Magma Armor (Ability)

Magma Armor	マグマのよろい
	Magma Armor
Flavor text Generation III Prevents freezing. Generation IV Prevents the Pokémon from becoming frozen. Generation V Prevents the Pokémon from becoming frozen. Generation VI Prevents the Pokémon from becoming frozen. Generation VII The Pokémon is covered with hot magma, which prevents the Pokémon from becoming frozen. Generation VIII The Pokémon is covered with hot magma, which prevents the Pokémon from becoming frozen. Generation IX The Pokémon’s hot magma coating prevents it from being frozen.

Magma Armor (Japanese: マグマのよろい Magma Armor) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Magma Armor prevents the Pokémon from being frozen.

A Pokémon with this Ability will be thawed out if it is frozen while in battle (such as if it gains the Ability outside of battle or by an effect like Skill Swap, or is frozen by a Pokémon with an Ability like Mold Breaker).

Generation III

If a frozen Pokémon with Magma Armor is sent into battle as one of the lead Pokémon or to replace a fainted Pokémon, or gains Magma Armor due to Trace, it will not be cured of freeze until after a Pokémon takes its turn (uses a move, switches out, etc.). It will be cured of freeze if it is switched in to replace a switched out Pokémon (including if switched in via Baton Pass).

If a frozen Pokémon has Magma Armor as its original Ability but not its current Ability, it will remain frozen when switched out.

If the Pokémon with this Ability is frozen and is holding an Aspear, Lum, or Pumkin Berry, Magma Armor will cure the Pokémon of freeze before the Berry has a chance to be consumed.

Generation IV

When a frozen Pokémon with Magma Armor enters battle, it will be cured of freeze.

If a frozen Pokémon has Magma Armor as its original Ability but not its current Ability, if it is one of the active Pokémon at the end of the battle or switched out, it will be cured of freeze (with no message).

Generation V onward

If a frozen Pokémon has Magma Armor as its original Ability but not its current Ability, it will remain frozen when switched out.

If the Pokémon with this Ability is frozen and is holding an Aspear or Lum Berry, the Berry will be eaten and cure the Pokémon of freeze before Magma Armor has a chance to activate.

Outside of battle

If a frozen Pokémon gains Magma Armor by Evolution or the Ability Capsule, it will not be thawed out until sent into battle. Pokémon with Magma Armor will not be frozen by the Gentleman's Dusclops in the Battle Pike nor the Battle Arcade's game board.

From Pokémon Emerald onward, if a Pokémon with Magma Armor is in the party (even if fainted), the number of cycles it takes for all Pokémon Eggs in the party to hatch are halved. This effect does not stack with itself, Flame Body, or Steam Engine; however, it can be stacked with Hatching Power Pass Power, O-Power, or Roto Hatch.

Pokémon with Magma Armor

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0218		Slugma	Fire		Fire	Magma Armor	Flame Body	Weak Armor
0219		Magcargo	Fire	Rock	Magma Armor	Flame Body	Weak Armor
0323		Camerupt	Fire	Ground	Magma Armor	Solid RockGen IV+	Anger Point
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 other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

Magma Armor prevents the Pokémon from being frozen. In Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, it also causes any items thrown at the Pokémon to become burned, thereby avoiding taking any damage or effects from the thrown item. Thrown items that miss the Pokémon will not be burned.

Description

Games Description MDRB Prevents freezing. MDTDS Protects the Pokémon from freezing. BSL こおりじょうたいに ならない MDGtI Unavailable SMD It protects the Pokémon from getting frozen! It burns items thrown at the Pokémon, and the Pokémon won't be affected! MDRTDX This Ability protects the Pokémon from getting Frozen. It also burns items thrown at the Pokémon.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Camerupt
The Pokémon is covered with hot magma, which prevents the Pokémon from becoming frozen.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	No part of Camerupt's body can be frozen.
Maxie's Camerupt	Walrein and Camerupt		Debut

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 熔岩鎧甲 Yùhngngàahm Hóigaap * 岩漿防護 Ngàahmjēung Fòhngwuh * Mandarin 熔岩鎧甲 / 熔岩铠甲 Róngyán Kǎijiǎ * 岩漿防護 Yánjiāng Fánghù * French Armumagma German Magmapanzer Italian Magmascudo Korean 마그마의 무장 Magma-yi Mujang Brazilian Portuguese Armadura de Magma Spanish Escudo Magma Turkish Mağma Zırhı Vietnamese Giáp magma

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