Tangled Feet (Ability)

Tangled Feet (Japanese: ちどりあし Tottering Steps) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

In battle

While a Pokémon with this Ability is confused, moves targeting it have their accuracy halved.

Outside of battle

Tangled Feet has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Tangled Feet

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0016		Pidgey	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Gen IV+	Big Pecks
0017		Pidgeotto	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Gen IV+	Big Pecks
0018		Pidgeot	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Gen IV+	Big Pecks
0084		Doduo	Normal	Flying	Run Away	Early Bird
0085		Dodrio	Normal	Flying	Run Away	Early Bird
0327		Spinda	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Gen IV+	Contrary
0441		Chatot	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye		Big Pecks
0866		Mr. Rime	Ice	Psychic		Screen Cleaner	Ice Body
0973		Flamigo	Flying	Fighting	Scrappy		Costar
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 Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky, Tangled Feet increases evasion by three stages when active.

Description

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• In volume 40, Pearl's Chatot, Chatler, was revealed to have Tangled Feet as his Ability.

In the TCG

Tangled Feet debuted as an Ability in the Pokémon Trading Card Game with Spinda from the Paradox Rift expansion. It allows the player to flip a coin if the Pokémon with this Ability is Confused and is about to receive damage from an attack from the opponent's Pokémon; if heads, the damage is prevented.

The following is a list of Pokémon cards with the Tangled Feet Ability.

Pokémon cards with Tangled Feet Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	Mark	English Expansion		Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion		Rarity	#
Spinda			Paradox Rift			151/182	Ancient Roar			058/066

Trivia

• Tangled Feet is the first Generation IV Ability in index number order.
• Prior to Generation VIII, all Pokémon with this Ability were Normal-type and all except Spinda were Flying-type.
  • Mr. Rime is the only Pokémon that can have this ability but is not Normal or Flying type.

In other languages

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.