Cotton Down (Ability)

Cotton Down わたげ
Cotton Down
Flavor text
Generation VIII
When the Pokémon is hit by an attack, it scatters cotton fluff around and lowers the Speed stat of all Pokémon except itself.
Generation IX
When the Pokémon is hit by an attack, it scatters cotton fluff around and lowers the Speed stats of all Pokémon except itself.

Cotton Down (Japanese: わたげ Cotton Down) is an Ability introduced in Generation VIII. It is the signature Ability of Gossifleur and Eldegoss.

Effect

In battle

When a Pokémon with this Ability is hit by a damaging move, the Speed of all other Pokémon is decreased by one stage.

If a Pokémon with this Ability is hit by a multistrike move (such as Fury Swipes), each hit activates this Ability.

Outside of battle

Cotton Down has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Cotton Down

# Pokémon Types First Ability Second Ability Hidden Ability
0829 Gossifleur Gossifleur
Grass Grass Cotton Down Regenerator Effect Spore
0830 Eldegoss Eldegoss
Grass Grass Cotton Down Regenerator Effect Spore
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.

In other games

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, Cotton Down is Eldegoss's Ability. When receiving a certain amount of damage, the Ability causes user to recover HP, deal revenge damage, and decrease the enemies movement speed for a short time. This Ability has a 10s cooldown.

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 棉絮 Mìhnséuih
Mandarin 棉絮 Miánxù
France Flag.png French Effilochage
Germany Flag.png German Wollflaum
Italy Flag.png Italian Lanugine
South Korea Flag.png Korean 솜털 Somteol
Poland Flag.png Polish Zrzucenie Bawełny
Brazil Flag.png Brazilian Portuguese Queda de Algodão
Russia Flag.png Russian Комок Хлопка Komok Khlopka
Spain Flag.png Spanish Pelusa


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