressure	None	FriskGen VI+
0483		Dialga	Steel	Dragon	Pressure	None	Telepathy
0483		Dialga Origin Forme	Steel	Dragon	Pressure	None	Telepathy
0484		Palkia	Water	Dragon	Pressure	None	Telepathy
0484		Palkia Origin Forme	Water	Dragon	Pressure	None	Telepathy
0487		Giratina Altered Forme	Ghost	Dragon	Pressure	None	Telepathy
0624		Pawniard	Dark	Steel	Defiant	Inner Focus	Pressure
0625		Bisharp	Dark	Steel	Defiant	Inner Focus	Pressure
0646		Kyurem	Dragon	Ice	Pressure	None	None
0823		Corviknight	Flying	Steel	Pressure	Unnerve	Mirror Armor
0890		Eternatus	Poison	Dragon	Pressure	None	None
0890		Eternatus Eternamax	Poison	Dragon	Pressure	None	None
0903		Sneasler	Fighting	Poison	Pressure	UnburdenGen IX+	Poison Touch
0983		Kingambit	Dark	Steel	Defiant	Supreme Overlord	Pressure
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.

Pokéstar Studios opponents with Pressure

Monster  Dark  Pressure HP Atk Def SpA SpD Spe 100 100 100 100 100 100

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

Pressure activating in Super Mystery Dungeon

When a Pokémon with Pressure is targeted by a foe's move, one additional PP is deducted upon execution.

In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, multiple instances of Pressure now stack on each other. (e.g: Hitting two enemies with the ability at the same time will cause the user to lose 3 PP.)

Description

In the anime

Mewtwo was confirmed to have Pressure on the official Pokémon website,^{[citation needed]} even though it was never demonstrated or mentioned in the anime.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Deoxys Spiritomb and Weavile
By putting pressure on the opposing team, the Pokémon makes them use more energy than normal for their moves.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	The opponent attacking Deoxys can only use a powerful attack once.
Giovanni's Organism No. 2	Don't Doubt Deoxys		Debut
	Spiritomb's opponent is forced to spend more energy in battle than usual.
Cynthia's Spiritomb	Shunning Spiritomb		None
	Weavile's opponent is forced to spend more energy in battle than usual.
Cyrus's Weavile	Shunning Spiritomb		None

• In Storming the Forretress, Poli gained Pressure when Organism No. 2 used Skill Swap on him.
• In Volume 42, Silver's Weavile was revealed to have Pressure as his Ability.
• Emerald's Dusclops was revealed to have Pressure as his Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.
• Green's Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres, Blaine's Mewtwo, a Roughneck's Vespiquen, the Tower duo, the Legendary beasts, the Pokémon of Myth, and Zinzolin's Kyurem were revealed to have Pressure as their Ability.

Trivia

• Pressure is the most common Ability amongst Legendary Pokémon.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 壓迫感 Aatbīkgám * 氣壓 Hei'aat * Mandarin 壓迫感 / 压迫感 Yāpògǎn * 氣壓 Qìyā * French Pression German Erzwinger Italian Pressione Korean 프레셔 Pressure Polish Presja Brazilian Portuguese Pressão Spanish Presión Turkish Baskı Vietnamese Khí áp

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