Technician (Ability)
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Technician (Japanese: テクニシャン Technician) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV.
Effect
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In battle
Technician increases the power of moves which have a power of 60 or less by 50%.
For moves with variable power, Technician will only apply if the power is 60 or less when used. For example, Low Kick and Grass Knot will only get a Technician boost if the target's weight is 110.0 lbs. (49.9 kg) or less.
Generation IV
The effect does not apply to confusion damage, which remains at a power of 40. However, if a Pokémon hurts itself in confusion induced due to disobedience, the power is increased to 60.
Despite Struggle having a base power of 60 or less, and Beat Up having a base power of 10 for each strike, both moves are not boosted by Technician in Generation IV.
Technician applies after the base power modifiers for double base power moves (such as Gust and Pursuit), Charge, and Helping Hand, so if any of those cause a move's base power to exceed 60, Technician's boost will not apply.
Generation V onwards
Technician no longer applies for any means of confusion damage, including the one induced by disobedience.
Struggle and Beat Up are now boosted by Technician.
Technician no longer takes into account base power modifiers, but does consider variable base power (e.g. Rollout, Ice Ball, Gust, Acrobatics), which must be 60 or less to be boosted by Technician.
Affected moves
The table below lists the moves affected by Technician, as well as the Pokémon that can have Technician and learn those moves.
Although the following moves are affected by the Ability, they can be only learned by Smeargle by using Sketch (with exception of Struggle, Chatter, and Generation VIII moves).
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Outside of battle
Technician has no effect outside of battle.
Pokémon with Technician
# | Pokémon | Types | First Ability | Second Ability | Hidden Ability | ||
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0052 | Meowth |
Normal | Pickup | TechnicianGen IV+ | Unnerve | ||
0052 | Meowth Alolan Form |
Dark | Pickup | Technician | Rattled | ||
0053 | Persian |
Normal | Limber | TechnicianGen IV+ | Unnerve | ||
0053 | Persian Alolan Form |
Dark | Fur Coat | Technician | Rattled | ||
0122 | Mr. Mime |
Psychic | Fairy | Soundproof | FilterGen IV+ | Technician | |
0123 | Scyther |
Bug | Flying | Swarm | TechnicianGen IV+ | Steadfast | |
0212 | Scizor |
Bug | Steel | Swarm | TechnicianGen IV+ | Light Metal | |
0212 | Scizor Mega Scizor |
Bug | Steel | Technician | None | None | |
0235 | Smeargle |
Normal | Own Tempo | TechnicianGen IV+ | Moody | ||
0237 | Hitmontop |
Fighting | Intimidate | TechnicianGen IV+ | Steadfast | ||
0286 | Breloom |
Grass | Fighting | Effect Spore | Poison HealGen IV+ | Technician | |
0402 | Kricketune |
Bug | Swarm | None | Technician | ||
0407 | Roserade |
Grass | Poison | Natural Cure | Poison Point | Technician | |
0424 | Ambipom |
Normal | Technician | Pickup | Skill Link | ||
0439 | Mime Jr. |
Psychic | Fairy | Soundproof | Filter | Technician | |
0572 | Minccino |
Normal | Cute Charm | Technician | Skill Link | ||
0573 | Cinccino |
Normal | Cute Charm | Technician | Skill Link | ||
0802 | Marshadow |
Fighting | Ghost | Technician | None | None | |
0849 | Toxtricity Amped Form |
Electric | Poison | Punk Rock | Plus | Technician | |
0849 | Toxtricity Low Key Form |
Electric | Poison | Punk Rock | Minus | Technician | |
0852 | Clobbopus |
Fighting | Limber | None | Technician | ||
0853 | Grapploct |
Fighting | Limber | None | Technician | ||
0925 | Maushold |
Normal | Friend Guard | Cheek Pouch | Technician | ||
1016 | Fezandipiti |
Poison | Fairy | Toxic Chain | None | Technician | |
Please note that Abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later.
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In other games
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
In Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, Technician increases damage of moves whose base power is 4 or lower, taking Ginseng and Space Globe boosts into account, by 50%.
The table below lists the moves affected by Technician in these games, as well as the Pokémon that have Technician and learn those moves.
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Although the following moves are affected by the Ability, they can be only learned by Smeargle who has Sketched them.
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Description
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In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
- In volume 42, Gold's Ambipom, Aibo, was revealed to have Technician as his Ability.
- Sun's Alolan Meowth, Cent, was revealed to have Technician as his Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.
- Chuck's Hitmontop and Geoff's Cinccino were revealed to have Technician as their Ability.
In other languages
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