Magic Bounce (Ability)

Magic Bounce	マジックミラー
	Magic Mirror
Flavor text Generation III Currently unknown Generation IV Currently unknown Generation V Reflects status-changing moves. Generation VI Reflects status moves. Generation VII Reflects status moves, instead of getting hit by them. Generation VIII Reflects status moves instead of getting hit by them. Generation IX Currently unknown

Magic Bounce (Japanese: マジックミラー Magic Mirror) is an Ability introduced in Generation V.

Effect

In battle

	This move effect may be in need of research. Reason: If all opponents have Magic Bounce in a Battle Royal, will each reflect Spikes or only one? Confirm that Z-Parting Shot works the same in v1.1. You can discuss this on the talk page.

Magic Bounce reflects the effect of all stat-lowering status moves (excluding Memento), status condition-inducing status moves, entry hazard moves, moves like Taunt and Torment, and so on back to the user. Magic Bounce reflects the same moves that Magic Coat does.

Moves reflected by Magic Bounce can still miss. Magic Bounce can reflect status Z-Moves (but not their Z-Power effects) and moves used via Dancer or Instruct. If Parting Shot is reflected, the Pokémon that originally used Parting Shot has its stats lowered while the Pokémon with Magic Bounce is switched out; if Z-Parting Shot is reflected, the Pokémon switched in does not have its HP restored.

Magic Bounce cannot reflect a move if the Pokémon with Magic Bounce is immune to it due to its type or species (e.g. a Ground-type Pokémon targeted by Thunder Wave, or Dugtrio targeted by Telekinesis) or is protected from that move. Magic Bounce can reflect a move even if the move would fail (e.g. Disable used on a Pokémon that has not used a move or is already disabled) or have no effect on the target (e.g. Feather Dance when the target already has -6 Attack).

If a move targets multiple Pokémon individually (such as Heal Block or Growl), it will still affect each Pokémon that does not have Magic Bounce as normal, then each Pokémon that has Magic Bounce will reflect the move individually. If a move targets an entire side (such as entry hazard moves), if one Pokémon on that side has Magic Bounce the whole side is unaffected; even if multiple Pokémon on that side have Magic Bounce, only one of the Pokémon on that side will have its Magic Bounce activate.

Magic Bounce does not activate if the move is used by a Pokémon with Teravolt, Turboblaze, or Mold Breaker. Magic Bounce will only activate once per turn. Magic Bounce cannot reflect a move that was just reflected by Magic Coat or Magic Bounce. If a Pokémon with this Ability is in the semi-invulnerable turn of a move like Fly, Magic Bounce will not activate.

Outside of battle

Magic Bounce has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Magic Bounce

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0177		Natu	Psychic	Flying	Synchronize	Early Bird	Magic Bounce
0178		Xatu	Psychic	Flying	Synchronize	Early Bird	Magic Bounce
0196		Espeon	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	None	Magic Bounce
302M	Sableye	Sableye	Dark	Ghost	Magic Bounce	None	None
359M	Absol	Absol	Dark		Dark	Magic Bounce	None	None
719M	Diancie	Diancie	Rock	Fairy	Magic Bounce	None	None
0856		Hatenna	Psychic		Psychic	Healer	Anticipation	Magic Bounce
0857		Hattrem	Psychic		Psychic	Healer	Anticipation	Magic Bounce
0858		Hatterene	Psychic	Fairy	Healer	Anticipation	Magic Bounce
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 games

Description

Games Description MDGtI Unavailable SMD It reflects status moves!

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

• In the Japan Mini-volume 6 for the X & Y arc, Y's Solsol was revealed to have Magic Bounce as his Ability when Mega Evolved.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 魔法鏡 Mōfaat Geng Mandarin 魔法鏡 / 魔法镜 Mófǎ Jìng French Miroir Magik German Magiespiegel Italian Magispecchio Korean 매직미러 Magic Mirror Portuguese Reflexo Mágico Spanish Espejo Mágico* Espejomágico*

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