what's your favorite ability in pokemon

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I says on tin what your favorite ability in the main games
Mine pressure whats yours its fine if you have 2 or more
 
The opposing Haxorus breaks the mold!

Also Speed Boost for reasons.

edit; and Mummy. It's hilarious for your foe to lose their amazing ability, only for you to forget that they had Mummy and then you end up with it and so on.
 
Abilities like Guts are useful. I also believe there's another ability that boosts the attack if the Pokemon is in red zone HP. Can't remember what it's called, but I love abilities like that.
 
Shadow Tag is always extremely useful to prevent switching out.
 
I would say intimidate, I very much enjoy throwing something out to lower attack or even neutralise an attack gain after dragon dance or something.
 
I love the status-inducers: Flame Body, Static, Poison Point, Poison Touch. Sturdy is also a favorite (except on opponents). I also have a soft spot for Ice Body, even though I never set it up.

I wish they'd make a freeze variation of Flame Body - maybe not a 30% chance, 10%?
 
Magic bounce has to be my absolute favourite. Trying to poison me, are you? I wouldn't count on it! Ahahahaha!

...Okay I might have got a bit carried away there...

I also really like illusion. Very entertaining to see the enemy hit me not very effectively when they expected to knock me out. I like flash fire too. Not only are you immune to fire, but you also become better at using it when hit by it. Basically I just like really sneaky things.
 
I like the levitate ability. It's useful against ground moves in general, but it gets more satisfying when used to nullify one unsuspectingly from a non-ground type, right upon switch-in.
 
Moxie. That ability is just stupidly broken, it's hilarious. Three KO's in and you're practically unstoppable. I've swept entire teams with my Scrafty because of Moxie.

"Keep crying, baby! Your tears only make me stronger!"
 
I really love Yveltal's ability, Dark Aura, simply because the Dark-type is my second favorite type, and the effect is really nice. I wish it was available to other pokémon though.

Other than exclusives I really like Shed Skin. It's extremely useful pretty much everywhere, and it keeps me from having to waste a turn healing.
 
I really like Protean at the moment. It's funny to see people trip over themselves trying to guess what type Greninja will be next, the power boost doesn't hurt either.

I've also had a long love for mold breaker and magic guard. Mold breaker smacks down levitate users and helps ev train on geodudes while magic guard has so many uses. Free life orb, immunity to bad weather, functional immunity to poison+burn, and most entry hazards? Yes please.

Oh and adaptability too. Thank you very much Mega Lucario.
 
Harvest because I love exploiting it lol.
Runner Up: Prankster. I enjoy annoying my opponents.
 
I'd have to say Regenerator, you can't go wrong with free healing. It greatly lowers the opportunity cost of switching, leaving you free to pivot around a lot more, and in-game saves you a truck load of healing items and Pokecentre trips.
 
Flame Body. Can't touch this, or you get BURNED. Plus faster egg hatching!

And Pickup. Can't say no to free items!
 
I am a fan of Moxie, because it's always satisfying to see my Pokémon gradually gain strength, and steamroll an entire team.
 
Right now I am loving No Guard, as it allows for an attack to hit when someone should be invulnerable. Oh you used Bounce, Rapidash? My Golurk can still smear you with his Earthquake! :evil:
 
It's easier for me to say my LEAST favourite abilities, but i'll give it a go.

Favourite abilities: anything that nullifies the most ANNOYING aspects of the game. Keen Eye, Shell Armour/Battle Armour, Damp.

I have a certain inkling towards pokemon that change in some way, so Imposter, Forecast, and Illusion i like a whole lot too. I have a story about that actually. I was battling a friend using a lv 2 Zorua disguised as a Magikarp. He was so surprised when that 'magikarp' used shadow ball!!! I ended up winning the match thanks to that Zorua (nicknamed Zzzz).

LEAST FAVOURITE: obviously Truant, Defeatist and Slow Start are meant to be blancing tools, but they're still terrible. Anything to do with berries like Gluttony, Harvest and Unnerve is practically useless since i don't bother with berries - there are always much better held items. Illuminate and Stench (pre gen V) are terrible for having no in-battle properties at all, and Run Away is a very poor excuse for an ability. Klutz has very limited usefulness. Anticipation is the crappy version of Forewarn - why did we need that?
 
definitely Wonder Guard. It protects your pokemon from all moves that aren't supereffective.
The only pokemon I know that has this is Shedinja.
 
I think my favorite ability (or at least one of my favorites) is contrary. It's fun to use a move like superpower with it to do a good amount of damage and raise your stats at the same time.

It's also really satisfying when a Pokemon tries to lower my stats but ends up raising them instead. Especially if they use sand attack. :evil:
 
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