Rough Skin (Ability)

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Flavor text Generation III Hurts to touch. Generation IV Inflicts damage to the foe on contact. Generation V Currently unknown Generation VI Currently unknown Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Rough Skin (Japanese: さめはだ Sharkskin) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Only 2 Pokémon have this ability, both in the same evolutionary line.

Effect

In battle

All moves that make contact with the Pokémon with Rough Skin will damage the user by 1/16 of their maximum HP after damage is dealt. In Generation IV, the damage is increased to 1/8.

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon and the sequel, if an enemy directly in front of the Pokémon attacks it, the attacker is damaged by half of the damage done.

Outside of battle

Rough Skin has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Rough Skin

Single ability

#	Pokémon		Type
318		Carvanha	Water	Dark
319		Sharpedo	Water	Dark

Dual ability

No Pokémon have Rough Skin as one of their two abilities.

In the anime

Sharpedo: Sharpedo uses its skin to scrape against its foes. The skin is rough enough to cause abrasion.

• Activated by a wild Sharpedo in Sharpedo Attack!. Debut.

In other languages

• Italian: Cartavetro
• Spanish: Piel tosca