Natural Cure (Ability)

Natural Cure	しぜんかいふく
	Natural Recovery
Flavor text Generation III Heals upon switching out. Generation IV All status problems are healed upon switching out.DPPt All status problems heal when it switches out.HGSS Generation V All status problems heal when it switches out. Generation VI All status conditions heal when the Pokémon switches out. Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Natural Cure (Japanese: しぜんかいふく Natural Recovery) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Fifteen Pokémon can have this Ability.

Effect

In battle

Natural Cure heals any status conditions upon switching out or completing a battle (if it was in battle at the end of the battle).

This effect will occur if Natural Cure is the Pokémon's Ability in battle when it switches out and is not suppressed; a Pokémon that obtained the Ability with Trace will have its status condition cured when it switches out, whereas a Pokémon which has Natural Cure but has been affected by Gastro Acid will not.

Outside of battle

From Generation IV onward, Natural Cure automatically heals status conditions upon the end of a battle.

Pokémon with Natural Cure

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0113		Chansey	Normal		Normal	Natural Cure	Serene Grace	Healer
0120		Staryu	Water		Water	Illuminate	Natural Cure	Analytic
0121		Starmie	Water	Psychic	Illuminate	Natural Cure	Analytic
0222		Corsola	Water	Rock	Hustle	Natural Cure	Regenerator
0242		Blissey	Normal		Normal	Natural Cure	Serene Grace	Healer
0251		Celebi	Psychic	Grass	Natural Cure	None	None
0315		Roselia	Grass	Poison	Natural Cure	Poison Point	Leaf Guard
0333		Swablu	Normal	Flying	Natural Cure	None	Cloud Nine
0334		Altaria	Dragon	Flying	Natural Cure	None	Cloud Nine
0406		Budew	Grass	Poison	Natural Cure	Poison Point	Leaf Guard
0407		Roserade	Grass	Poison	Natural Cure	Poison Point	Technician
0440		Happiny	Normal		Normal	Natural Cure	Serene Grace	Friend Guard
0492		Shaymin	Grass		Grass	Natural Cure	None	None
0708		Phantump	Ghost	Grass	Natural Cure	Frisk	Harvest
0709		Trevenant	Ghost	Grass	Natural Cure	Frisk	Harvest
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 manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Blissey
The user is healed from its status conditions upon switching out.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Blissey's status conditions are healed when it is returned to its Poké Ball.
Crystal's Blissey	Just My Luck...Shuckle		Debut

• In Moving Past Milotic, Crystal's Starmie was revealed to have Natural Cure as its Ability. However, it was never seen activating it.

Trivia

• In Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, Natural Cure was mistranslated as Natural Recovery, a direct translation of its Japanese name.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 自然恢復 Zìrán Huīfù French Médic Nature German Innere Kraft Italian Alternacura Korean 자연회복 Jayeon Hoebok Portuguese Cura Natural Spanish Cura Natural

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