Big Pecks (Ability)

Big Pecks	はとむね
	Pigeon Breast
Flavor text Generation V Protects the Pokémon from Defense-lowering attacks. Generation VI Protects the Pokémon from Defense-lowering attacks. Generation VII Protects the Pokémon from Defense-lowering effects. Generation VIII Protects the Pokémon from Defense-lowering effects. Generation IX Prevents the Pokémon from having its Defense stat lowered.

Big Pecks (Japanese: はとむね Pigeon Breast) is an Ability introduced in Generation V.

Effect

In battle

Big Pecks prevents other Pokémon from lowering the Defense stat stage of the Pokémon with this Ability. It does not prevent the Pokémon with this Ability from lowering its own Defense, such as by using Shell Smash. It does not prevent Spectral Thief from stealing (i.e., resetting) positive stat changes.

Effects that decrease Defense without using stat stages, such as Guard Swap, Heart Swap, or Guard Split, are unaffected by Big Pecks.

This Ability can be ignored by Pokémon with Mold Breaker, Teravolt, and Turboblaze.

Outside of battle

Big Pecks has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Big Pecks

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0016		Pidgey	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled FeetGen IV+	Big Pecks
0017		Pidgeotto	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled FeetGen IV+	Big Pecks
0018		Pidgeot	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled FeetGen IV+	Big Pecks
0441		Chatot	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled Feet	Big Pecks
0519		Pidove	Normal	Flying	Big Pecks	Super Luck	Rivalry
0520		Tranquill	Normal	Flying	Big Pecks	Super Luck	Rivalry
0521		Unfezant	Normal	Flying	Big Pecks	Super Luck	Rivalry
0580		Ducklett	Water	Flying	Keen Eye	Big Pecks	Hydration
0581		Swanna	Water	Flying	Keen Eye	Big Pecks	Hydration
0629		Vullaby	Dark	Flying	Big Pecks	Overcoat	Weak Armor
0630		Mandibuzz	Dark	Flying	Big Pecks	Overcoat	Weak Armor
0661		Fletchling	Normal	Flying	Big Pecks	None	Gale Wings
0821		Rookidee	Flying		Flying	Keen Eye	Unnerve	Big Pecks
0822		Corvisquire	Flying		Flying	Keen Eye	Unnerve	Big Pecks
0962		Bombirdier	Flying	Dark	Big Pecks	Keen Eye	Rocky Payload
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

Description

Games Description MDGtI Prevents Defense from being lowered.* The Pokémon's Defense won't be lowered!* SMD The Pokémon's Defense won't be lowered!

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• White's Vullaby, Barbara, and Y's Fletchling, Fletchy, were revealed to have Big Pecks as their Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.
• Skyla's Unfezant and Cheren's Unfezant were revealed to have Big Pecks as their Ability.

Trivia

• The name "Big Pecks" is a pun, referring to both pecking with a beak and the pectoralis major.
  • Similarly, Big Pecks's Japanese name, Hatomune, can also be taken to mean "a proud heart".

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 健壯胸肌 Gihnjohng Hūnggēi * 鴿胸 Gaphūng * Mandarin 健壯胸肌 / 健壮胸肌 Jiànzhuàng Xiōngjī French Cœur de Coq German Brustbieter Italian Pettinfuori Korean 부풀린가슴 Bupullin Gaseum Brazilian Portuguese Bico Grande Spanish Sacapecho Vietnamese Tấm Chắn Ngực

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.