Volt Absorb (Ability) - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokmon encyclopedia

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Volt Absorb (Japanese: ちくでん Electricity Storage) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Generation III

When a Pokémon with Volt Absorb is hit by a damaging Electric-type move, its HP is restored by one quarter of its maximum HP, and the move will have no effect on that Pokémon (if a Pokémon with this Ability already has full HP, the Electric-type move will do nothing).

Volt Absorb will not activate if the Pokémon is protected from the Electric-type move.

Generation IV onward

Volt Absorb will now also activate when a Pokémon with it is hit by an Electric-type status move.

Multi-strike moves that are turned into Electric-type moves, such as by being affected by Electrify or Galvanize, will only activate this Ability once.

If a Pokémon with Volt Absorb is holding a Cell Battery, Volt Absorb absorbs the move, so the Cell Battery's effect is not triggered.

Outside of battle

Volt Absorb has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Volt Absorb

Pokémon that formerly had Volt Absorb

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0243		Raikou	Electric		Pressure	None	Volt AbsorbGen V-VI
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.

Pokéstar Studios opponents with Volt Absorb

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, and the Mystery Dungeon (WiiWare) games, when a Pokémon with Volt Absorb is hit by an Electric-type move, its HP is restored by the amount of damage it would have inflicted.

In Gates to Infinity and Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, Volt Absorb instead restores 20% of the Pokémon's maximum HP when hit by an Electric-type move.

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, Volt Absorb is Zeraora's Ability. It converts 8% of the damage Zeraora was dealt as Attack, up to 200 Attack. This buff resets after not taking damage for 4s.

Description

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• Red's Eevee, Vee, is revealed to have Volt Absorb as his Ability when transformed into a Jolteon.

In other languages

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