Mold Breaker (Ability)

Mold Breaker	かたやぶり
	Mold-Breaking
Flavor text Generation III Currently unknown Generation IV Moves can be used regardless of abilities. Generation V Moves can be used regardless of Abilities. Generation VI Moves can be used on the target regardless of its Abilities. Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Mold Breaker (Japanese: かたやぶり Mold-Breaking) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV. Seventeen Pokémon can have this Ability.

Effect

In battle

Generation IV

When a Pokémon with Mold Breaker is brought out, the message "<name> has Mold Breaker!" will be displayed.

Mold Breaker negates the effects of Abilities that could potentially weaken or negate moves or the side-effects of moves that the Mold Breaker Pokémon use (Mold Breaker will allow the user's Earthquake to hit a Pokémon with Levitate, but has no effect on the player's ally's Earthquake). However, it also applies to moves that hit all Pokémon in Double and Triple Battles (for example, a Pokémon with Mold Breaker that uses Earthquake could hit its ally that has Levitate).

Mold Breaker nullifies the following Abilities (even if they would end up boosting the power of the Mold Breaker Pokémon's move): Battle Armor, Clear Body, Damp, Dry Skin, Filter, Flash Fire, Flower Gift, Heatproof, Hyper Cutter, Immunity, Inner Focus, Insomnia, Keen Eye, Leaf Guard, Levitate, Lightningrod, Limber, Magma Armor, Marvel Scale, Motor Drive, Oblivious, Own Tempo, Sand Veil, Shell Armor, Shield Dust, Simple, Snow Cloak, Solid Rock, Soundproof, Sticky Hold, Storm Drain, Sturdy, Suction Cups, Tangled Feet, Thick Fat, Unaware, Vital Spirit, Volt Absorb, Water Absorb, Water Veil, White Smoke, and Wonder Guard.

Mold Breaker only negates these Abilities in the event they would affect moves used by the Pokémon with Mold Breaker; they are active in any other instance. While Mold Breaker allows a Pokémon to bypass the effects of Abilities that prevent status (i.e. Immunity, Insomnia, Limber, Own Tempo, and Vital Spirit, but not Leaf Guard), the status the Pokémon's move inflicts will be cured instantly after the attack. Lightningrod and Storm Drain still divert attacks in double or triple battles, but will not prevent attacks when they land (and will not make any Electric- or Water-type attacks hit with 100% accuracy, respectively).

Generation V

When a Pokémon with Mold Breaker is brought out, the message "<name> breaks the mold!" will be displayed.

Mold Breaker nullifies the same Abilities as in Generation IV, as well as the following Abilities (even if they would end up boosting the power of the Mold Breaker Pokémon's move): Big Pecks, Contrary, Friend Guard, Heavy Metal, Light Metal, Magic Bounce, Multiscale, Sap Sipper, Telepathy, and Wonder Skin.

Outside of battle

Mold Breaker has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Mold Breaker

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0127		Pinsir	Bug		Bug	Hyper Cutter	Mold Breaker	Moxie
0130		Gyarados	Water	Dark	Mold Breaker	None	None
0181		Ampharos	Electric	Dragon	Mold Breaker	None	None
0408		Cranidos	Rock		Rock	Mold Breaker	None	Sheer Force
0409		Rampardos	Rock		Rock	Mold Breaker	None	Sheer Force
0529		Drilbur	Ground		Ground	Sand Rush	Sand Force	Mold Breaker
0530		Excadrill	Ground	Steel	Sand Rush	Sand Force	Mold Breaker
0538		Throh	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	Inner Focus	Mold Breaker
0539		Sawk	Fighting		Fighting	Sturdy	Inner Focus	Mold Breaker
0550		Basculin	Water		Water	Reckless	Adaptability	Mold Breaker
550B	Basculin	Basculin	Water		Water	Rock Head	Adaptability	Mold Breaker
0610		Axew	Dragon		Dragon	Rivalry	Mold Breaker	Unnerve
0611		Fraxure	Dragon		Dragon	Rivalry	Mold Breaker	Unnerve
0612		Haxorus	Dragon		Dragon	Rivalry	Mold Breaker	Unnerve
0621		Druddigon	Dragon		Dragon	Rough Skin	Sheer Force	Mold Breaker
0674		Pancham	Fighting		Fighting	Iron Fist	Mold Breaker	Scrappy
0675		Pangoro	Fighting	Dark	Iron Fist	Mold Breaker	Scrappy
0701		Hawlucha	Fighting	Flying	Unburden	Limber	Mold Breaker
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 the anime

Cranidos Rampardos
The user cancels out the opponent's Ability when it activates.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	When the opponent's Ability activates, Cranidos cancels it out.
Roark's Cranidos	Shapes of Things to Come!		Debut
	When the opponent's Ability activates, Rampardos cancels it out.
Roark's Rampardos	O'er the Rampardos we Watched!		None

Trivia

• Roark's Rampardos's Mold Breaker stopped Ash's Pikachu's Static in the anime, even though Static is not affected by Mold Breaker in the games.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 革新 Géxīn Dutch Schimmelbreker French Brise Moule German Überbrückung Italian Rompiforma Korean 틀깨기 Teulkkaegi Portuguese Destruidor de Molde Spanish Rompemoldes

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.