Guts (Ability)

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Guts (Japanese: こんじょう Guts) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Thirteen Pokémon have this ability.

Effect

In battle

Guts raises the Attack stat by 50% while affected by the Burn, Paralysis or Poison status ailments.

In Generation IV, the Attack stat is also raised by the Sleep status ailment.

Guts also cancels out the attack drop of a burn, before applying the 50% bonus.

Outside of battle

Guts has no effect outside of battle.

Mystery Dungeon

A Pokémon with this ability will gain a 100% bonus to physical attack, provided that the Pokémon has a major status affliction.

Pokémon with Guts

Single ability

#	Pokémon		Type
246		Larvitar	Rock	Ground
276		Taillow	Normal	Flying
277		Swellow	Normal	Flying

Dual ability

#	Pokémon		Type		Other ability

In the anime

File:Ursaring guts.png

Ursaring activating Guts

Ursaring. After being affected by a status ailment, Ursaring's eyes and then its body glow red and its power dramatically increases.

• Activated by Paul's Ursaring in DP132.

Trivia

• No Generation IV Pokémon have this ability.

In other languages

• Italian: Dentistretti
• German: Adrenalin