Abilities Not Yet Seen In The Anime...How would they work?

[Bandit Keith]

The Following abilities have not been seen...
Adaptability
Aftermath
Air Lock
Analytic
Anger Point
Battle Armor
Big Pecks
Clear Body
Cloud Nine
Compoundeyes
Contrary
Damp
Defeatist
Defiant
Download
Dry Skin
Early Bird
Effect Spore
Filter
Flare Boost
Flower Gift
Forewarn
Friend Guard
Frisk
Harvest
Healer
Heavy Metal
Honey Gather
Huge Power
Hustle
Hydration
Hyper Cutter
Ice Body
Immunity
Imposter
Infiltrator
Inner Focus
Insomnia
Intimidate
Iron Barbs
Iron Fist
Justified
Keen Eye
Klutz
Leaf Guard
Light Metal
Limber
Liquid Ooze
Magic Bounce
Magic Guard
Magma Armor
Magnet Pull
Marvel Scale
Minus
Moody
Moxie
Multiscale
Mummy
Natural Cure
No Guard
Normalize
Oblivious
Overcoat
Own Tempo
Pickpocket
Plus
Poison Heal
Poison Touch
Prankster
Pressure
Pure Power
Quick Feet
Rain Dish
Rattled
Reckless
Regenerator
Rivalry
Run Away
Sand Force
Sand Rush
Sand Stream
Sand Veil
Sap Sipper
Scrappy
Serene Grace
Shadow Tag
Shed Skin
Sheer Force
Shell Armor
Shield Dust
Simple
Skill Link
Slow Start
Sniper
Snow Warning
Solar Power
Stall
Steadfast
Sticky Hold
Storm Drain
Suction Cups
Synchronize
Tangled Feet
Technician
Telepathy
Teravolt
Tinted Lens
Toxic Boost
Trace
Truant
Turboblaze
Unaware
Unburden
Unnerve
Victory Star
Volt Absorb
Weak Armor
White Smoke
Wonder Skin

What would they look like/how would they work in the anime?

 

[Moe]

I want to see a Pokemon just start eating a berry mid battle.

A main problem is that abilities often rely on aspects of the game that don't convert well to the anime - turn, stats and HP based moves are very hard to demonstrate, and even then whether they get put down to specifically being abilities or just as a natural result. For example Ash's Pikachu has used the same tactic of 'Volt Absorb' in the past when it wasn't its ability, so how would you know if another Pokemon had that as an ability or just a tactic in battle.

To avoid that I think we've only really seen the abilities that can help the storyline along - static is a good way of turning a match while still seeming slightly legit. Likewise, the use of Blaze with Ash's Chimchar as being far more than just a slight boost in power, shows that the anime can adapt these abilities to be more than simply trying to level things out in the games. I suppose you could also suggest that perhaps Iris' Axew has Rivalry as its ability, but that manifests as part of its bromance with Scraggy rather than an in battle example.

So it's hard to imagine what they look like when I can't imagine half that list being possible at all. The weather ones are probably the easiest to achieve - I'd love to see Misty's Psyduck return and show off Cloud Nine by walking out bemused at the concept of rain, tilting its head, letting out a "Psy", and having all the rain suddenly disappear.

 

[Bandit Keith]

What I meant was:How would you animate/have them work in the anime?