Technician (Ability)

Technician	テクニシャン
	Technician
Flavor text Generation IV Powers up the Pokémon's weaker moves. Generation V Powers up the Pokémon's weaker moves. Generation VI Powers up the Pokémon's weaker moves. Generation VII Powers up the Pokémon's weaker moves. Generation VIII Powers up the Pokémon's weaker moves. Generation IX Powers up weak moves so the Pokémon can deal more damage with them.

Technician (Japanese: テクニシャン Technician) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

In battle

Technician increases the power of moves which have a power of 60 or less by 50%.

For moves with variable power, Technician will only apply if the power is 60 or less when used. For example, Low Kick and Grass Knot will only get a Technician boost if the target's weight is 110.0 lbs. (49.9 kg) or less.

Generation IV

The effect does not apply to confusion damage, which remains at a power of 40. However, if a Pokémon hurts itself in confusion induced due to disobedience, the power is increased to 60.

Despite Struggle having a base power of 60 or less, it is not boosted by Technician in Generation IV.

Technician applies after the base power modifiers for double base power moves (such as Gust and Pursuit), Charge, and Helping Hand, so if any of those cause a move's base power to exceed 60, Technician's boost will not apply.

Generation V onwards

Technician no longer applies for any means of confusion damage, including the one induced by disobedience.

Struggle is now boosted by Technician.

Technician no longer takes into account base power modifiers, but does consider variable base power (e.g. Rollout, Ice Ball, Gust, Acrobatics), which must be 60 or less to be boosted by Technician.

Affected moves

The table below lists the moves affected by Technician, as well as the Pokémon that can have Technician and learn those moves.

Move Type Cat. Pow. Acc. Gen. Learned by Absorb  Grass  Special 20 100 — Acid Spray  Poison  Special 40 100 — Acid  Poison  Special 40 100 — Acrobatics  Flying  Physical 55 100 — Aerial Ace  Flying  Physical 60 — — Air Cutter  Flying  Special 60 95 — Assurance  Dark  Physical 60 100 — Astonish  Ghost  Physical 30 100 — Beat Up  Dark  Physical — 100 — Bind  Normal  Physical 15 85 — Bite  Dark  Physical 60 100 — Brutal Swing  Dark  Physical 60 100 — Bug Bite  Bug  Physical 60 100 — *** Bulldoze  Ground  Physical 60 100 — Bullet Punch  Steel  Physical 40 100 — Bullet Seed  Grass  Physical 25 100 — Charge Beam  Electric  Special 50 90 — Chilling Water  Water  Special 50 100 — Circle Throw  Fighting  Physical 60 90 — Confusion  Psychic  Special 50 100 — Covet  Normal  Physical 60 100 — Cut  Normal  Physical 50 95 — ****** *** Double Hit  Normal  Physical 35 90 — Double Slap  Normal  Physical 15 85 — Dual Chop  Dragon  Physical 40 90 — Dual Wingbeat  Flying  Physical 40 90 — Echoed Voice  Normal  Special 40 100 — Fake Out  Normal  Physical 40 100 — False Swipe  Normal  Physical 40 100 — Feint Attack  Dark  Physical 60 — — Feint  Normal  Physical 30 100 — Fell Stinger  Bug  Physical 50 100 — Flail  Normal  Physical — 100 — Fling  Dark  Physical — 100 — Force Palm  Fighting  Physical 60 100 — Frustration  Normal  Physical — 100 — Fury Cutter  Bug  Physical 40 95 — * Fury Swipes  Normal  Physical 18 80 — Grass Knot  Grass  Special — 100 — Gyro Ball  Steel  Physical — 100 — Hidden Power  Normal  Special 60 100 — Icy Wind  Ice  Special 55 95 — Infestation  Bug  Special 20 100 — Knock Off  Dark  Physical 20 100 IV-V Leech Life  Bug  Physical 20 100 IV-VI Low Kick  Fighting  Physical — 100 — Low Sweep  Fighting  Physical 60 100 V Mach Punch  Fighting  Physical 40 100 — Magical Leaf  Grass  Special 60 — — Mega Drain  Grass  Special 40 100 — Metal Claw  Steel  Physical 50 95 — Mud Shot  Ground  Special 55 95 — Mud-Slap  Ground  Special 20 100 — **** Natural Gift  Normal  Physical — 100 IV-V ****** * Nuzzle  Electric  Physical 20 100 — Ominous Wind  Ghost  Special 60 100 — *** Pay Day  Normal  Physical 40 100 — Payback  Dark  Physical 50 100 — Pin Missile  Bug  Physical 25 95 — Poison Sting  Poison  Physical 15 100 — Poison Tail  Poison  Physical 50 100 — Population Bomb  Normal  Physical 20 90 — Pounce  Bug  Physical 50 100 — Pound  Normal  Physical 40 100 — Power-Up Punch  Fighting  Physical 40 100 — **** Punishment  Dark  Physical — 100 — Pursuit  Dark  Physical 40 100 — Quick Attack  Normal  Physical 40 100 — Rage  Normal  Physical 20 100 — ** Rapid Spin  Normal  Physical 20 100 — Razor Leaf  Grass  Physical 55 95 — Return  Normal  Physical — 100 — Revenge  Fighting  Physical 60 100 — Reversal  Fighting  Physical — 100 — Rock Blast  Rock  Physical 25 90 — Rock Smash  Fighting  Physical 40 100 — ****** * Rock Tomb  Rock  Physical 60 95 — Rolling Kick  Fighting  Physical 60 85 — Rollout  Rock  Physical 30 90 — * Round  Normal  Special 60 100 — Sand Tomb  Ground  Physical 35 85 — Scratch  Normal  Physical 40 100 — Shadow Punch  Ghost  Physical 60 — — Shadow Sneak  Ghost  Physical 40 100 — Shock Wave  Electric  Special 60 — — Silver Wind  Bug  Special 60 100 — Smack Down  Rock  Physical 50 100 — Snarl  Dark  Special 55 95 — Snore  Normal  Special 50 100 — Stored Power  Psychic  Special 20 100 — Struggle Bug  Bug  Special 50 100 — *** Swift  Normal  Special 60 — — * Tackle  Normal  Physical 40 100 — Tail Slap  Normal  Physical 25 85 — Thief  Dark  Physical 60 100 — Thunder Shock  Electric  Special 40 100 — Trailblaze  Grass  Physical 50 100 — Triple Axel  Ice  Physical 20 90 — Triple Kick  Fighting  Physical 10 90 — Twister  Dragon  Special 40 100 — * Uproar  Normal  Special 50 100 IV Vacuum Wave  Fighting  Special 40 100 — Wake-Up Slap  Fighting  Physical 60 100 IV-V Water Pulse  Water  Special 60 100 — Weather Ball  Normal  Special 50 100 — Whirlpool  Water  Special 35 85 — Wing Attack  Flying  Physical 60 100 —

Although the following moves are affected by the Ability, they can be only learned by Smeargle with Technician via Sketch (with exception of Struggle, Chatter, and Generation VIII moves).

Move Type Cat. Pow. Acc. Gen. Accelerock  Rock  Physical 40 100 — {{{6}}} Ancient Power  Rock  Special 60 100 — {{{6}}} Aqua Jet  Water  Physical 40 100 — {{{6}}} Arm Thrust  Fighting  Physical 15 100 — {{{6}}} Avalanche  Ice  Physical 60 100 — {{{6}}} Barb Barrage  Poison  Physical 60 100 {{{6}}} Barrage  Normal  Physical 15 85 — {{{6}}} Bone Rush  Ground  Physical 25 90 — {{{6}}} Bonemerang  Ground  Physical 50 90 — {{{6}}} Branch Poke  Grass  Physical 40 100 — {{{6}}} Breaking Swipe  Dragon  Physical 60 100 — {{{6}}} Bubble  Water  Special 40 100 — {{{6}}} Chatter  Flying  Special 60 100 IV-V {{{6}}} Clamp  Water  Physical 35 85 — {{{6}}} Clear Smog  Poison  Special 50 — — {{{6}}} Comet Punch  Normal  Physical 18 85 — {{{6}}} Constrict  Normal  Physical 10 100 — {{{6}}} Crush Grip  Normal  Physical — 100 — {{{6}}} Disarming Voice  Fairy  Special 40 — — {{{6}}} Double Iron Bash  Steel  Physical 60 100 — {{{6}}} Double Kick  Fighting  Physical 30 100 — {{{6}}} Dragon Breath  Dragon  Special 60 100 — {{{6}}} Dragon Darts  Dragon  Physical 50 100 — {{{6}}} Dragon Tail  Dragon  Physical 60 90 — {{{6}}} Drain Punch  Fighting  Physical 60 100 IV {{{6}}} Draining Kiss  Fairy  Special 50 100 — {{{6}}} Electro Ball  Electric  Special — 100 — {{{6}}} Electroweb  Electric  Special 55 95 — {{{6}}} Ember  Fire  Special 40 100 — {{{6}}} Fairy Wind  Fairy  Special 40 100 — {{{6}}} Fire Pledge  Fire  Special 50 100 V {{{6}}} Fire Spin  Fire  Special 35 85 — {{{6}}} Flame Charge  Fire  Physical 50 100 — {{{6}}} Flame Wheel  Fire  Physical 60 100 — {{{6}}} Flip Turn  Water  Physical 60 100 — {{{6}}} Frost Breath  Ice  Special 60 90 — {{{6}}} Fury Attack  Normal  Physical 15 85 — {{{6}}} Gear Grind  Steel  Physical 50 85 — {{{6}}} Giga Drain  Grass  Special 60 100 IV {{{6}}} Grass Pledge  Grass  Special 50 100 V {{{6}}} Grassy Glide  Grass  Physical 60 100 IX {{{6}}} Gust  Flying  Special 40 100 — {{{6}}} Heart Stamp  Psychic  Physical 60 100 — {{{6}}} Heat Crash  Fire  Physical — 100 — {{{6}}} Heavy Slam  Steel  Physical — 100 — {{{6}}} Hex  Ghost  Special 50 100 V {{{6}}} Hold Back  Normal  Physical 40 100 — {{{6}}} Ice Ball  Ice  Physical 30 90 — {{{6}}} Ice Shard  Ice  Physical 40 100 — {{{6}}} Icicle Spear  Ice  Physical 25 100 — {{{6}}} Incinerate  Fire  Special 60 100 — {{{6}}} Jet Punch  Water  Physical 60 100 — {{{6}}} Karate Chop  Fighting  Physical 50 100 — {{{6}}} Last Respects  Ghost  Physical 50 100 — {{{6}}} Leafage  Grass  Physical 40 100 — {{{6}}} Lick  Ghost  Physical 30 100 — {{{6}}} Magnet Bomb  Steel  Physical 60 — — {{{6}}} Magnitude  Ground  Physical — 100 — {{{6}}} Mortal Spin  Poison  Physical 30 100 — {{{6}}} Needle Arm  Grass  Physical 60 100 — {{{6}}} Parabolic Charge  Electric  Special 50 100 VI {{{6}}} Peck  Flying  Physical 35 100 — {{{6}}} Pluck  Flying  Physical 60 100 — {{{6}}} Poison Fang  Poison  Physical 50 100 — {{{6}}} Powder Snow  Ice  Special 40 100 — {{{6}}} Power Trip  Dark  Physical 20 100 — {{{6}}} Present  Normal  Physical — 90 — {{{6}}} Rage Fist  Ghost  Physical 50 100 — {{{6}}} Rock Throw  Rock  Physical 50 90 — {{{6}}} Salt Cure  Rock  Physical 40 100 — {{{6}}} Scale Shot  Dragon  Physical 25 90 — {{{6}}} Sky Drop  Flying  Physical 60 100 — {{{6}}} Smelling Salts  Normal  Physical 60 100 IV-V {{{6}}} Smog  Poison  Special 30 70 — {{{6}}} Snap Trap  Grass  Physical 35 100 — {{{6}}} Spike Cannon  Normal  Physical 20 100 — {{{6}}} Storm Throw  Fighting  Physical 60 100 — {{{6}}} Struggle  Normal  Physical 50 — — {{{6}}} Surging Strikes  Water  Physical 25 100 — {{{6}}} Terrain Pulse  Normal  Special 50 100 — {{{6}}} Triple Dive  Water  Physical 30 95 — {{{6}}} Trump Card  Normal  Special — — — {{{6}}} Twin Beam  Psychic  Special 40 100 — {{{6}}} Twineedle  Bug  Physical 25 100 — {{{6}}} Vine Whip  Grass  Physical 45 100 — {{{6}}} Vise Grip  Normal  Physical 55 100 — {{{6}}} Water Gun  Water  Special 40 100 — {{{6}}} Water Pledge  Water  Special 50 100 V {{{6}}} Water Shuriken  Water  Special 15 100 — {{{6}}} Wrap  Normal  Physical 15 90 — {{{6}}} Wring Out  Normal  Special — 100 — {{{6}}}

Outside of battle

Technician has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Technician

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0052		Meowth	Normal		Normal	Pickup	Technician	Unnerve
0052		Meowth Alolan Form	Dark		Dark	Pickup	Technician	Rattled
0053		Persian	Normal		Normal	Limber	Technician	Unnerve
0053		Persian Alolan Form	Dark		Dark	Fur Coat	Technician	Rattled
0122		Mr. Mime	Psychic	Fairy	Soundproof	Filter	Technician
0123		Scyther	Bug	Flying	Swarm	Technician	Steadfast
0212		Scizor	Bug	Steel	Swarm	Technician	Light Metal
0212		Scizor Mega Scizor	Bug	Steel	Technician	None	None
0235		Smeargle	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Technician	Moody
0237		Hitmontop	Fighting		Fighting	Intimidate	Technician	Steadfast
0286		Breloom	Grass	Fighting	Effect Spore	Poison Heal	Technician
0402		Kricketune	Bug		Bug	Swarm	None	Technician
0407		Roserade	Grass	Poison	Natural Cure	Poison Point	Technician
0424		Ambipom	Normal		Normal	Technician	Pickup	Skill Link
0439		Mime Jr.	Psychic	Fairy	Soundproof	Filter	Technician
0572		Minccino	Normal		Normal	Cute Charm	Technician	Skill Link
0573		Cinccino	Normal		Normal	Cute Charm	Technician	Skill Link
0802		Marshadow	Fighting	Ghost	Technician	None	None
0849		Toxtricity Amped Form	Electric	Poison	Punk Rock	Plus	Technician
0849		Toxtricity Low Key Form	Electric	Poison	Punk Rock	Minus	Technician
0852		Clobbopus	Fighting		Fighting	Limber	None	Technician
0853		Grapploct	Fighting		Fighting	Limber	None	Technician
0925		Maushold	Normal		Normal	Friend Guard	Cheek Pouch	Technician
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, Technician increases damage of moves whose base power is 4 or lower, taking Ginseng and Space Globe boosts into account, by 50%.

The table below lists the moves affected by Technician in these games, as well as the Pokémon that have Technician and learn those moves.

Move Type Cat. Pow. Acc. Learned by Bullet Punch  Steel  Physical 4 88 {{{6}}} Double Hit  Normal  Physical 3 70.4 {{{6}}} DoubleSlap  Normal  Physical 4 41.25 {{{6}}} Flail  Normal  Physical 2 100 {{{6}}} Fury Cutter  Bug  Physical 2 66 {{{6}}} Grass Knot  Grass  Special 1 88 {{{6}}} Gyro Ball  Steel  Physical 1 88 {{{6}}} Hidden Power  ???  Special 2-15* 88 {{{6}}} Natural Gift  Normal  Physical 1* 88 {{{6}}} Punishment  Dark  Physical 1 88 {{{6}}} Quick Attack  Normal  Physical 4 88 {{{6}}} Rapid Spin  Normal  Physical 4 90 {{{6}}} Reversal  Fighting  Physical 2 63 {{{6}}} Thief  Dark  Physical 2 100 {{{6}}}

Although the following moves are affected by the Ability, they can be only learned by Smeargle who has Sketched them.

Move Type Cat. Pow. Acc. Absorb  Grass  Special 1 88 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Air Cutter  Flying  Special 2 90 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Aqua Jet  Water  Physical 4 88 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Arm Thrust  Fighting  Physical 2 40 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Barrage  Normal  Physical 1 44 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Bind  Normal  Physical 4 78 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Bubble  Water  Special 4 83.6 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Bullet Seed  Grass  Physical 3 48 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Comet Punch  Normal  Physical 3 45 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Constrict  Normal  Physical 2 79.2 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Fire Spin  Fire  Special 4 73 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Fury Attack  Normal  Physical 1 44 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Gust  Flying  Special 4 88 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Ice Ball  Ice  Physical 1 45 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Ice Shard  Ice  Physical 4 88 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Icicle Spear  Ice  Physical 2 33.75 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Leech Life  Bug  Physical 4 90 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Lick  Ghost  Physical 4 100 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Mud-Slap  Ground  Special 4 84 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Peck  Flying  Physical 4 95 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Pin Missile  Bug  Physical 4 45 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Poison Sting  Poison  Physical 3 73 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Powder Snow  Ice  Special 4 90 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Razor Leaf  Grass  Physical 2 79.8 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Rock Blast  Rock  Physical 4 45 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Rollout  Rock  Physical 1 45 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Sand Tomb  Ground  Physical 4 73 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Shadow Sneak  Ghost  Physical 4 88 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Smog  Poison  Special 4 73 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Snore  Normal  Special 4 95 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Spike Cannon  Normal  Physical 3 44 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} ThunderShock  Electric  Special 1 88 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Trump Card  Normal  Special 1 — {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Whirlpool  Water  Special 2 78 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} Wring Out  Normal  Special 1 88 {{{5}}} {{{6}}}

Description

Games Description MDTDS Boosts the damage the Pokémon inflicts with moves that have low attack power. BSL いりょくが ひくいわざを つかったときに ダメージが おおきくなる MDGtI Increases damage done by moves with low power.* When the Pokémon use moves with very low power, those moves do more damage.* SMD MDRTDX When the Pokémon uses moves with very low power, those moves do more damage.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• In volume 42, Gold's Ambipom, Aibo, was revealed to have Technician as his Ability.
• Sun's Alolan Meowth, Cent, was revealed to have Technician as his Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.
• Chuck's Hitmontop is revealed to have Technician as his Ability.
• Geoff's Cinccino was revealed to have Technician as its Ability.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 技術高手 Geihseuht Gōusáu * 技術員 Geihseuhtyùhn * Mandarin 技術高手 / 技术高手 Jìshù Gāoshǒu * 技術員 Jìshùyuán * French Technicien German Techniker Italian Tecnico Korean 테크니션 Technician Brazilian Portuguese Técnico Russian Техничность Tekhnichnost' Spanish Experto Vietnamese Kĩ Thuật Gia

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