Normalize (Ability)

Normalize	ノーマルスキン
	Normal Skin
Flavor text Generation IV All the Pokémon's moves become the Normal type. Generation V All the Pokémon's moves become the Normal type. Generation VI All the Pokémon's moves become Normal type. Generation VII All the Pokémon's moves become Normal type. The power of those moves is boosted a little. Generation VIII All the Pokémon's moves become Normal type. The power of those moves is boosted a little. Generation IX All the Pokémon's moves become Normal type. The power of those moves is boosted a little.

Normalize (Japanese: ノーマルスキン Normal Skin) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV. It is the signature Ability of Skitty and Delcatty.

Effect

In battle

Normalize makes all moves (including status moves) used by the Pokémon with this Ability become Normal-type instead of their usual type.

If Normalize makes Thunder Wave a Normal-type move, Thunder Wave can affect Ground-type Pokémon but not Ghost-type Pokémon, unless the Ghost-type Pokémon is holding a Ring Target or is affected by Foresight or Odor Sleuth.

If the move Flying Press is affected by Normalize, it deals Normal/Flying-type damage. If the move Freeze-Dry is affected by Normalize, it will still do super effective damage against Water-type Pokémon.

If a Pokémon with Normalize is under the effect of Electrify or Ion Deluge, all of its moves become Electric-type rather than Normal-type.

Generation IV

Hidden Power, Weather Ball, Natural Gift, and Judgment are affected by Normalize.

Generations V and VI

Hidden Power, Weather Ball, Natural Gift, Judgment, and Techno Blast are not affected by Normalize.

Generation VII onwards

Normal-type moves used by the Pokémon with this Ability now receive a 20% power boost, except moves that cannot be affected by Normalize. This boost applies to both moves that are originally Normal-type and moves that become Normal-type due to Normalize.

Multi-Attack, Terrain Pulse and damaging Z-Moves are not affected by Normalize.

Outside of battle

Normalize has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Normalize

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0300		Skitty	Normal		Normal	Cute Charm	NormalizeGen IV+	Wonder Skin
0301		Delcatty	Normal		Normal	Cute Charm	NormalizeGen IV+	Wonder Skin
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

Normalize changes all moves into Normal type.

In Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky, and the Mystery Dungeon (WiiWare) games, Normalize also turns the standard attack into a Normal-type move. It also makes throwing items deal Normal-type damage. This does not apply to items that deal fixed damage, although it does affect Vacuum-Cut.

Description

Games Description MDTDS Enables the Pokémon to use all of its moves as if they were Normal-type moves. BSL くりだすわざが すべて ノーマルタイプになる MDGtI Unavailable SMD All moves the Pokémon uses will be Normal type! MDRTDX All moves used by the Pokémon become Normal-type and deal more damage.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• In the Japan Mini-volume 6 and Viz Mini-volume 12 for the X & Y arc, Shauna's Skitty, Neko, was revealed to have Normalize as its Ability.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 一般皮膚 Yātbūn Pèihfū Mandarin 一般皮膚 / 一般皮肤 Yībān Pífū French Normalise German Regulierung Italian Normalità Korean 노말스킨 Normal Skin Spanish Normalidad Vietnamese Da Thường

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.