Truant (Ability)
Truant | なまけ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Truant (Japanese: なまけ Lazy) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Prior to Generation V and in Generation IX, it is the signature Ability of Slakoth and Slaking.
Effect
In battle
Every second turn, a Pokémon with Truant cannot use a move due to loafing around, such that the Pokémon can move on its first turn but not its second turn. Switching out or gaining the Ability Truant resets the turn count for Truant. Using an item does not count as a turn for the purposes of Truant. In Generation V, Truant is reset by sleep and a Pokémon with Truant will always be able to attack on the turn it wakes up. In Generation III, using a healing item counts as a turn for Truant.
Moves with a charging turn, such as Fly, will not work (unless the user is holding a Power Herb), because the turn in which the move would be executed is the same turn in which the Pokémon will be truant.
If a Pokémon with Truant uses a move that forces it to recharge next turn (such as Hyper Beam), then it will loaf around and recharge during the same turn. Because of the recharge, this Pokémon will be unable to use items or switch out on this turn.
If a Pokémon gains Truant after it calls upon Mega Evolution, Ultra Burst, or Dynamax at the beginning of a turn, but before it moves that turn, Truant will activate on its first attempt to move.
Truant cannot be overwritten by Simple Beam, Worry Seed, or Entrainment, but it can be overwritten by Skill Swap, Role Play, Doodle, or Mummy, or disabled with Gastro Acid or Neutralizing Gas.
If a Pokémon with Truant uses a move and is then Instructed to use the move again, the Pokémon will loaf around instead of executing that move. Then, in the next turn, the Pokémon with Truant will be able to use a move normally.
If a Pokémon with Truant is sent out following an ally Pokémon fainting to end-of-turn damage, Truant will activate on its first attempt to move.
Encore will force a Pokémon with Truant to be locked into using the last move used.
Outside of battle
Truant has no effect outside of battle.
Pokémon with Truant
# | Pokémon | Types | First Ability | Second Ability | Hidden Ability | ||
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Slakoth |
Normal | Truant | None | None | |
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Slaking |
Normal | Truant | None | None | |
0632 | ![]() |
Durant |
Bug | Steel | Swarm | Hustle | Truant |
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 Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, and the Mystery Dungeon (WiiWare) games, when a Pokémon with this Ability uses a move or a Wonder Orb, the Pokémon gains the Paused status which prevents the Pokémon from taking any action the next turn.
In Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, Truant instead causes the truant status condition for one turn. Unlike the previous Paused status, the truant status only prevents the Pokémon from using moves and allows the use of items. Truant additionally can inflict the Yawning status condition on all surrounding enemies when the Pokémon with the Ability Truant is asleep. The Truant Wand allows the user to change any Pokémon's Ability to Truant, including bosses.
Description
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In the anime
The Pokémon occasionally becomes too lazy to attack during battle. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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User | First Used In | Notes | |
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Slaking occasionally becomes too lazy to attack during battle. | ||
A Trainer's Slaking | The Journalist from Another Region! | Debut | |
Sawyer's Slaking | Analysis Versus Passion! | None |
In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
The Pokémon occasionally becomes too lazy to attack during battle. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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User | First Chapter Used In | Notes | |
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Slaking occasionally becomes too lazy to attack during battle. | ||
Norman's Slaking | Rayquaza Redemption I | Debut |
- In Rayquaza Redemption I, Norman's Spinda gained Truant by using Skill Swap on his Slaking. His two Slakoth also have the Ability.
- The rental Slaking that Emerald used during his Battle Factory challenge was revealed to have Truant as its Ability.
Pokémon Pocket Monsters
The user does nothing for awhile. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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User | First Chapter Used In | Notes | |
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Slakoth falls asleep and stays that way for awhile. Sometimes, it would lie on the ground with its eyes open without doing anything. | ||
Norman's Slakoth | There's Someone More Important Than Clefairy?! | Debut |
In other languages
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