Hyper Cutter (Ability)

Hyper Cutter	かいりきバサミ
	Superpowerful Claws
Flavor text Generation III Prevents Attack reduction. Generation IV Prevents the Attack stat from being lowered. Generation V Prevents other Pokémon from lowering Attack stat. Generation VI Prevents other Pokémon from lowering its Attack stat. Generation VII The Pokémon's proud of its powerful pincers. They prevent other Pokémon from lowering its Attack stat. Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Hyper Cutter (Japanese: かいりきバサミ Superpowerful Claws) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Hyper Cutter prevents other Pokémon from lowering the Attack stat stage of the Pokémon with this Ability. It does not prevent the Pokémon with this Ability from lowering its own Attack, such as by using Superpower.

Effects that decrease Attack without using stat stages, such as Power Swap, Heart Swap, and Power Split, are unaffected by Hyper Cutter.

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

Outside of battle

In Pokémon Emerald, if a Pokémon with Hyper Cutter uses Cut in the overworld, it will remove all tall grass within a two-square radius of the player's position, as opposed to a one-square radius without this Ability. From Generation IV onward, Hyper Cutter has no effect outside of battle due to the removal of the ability to cut tall grass.

Pokémon with Hyper Cutter

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0098		Krabby	Water		Water	Hyper Cutter	Shell Armor	Sheer Force
0099		Kingler	Water		Water	Hyper Cutter	Shell Armor	Sheer Force
0127		Pinsir	Bug		Bug	Hyper Cutter	Mold Breaker	Moxie
0207		Gligar	Ground	Flying	Hyper Cutter	Sand Veil	Immunity
0303		Mawile	Steel	Fairy	Hyper Cutter	Intimidate	Sheer Force
0328		Trapinch	Ground		Ground	Hyper Cutter	Arena Trap	Sheer Force
0341		Corphish	Water		Water	Hyper Cutter	Shell Armor	Adaptability
0342		Crawdaunt	Water	Dark	Hyper Cutter	Shell Armor	Adaptability
0472		Gliscor	Ground	Flying	Hyper Cutter	Sand Veil	Poison Heal
0739		Crabrawler	Fighting		Fighting	Hyper Cutter	Iron Fist	Anger Point
0740		Crabominable	Fighting	Ice	Hyper Cutter	Iron Fist	Anger Point
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 Pinsir Me, I Must Be Dreaming, the rental Pinsir that Emerald used during his Battle Factory match against Noland was revealed to have Hyper Cutter as its Ability by Emerald's Pokédex.
• In the Japan Mini-volume 6 for the X & Y arc, X's Rute was revealed to have Hyper Cutter as its Ability.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 怪力鉗 Gwaailihk Kìhm Mandarin 怪力鉗 / 怪力钳 Guàilì Qián * 怪力剪刀 Guàilì Jiǎndāo * French Hyper Cutter German Scherenmacht Italian Ipertaglio Korean 괴력집게 Goeryeok Jipge Portuguese Hiper Cortador Russian Гиперрезак Giperrezak Spanish Corte Fuerte Vietnamese Kéo siêu lực

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