Cursed Body (Ability)

Cursed Body	のろわれボディ
	Cursed Body
Flavor text 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. Generation IX May disable a move that has dealt damage to the Pokémon.

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

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). Struggle cannot be disabled. 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 multistrike 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), temporarily preventing it from being used twice with the effect of Rotom Powers, but otherwise having no tangible effect. 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
0094		Gengar	Ghost	Poison	Cursed BodyGen VII	None	None
0105		Marowak Alolan Form	Fire	Ghost	Cursed Body	Lightning Rod	Rock Head
0222		Corsola Galarian Form	Ghost		Ghost	Weak Armor	None	Cursed Body
0353		Shuppet	Ghost		Ghost	Insomnia	FriskGen IV	Cursed Body
0354		Banette	Ghost		Ghost	Insomnia	FriskGen IV	Cursed Body
0478		Froslass	Ice	Ghost	Snow Cloak	None	Cursed Body
0592		Frillish	Water	Ghost	Water Absorb	Cursed Body	Damp
0593		Jellicent	Water	Ghost	Water Absorb	Cursed Body	Damp
0854		Sinistea	Ghost		Ghost	Weak Armor	None	Cursed Body
0855		Polteageist	Ghost		Ghost	Weak Armor	None	Cursed Body
0885		Dreepy	Dragon	Ghost	Clear Body	Infiltrator	Cursed Body
0886		Drakloak	Dragon	Ghost	Clear Body	Infiltrator	Cursed Body
0887		Dragapult	Dragon	Ghost	Clear Body	Infiltrator	Cursed Body
Please note that Abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

• 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 animation

Pokémon animated series

Frillish Jellicent Acerola's Gengar Ash's Gengar
The Pokémon disables one of its opponent's moves or the opponent's movement.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	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
	When 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
	When Gengar hits the opponent with an attack, the opponent becomes surrounded by a circle of dark aura, preventing it from moving; or, when Gengar is hit by an attack, its body shivers. The opponent then also starts shivering and becomes unable to use the attack that hit Gengar.
Acerola's Greedy Rapooh	The Battlefield of Truth and Love!		None
Ash's Gengar	A Flood of Torrential Gains!		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'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.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 詛咒之軀 Jojau-jī Kēui * 詛咒身體 Jojau Sāntái * 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 Brazil Corpo Amaldiçoado Portugal Corpo Maldito Russian Проклятое Тело Proklyatoye Telo Spanish Latin America Cuerpo Maldito Spain Cuerpo MalditoVI Cue. MalditoV Vietnamese Cơ Thể Bị Nguyền Rủa

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