Oblivious (Ability)

This article is about the Ability that prevents infatuation. For the Ability with a synonymous meaning, see Unaware (Ability).

Oblivious	どんかん
	Thickheaded
Flavor text Generation III Prevents attraction. Generation IV Prevents the Pokémon from becoming infatuated.DPPt Prevents it from becoming infatuated.HGSS Generation V Prevents it from becoming infatuated. Generation VI Keeps the Pokémon from being infatuated or falling for taunts. Generation VII The Pokémon is oblivious, and that keeps it from being infatuated or falling for taunts. Generation VIII The Pokémon is oblivious, and that keeps it from being infatuated or falling for taunts. Generation IX The Pokémon is oblivious, keeping it from being infatuated, falling for taunts, or being affected by Intimidate.

Oblivious (Japanese: どんかん Thickheaded) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

A Pokémon with Oblivious cannot be affected by infatuation or by Captivate.

If an infatuated Pokémon gains the Ability in battle (such as from Skill Swap), it will be cured of infatuation.

If the Pokémon with this Ability is holding a Destiny Knot, the Destiny Knot will be activated before Oblivious cures the Pokémon of infatuation.

Generation III

Oblivious has no effect against Intimidate or Taunt.

Generation IV

If the Pokémon with this Ability is infatuated and is holding a Mental Herb, Oblivious will cure the Pokémon of infatuation before the Mental Herb has a chance to be consumed.

Generation V

If the Pokémon with this Ability is infatuated and is holding a Mental Herb, the Mental Herb will be consumed before Oblivious cures the Pokémon of infatuation.

Generation VI to VII

Oblivious now prevents the Pokémon from being afflicted by Taunt.

If a taunted Pokémon gains the Ability in battle (such as from Skill Swap), it will be cured of taunting. If a Pokémon with Oblivious is taunted by a Pokémon with an Ability like Mold Breaker, the taunting will take effect, but it will then be cured once the Pokémon regains Oblivious.

If the Pokémon is holding a Mental Herb, it will be consumed before Oblivious cures the Pokémon of the Taunt.

Generation VIII onward

Oblivious now also blocks Intimidate.

Outside of battle

Oblivious has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Oblivious

#	Pokémon	Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
	Slowpoke	Water	Psychic	Oblivious	Own Tempo	Regenerator
	Slowbro	Water	Psychic	Oblivious	Own Tempo	Regenerator
	Lickitung	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Oblivious	Cloud Nine
	Jynx	Ice	Psychic	Oblivious	Forewarn	Dry Skin
	Slowking	Water	Psychic	Oblivious	Own Tempo	Regenerator
	Swinub	Ice	Ground	Oblivious	Snow Cloak	Thick Fat
	Piloswine	Ice	Ground	Oblivious	Snow Cloak	Thick Fat
	Smoochum	Ice	Psychic	Oblivious	Forewarn	Hydration
	Illumise	Bug		Bug	Oblivious	Tinted Lens	Prankster
	Wailmer	Water		Water	Water Veil	Oblivious	Pressure
	Wailord	Water		Water	Water Veil	Oblivious	Pressure
	Numel	Fire	Ground	Oblivious	Simple	Own Tempo
	Barboach	Water	Ground	Oblivious	Anticipation	Hydration
	Whiscash	Water	Ground	Oblivious	Anticipation	Hydration
	Feebas	Water		Water	Swift Swim	Oblivious	Adaptability
	Spheal	Ice	Water	Thick Fat	Ice Body	Oblivious
	Sealeo	Ice	Water	Thick Fat	Ice Body	Oblivious
	Walrein	Ice	Water	Thick Fat	Ice Body	Oblivious
	Lickilicky	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Oblivious	Cloud Nine
	Mamoswine	Ice	Ground	Oblivious	Snow Cloak	Thick Fat
	Salandit	Poison	Fire	Corrosion	None	Oblivious
	Salazzle	Poison	Fire	Corrosion	None	Oblivious
	Bounsweet	Grass		Grass	Leaf Guard	Oblivious	Sweet Veil
	Steenee	Grass		Grass	Leaf Guard	Oblivious	Sweet Veil
	Dondozo	Water		Water	Unaware	Oblivious	Water Veil
Please note that this is only 100% accurate to Generation IX 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 or later. For Generation VII games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VIII or later. For Generation VIII games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation IX or later.

• Before Generation VI, Feebas did not have Oblivious.

In other games

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, Oblivious is Slowbro's, as well as Bounsweet's and Steenee's Ability.

Slowbro's has the user store up lost HP for a short time; when the user hits an opposing Pokémon with a move, the user restores some of its HP using the stored up HP, and it also decreases the opposing Pokémon's Special Defense by 4% (stacking up to 20%) for a short time.

Bounsweet's and Steenee's makes hindrances last shorter. Upon evolving, this becomes Queenly Majesty.

Description

Games Description MDRB Prevents infatuation. MDTDS Protects the Pokémon from infatuation. BSL メロメロじょうたいに ならない MDGtI Prevents the Infatuated status and protects the Pokémon from the move Captivate.* The Pokémon isn't affected by the Infatuated status condition. Captivate doesn't even work on it!* SMD The Pokémon won't get infatuated. Captivate and Taunt don't work on it, either! MDRTDX The Pokémon won't get infatuated. Captivate and Taunt don't work on it, either.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• Crystal's Smoochum, Chumee, Sapphire's Wailord, Lorry, and Pryce's Swinub are revealed to have Oblivious as their Ability.

Trivia

• This Ability originated as a TCG Poké-BODY.
• Due to a glitch in Generation IV, If a Pokémon has a non-volatile status condition, if its confusion or infatuation is cured by Own Tempo or Oblivious, the status condition icon will disappear from the HP bar while that Pokémon is in battle. The status condition icon is still displayed in the party menu; if the Pokémon is switched out, the status condition icon will appear again when it is switched back in.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 遲鈍 Chìhdeuhn Mandarin 遲鈍 / 迟钝 Chídùn French Benêt German Dösigkeit Italian Indifferenza Korean 둔감 Dungam Brazilian Portuguese Insensível Russian Забывчивость Zabyvchivost' Spanish Despiste

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