Adaptability (Ability)

Adaptability	てきおうりょく
	Adaptability
Flavor text Generation IV Powers up moves of the same type. Generation V Powers up moves of the same type. Generation VI Powers up moves of the same type as the Pokémon. Generation VII Powers up moves of the same type as the Pokémon. Generation VIII Powers up moves of the same type as the Pokémon. Generation IX Powers up moves of the same type as the Pokémon. Champions Boosts the power of moves of the same type as the Pokémon by 100% instead of 50%.

Adaptability (Japanese: てきおうりょく Adaptability) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV.

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• Effect
  • In battle
  • Outside of battle
• Pokémon with Adaptability
• In other games
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
  • Pokémon UNITE
  • Description
• In the manga
  • Pokémon Adventures
• Trivia
• In other languages

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Effect

In battle

Adaptability increases STAB of a Pokémon with this Ability from 1.5 to 2.

When a Pokémon with Adaptability is Terastallized, Adaptability only affects moves of the Tera Type. If the Pokémon's Tera Type is one of its original types, its STAB is 2.25; otherwise, it's 2.

Stellar-type moves are unaffected by Adaptability.

Outside of battle

Adaptability has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Adaptability

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0015		Beedrill Mega Beedrill	Bug	Poison	Adaptability	None	None
0133		Eevee	Normal		Normal	Run Away	AdaptabilityGen IV+	Anticipation
0341		Corphish	Water		Water	Hyper Cutter	Shell Armor	Adaptability
0342		Crawdaunt	Water	Dark	Hyper Cutter	Shell Armor	Adaptability
0349		Feebas	Water		Water	Swift Swim	ObliviousGen VI+	Adaptability
0448		Lucario Mega Lucario	Fighting	Steel	Adaptability	None	None
0474		Porygon-Z	Normal		Normal	Adaptability	Download	Analytic
0550		Basculin Red-Striped Form	Water		Water	Reckless	Adaptability	Mold Breaker
0550		Basculin Blue-Striped Form	Water		Water	Rock Head	Adaptability	Mold Breaker
0550		Basculin White-Striped Form	Water		Water	Rattled	Adaptability	Mold Breaker
0690		Skrelp	Poison	Water	Poison Point	Poison Touch	Adaptability
0691		Dragalge	Poison	Dragon	Poison Point	Poison Touch	Adaptability
0734		Yungoos	Normal		Normal	Stakeout	Strong Jaw	Adaptability
0735		Gumshoos	Normal		Normal	Stakeout	Strong Jaw	Adaptability
0902		Basculegion	Water	Ghost	Swift SwimGen IX+	Adaptability	Mold Breaker
0970		Glimmora Mega Glimmora	Rock	Poison	Adaptability	None	None
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

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness, and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, Adaptability increases STAB from 1.5× to 2×.

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity and Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, the boost is instead from 1.2× to 1.5×.

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, Adaptability is the Ability of an Eevee that will evolve into an Sylveon. It increases the user's Special Attack by 5% for 1.5s, when it deals or receives damage, stacking up to 4 times. This becomes Pixilate upon evolving.

Description

Games Description MDTDS Boosts the power of the Pokémon's moves that match its type. BSL じぶんと わざのタイプが あっているときの ダメージが おおきい MDGtI Increases the power of moves that are the same type as the Pokémon.* The power of moves that are the same type as the Pokémon goes up.* SMD The power of moves that are the same type as the Pokémon goes up. MDRTDX This Ability increases the power of moves that are the same type as this Pokémon.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• Red's Eevee, Vee, is revealed to have Adaptability as his Ability.

Trivia

• Adaptability is the first Ability in alphabetical order.
• Many Pokémon with Adaptability as an Ability appear to be based on invasive species:
  • Beedrill (and by extension Mega Beedrill) might be based on an Asian giant hornet, which is native to East Asia, but invasive elsewhere.
  • Corphish and Crawdaunt may be based on the red swamp crayfish, which is native to North America, but invasive in other countries such as Japan (including Kyushu which Hoenn is based on)
  • Feebas, Basculin, and Basculegion appear to be based on the largemouth bass, which is native to eastern North America, but invasive elsewhere.
  • Skrelp and Dragalge may draw inspiration from multiple invasive algae species, including Dasysiphonia japonica, which causes toxic algal blooms that can kill native fish species.
  • Yungoos and Gumshoos appear to be based on mongooses, which were introduced to Hawaii (the inspiration for the Alola region) and other island ecosystems mostly to fight off invasive rats (referencing its rivalry with Alolan Rattata and Raticate).
  • Glimmora (and by extension Mega Glimmora) might be loosely based on the blue passionflower, which is native to South America, but was introduced to Spain (the inspiration for the Paldea region) and now grows in the wild there.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	適應力 Sīkyinglihk
	Mandarin	適應力 / 适应力 Shìyìnglì
French		Adaptabilité
German		Anpassung
Greek		Προσαρμογή Prosarmogí
Italian		Adattabilità
Korean		적응력 Jeok'eungryeok
Brazilian Portuguese		Adaptabilidade
Spanish		Adaptable
Turkish		Uyumluluk
Vietnamese		Thích Ứng

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