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Big Pecks はとむね
Pigeon Breast

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Generation V
Protects the Pokémon from Defense-lowering attacks.
Generation VI
Protects the Pokémon from Defense-lowering attacks.
Generation IX
Prevents the Pokémon from having its Defense stat lowered.

Big Pecks (Japanese: はとむね Pigeon Breast) is an Ability introduced in Generation V.

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Effect

In battle

Big Pecks prevents other Pokémon from lowering the Defense stat stage of the Pokémon with this Ability. It does not prevent the Pokémon with this Ability from lowering its own Defense, such as by using Shell Smash. It does not prevent Spectral Thief from stealing (i.e., resetting) positive stat changes.

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Effects that decrease Defense without using stat stages, such as Guard Swap, Heart Swap, or Guard Split, are unaffected by Big Pecks.

This Ability can be ignored by Pokémon with Mold Breaker, Teravolt, and Turboblaze.

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Outside of battle

Big Pecks has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Big Pecks

In other games

Description

Games Description
MDGtI Prevents Defense from being lowered.*The Pokémon's Defense won't be lowered!*
SMD The Pokémon's Defense won't be lowered!

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Trivia

  • The name "Big Pecks" is a pun, referring to both pecking with a beak and the pectoralis major.
    • Similarly, Big Pecks's Japanese name, Hatomune, can also be taken to mean "a proud heart".

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