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Sheer Force (Japanese: ちからずく Sheer Force) is an Ability introduced in Generation V.

Effect

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In battle

Sheer Force raises the base power of all damaging moves that have any additional effects by 30%, but their additional effects are ignored.

Reducing the target's stats, increasing the user's stats, inflicting a status condition or confusion to the target, and causing the target to flinch are all considered additional effects, so moves with these effects will have their power increased and their additional effect ignored.

Sheer Force does not consider recoil or decreasing the user's own stats to be additional effects. Properties of moves—such as having a high critical-hit ratio, being unable to miss, having variable power or powering up, or having a charging turn, among others—are not considered additional effects. Moves that have one of these properties in addition to an additional effect will be powered up and only the additional effect will be negated. For example, Flare Blitz inflicts recoil damage to the user, but also has an additional effect to burn; if the user has Sheer Force, Flare Blitz's damage will be boosted by 30% and the user will take recoil damage, but it cannot burn the target. Effects of Fling caused by holding specific items are not considered additional effects for the purposes of Sheer Force.

If (and only if) a move is boosted by the effect of Sheer Force, that move will no longer trigger item or Ability effects that activate after attacking. This includes the effects of Eject Button, Shell Bell, and Red Card, as well as the Abilities Color Change and Emergency Exit. Only the effect(s) that activate after attacking will be negated; therefore, if a Pokémon holds a Life Orb, it will gain the passive damage boost (because it is not activated after the attack) but the Pokémon is not damaged by the Life Orb.

Affected moves

The table below lists the moves affected by Sheer Force, as well as the Pokémon that can have Sheer Force and learn those moves.

Move Type Cat. Pow. Acc. Learned by Air Slash  Flying  Special 75 95 {{{6}}} Ancient Power  Rock  Special 60 100 {{{6}}} Astonish  Ghost  Physical 30 100 {{{6}}} Bite  Dark  Physical 60 100 {{{6}}} Blizzard  Ice  Special 110 70 {{{6}}} Body Slam  Normal  Physical 85 100 ***** {{{6}}} Bubble  Water  Special 40 100 {{{6}}} Bubble Beam  Water  Special 65 100 ** {{{6}}} Bulldoze  Ground  Physical 60 100 {{{6}}} Charge Beam  Electric  Special 50 90 {{{6}}} Confusion  Psychic  Special 50 100 {{{6}}} Crunch  Dark  Physical 80 100 {{{6}}} Crush Claw  Normal  Physical 75 95 {{{6}}} Dark Pulse  Dark  Special 80 100 {{{6}}} Dragon Rush  Dragon  Physical 100 75 {{{6}}} Dragon Breath  Dragon  Special 60 100 {{{6}}} Dynamic Punch  Fighting  Physical 100 50 {{{6}}} Earth Power  Ground  Special 90 100 {{{6}}} Ember  Fire  Special 40 100 {{{6}}} Extrasensory  Psychic  Special 80 100 {{{6}}} Fake Out  Normal  Physical 40 100 {{{6}}} Fire Blast  Fire  Special 110 85 {{{6}}} Fire Fang  Fire  Physical 65 95 {{{6}}} Fire Punch  Fire  Physical 75 100 {{{6}}} Flame Charge  Fire  Physical 50 100 {{{6}}} Flame Wheel  Fire  Physical 60 100 {{{6}}} Flamethrower  Fire  Special 90 100 {{{6}}} Flare Blitz  Fire  Physical 120 100 {{{6}}} Flash Cannon  Steel  Special 80 100 {{{6}}} Focus Blast  Fighting  Special 120 70 {{{6}}} Force Palm  Fighting  Physical 60 100 {{{6}}} Gunk Shot  Poison  Physical 120 80 {{{6}}} Headbutt  Normal  Physical 70 100 {{{6}}} Heat Wave  Fire  Special 95 90 {{{6}}} Ice Beam  Ice  Special 90 100 {{{6}}} Ice Fang  Ice  Physical 65 95 {{{6}}} Ice Punch  Ice  Physical 75 100 {{{6}}} Icy Wind  Ice  Special 55 95 {{{6}}} Iron Head  Steel  Physical 80 100 {{{6}}} Iron Tail  Steel  Physical 100 75 {{{6}}} Lava Plume  Fire  Special 80 100 {{{6}}} Low Sweep  Fighting  Physical 65 100 {{{6}}} Metal Claw  Steel  Physical 50 95 {{{6}}} Mud Bomb  Ground  Special 65 85 {{{6}}} Mud Shot  Ground  Special 55 95 {{{6}}} Mud-Slap  Ground  Special 20 100 {{{6}}} Play Rough  Fairy  Physical 90 90 {{{6}}} Poison Fang  Poison  Physical 50 100 {{{6}}} Poison Jab  Poison  Physical 80 100 {{{6}}} Poison Sting  Poison  Physical 15 100 {{{6}}} Poison Tail  Poison  Physical 50 100 {{{6}}} Power-Up Punch  Fighting  Physical 40 100 {{{6}}} Psychic  Psychic  Special 90 100 {{{6}}} Rock Climb  Normal  Physical 90 85 * {{{6}}} Rock Slide  Rock  Physical 75 90 {{{6}}} Rock Smash  Fighting  Physical 40 100 {{{6}}} Rock Tomb  Rock  Physical 60 95 {{{6}}} Scald  Water  Special 80 100 {{{6}}} Secret Power  Normal  Physical 70 100 {{{6}}} Shadow Ball  Ghost  Special 80 100 {{{6}}} Signal Beam  Bug  Special 75 100 {{{6}}} Sky Attack  Flying  Physical 140 90 {{{6}}} Sludge Bomb  Poison  Special 90 100 {{{6}}} Sludge Wave  Poison  Special 95 100 {{{6}}} Snarl  Dark  Special 55 95 {{{6}}} Snore  Normal  Special 50 100 {{{6}}} Steel Wing  Steel  Physical 70 90 {{{6}}} Stomp  Normal  Physical 65 100 {{{6}}} Struggle Bug  Bug  Special 50 100 {{{6}}} Thunder  Electric  Special 110 70 {{{6}}} Thunder Fang  Electric  Physical 65 95 {{{6}}} Thunderbolt  Electric  Special 90 100 {{{6}}} Thunder Punch  Electric  Physical 75 100 {{{6}}} Twister  Dragon  Special 40 100 {{{6}}} Water Pulse  Water  Special 60 100 {{{6}}} Waterfall  Water  Physical 80 100 {{{6}}} Zen Headbutt  Psychic  Physical 80 90 {{{6}}}

Although the following moves are affected by the Ability, they currently cannot be learned by any Pokémon with Sheer Force. They may, however, be called via Metronome, Mirror Move, Copycat, or Mimic, or be used by a Pokémon that gained Sheer Force by an Ability like Trace or Receiver or a move such as Skill Swap or Role Play.

Outside of battle

Sheer Force does not have an effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Sheer Force

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0031		Nidoqueen	Poison	Ground	Poison Point	Rivalry	Sheer Force
0034		Nidoking	Poison	Ground	Poison Point	Rivalry	Sheer Force
0098		Krabby	Water		Water	Hyper Cutter	Shell Armor	Sheer Force
0099		Kingler	Water		Water	Hyper Cutter	Shell Armor	Sheer Force
0128		Tauros	Normal		Normal	Intimidate	Anger Point	Sheer Force
0158		Totodile	Water		Water	Torrent	None	Sheer Force
0159		Croconaw	Water		Water	Torrent	None	Sheer Force
0160		Feraligatr	Water		Water	Torrent	None	Sheer Force
0208		Steelix	Steel	Ground	Rock Head	Sturdy	Sheer Force
0296		Makuhita	Fighting		Fighting	Thick Fat	Guts	Sheer Force
0297		Hariyama	Fighting		Fighting	Thick Fat	Guts	Sheer Force
0303		Mawile	Steel	Fairy	Hyper Cutter	Intimidate	Sheer Force
323M	Camerupt	Camerupt	Fire	Ground	Sheer Force	None	None
0328		Trapinch	Ground		Ground	Hyper Cutter	Arena Trap	Sheer Force
0371		Bagon	Dragon		Dragon	Rock Head	None	Sheer Force
0408		Cranidos	Rock		Rock	Mold Breaker	None	Sheer Force
0409		Rampardos	Rock		Rock	Mold Breaker	None	Sheer Force
0532		Timburr	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	Sheer Force	Iron Fist
0533		Gurdurr	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	Sheer Force	Iron Fist
0534		Conkeldurr	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	Sheer Force	Iron Fist
0555		Darmanitan	Fire		Fire	Sheer Force	None	Zen Mode
0621		Druddigon	Dragon		Dragon	Rough Skin	Sheer Force	Mold Breaker
0627		Rufflet	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Sheer Force	Hustle
0628		Braviary	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Sheer Force	Defiant
0645		Landorus	Ground	Flying	Sand Force	None	Sheer Force
0733		Toucannon	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Skill Link	Sheer Force
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 the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

• In A Cold Reception, Drayden's Druddigon was mentioned to have Sheer Force as its Ability.
• In volume 44, Black's Brav was revealed to have Sheer Force as his Ability.

Trivia

• When this Ability was first revealed in CoroCoro Comic, it was named ちからづく (Invigorate) in Japanese. In the games, it is named ちからずく (Sheer Force) in Japanese. Both have the same pronunciation, but different spelling.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 強行 Kèuhnghàahng * 用力 Yuhnglihk * Mandarin 強行 / 强行 Qiángxíng * 用力 Yònglì * French Sans Limite German Rohe Gewalt Italian Forzabruta Korean 우격다짐 Ugyeokdajim Portuguese Força Absoluta Spanish Potencia Bruta* Pot. Bruta* Vietnamese Toàn Lực

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