Ability Detail

Summary

Infiltrator is a Pokémon ability that provides unique offensive advantages by allowing the Pokémon with this ability to bypass certain defensive measures that opponents may employ. Specifically, Infiltrator negates the effects of Substitute, Light Screen, Reflect, Aurora Veil, Mist, and Safeguard when the Pokémon attacks. This means that attacks from a Pokémon with Infiltrator will ignore the protective benefits these moves provide to opponents.

Effects:

Substitute: Attacks hit through the Substitute, effectively removing the buffer the substitute provides.

Light Screen and Reflect: These moves ordinarily halve the damage from special and physical attacks respectively. Infiltrator bypasses these damage reduction barriers, dealing full damage.

Aurora Veil: Similar to Light Screen and Reflect but offers dual protection against both types of attacks, which Infiltrator ignores.

Mist: Protects against stat reductions but Infiltrator disregards

Flavor Texts

black-white: Passes through the foe’s barrier and strikes.

black-2-white-2: Passes through the foe’s barrier and strikes.

x-y: Passes through the opposing Pokémon’s barrier and strikes.

omega-ruby-alpha-sapphire: Passes through the opposing Pokémon’s barrier and strikes.

sun-moon: Passes through the opposing Pokémon’s barrier, substitute, and the like and strikes.

ultra-sun-ultra-moon: Passes through the opposing Pokémon’s barrier, substitute, and the like and strikes.

lets-go-pikachu-lets-go-eevee: Passes through the opposing Pokémon’s barrier, substitute, and the like and strikes.

sword-shield: Passes through the opposing Pokémon’s barrier, substitute, and the like and strikes.

scarlet-violet: The Pokémon's moves are unaffected by the target's barriers, substitutes, and the like.