Keen Eye (Ability)

Keen Eye (Japanese: するどいめ Keen Eye) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Generation III

Keen Eye prevents other Pokémon from lowering the accuracy stat stage of the Pokémon with this Ability. It does not prevent Spectral Thief from stealing (i.e., resetting) positive stat changes.

Effects that decrease accuracy without using stat stages, such as Wonder Skin and Sand Veil, are unaffected by Keen Eye.

This Ability can be ignored with Mold Breaker, Teravolt, and Turboblaze.

Generation VI

Keen Eye now also ignores the target's evasion stages.

Outside of battle

From Pokémon Emerald onward, if a Pokémon with Keen Eye is in the first place in the party (even if fainted), there is a 50% chance it will prevent a random wild encounter that would have occurred if the wild Pokémon would be at least 5 levels lower than the Pokémon with Keen Eye. It shares this effect with Intimidate.

In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver only, if a Pokémon with Keen Eye breaks a rock, it receives a flat 5% increase in odds of finding an item.

Generation VIII onwards

Keen Eye appears to have no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Keen Eye

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0016		Pidgey	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled FeetGen IV+	Big Pecks
0017		Pidgeotto	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled FeetGen IV+	Big Pecks
0018		Pidgeot	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled FeetGen IV+	Big Pecks
0021		Spearow	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	None	Sniper
0022		Fearow	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	None	Sniper
0083		Farfetch'd	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Inner Focus	Defiant
0107		Hitmonchan	Fighting		Fighting	Keen Eye	Iron FistGen IV+	Inner Focus
0161		Sentret	Normal		Normal	Run Away	Keen Eye	Frisk
0162		Furret	Normal		Normal	Run Away	Keen Eye	Frisk
0163		Hoothoot	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
0164		Noctowl	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
0215		Sneasel	Dark	Ice	Inner Focus	Keen Eye	Pickpocket
0215		Sneasel Hisuian Form	Fighting	Poison	Inner Focus	Keen Eye	PickpocketGen IX+
0227		Skarmory	Steel	Flying	Keen Eye	Sturdy	Weak Armor
0278		Wingull	Water	Flying	Keen Eye	HydrationGen VII+	Rain Dish
0279		Pelipper	Water	Flying	Keen Eye	DrizzleGen VII+	Rain Dish
0302		Sableye	Dark	Ghost	Keen Eye	StallGen IV+	Prankster
0396		Starly	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	None	RecklessGen VI+
0431		Glameow	Normal		Normal	Limber	Own Tempo	Keen Eye
0434		Stunky	Poison	Dark	Stench	Aftermath	Keen Eye
0435		Skuntank	Poison	Dark	Stench	Aftermath	Keen Eye
0441		Chatot	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Tangled Feet	Big Pecks
0451		Skorupi	Poison	Bug	Battle Armor	Sniper	Keen Eye
0452		Drapion	Poison	Dark	Battle Armor	Sniper	Keen Eye
0504		Patrat	Normal		Normal	Run Away	Keen Eye	Analytic
0505		Watchog	Normal		Normal	Illuminate	Keen Eye	Analytic
0580		Ducklett	Water	Flying	Keen Eye	Big Pecks	Hydration
0581		Swanna	Water	Flying	Keen Eye	Big Pecks	Hydration
0627		Rufflet	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Sheer Force	Hustle
0628		Braviary	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Sheer Force	Defiant
0628		Braviary Hisuian Form	Psychic	Flying	Keen Eye	Sheer Force	Tinted LensGen IX+
0677		Espurr	Psychic		Psychic	Keen Eye	Infiltrator	Own Tempo
0678		Meowstic Male	Psychic		Psychic	Keen Eye	Infiltrator	Prankster
0678		Meowstic Female	Psychic		Psychic	Keen Eye	Infiltrator	Competitive
0731		Pikipek	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Skill Link	Pickup
0732		Trumbeak	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Skill Link	Pickup
0733		Toucannon	Normal	Flying	Keen Eye	Skill Link	Sheer Force
0744		Rockruff	Rock		Rock	Keen Eye	Vital Spirit	Steadfast
0745		Lycanroc Midday Form	Rock		Rock	Keen Eye	Sand Rush	Steadfast
0745		Lycanroc Midnight Form	Rock		Rock	Keen Eye	Vital Spirit	No Guard
0821		Rookidee	Flying		Flying	Keen Eye	Unnerve	Big Pecks
0822		Corvisquire	Flying		Flying	Keen Eye	Unnerve	Big Pecks
0962		Bombirdier	Flying	Dark	Big Pecks	Keen Eye	Rocky Payload
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

Description

In animation

Pokémon animated series

Meowstic
The Pokémon's keen eyes make it difficult for opponents to dodge the Pokémon's attacks.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Meowstic can redirect its attacks, making them extremely difficult to evade.
Olympia's Meowstic	All Eyes on the Future!		Debut

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• Blue's Pidgeot was revealed to have Keen Eye as his Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.
• Falkner's Skarmory, Skyla's Swanna, three Patrat belonging to the BW Agency, and Professor Oak's Fearow were revealed to have Keen Eye as their Ability.

Pocket Monsters BW: The Heroes of Fire and Thunder

Watchog
The Pokémon's vision cannot be obscured.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Watchog focuses its vision to see through obscurities.
Togari's Watchog	Justice Trainer Shin Appears!		Debut

In other languages

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