Adaptability (Ability)

Adaptability

てきおうりょく

Adaptability

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Generation IV
Powers up moves of the same type.

Generation V
Powers up moves of the same type.

Generation VI
Powers up moves of the same type as the Pokémon.

Generation VII
Powers up moves of the same type as the Pokémon.

Generation VIII
Powers up moves of the same type as the Pokémon.

Generation IX
Powers up moves of the same type as the Pokémon.

Adaptability (Japanese: てきおうりょく Adaptability) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

In battle

Adaptability increases STAB of a Pokémon with this Ability from 1.5 to 2.

When a Pokémon with Adaptability is Terastallized, Adaptability only affects moves of the Tera Type. If the Pokémon's Tera Type is one of its original types, its STAB is 2.25; otherwise, it's 2.

Stellar-type moves are unaffected by Adaptability.

Outside of battle

Adaptability has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Adaptability

#		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0015	Beedrill Mega Beedrill	Bug	Poison		None	None
0133	Eevee	Normal		Normal	Run Away	^{Gen IV+}	Anticipation
0341	Corphish	Water		Water	Hyper Cutter	Shell Armor
0342	Crawdaunt	Water	Dark	Hyper Cutter	Shell Armor
0349	Feebas	Water		Water	Swift Swim	Oblivious^{Gen VI+}
0448	Lucario Mega Lucario	Fighting	Steel		None	None
0474	Porygon-Z	Normal		Normal		Download	Analytic
0550	Basculin Red-Striped Form	Water		Water	Reckless		Mold Breaker
0550	Basculin Blue-Striped Form	Water		Water	Rock Head		Mold Breaker
0550	Basculin White-Striped Form	Water		Water	Rattled		Mold Breaker
0690	Skrelp	Poison	Water	Poison Point	Poison Touch
0691	Dragalge	Poison	Dragon	Poison Point	Poison Touch
0734	Yungoos	Normal		Normal	Stakeout	Strong Jaw
0735	Gumshoos	Normal		Normal	Stakeout	Strong Jaw
0902	Basculegion	Water	Ghost	Swift Swim^{Gen IX+}		Mold Breaker
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 other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness, and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, Adaptability increases STAB from 1.5× to 2×.

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity and Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, the boost is instead from 1.2× to 1.5×.

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, Adaptability is the Ability of an Eevee that will evolve into an Sylveon. It increases the user's Special Attack by 5% for 1.5s, when it deals or receives damage, stacking up to 4 times. This becomes Pixilate upon evolving.

Description

Games	Description
MDTD S	Boosts the power of the Pokémon's moves that match its type.
BSL	じぶんとわざのタイプがあっているときのダメージがおおきい
MDGtI	Increases the power of moves that are the same type as the Pokémon.* The power of moves that are the same type as the Pokémon goes up.*
SMD	The power of moves that are the same type as the Pokémon goes up.
MDRTDX	This Ability increases the power of moves that are the same type as this Pokémon.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Red's Eevee, Vee, is revealed to have Adaptability as his Ability.

Trivia

Adaptability is the first Ability in alphabetical order.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	適應力 Sīkyinglihk
Chinese	Mandarin	適應力 / 适应力 Shìyìnglì
French		Adaptabilité
German		Anpassung
Greek		Προσαρμογή Prosarmogí
Italian		Adattabilità
Korean		적응력 Jeok'eungryeok
Brazilian Portuguese		Adaptabilidade
Spanish		Adaptable
Turkish		Uyumluluk
Vietnamese		Thích Ứng

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.