Entrainment
Pokémon Champions
The target's Ability changes to match the user's.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 15
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Entrainment changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen IX
… System, Schooling, Shields Down, Stance Change, added: Tera Shift, Truant, Zen Mode, added: or Zero to Hero, or the same Ability as the … is As One, Battle Bond, Comatose, added: Commander, Disguise, added: Embody Aspect, Flower Gift, Forecast,
dropped: Gulp Missile,Hunger Switch, Ice Face, Illusion, Imposter, Multitype, Neutralizing Gas, added: Poison Puppeteer, Power Construct, Power of Alchemy, added: Protosynthesis, Quark Drive, Receiver, RKS System, Schooling, Shields Down, Stance Change, added: Tera Shell, Tera Shift, Teraform Zero, Trace, added: Wonder Guard, Zen Mode, ordropped: Zen Mode.added: Zero to Hero. - Gen VIII
… Fails if the target's Ability is added: As One, Battle Bond, Comatose, Disguise, added: Gulp Missile, Ice Face, Multitype, Power Construct, RKS System, Schooling, … or if the user's Ability is added: As One, Battle Bond, Comatose, Disguise, Flower Gift, Forecast, added: Gulp Missile, Hunger Switch, Ice Face, Illusion, Imposter, Multitype, added: Neutralizing Gas, Power Construct, Power of Alchemy, Receiver, …
- Gen VII
… Fails if the target's Ability is added: Battle Bond, Comatose, Disguise, Multitype, added: Power Construct, RKS System, Schooling, Shields Down, Stance Change, Truant, added: Zen Mode, or the same Ability as the user, or if the user's Ability is added: Battle Bond, Comatose, Disguise, Flower Gift, Forecast, Illusion, Imposter, Multitype, added: Power Construct, Power of Alchemy, Receiver, RKS System, Schooling, Shields Down, Stance Change, Trace, or Zen Mode.
- Gen VI
… if the target's Ability is Multitype, added: Stance Change, Truant, or the same Ability as … Flower Gift, Forecast, Illusion, Imposter, Multitype, added: Stance Change, Trace, or Zen Mode.
Numbers: PokéAPI’s changelog. Descriptions: Pokémon Showdown’s for each generation, PokéAPI’s notes where Showdown’s don’t differ. Champions: Pokémon Showdown.
See it in the games
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How it works in Champions
Causes the target's Ability to become the same as the user's. Fails if the target's Ability is As One, Battle Bond, Comatose, Disguise, Gulp Missile, Ice Face, Multitype, Power Construct, RKS System, Schooling, Shields Down, Stance Change, Shift, Truant, Zen Mode, or Zero to Hero, or the same Ability as the user, or if the user's Ability is As One, Battle Bond, Comatose, Commander, Disguise, Embody Aspect, Flower Gift, Forecast, Hunger Switch, Ice Face, Illusion, Imposter, Multitype, Neutralizing Gas, Puppeteer, Power Construct, Power of Alchemy, Protosynthesis, Quark Drive, Receiver, RKS System, Schooling, Shields Down, Stance Change, Tera Shell, Tera Shift, Teraform Zero, Trace, Wonder Guard, Zen Mode, or Zero to Hero.
- Bounced back by
“The user dances with an odd rhythm that compels the target to mimic it, making the target's Ability the same as the user's.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
Good to know
- Magic Coat and Magic Bounce send it back to the user.Moves Magic Bounce reflects
Who runs Entrainment on Showdown
Smogon · Showdown Champions VGC · Sep 2026: Smogon’s usage stats from Pokémon Showdown, not the in-game ladder.
On the ladder today
Ranked Doubles Pokémon with Entrainment among their most used moves.
Who learns Entrainment
13 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 32 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →