Technician (Ability)

Technician	テクニシャン
	Technician
Flavor text Generation III Currently unknown 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 Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

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. Thus, Pursuit will not get a Technician boost if the opposing Pokémon switches and Pursuit's power doubles to 80, and Low Kick and Grass Knot will only get a Technician boost if the target's weight is 49.9 kg or less. Similarly, if a move like Avalanche is used by a Pokémon previously damaged in the same turn, which doubles Avalanche's power to 120, then Technician will not be applied.

The effect does not apply to confusion damage, which remains at a power of 40.

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
052A	Meowth	Meowth	Dark		Dark	Pickup	Technician	Unknown
0053		Persian	Normal		Normal	Limber	Technician	Unnerve
0???	Persian	Persian	Dark		Dark	Fur Coat	Technician	Unknown
0122		Mr. Mime	Psychic	Fairy	Soundproof	Filter	Technician
0123		Scyther	Bug	Flying	Swarm	Technician	Steadfast
0212		Scizor	Bug	Steel	Swarm	Technician	Light Metal
212M	Scizor	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
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

• In volume 42, Gold's Aibo was revealed to have Technician as his Ability.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 技術高手 Geihseuht Gōusáu Mandarin 技術高手 / 技术高手 Jìshù Gāoshǒu * 技術員 Jìshù Yuán * French Technicien German Techniker Italian Tecnico Korean 테크니션 Technician Portuguese Técnica Russian Техничность Tekhnichnost' Spanish Experto

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