Vital Spirit (Ability)

Vital Spirit	やるき
	Willingness
Flavor text Generation III Prevents sleep. Generation IV Prevents the Pokémon from falling asleep. Generation V Prevents the Pokémon from falling asleep.

Vital Spirit (Japanese: やるき Willingness) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Twelve Pokémon have this Ability. It is one of two Abilities that prevent sleeping (the other is Insomnia).

Effect

In battle

Vital Spirit prevents sleep. If a Pokémon with Vital Spirit uses Rest, it will automatically fail.

Outside of battle

From Pokémon Emerald onwards, if a Pokémon with Vital Spirit is leading the party, the chance of encountering a higher-leveled wild Pokémon increase by 50%. It shares this effect with Hustle and Pressure.

In Generation V, Vital Spirit also prevents a Pokémon from visiting the Dream World.

Pokémon with Vital Spirit

#	Pokémon	Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
	Mankey	Fighting		Fighting	Vital Spirit	Anger Point	Defiant
	Primeape	Fighting		Fighting	Vital Spirit	Anger Point	Defiant
	Electabuzz	Electric		Electric	Static	None	Vital Spirit
	Magmar	Fire		Fire	Flame Body	None	Vital Spirit
	Delibird	Ice	Flying	Vital Spirit	Hustle	Insomnia
	Tyrogue	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	Steadfast	Vital Spirit
	Elekid	Electric		Electric	Static	None	Vital Spirit
	Magby	Fire		Fire	Flame Body	None	Vital Spirit
	Vigoroth	Normal		Normal	Vital Spirit	None	None
	Electivire	Electric		Electric	Motor Drive	None	Vital Spirit
	Magmortar	Fire		Fire	Flame Body	None	Vital Spirit
	Lillipup	Normal		Normal	Vital Spirit	Pickup	Run Away
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.

In the anime

	Vigoroth
The user cannot fall asleep, and nullifies moves that causes sleep.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Vigoroth	Vigoroth attacks and destroys moves that would cause it to fall asleep with its claws.
Marcel's Vigoroth	The Garden of Eatin'		Debut

Trivia

• Vital Spirit is the only variation of Water Veil that has been seen in the anime so far.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 元氣 Yuánqì Finnish Elohenki French Esprit Vital German Munterkeit Italian Spiritovivo Korean 의기양양 Yigiyang'yang Portuguese Espírito Vital Spanish Espír. Vital

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