Cloud Nine (Ability)

Cloud Nine	ノーてんき
	No Weather
Flavor text Generation III Negates weather effects. Generation IV Eliminates the effects of weather. Generation V Eliminates the effects of weather. Generation VI Eliminates the effects of weather. Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Cloud Nine (Japanese: ノーてんき No Weather) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Six Pokémon can have this Ability. Prior to Generation V, it was the signature Ability of Psyduck and Golduck.

Effect

In battle

When a Pokémon with Cloud Nine is in battle, all effects of weather are negated (the weather does not disappear).

Generation V

When a Pokémon with Cloud Nine is brought out, the message "The effects of weather disappeared." will be displayed.

During heavy rain, extremely harsh sunlight and strong winds, even if a Pokémon is negating the effects of weather with Cloud Nine, the moves Rain Dance, Sunny Day, Sandstorm, and Hail will fail if used; and the Abilities Drizzle, Drought, Sand Stream, and Snow Warning will fail. However, all other effects of these weather conditions are negated by Cloud Nine.

Outside of battle

Cloud Nine has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Cloud Nine

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0054		Psyduck	Water		Water	Damp	Cloud Nine	Swift Swim
0055		Golduck	Water		Water	Damp	Cloud Nine	Swift Swim
0108		Lickitung	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Oblivious	Cloud Nine
0333		Swablu	Normal	Flying	Natural Cure	None	Cloud Nine
0334		Altaria	Dragon	Flying	Natural Cure	None	Cloud Nine
0463		Lickilicky	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Oblivious	Cloud Nine
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.

Trivia

• The Japanese name of this Ability is a double entendre, written so as to suggest ノー天気 nō tenki (no weather), but also homophonous to 能天気 nōtenki (carefree), in reference to Psyduck, originally the only Pokémon (in addition to Golduck) that had this Ability. The English name derives directly from the "carefree" meaning, while still maintaining a weak pun to connect it to the weather.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 樂天 Lètiān French Ciel Gris German Wolke Sieben Italian Antimeteo Korean 날씨 부정 Nalssi Bujeong Portuguese Nove Nuvens Spanish Aclimatación

Variations of the Ability Air Lock
Air Lock • Cloud Nine

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