Serene Grace (Japanese:てんのめぐみHeavenly Blessing) is anAbility introduced inGeneration III.

Effect

In battle

Serene Grace will double the chance of a move having anadditional effect. For example,Psychic will have a 20% chance of lowering the target'sSpecial Defense stat instead of its usual 10% chance, andRock Smash will always lower an opponent'sDefense by 1 level, as opposed to having a 50% chance of doing so.

Serene Grace has no effect onstatus moves.

Generations III and IV

The 10%flinch chance due toKing's Rock andRazor Fang is unaffected by Serene Grace.

Generation V onwards

Serene Grace boosts the 10% flinch chance due toKing's Rock orRazor Fang to 20%.

Serene Grace is cumulative with the rainbow produced by usingFire Pledge andWater Pledge on the same turn (causing secondary effect probabilities to be multiplied by 4 if both modifiers are present), except that moves with a chance to flinch will only have that chance doubled once.

From Generation V untilPokémon Sword and Shield (except Abilities are unavailable inPokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!), if the user has Serene Grace and usesCharge Beam while its side is under the effect of the rainbow from the combination ofFire Pledge andWater Pledge, the additional effect chance for Charge Beam willoverflow and become 24%.

Serene Grace does not increase the probabilities for additional effects ofG-Max Replenish orG-Max Snooze.

Affected moves

The table below lists the moves affected by Serene Grace, as well as the Pokémon that can have Serene Grace and learn those moves.

Move Type Cat. Effect Pow. Chance Learned by Air Slash  Flying  Special Flinch 75 30% → 60% Ancient Power  Rock  Special Stats ↑ 60 10% → 20% * Astonish  Ghost  Physical Flinch 30 30% → 60% Bite  Dark  Physical Flinch 60 30% → 60% Blizzard  Ice  Special Freeze 110 10% → 20% Body Slam  Normal  Physical Paralysis 85 30% → 60% Bounce  Flying  Physical Paralysis 85 30% → 60% Charge Beam  Electric  Special Sp. Atk. ↑ 50 70% → 100% **** Confusion  Psychic  Special Confusion 50 10% → 20% Dragon Rush  Dragon  Physical Flinch 100 20% → 40% Earth Power  Ground  Special Sp. Def. ↓ 90 10% → 20% Energy Ball  Grass  Special Sp. Def. ↓ 90 10% → 20% Extrasensory  Psychic  Special Flinch 80 10% → 20% Fire Blast  Fire  Special Burn 110 10% → 20% Fire Punch  Fire  Physical Burn 75 10% → 20% Flamethrower  Fire  Special Burn 90 10% → 20% Flash Cannon  Steel  Special Sp. Def. ↓ 80 10% → 20% Focus Blast  Fighting  Special Sp. Def. ↓ 120 10% → 20% Headbutt  Normal  Physical Flinch 70 30% → 60% ******** Heart Stamp  Psychic  Physical Flinch 60 30% → 60% * Heat Wave  Fire  Special Burn 95 10% → 20% Ice Beam  Ice  Special Freeze 90 10% → 20% Ice Punch  Ice  Physical Freeze 75 10% → 20% Iron Head  Steel  Physical Flinch 80 30% → 60% Iron Tail  Steel  Physical Defense ↓ 100 10% → 20% Meteor Mash  Steel  Physical Attack ↑ 90 20% → 40% Moonblast  Fairy  Special Sp. Atk. ↓ 95 30% → 60% * Ominous Wind  Ghost  Special Stats ↑ 60 10% → 20% Play Rough  Fairy  Physical Attack ↓ 90 10% → 20% Poison Jab  Poison  Physical Poison 80 30% → 60% Poison Tail  Poison  Physical Poison 50 10% → 20% Psybeam  Psychic  Special Confusion 65 10% → 20% Psychic  Psychic  Special Sp. Def. ↓ 90 10% → 20% Relic Song  Normal  Special Sleep 75 10% → 20% Rock Climb  Normal  Physical Confusion 90 20% → 40% Rock Slide  Rock  Physical Flinch 75 30% → 60% Rock Smash  Fighting  Physical Defense ↓ 40 50% → 100% ********* Secret Power*  Normal  Physical Varies 70 30% → 60% Seed Flare  Grass  Special Sp. Def. ↓↓ 120 40% → 80% Shadow Ball  Ghost  Special Sp. Def. ↓ 80 20% → 40% Signal Beam  Bug  Special Confusion 75 10% → 20% Silver Wind  Bug  Special Stats ↑ 60 10% → 20% ** Sky Attack  Flying  Physical Flinch 140 30% → 60% * Snore  Normal  Special Flinch 50 30% → 60% Steel Wing  Steel  Physical Defense ↑ 70 10% → 20% Thunder  Electric  Special Paralysis 110 30% → 60% Thunderbolt  Electric  Special Paralysis 90 10% → 20% Thunder Punch  Electric  Physical Paralysis 75 10% → 20% Tri Attack  Normal  Special Varies 80 20% → 40% Twister  Dragon  Special Flinch 40 20% → 40% ** Water Pulse  Water  Special Confusion 60 20% → 40% ******** Zen Headbutt  Psychic  Physical Flinch 80 20% → 40%

Although the following moves are affected by the Ability, they currently cannot be learned by any Pokémon with Serene Grace. They may, however, be called viaMetronome,Mirror Move,Copycat, orMimic, or be used by a Pokémon that gained Serene Grace byTrace or a move such asSkill Swap orRole Play.

Outside of battle

InPokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver only, if a Pokémon with Serene Gracebreaks a rock and finds an item, the game will instead pick the item below it in the game's list, unless it was the 5% item (this effectively means it will never find the most common item).

Pokémon with Serene Grace

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0113		Chansey	Normal		Normal	Natural Cure	Serene Grace	Healer
0175		Togepi	Fairy		Fairy	Hustle	Serene Grace	Super Luck
0176		Togetic	Fairy	Flying	Hustle	Serene Grace	Super Luck
0206		Dunsparce	Normal		Normal	Serene Grace	Run Away	Rattled
0242		Blissey	Normal		Normal	Natural Cure	Serene Grace	Healer
0385		Jirachi	Steel	Psychic	Serene Grace	None	None
0440		Happiny	Normal		Normal	Natural Cure	Serene Grace	Friend Guard
0468		Togekiss	Fairy	Flying	Hustle	Serene Grace	Super Luck
0492		Shaymin Sky Forme	Grass	Flying	Serene Grace	None	None
0585		Deerling	Normal	Grass	Chlorophyll	Sap Sipper	Serene Grace
0586		Sawsbuck	Normal	Grass	Chlorophyll	Sap Sipper	Serene Grace
0648		Meloetta Aria Forme	Normal	Psychic	Serene Grace	None	None
0648		Meloetta Pirouette Forme	Normal	Fighting	Serene Grace	None	None
0982		Dudunsparce	Normal		Normal	Serene Grace	Run Away	Rattled
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

Description

In animation

Pokémon animated series

Togekiss; UsingAir Slash Being affected
The Pokémon has a higher chance of activating the secondary effects of its moves.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Togekiss has a higher chance of activating the secondary effects of its moves.
Cynthia's Togekiss	Bewitch, Battle, and Bewilder!		Debut

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• Marley's Sky FormeShaymin was revealed to have Serene Grace as its Ability.

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 that affect the odds of additional effects
• Abilities with field effects