Aerilate (Ability)

Aerilate	スカイスキン
	Sky Skin
Flavor text Generation III Currently unknown Generation IV Currently unknown Generation V Currently unknown Generation VI Normal-type moves become Flying-type moves. Generation VII Normal-type moves become Flying-type moves. The power of those moves is boosted a little.

Aerilate (Japanese: スカイスキン Sky Skin) is an Ability introduced in Generation VI. Prior to Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, it was the signature Ability of Mega Pinsir. All Pokémon that have this Ability are Flying-type Mega Evolutions.

Effect

In battle

Generation VI

Aerilate causes all Normal-type moves used by the Pokémon to become Flying-type and receive a 30% power boost.

Generation VII

Affected moves now receive a 20% power boost.

Outside of battle

Aerilate has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Aerilate

#	Pokémon	Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
	Pinsir Mega Pinsir	Bug	Flying	Aerilate	None	None
	Salamence Mega Salamence	Dragon	Flying	Aerilate	None	None
Please note that this is only 100% accurate to Generation VII games. For Generation III games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation IV or later and Hidden Abilities. For Generation IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities. For Generation V games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VI or later. For Generation VI games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VII.

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

	Mega Salamence
The user's Normal-type attacks become Flying-type.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
Salamence	Mega Salamence's Normal-type attacks turn into Flying-type attacks.
Zinnia's Salamence	Omega Alpha Adventure 3		Debut

• In the Japan Mini-volume 6 for the X & Y chapter, X's Rute was revealed to have Aerilate as its Ability when Mega Evolved.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 飛行皮膚 Fēihàhng Pèihfū * 天空皮膚 Tīnhūng Pèihfū * Mandarin 飛行皮膚 / 飞行皮肤 Fēixíng Pífū French Peau Céleste German Zenithaut Italian Pellecielo Korean 스카이스킨 Sky Skin Spanish Piel Celeste Vietnamese Da Trời

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