Truant (Ability)

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Flavor text Generation III Moves only every two turns. Generation IV The Pokémon can’t attack on consecutive turns. Generation V Currently unknown Generation VI Currently unknown Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Truant (Japanese: なまけ Lazy) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Only two Pokémon have this ability, both in the same evolutionary line.

Effect

In battle

Truant causes the user to only move every other turn. Moves which require a turn to charge, such as SolarBeam, will not work because the turn in which the move is executed is the same turn in which the Pokémon will be truant. If a Pokémon with Truant uses a move such as Hyper Beam, which recharges after use, then truant will take effect during the turn that would normally be used recharging. Worry Seed will not work on Pokémon with this ability.

Outside of battle

Truant has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

The Pokémon will instead gain the Paused status whenever a special move or a Wonder Orb is used.

Pokémon with Truant

Single ability

#	Pokémon		Type
287		Slakoth	Normal
289		Slaking	Normal

Dual ability

No Pokémon have Truant as one of their two abilities.