Tinted Lens (Ability)

Tinted Lens	いろめがね
	Tinted Glasses
Flavor text Generation III Currently unknown Generation IV Doubles the power of this Pokémon's "not very effective" attacks. Generation V Powers up "not very effective" moves.

Tinted Lens (Japanese: いろめがね Tinted Glasses) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV. Nine Pokémon can have this Ability.

Effect

In battle

Tinted Lens doubles the power of any moves that the Pokémon uses that are "not very effective" against its targets. If a move is regularly not very effective, and thus normally does half damage, it would therefore do normal damage, while a doubly-resisted move (such as a Bug-type move against the Steel/Flying Skarmory) will do half damage rather than one quarter damage.

Outside of battle

Tinted Lens has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Tinted Lens

#	Pokémon	Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
	Butterfree	Bug	Flying	Compoundeyes	None	Tinted Lens
	Venonat	Bug	Poison	Compoundeyes	Tinted Lens	Run Away
	Venomoth	Bug	Poison	Shield Dust	Tinted Lens	Wonder Skin
	Hoothoot	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
	Noctowl	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
	Illumise	Bug		Bug	Oblivious	Tinted Lens	Prankster
	Mothim	Bug	Flying	Swarm	None	Tinted Lens
	Yanmega	Bug	Flying	Speed Boost	Tinted Lens	Frisk
	Sigilyph	Psychic	Flying	Wonder Skin	Magic Guard	Tinted Lens
Please note that this is only 100% accurate to Generation V games. For Generation III games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation IV and Hidden Abilities. For Generation IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

Origin

This is probably a reference to the idiom "viewing the world through rose-tinted glasses", an expression which means to see good where there is none.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 有色眼鏡 Yǒusè Yǎnjìng French Lentiteintée German Aufwertung Italian Lentifumé Korean 색안경 Saek'angyeong Portuguese Lentes Escurecidas Spanish Cromolente

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