Intimidate (Ability)

When a Pokémon with Intimidate enters the battle, it lowers the Attack stat of all adjacent opponents by one stage.

In Generations III and IV, Intimidate's activation message reads, "<Pokémon>'s Intimidate cuts <opponent>'s attack!"

Intimidate has no effect on Pokémon who are immune to Attack stat reductions, such as Pokémon with Clear Body, Hyper Cutter, or White Smoke. This Ability will not affect a target with a substitute.

Intimidate now also activates when a Pokémon gains the Ability, such as via Skill Swap or Mega Evolution.

In Generation V, the message changed to "<Opponent>'s Attack fell!"

In a Triple Battle, Intimidate does not affect non-adjacent Pokémon.

Intimidate does not affect Pokémon with the Full Metal Body Ability.

Wild Pokémon are more likely to call for help when facing a Pokémon with Intimidate. It shares this effect with Pressure and Unnerve.

If a Pokémon holding an Adrenaline Orb is affected by Intimidate, the item will be consumed and increase the holder's Speed by one stage.

Intimidate no longer affects Pokémon with Inner Focus, Oblivious, Scrappy, or Own Tempo. Intimidate also now triggers Rattled.

From Pokémon Emerald onwards, if a Pokémon with Intimidate is in the first place in the party (even if fainted), there is a 50% chance it will prevent a random wild encounter that would have occurred if the wild Pokémon would be at least 5 levels lower than the Pokémon with Intimidate. It shares this effect with Keen Eye.

When an adjacent enemy Pokémon attacks a Pokémon with the Ability Intimidate, the power of physical moves are reduced by 20%.

	Gyarados
The Pokémon intimidates the opposing team upon entering battle, lowering their attack power.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
Gyarados	When Gyarados is sent out, the opposing team's attack strength is lowered automatically.
Red's Gyara	Red and Blue Make Purple Opponents		Debut

• In Pinsir Me, I Must Be Dreaming, the rental Mawile that Noland used during his Battle Factory match against Emerald was revealed to have Intimidate as his Ability by Emerald's Pokédex.
• In Omega Alpha Adventure 3, Zinnia's Salamence was mentioned to have Intimidate as its Ability, but it wasn't shown activating it.
• In volume 40, Pearl's Luxray, Rayler, was revealed to have Intimidate as his Ability.
• In volume 42, Crystal's Arcanine, Archy, was revealed to have Intimidate as his Ability.
• In volume 42, Silver's Gyarados was revealed to have Intimidate as his Ability.
• X's Manectric, Élec, was revealed to have Intimidate as his Ability when Mega Evolved in the PokéSPedia data-book.
• Blue's Arcanine was revealed to have Intimidate as his Ability.
• Ruby's Poochyena, Nana, was revealed to have Intimidate as her Ability.
• Lance's Gyarados's was revealed to have Intimidate as its Ability.
• Winona's Masquerain was revealed to have Intimidate as her Ability.
• Spenser's Salamence was revealed to have Intimidate as its Ability.
• Lenora's Stoutland was revealed to have Intimidate as its Ability.
• Staravia used by Team Galactic Grunts were revealed to have Intimidate as their Ability.