Immunity (Ability)

Immunity	めんえき
	Immunity
Flavor text Generation III Prevents poisoning. Generation IV Prevents the Pokémon from getting poisoned. Generation V Currently unknown Generation VI Currently unknown Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Immunity (Japanese: めんえき Immunity) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Only three Pokémon can have this ability.

Effect

In battle

Immunity prevents poisoning.

Outside of battle

Pokémon with this ability can't take damage from poison outside of battle.

Pokémon with Immunity

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0143		Snorlax	Normal		Normal	Immunity	Thick Fat	Gluttony
0207		Gligar	Ground	Flying	Hyper Cutter	Sand Veil	Immunity
0335		Zangoose	Normal		Normal	Immunity	None	Poison Rampage
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.

Trivia

• In the case of a poisoned Munchlax evolving and gaining Immunity, the player will, upon checking the status screen, find that it is still poisoned.

This is extremely rare, however.

In other languages

• French: Vaccin
• German: Immunität
• Italian: Immunità
• Portuguese: Imunidade
• Spanish: Inmunidad

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.