Technician (Ability)

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Technician (Japanese: テクニシャン Technician) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV.
==Effect==
===In battle===
Technician increases the power of moves which have a power of 60 or less by 50%.
For moves with variable power, Technician will only apply if the power is 60 or less when used. For example, and will only get a Technician boost if the target's weight is 110.0 lbs. (49.9 kg) or less.
====Generation IV====
The effect does not apply to damage, which remains at a power of 40. However, if a Pokémon hurts itself in induced due to disobedience, the power is increased to 60.
Despite having a base power of 60 or less, and having a base power of 10 for each strike, both moves are not boosted by Technician in Generation IV.
Technician applies after the base power modifiers for double base power moves (such as and ), , and , so if any of those cause a move's base power to exceed 60, Technician's boost will not apply.
====Generation V onwards====
Technician no longer applies for any means of confusion damage, including the one induced by disobedience.
 and are now boosted by Technician.
Technician no longer takes into account base power modifiers, but does consider variable base power (e.g. , , , ), which must be 60 or less to be boosted by Technician.
====Affected moves====
The table below lists the moves affected by Technician, as well as the Pokémon that can have Technician and learn those moves.
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			Power and Boost	Power and Boost	Learned by
Although the following moves are affected by the Ability, they can be only learned by by using (with exception of , , and Generation VIII moves).
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			Power and Boost	Power and Boost
===Outside of battle===
Technician has no effect outside of battle.
==Pokémon with Technician==
==In other games==
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In Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, Technician increases damage of moves whose base power is 4 or lower, taking Ginseng and Space Globe boosts into account, by 50%. 
The table below lists the moves affected by Technician in these games, as well as the Pokémon that have Technician and learn those moves. 
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			Pow.	Acc.	Learned by
Although the following moves are affected by the Ability, they can be only learned by who has ed them.
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			Pow.	Acc.
===Description===
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==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
* In , 's , Aibo, was revealed to have Technician as his Ability.
* 's , Cent, was revealed to have Technician as his Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.
* Chuck's and 's were revealed to have Technician as their Ability.
==In other languages==
Category:Abilities that increase move power
de:Techniker
es:Experto
fr:Technicien (talent)
it:Tecnico
ja:テクニシャン
zh:技术高手（特性）