Cloud Nine (Ability)

Cloud Nine (Japanese: ノーてんき No Weather) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Prior to Generation V, it was the signature Ability of Psyduck and Golduck.

Effect

In battle

When a Pokémon with Cloud Nine is in battle, all effects of weather are negated (though the weather itself does not disappear).

Generation V

When a Pokémon with Cloud Nine is brought out, the message "The effects of weather disappeared." will be displayed.

Generation VI

During extremely harsh sunlight, heavy rain, and strong winds, even if a Pokémon is negating the effects of weather with Cloud Nine, the moves Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Sandstorm, and Hail will still fail if used, and the Abilities Drought, Drizzle, Sand Stream, and Snow Warning will still fail to activate. However, all other effects of these weather conditions are negated by Cloud Nine.

Outside of battle

Cloud Nine has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Cloud Nine

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0054		Psyduck	Water		Water	Damp	Cloud Nine	Swift Swim
0055		Golduck	Water		Water	Damp	Cloud Nine	Swift Swim
0108		Lickitung	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Oblivious	Cloud Nine
0333		Swablu	Normal	Flying	Natural Cure	None	Cloud Nine
0334		Altaria	Dragon	Flying	Natural Cure	None	Cloud Nine
0463		Lickilicky	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Oblivious	Cloud Nine
0780		Drampa	Normal	Dragon	Berserk	Sap Sipper	Cloud Nine
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

In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, and Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, Cloud Nine changes the weather to Clear upon entering a floor, and then every subsequent 36 turns. Cloud Nine will take precedence over Drizzle, Drought, Sand Stream, and Snow Warning. Additionally, this Ability prevents the use of the moves Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Hail, and Sandstorm, and the items Sunny Orb, Rainy Orb, Sandy Orb, and Hail Orb become useless (trying to use one will still consume the item).

In Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, Cloud Nine nullifies the effects of the weather rather than changing the weather to Clear. Abilities such as Drizzle, and moves such as Rain Dance will still activate, but the effects of the weather will remain negated.

Description

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• In volume 23, Blue's Golduck was revealed to have Cloud Nine as his Ability.

Trivia

• The Japanese name of this Ability is a double entendre, written so as to suggest ノー天気 nō tenki (no weather), but also homophonous to 能天気 nōtenki (carefree), in reference to Psyduck, originally the only Pokémon (in addition to Golduck) that had this Ability. The English name derives directly from the "carefree" meaning, while still maintaining a weak pun to connect it to the weather.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 無關天氣 Mòuhgwāan Tīnhei * 樂天 Lohktīn * Mandarin 無關天氣 / 无关天气 Wúguān Tiānqì * 樂天 / 乐天 Lètiān * French Ciel Gris German Wolke Sieben Italian Antimeteo Korean 날씨부정 Nalssi Bujeong Brazilian Portuguese Aclimatação Spanish Aclimatación Vietnamese Vô thời tiết

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.