Oblivious (Ability)

This article is about the Ability that prevents infatuation. For the Ability with a synonymous meaning, see Unaware (Ability).

Oblivious	どんかん
	Thickheaded
Flavor text Generation III Prevents attraction. Generation IV Prevents the Pokémon from becoming infatuated.DPPt Prevents it from becoming infatuated.HGSS Generation V Prevents it from becoming infatuated. Generation VI Keeps the Pokémon from being infatuated or falling for taunts. Generation VII The Pokémon is oblivious, and that keeps it from being infatuated or falling for taunts. Generation VIII The Pokémon is oblivious, and that keeps it from being infatuated or falling for taunts. Generation IX Currently unknown

Oblivious (Japanese: どんかん Thickheaded) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Generation III

Oblivious prevents the Pokémon from being afflicted by infatuation.

A Pokémon with this Ability will be cured of infatuation if it is infatuated while in battle (such as if it gains the Ability by an effect like Skill Swap).

If a Pokémon is infatuated and has a status condition, if its infatuation is cured by Oblivious, the status condition icon will not disappear.

Generation IV

Pokémon with Oblivious also cannot be affected by Captivate.

A Pokémon with this Ability will be cured of infatuation if it is infatuated while in battle (such as if it gains the Ability by an effect like Skill Swap, or is infatuated by a Pokémon with an Ability like Mold Breaker).

If a Pokémon is infatuated and has a status condition, if its infatuation is cured by Oblivious, the status condition icon will disappear from the HP bar while it is in battle. The status condition will continue to take effect, however.

If the Pokémon with this Ability is infatuated and is holding a Mental Herb, Oblivious will cure the Pokémon of infatuation before the Mental Herb has a chance to be consumed. If the Pokémon with this Ability is holding a Destiny Knot, the Destiny Knot will be activated before Oblivious cures the Pokémon of infatuation.

Generation V

If a Pokémon is infatuated and has a status condition, if its infatuation is cured by Oblivious, the status condition icon will not disappear.

If the Pokémon with this Ability is infatuated and is holding a Mental Herb, the Mental Herb will be consumed before Oblivious cures the Pokémon of infatuation.

Generation VI

In addition to preventing infatuation, Oblivious now prevents the Pokémon from being afflicted by Taunt.

A Pokémon with this Ability will be cured of Taunt if it is taunted while in battle (such as if it gains the Ability by an effect like Skill Swap, or is taunted by a Pokémon with an Ability like Mold Breaker). If the Pokémon is holding a Mental Herb, it will be consumed before Oblivious cures the Pokémon of the Taunt.

Generation VIII

Oblivious now blocks Intimidate.

Outside of battle

Oblivious has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Oblivious

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0079		Slowpoke	Water	Psychic	Oblivious	Own Tempo	Regenerator
0080		Slowbro	Water	Psychic	Oblivious	Own Tempo	Regenerator
0108		Lickitung	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Oblivious	Cloud Nine
0124		Jynx	Ice	Psychic	Oblivious	Forewarn	Dry Skin
0199		Slowking	Water	Psychic	Oblivious	Own Tempo	Regenerator
0220		Swinub	Ice	Ground	Oblivious	Snow Cloak	Thick Fat
0221		Piloswine	Ice	Ground	Oblivious	Snow Cloak	Thick Fat
0238		Smoochum	Ice	Psychic	Oblivious	Forewarn	Hydration
0314		Illumise	Bug		Bug	Oblivious	Tinted Lens	Prankster
0320		Wailmer	Water		Water	Water Veil	Oblivious	Pressure
0321		Wailord	Water		Water	Water Veil	Oblivious	Pressure
0322		Numel	Fire	Ground	Oblivious	Simple	Own Tempo
0339		Barboach	Water	Ground	Oblivious	Anticipation	Hydration
0340		Whiscash	Water	Ground	Oblivious	Anticipation	Hydration
0349		Feebas	Water		Water	Swift Swim	Oblivious	Adaptability
0363		Spheal	Ice	Water	Thick Fat	Ice Body	Oblivious
0364		Sealeo	Ice	Water	Thick Fat	Ice Body	Oblivious
0365		Walrein	Ice	Water	Thick Fat	Ice Body	Oblivious
0463		Lickilicky	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Oblivious	Cloud Nine
0473		Mamoswine	Ice	Ground	Oblivious	Snow Cloak	Thick Fat
0757		Salandit	Poison	Fire	Corrosion	None	Oblivious
0758		Salazzle	Poison	Fire	Corrosion	None	Oblivious
0761		Bounsweet	Grass		Grass	Leaf Guard	Oblivious	Sweet Veil
0762		Steenee	Grass		Grass	Leaf Guard	Oblivious	Sweet Veil
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.

• Before Generation VI, Feebas did not have Oblivious.

In other games

Description

Games Description MDRB Prevents infatuation. MDTDS Protects the Pokémon from infatuation. BSL メロメロじょうたいに ならない MDGtI Prevents the Infatuated status and protects the Pokémon from the move Captivate.* The Pokémon isn't affected by the Infatuated status condition. Captivate doesn't even work on it!* SMD The Pokémon won't get infatuated. Captivate and Taunt don't work on it, either!

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

• Crystal's Smoochum is revealed to have Oblivious as her Ability.
• Sapphire's Lorry is revealed to have Oblivious as his Ability.
• Pryce's Swinub is revealed to have Oblivious as its Ability.

Trivia

• This Ability originated as a TCG Poké-BODY.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 遲鈍 Chìhdeuhn Mandarin 遲鈍 / 迟钝 Chídùn French Benêt German Dösigkeit Italian Indifferenza Korean 둔감 Dungam Portuguese Inconsciência Russian Забывчивость Zabyvchivost' Spanish Despiste

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