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Inner Focusせいしんりょく
Force of Will

Flavor text

Generation VII
The Pokémon's intensely focused, and that protects the Pokémon from flinching.
Generation VIII
The Pokémon's intensely focused, and that protects the Pokémon from flinching.
Generation IX
The Pokémon's intense focus prevents it from flinching or being affected by Intimidate.

Inner Focus (Japanese: せいしんりょく Force of Will) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Generations III to VII

Inner Focus prevents the Pokémon from flinching. However, Pokémon with this Ability can still flinch to a Pokémon with Mold Breaker, Teravolt, or Turboblaze.

While some descriptions state that the user flinches, Focus Punch failing due to taking damage is not flinching, so the move is unaffected by Inner Focus.

If the Pokémon is hit by a move that always causes flinching, the message "<Pokémon>'s Inner Focus prevents flinching!" (Generation III) or "<Pokémon> won't flinch because of its Inner Focus!" (Generation IV) will appear.

Generation VIII onward

Inner Focus now also blocks Intimidate.

Outside of battle

Inner Focus has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Inner Focus

In other games

Description

GamesDescription
MDRBPrevents cringing.
MDTDSProtects the Pokémon from cringing.
BSLひるみじょうたいに ならない
Conq.The Pokémon is protected from flinching.
MDGtIPrevents the Cringe status condition.*
It protects the Pokémon from the Cringe status condition! It won't ever Cringe!*
SMDIt protects the Pokémon from the flinch status condition!
MDRTDXThis Ability protects the Pokémon from the Flinch status condition.

In the anime

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

In other languages

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