Cloud Nine (Japanese:ノーてんきNo Weather) is anAbility introduced inGeneration III. Prior toGeneration V, it was thesignature Ability ofPsyduck andGolduck.

Effect

In battle

When a Pokémon with Cloud Nine is in battle, all effects ofweather are negated (though the weather itself does not disappear).

Generation V

When a Pokémon with Cloud Nine is brought out, the message "The effects of weather disappeared." will be displayed.

Generation VI

Duringextremely harsh sunlight,heavy rain, andstrong winds, even if a Pokémon is negating the effects of weather with Cloud Nine, the movesSunny Day,Rain Dance,Sandstorm, andHail will still fail if used, and the AbilitiesDrought,Drizzle,Sand Stream, andSnow Warning will still fail to activate. However, all other effects of these weather conditions are negated by Cloud Nine.

Outside of battle

Cloud Nine has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Cloud Nine

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0054		Psyduck	Water		Water	Damp	Cloud Nine	Swift Swim
0055		Golduck	Water		Water	Damp	Cloud Nine	Swift Swim
0108		Lickitung	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Oblivious	Cloud Nine
0333		Swablu	Normal	Flying	Natural Cure	None	Cloud Nine
0334		Altaria	Dragon	Flying	Natural Cure	None	Cloud Nine
0463		Lickilicky	Normal		Normal	Own Tempo	Oblivious	Cloud Nine
0780		Drampa	Normal	Dragon	Berserk	Sap Sipper	Cloud Nine
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 Mystery Dungeon series

InRed Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, andExplorers of Time, Darkness andSky, Cloud Nine changes theweather to Clear upon entering a floor, and then every subsequent 36 turns. Cloud Nine will take precedence overDrizzle,Drought,Sand Stream, andSnow Warning. Additionally, this Ability prevents the use of the movesSunny Day,Rain Dance,Hail, andSandstorm, and the items Sunny Orb, Rainy Orb, Sandy Orb, and Hail Orb become useless (trying to use one will still consume the item). If the dungeon has natural weather, it will return when Cloud Nine's effect ceases.

InPokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, Cloud Nine nullifies the effects of the weather rather than changing the weather to Clear. Abilities such as Drizzle, and moves such as Rain Dance will still activate, but the effects of the weather will remain negated.

Description

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• Involume 23,Blue's Golduck was revealed to have Cloud Nine as his Ability.

Trivia

• The Japanese name of this Ability is a double entendre, written so as to suggest ノー天気nō tenki (no weather), but also homophonous to 能天気nōtenki (carefree, and also used as the word for the Laxnature), in reference toPsyduck, originally the only Pokémon (in addition toGolduck) that had this Ability. The English name derives directly from the "carefree" meaning, while still maintaining a weak pun to connect it to the weather.

In other languages

This article is part ofProject Moves and Abilities, aBulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.

• Abilities
• Abilities introduced in Generation III
• Abilities with effects on weather conditions
• Abilities that activate upon entering battle