Truant (Ability)

Truant (Japanese: なまけ Lazy) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Only three Pokémon have this ability, two of which are in the same evolutionary line.

Effect

In battle

Truant causes the user to only move every other turn. Moves which require a turn to charge, such as SolarBeam, will not work because the turn in which the move is executed is the same turn in which the Pokémon will be truant. If a Pokémon with Truant uses a move such as Hyper Beam, which recharges after use, then Truant will take effect during the turn that would normally be used recharging, however, the Pokémon still can not switch out. Worry Seed will not work on Pokémon with this ability.

Outside of battle

Truant has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

The Pokémon will instead gain the Paused status whenever a special move or a Wonder Orb is used.

Pokémon with Truant

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0287		Slakoth	Normal		Normal	Truant	None	None
0289		Slaking	Normal		Normal	Truant	None	None
0632	Aianto	Aianto	Bug	Steel	Swarm	Hustle	Truant
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 languages

• French: Absentéisme
• German: Schnarchnase
• Italian: Pigrone
• Korean: 게으름 Geeureum
• Spanish: Ausente

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.