Cursed Body (Ability)

Cursed Body (Japanese: のろわれボディ Cursed Body) is an Ability introduced in Generation V.

Cursed Body

のろわれボディ

Cursed Body

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Generation V
May disable a move used on the Pokémon.


Generation VI
May disable a move used on the Pokémon.


Generation VII
May disable a move used on the Pokémon.


Generation VIII
May disable a move used on the Pokémon.

Effect

In battle

When a Pokémon with this Ability is hit by a damaging move, there is a 30% chance that the Cursed Body will disable that move of the attacking Pokémon for 4 turns (including the turn Cursed Body activates). Cursed Body can activate even if the attacker is behind a substitute or if the Pokémon with Cursed Body is knocked out, but will not activate if the attack hits the substitute of the Pokémon with Cursed Body.

If Cursed Body disables a multi-strike move before it has finished all of its hits, it will not prevent the other hits from being executed. Cursed Body can disable a move that calls another move if the called move dealt damage.

If a Pokémon uses a damaging Z-Move on a Pokémon with Cursed Body, that damaging Z-Move can be disabled (with no effect on the base move), despite Z-Moves only being able to be used once per battle. However, if Cursed Body would disable a status Z-Move (such as Z-Nature Power), the base status move will be disabled.

Outside of battle

Cursed Body has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Cursed Body

#	Pokémon	Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
	Gengar	Ghost	Poison	Cursed Body	None	None
	Marowak Alolan Form	Fire	Ghost	Cursed Body	Lightning Rod	Rock Head
	Corsola Galarian Form	Ghost		Ghost	Weak Armor	None	Cursed Body
	Shuppet	Ghost		Ghost	Insomnia	Frisk	Cursed Body
	Banette	Ghost		Ghost	Insomnia	Frisk	Cursed Body
	Froslass	Ice	Ghost	Snow Cloak	None	Cursed Body
	Frillish	Water	Ghost	Water Absorb	Cursed Body	Damp
	Jellicent	Water	Ghost	Water Absorb	Cursed Body	Damp
	Sinistea	Ghost		Ghost	Weak Armor	None	Cursed Body
	Polteageist	Ghost		Ghost	Weak Armor	None	Cursed Body
	Dreepy	Dragon	Ghost	Clear Body	Infiltrator	Cursed Body
	Drakloak	Dragon	Ghost	Clear Body	Infiltrator	Cursed Body
	Dragapult	Dragon	Ghost	Clear Body	Infiltrator	Cursed Body
Please note that this is only 100% accurate to Generation VIII games. For Generation III games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation IV or later and Hidden Abilities. For Generation IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities. For Generation V games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VI or later. For Generation VI games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VII or later. For Generation VII games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VIII or later.

Prior to Generation VII, Gengar had Levitate instead of Cursed Body.

In other games

Description

Games	Description
MDGtI	Unavailable
SMD	When the Pokémon takes damage from an enemy's move, it sometimes seals the move!
MDRTDX	When the Pokémon takes damage from an enemy's move, it sometimes seals the move.

In the anime

Pokémon	Method

Frillish	Jellicent	Gengar
The Pokémon disables one of its opponent's moves or the opponent's movement.
User	First Used In		Notes
Frillish	When Frillish is hit by an opponent's attack that causes physical contact, Frillish's body becomes surrounded in a dark indigo aura which then covers the opponent's body. The opponent can then no longer use the move that inflicted the damage onto Frillish.
Trip's Frillish	A Rival Battle for Club Champ!		Debut
Jellicent	After Jellicent gets hit by an attack, Jellicent's body shakes and is surrounded by a pinkish aura. The opponent's body shakes and is surrounded by a pinkish aura in the same manner, and the attack that caused the activation is disabled.
Marlon's Jellicent	The Road to Humilau!		None
Gengar	After Gengar hits the opponent with an attack, the opponent becomes surrounded by a circle of dark aura, preventing it from moving.
Acerola's Greedy Rapooh	The Battlefield of Truth and Love!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

	Jellicent

The Pokémon disables the last move that hit it.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In	Notes
Jellicent	Jellicent's opponent becomes unable to use the last move that hit Jellicent.
Marlon's Jellicent	The Tournament Continues	None

X's Gengar, Garma, was revealed to have Cursed Body as his Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.
A Team Plasma Grunt's Frillish was revealed to Cursed Body as her Ability.

Trivia

Alolan Marowak, and the Frillish and Sinistea evolutionary lines are the Pokémon with Cursed Body that cannot learn Disable.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	詛咒之軀 Jojau-jī Kēui * 詛咒身體 Jojau Sāntái *
Chinese	Mandarin	詛咒之軀 / 诅咒之躯 Zǔzhòu-zhī Qū * 咒术之躯 Zhòu Shù Zhī Qū * 詛咒身體 Zǔzhòu Shēntǐ *
Czech		Prokleté tělo
Dutch		Vervloekt lichaam
Finnish		Kirottu keho
French		Corps Maudit
German		Tastfluch
Hindi		श्रापित शरीर Shraapit Shareer
Indonesian		Tubuh Terkutuk
Italian		Corpofunesto
Korean		저주받은바디 Jeojubad-eun Body
Polish		Szkodliwe Ciało
Portuguese		Corpo Amaldiçoado
Russian		Проклятое Тело Proklyatoye Telo
Spanish	Latin America	Cuerpo Maldito
Spanish	Spain	Cuerpo Maldito* Cue. Maldito*
Vietnamese		Cơ Thể Bị Nguyền Rủa

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