Pixilate (Ability)

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Pixilate フェアリースキン
Fairy Skin
Flavor text
Generation VI
Normal-type moves become Fairy-type moves.
Generation VII
Normal-type moves become Fairy-type moves. The power of those moves is boosted a little.
Generation VIII
Normal-type moves become Fairy-type moves. The power of those moves is boosted a little.
Generation IX
Currently unknown

Pixilate (Japanese: フェアリースキン Fairy Skin) is an Ability introduced in Generation VI. In Generation VIII, it is the signature Ability of Sylveon.

Effect

In battle

Generation VI

Pixilate causes all Normal-type moves used by the Pokémon to become Fairy-type and receive a 30% power boost. It overrides Ion Deluge and Electrify.

Generation VII

Affected moves now receive a 20% power boost.

Generation VIII

Pixilate no longer overrides Electrify. If Max Strike is selected with Pixilate, it'll turn into Max Starfall when used.

Outside of battle

Pixilate has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Pixilate

# Pokémon Types First Ability Second Ability Hidden Ability
282M Gardevoir Gardevoir
Psychic Fairy Pixilate None None
334M Altaria Altaria
Dragon Fairy Pixilate None None
0700 Sylveon Sylveon
Fairy Fairy Cute Charm None Pixilate
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 Mystery Dungeon series

Normal-type moves become Fairy type and deal 20-25% more damage.

Description

Games Description
SMD Normal-type moves that the Pokémon uses become Fairy type and deal more damage!
MDRTDX Normal-type moves used by the Pokémon become Fairy type and deal more damage.


In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Diantha Mega Gardevoir Hyper Beam Adventures.png
Mega Gardevoir


The user's Normal-type attacks become Fairy-type
Pokémon Method
User First Chapter Used In Notes
Gardevoir Mega Gardevoir's Normal-type attacks become Fairy-type.
Diantha's Gardevoir X & Y chapter Debut


In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 妖精皮膚 Yīujīng Pèihfū
Mandarin 妖精皮膚 / 妖精皮肤 Yāojing Pífū
France Flag.png French Peau Féérique
Germany Flag.png German Feenschicht
Italy Flag.png Italian Pellefolletto
South Korea Flag.png Korean 페어리스킨 Fairy Skin
Spain Flag.png Spanish Piel Feérica
Vietnam Flag.png Vietnamese Da Tiên



Variations of the Ability Normalize
NormalizeAerilatePixilateRefrigerateGalvanize


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