Ability

Shield Dust

11 Pokémon can have Shield Dust: 11 as a regular Ability.

What does Shield Dust do?

This Pokémon is immune to the extra effects of moves used against it. An extra effect is a move's chance, listed as an "effect chance", to inflict a status ailment, cause a stat change, or make the target flinch in addition to the move's main effect. For example, Thunder Shock's paralysis is an extra effect, but Thunder Wave's is not, nor are Knock Off's item removal and Air Cutter's increased critical hit rate.

Introduced in Generation 3.

Which Pokémon have Shield Dust? (11)

• Caterpie
• Weedle
• Venomoth
• Wurmple
• Dustox
• Scatterbug
• Vivillon
• Cutiefly
• Ribombee
• Snom
• Frosmoth

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