Pickpocket (Ability)

Pickpocket (Japanese: わるいてぐせ Bad Habit) is an Ability introduced in Generation V. Five Pokémon have this Ability all of witch are either part or fully dark type. This Ability is exclusively obtained via Dream World.

Effect

In battle

Whenever an opponent makes contact with the user of Pickpocket, it steals the opponent's held item. It will fail if the user is holding an item or if either Pokémon is behind a Substitute.

Outside of battle

Pickpocket has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Pickpocket

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0215		Sneasel	Dark	Ice	Inner Focus	Keen Eye	Pickpocket
0273		Seedot	Grass		Grass	Chlorophyll	Early Bird	Pickpocket
0274		Nuzleaf	Grass	Dark	Chlorophyll	Early Bird	Pickpocket
0275		Shiftry	Grass	Dark	Chlorophyll	Early Bird	Pickpocket
0461		Weavile	Dark	Ice	Pressure	None	Pickpocket
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

• Except for Seedot, all the Pokémon that can have this Ability are Dark types. Seedot does, however, evolve into a Dark-type Pokémon.

In other languages

Language Title French Pickpocket German Langfinger Italian Arraffalesto Portuguese Furto Spanish Hurto

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.