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Levitate ふゆう Floating Flavor text Generation III Not hit by Ground attacks. Generation IV Gives full immunity to all Ground-type moves. Generation V Gives full immunity to all Ground-type moves. Generation VI Gives full immunity to all Ground-type moves. Generation VII By floating in the air, the Pokémon receives full immunity to all Ground-type moves. Generation VIII By floating in the air, the Pokémon receives full immunity to all Ground-type moves.

Levitate (Japanese: ふゆう Floating) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Levitate renders the Pokémon with this Ability immune to damaging Ground-type moves (except Thousand Arrows). It also is unaffected by the effects of Arena Trap, Spikes, Toxic Spikes, Sticky Web, Rototiller, and terrain. Additionally, Poison-type Pokémon with Levitate do not remove Toxic Spikes upon switching in.

These immunities are lost during Gravity or if the Pokémon with Levitate is holding an Iron Ball, is under the effects of Ingrain, or has been hit by Smack Down or Thousand Arrows.

Pokémon with this Ability are eligible to enter Sky Battles, except Gengar because its model lands on the ground when entering the battle.

Outside of battle

Levitate has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Levitate

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

Pokéstar Studios opponents with Levitate

In other games

Description

In the anime

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Koga's Weezing and Koffing are revealed to have Levitate as their Ability.

Agatha's Gengar are revealed to have Levitate as their Ability.

Morty's Misdreavus and Gastly are revealed to have Levitate as their Ability.

Wally's Flygon is revealed to have Levitate as its Ability.

Tate's Solrock and Liza's Lunatone are revealed to have Levitate as their Ability.

Fantina's Mismagius and Duskull are revealed to have Levitate as their Ability.

Palmer's Cresselia is revealed to have Levitate as her Ability.

Brycen's Cryogonal is revealed to have Levitate as its Ability.

Latios and Latias are revealed to have Levitate as their Ability.

Giratina in its Origin Forme is revealed to have Levitate as its Ability.

In the Pocket Monsters Platinum: Aim to Be Battle King!! manga

In PBK4, Yū's Heatran gained Levitate when his Bronzong used Skill Swap on it.

Trivia

Many non-Flying-type Pokémon that have been seen to be capable of floating or flying, such as Beedrill, cannot have this Ability.

Despite the fact that its descriptions from Generation IV on state that Levitate gives immunity to all Ground-type moves, Pokémon with Levitate are affected by the status move Sand Attack.

Fan Rotom is the only Pokémon with this Ability to be naturally immune to Ground-type moves due to being Flying-type in Generation V and onward.

This is the most common Ability among the winning Video Game World Championships teams.

This is the most common Ability in Generation VII, with 40 different cases of it, including Mega Evolution and Pokémon with alternate forms.

This is the most common Ability to be a Pokémon's only Ability option.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 飄浮 Pīufàuh *

漂浮 Pīufàuh *

浮游 Fàuhyàuh * Mandarin 飄浮 / 飘浮 Piāofú *

漂浮 Piāofú * Dutch Levitatie French Lévitation German Schwebe Italian Levitazione Korean 부유 Buyu Polish Lewitacja Portuguese Levitação Romanian Levitație Russian Левитация Levitatsiya Spanish Levitación Turkish Havalanma Vietnamese Lơ lửng



