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Pickpocket

Steals attacking Pokémon's held items on contact.

Flavor

In-game flavor text and effect notes for this ability.

Flavor Text

Steals an item from an attacker that made direct contact.

Short Effect

Steals attacking Pokémon's held items on contact.

Effect

Whenever a move makes contact with this Pokémon, if it does not have a held item, it steals the attacker's held item. This Pokémon cannot steal upon being knocked out. It can steal if the attacker has a Substitute, but cannot steal when its own Substitute is hit. If a move hits multiple times, only the last hit triggers this ability. If this Pokémon is wild, it cannot steal from a trained Pokémon.

Pickpocket

Pokémon ability

Pokémon

15

As Hidden Ability

14

Introduced

Generation 5

Games with pages

7

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