Anticipation (Ability)

Anticipation (Japanese: きけんよち Danger Premonition) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

In battle

Generation IV

When a Pokémon with Anticipation enters the battle or a Pokémon gains the Ability Anticipation, it causes the Pokémon to "shudder" if an opponent has a damaging move that is super effective against the Pokémon with Anticipation, a one-hit knockout move, or Self-Destruct or Explosion. Shuddering has no actual effect, except that the presence of the Ability message is meant to provide information about possible moves the opponent might have.

Hidden Power, Judgment, Weather Ball, and Natural Gift are treated as Normal-type moves. If the opponent has Scrappy or Normalize, or if Gravity is in effect, Anticipation will take those effects into account when determining if an opponent's move is in fact super effective. Counter, Metal Burst, and Mirror Coat do not trigger Anticipation.

Generation V

The moves Selfdestruct and Explosion are now treated like all other Normal-type moves and thus no longer trigger Anticipation.

Counter, Metal Burst, and Mirror Coat are counted as attacking moves of their types, so can trigger Anticipation. Techno Blast is treated as a Normal-type move. Synchronoise is treated as an ordinary Psychic-type move. Anticipation no longer factors in the effects of Scrappy, Normalize, or Gravity on type matchups when determining if it should display a trigger message.

Generation VI onward

Hidden Power is now treated as its effective type rather than Normal-type. Revelation Dance and Multi-Attack are treated as Normal-type moves. Freeze-Dry is treated as an ordinary Ice-type move. Flying Press is treated as an ordinary Fighting-type move. Aura Wheel is treated as an Electric-type move.

Anticipation takes into account the modified type chart of Inverse Battles and thus can be triggered by Normal-type moves (including Self-Destruct and Explosion).

Anticipation does not factor in the effect of strong winds on type matchups, nor the effect of opponents' abilities such as Aerilate on changing the type of their moves.

Outside of battle

Anticipation has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Anticipation

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0077		Ponyta Galarian Form	Psychic		Psychic	Run Away	Pastel Veil	Anticipation
0078		Rapidash Galarian Form	Psychic	Fairy	Run Away	Pastel Veil	Anticipation
0133		Eevee	Normal		Normal	Run Away	AdaptabilityGen IV+	Anticipation
0339		Barboach	Water	Ground	Oblivious	AnticipationGen IV+	Hydration
0340		Whiscash	Water	Ground	Oblivious	AnticipationGen IV+	Hydration
0413		Wormadam Plant Cloak	Bug	Grass	Anticipation	None	Overcoat
0413		Wormadam Sandy Cloak	Bug	Ground	Anticipation	None	Overcoat
0413		Wormadam Trash Cloak	Bug	Steel	Anticipation	None	Overcoat
0453		Croagunk	Poison	Fighting	Anticipation	Dry Skin	Poison Touch
0454		Toxicroak	Poison	Fighting	Anticipation	Dry Skin	Poison Touch
0598		Ferrothorn	Grass	Steel	Iron Barbs	None	AnticipationGen VI+
0856		Hatenna	Psychic		Psychic	Healer	Anticipation	Magic Bounce
0857		Hattrem	Psychic		Psychic	Healer	Anticipation	Magic Bounce
0858		Hatterene	Psychic	Fairy	Healer	Anticipation	Magic Bounce
0955		Flittle	Psychic		Psychic	Anticipation	Frisk	Speed Boost
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 Generation V, Ferrothorn has no Hidden Ability.

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

In Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, and the Mystery Dungeon (WiiWare) games, when a Pokémon with Anticipation attacks an opponent with a regular attack, it can detect if the opponent has any super-effective moves.

Since Gates to Infinity, Anticipation increases the chance of evading super-effective moves and one-hit knockout moves.

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, Anticipation is Ability of an Eevee that will evolve into an Espeon. When Eevee would be affected by a hindrance (including slow), the hindrance is negated and Eevee becomes immune to hindrances for a short time. Hindrances that have multiple hits, such as Pikachu's Volt Tackle, will have only the first hit negated. This Ability has 45 second cooldown. Upon evolving into Espeon, this becomes Magic Bounce.

Description

In animation

Pokémon animated series

Croagunk
The Pokémon predicts the movement of a stronger opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Croagunk can sense when a strong opponent is nearby. It can also sense the opponent inside its own Poké Ball.
Brock's Croagunk	Losing Its Lustrous!		Debut

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Croagunk
The Pokémon predicts the movement of a stronger opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Croagunk can sense when an opponent is sneaking up behind it.
Saturn's Croagunk	Crowded by Croagunk & Advanced on by Abra I		Debut

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!

Toxicroak
The Pokémon predicts the movement of a stronger opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Toxicroak can sense when an opponent is sneaking up behind it.
Saturn's Toxicroak	A Battle With Wills		Debut

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 危險預知 Ngàihhím Yuhjī * 預知危險 Yuhjī Ngàihhím * Mandarin 危險預知 Wéixiǎn Yùzhī / Wēixiǎn Yùzhī * 預知危險 Yùzhī Wéixiǎn * Dutch Anticipatie French Anticipation German Vorahnung Italian Presagio Korean 위험예지 Wiheom Yeji Brazilian Portuguese Presságio (UNITE) Antecipação (manga) Spanish Anticipación Vietnamese Dự báo nguy hiểm

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