Curious Medicine (Ability)

Curious Medicine	きみょうなくすり
	Curious Medicine
Flavor text Generation VIII When the Pokémon enters a battle, it scatters medicine from its shell, which removes all stat changes from allies. Generation IX When the Pokémon enters a battle, it scatters medicine from its shell, which removes all stat changes from allies. Champions When the Pokémon enters a battle, it removes all stat changes from its allies.

Curious Medicine (Japanese: きみょうなくすり Curious Medicine) is an Ability introduced during Generation VIII, in The Crown Tundra. It is the signature Ability of Galarian Slowking.

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• Effect
  • In battle
  • Outside of battle
• Pokémon with Curious Medicine
• Trivia
• In other languages

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Effect

In battle

When a Pokémon with this Ability enters the battle, stat stages of ally Pokémon are reset to 0.

Outside of battle

Curious Medicine has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Curious Medicine

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0199		Slowking Galarian Form	Poison	Psychic	Curious Medicine	Own Tempo	Regenerator
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

• Due to a glitch, Galarian Slowking transferred from Pokémon GO to Pokémon HOME using the GO Transporter gained Unseen Fist from June 11 to December 14, 2022. This glitch was subsequently resolved and any Slowking in or deposited into HOME with Unseen Fist will have their Ability corrected to Curious Medicine.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	怪藥 Gwaai Yeuhk
	Mandarin	怪藥/怪药 Guài Yào
French		Breuvage Suspect
German		Kuriose Arznei
Italian		Stranofarmaco
Korean		기묘한약 Gimyohan Yak
Russian		Любопытное Зелье
Spanish		Medicina Extraña

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.