Natural Cure (Ability)

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Natural Cure しぜんかいふく
Natural Recovery
Flavor text
Generation III
Heals upon switching out.
Generation IV
All status problems are healed upon switching out.DPPt
All status problems heal when it switches out.HGSS
Generation V
All status problems heal when it switches out.
Generation VI
All status conditions heal when the Pokémon switches out.
Generation VII
All status conditions heal when the Pokémon switches out.
Generation VIII
All status conditions heal when the Pokémon switches out.
Generation IX
Currently unknown

Natural Cure (Japanese: しぜんかいふく Natural Recovery) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Generation III

Natural Cure heals any status conditions upon switching out.

This effect will occur if Natural Cure is the Pokémon's Ability in battle when it switches out and is not suppressed; a Pokémon that obtained the Ability with Trace will have its status condition cured when it switches out, whereas a Pokémon which has Natural Cure but has been affected by Gastro Acid will not.

Generation IV onward

Natural Cure also heals any status conditions upon completing a battle (if it was in battle at the end of the battle).

Outside of battle

From Generation IV onward, Natural Cure automatically heals status conditions upon the end of a battle.

Pokémon with Natural Cure

# Pokémon Types First Ability Second Ability Hidden Ability
0113 Chansey Chansey
Normal Normal Natural Cure Serene Grace Healer
0120 Staryu Staryu
Water Water Illuminate Natural Cure Analytic
0121 Starmie Starmie
Water Psychic Illuminate Natural Cure Analytic
0222 Corsola Corsola
Water Rock Hustle Natural Cure Regenerator
0242 Blissey Blissey
Normal Normal Natural Cure Serene Grace Healer
0251 Celebi Celebi
Psychic Grass Natural Cure None None
0315 Roselia Roselia
Grass Poison Natural Cure Poison Point Leaf Guard
0333 Swablu Swablu
Normal Flying Natural Cure None Cloud Nine
0334 Altaria Altaria
Dragon Flying Natural Cure None Cloud Nine
0406 Budew Budew
Grass Poison Natural Cure Poison Point Leaf Guard
0407 Roserade Roserade
Grass Poison Natural Cure Poison Point Technician
0440 Happiny Happiny
Normal Normal Natural Cure Serene Grace Friend Guard
0492 Shaymin Shaymin
Grass Grass Natural Cure None None
0708 Phantump Phantump
Ghost Grass Natural Cure Frisk Harvest
0709 Trevenant Trevenant
Ghost Grass Natural Cure Frisk Harvest
0764 Comfey Comfey
Fairy Fairy Flower Veil Triage Natural Cure
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

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, Natural Cure is Blissey's and Trevenant's Ability. Blissey's removes all status conditions from the user, but goes on a cooldown after being triggered.

Trevenant's causes the user to continuously recover HP for a short time after falling to low HP and it also reduces the cooldowns of the user's moves. When the HP recovery effect ends, this ability goes on a cooldown, but each time the user hits an opponent with any of its moves, this ability's cooldown gets decreased.

Description

Games Description
MDRB Recovers quickly from status problems.
MDTDS Helps the Pokémon recover from status problems more quickly.
BSL わるい じょうたいが なおるのが ふつうより はやい
MDGtI Unavailable
SMD Sometimes it cures every single bad status condition the Pokémon has!
MDRTDX This Ability sometimes cures every bad status condition the Pokémon has.

In the anime

In The Power of Us, during two simultaneous disasters in Fula City, Toren and his fellow Scientists attempted to create an elixir out of Natural Cure in the Pokémon Research Pavilion. However, a blackout occurred before the solution could be finished, forcing Toren to improvise with Team Rocket's Lum Berries.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures


Trivia

  • In Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, Natural Cure is mistranslated as Natural Recovery, a direct translation of its Japanese name.
  • Due to the user interface displaying how many of the opponent's Pokémon have status conditions, even though Natural Cure does not have an activation message, it is possible to deduce that a Pokémon had Natural Cure the next time the Poké Balls representing the opponent's party are displayed.
    • In Generation III, this is when the opponent switches Pokémon.
    • In Generation IV, this is both when the opponent switches Pokémon and on the move selection screen.
    • From Generation V onward, it is visible on the move selection screen only.

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 自然恢復 Jihyìhn Fūifuhk
Mandarin 自然恢復 / 自然恢复 Zìrán Huīfù
Finland Flag.png Finnish Luonnonparannus
France Flag.png French Médic Nature
Germany Flag.png German Innere Kraft
Italy Flag.png Italian Alternacura
South Korea Flag.png Korean 자연회복 Jayeon Hoebok
Poland Flag.png Polish Naturalny Lek
Portugal Flag.png Portuguese Cura Natural
Russia Flag.png Russian Самолечение Samolechenie
Spain Flag.png Spanish Cura Natural
Vietnam Flag.png Vietnamese Tự hồi phục


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