Sharpness (Ability)

Sharpness	きれあじ
	Sharpness
Flavor text Generation IX Powers up slicing moves. Champions Boosts the power of the Pokémon's slicing moves by 50%.

Sharpness (Japanese: きれあじ Sharpness) is an Ability introduced in Generation IX.

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• Effect
  • In battle
    • Affected moves
  • Outside of battle
• Pokémon with Sharpness
• Trivia
• In other languages

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Effect

In battle

Sharpness increases the power of the Pokémon’s slicing moves by 50%.

Affected moves

The table below lists the moves affected by Sharpness, as well as the Pokémon that can have Sharpness and learn those moves.

Move Type Cat. Power and Boost Learned by Aerial Ace  Flying  Physical 60 90 Air Cutter  Flying  Special 60 90 Air Slash  Flying  Special 75 112.5 Aqua Cutter  Water  Physical 70 105 Ceaseless Edge  Dark  Physical 65 97.5 Fury Cutter  Bug  Physical 40 60 Leaf Blade  Grass  Physical 90 135 Night Slash  Dark  Physical 70 105 Psycho Cut  Psychic  Physical 70 105 Razor Shell  Water  Physical 75 112.5 Sacred Sword  Fighting  Physical 90 135 Shadow Claw*  Ghost  Physical 70 105 Slash  Normal  Physical 70 105 Solar Blade  Grass  Physical 125 187.5 Stone Axe  Rock  Physical 65 97.5 X-Scissor  Bug  Physical 80 120

Although the following moves are affected by the Ability, they currently cannot be learned by any Pokémon with Sharpness. They may, however, be called via Metronome, Copycat, or Mimic, or be used by a Pokémon that gained Sharpness by an Ability like Trace or Receiver or a move such as Skill Swap or Role Play.

Move Type Cat. Power and Boost Behemoth Blade  Steel  Physical 100 150 Bitter Blade  Fire  Physical 90 135 Cross Poison  Poison  Physical 70 105 Crush Claw*  Normal  Physical 75 112.5 Cut  Normal  Physical 50 75 Dire Claw*  Poison  Physical 80 120 Dragon Claw*  Dragon  Physical 80 120 Kowtow Cleave  Dark  Physical 85 127.5 Metal Claw*  Steel  Physical 50 75 Mighty Cleave  Rock  Physical 95 142.5 Population Bomb  Normal  Physical 20 30 Psyblade  Psychic  Physical 80 120 Razor Leaf  Grass  Physical 55 82.5 Secret Sword  Fighting  Special 85 127.5 Tachyon Cutter  Steel  Special 50 75

Outside of battle

Sharpness has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Sharpness

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0475		Gallade	Psychic	Fighting	Steadfast	SharpnessGen IX+	Justified
0503		Samurott Hisuian Form	Water	Dark	Torrent	None	SharpnessGen IX+
0900		Kleavor	Bug	Rock	Swarm	Sheer Force	SharpnessGen IX+
0976		Veluza	Water	Psychic	Mold Breaker	None	Sharpness
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 Pokémon Legends: Arceus' internal code, Hisuian Samurott's Hidden Ability is Shell Armor instead of Sharpness, and Kleavor's Hidden Ability is Steadfast instead of Sharpness.

Trivia

• Due to their English names differing from their Japanese names, the English names of several slicing moves obscure why they are categorized as such.
  • Aerial Ace's Japanese name is つばめがえし Swallow Return, referring to a sword technique.
  • Population Bomb's name in Japanese is ネズミざん Nezumizan, which can be read as both ねずみ算 nezumizan (to multiply like mice; literally "mouse mathematics", a common arithmetic problem) and ねずみ斬 nezumizan (mouse cut).

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	鋒銳 Fūngyeui
	Mandarin	鋒銳 / 锋锐 Fēngruì
French		Incisif
German		Scharfkantig
Italian		Affilama
Korean		예리함 Yeriham
Spanish		Cortante
Vietnamese		Sắc Bén

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.