Vital Spirit (Ability)

Vital Spirit	やるき
	Willingness
Flavor text Generation III Prevents sleep. Generation IV Prevents the Pokémon from falling asleep. Generation V Currently unknown Generation VI Currently unknown Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Vital Spirit (Japanese: やるき Willingness) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Twelve Pokémon have this ability, all of them in the Ground egg group.

Effect

In battle

Vital Spirit prevents Sleep. If a Pokémon with Vital Spirit uses Rest, it will automatically fail.

Outside of battle

From Pokémon Emerald onwards, if the Pokémon with Vital Spirit is leading the party, then Vital Spirit increases the chance of battling a higher-leveled wild Pokémon by 50%.

Pokémon with Vital Spirit

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0056		Mankey	Fighting		Fighting	Vital Spirit	Anger Point	Competitiveness
0057		Primeape	Fighting		Fighting	Vital Spirit	Anger Point	Competitiveness
0125		Electabuzz	Electric		Electric	Static	None	Vital Spirit
0126		Magmar	Fire		Fire	Flame Body	None	Vital Spirit
0225		Delibird	Ice	Flying	Vital Spirit	Hustle	Insomnia
0236		Tyrogue	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	Steadfast	Vital Spirit
0239		Elekid	Electric		Electric	Static	None	Vital Spirit
0240		Magby	Fire		Fire	Flame Body	None	Vital Spirit
0288		Vigoroth	Normal		Normal	Vital Spirit	None	None
0466		Electivire	Electric		Electric	Motor Drive	None	Vital Spirit
0467		Magmortar	Fire		Fire	Flame Body	None	Vital Spirit
0506	Yorterrie	Yorterrie	Normal		Normal	Vital Spirit	Pickup	Run Away
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 anime

Vigoroth. Vigoroth can nullify the effects of moves like Yawn.

• Activated by Marcel's Vigoroth in The Garden of Eatin'. Debut.

In other languages

• French: Esprit Vital
• German: Munterkeit
• Italian: Spiritovivo
• Korean: 의기양양 Yigiyang'yang
• Portuguese: Espírito Vital
• Spanish: Espír. vital

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