Cute Charm (Ability)

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Cute Charm (Japanese: メロメロボディ Mad Love Body) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.
==Effect==
===In battle===
====Generation III====
When a Pokémon with this Ability is hit by a move that makes contact from a Pokémon of the opposite gender, there is a 1/3 chance that the attacking Pokémon will become infatuated. If either Pokémon is a gender-unknown Pokémon (such as ), this Ability will not activate.
If a Pokémon with this Ability is hit by a multistrike move that makes contact (such as ), each hit has an independent chance to activate this Ability.
====Generation IV onward====
The chance for Cute Charm to infatuate is lowered to 30%.
====Generation IX====
Unlike in Max Raid Battles from Generation VIII, Cute Charm does not affect opponents in Tera Raid Battles regardless of their gender since Raid Bosses are immune to infatuation.
===Outside of battle===
From onwards, if a Pokémon with Cute Charm is in the first place in the party (even if fainted), there is a 66.7% chance that the game will force an encountered Pokémon to be the opposite gender to the Pokémon with Cute Charm if it can be that gender. This does not affect a swarming Pokémon species (except in Generation IV) or Pokémon found in Hidden Grottos.
====Generation IV====
=====Effects on personality value=====
In Generation IV only, when Cute Charm forces a Pokémon to be a specific gender, it does so by setting its personality value to one out of 25 possible values that correspond to the forced gender (one value per nature). The set of possible values depends on the gender of the Pokémon with Cute Charm, and, if the Pokémon with Cute Charm is female, the wild Pokémon's gender ratio. This has significant consequences for properties determined by personality value.
As a result, when the encountered species can be affected by Cute Charm (i.e., when it is not a male-only, female-only, or gender-unknown species), the chances of encountering a Shiny Pokémon differ from the usual 1/8192, depending on how many of the 25 possible values forced by Cute Charm result in a Shiny Pokémon (in conjunction with the Trainer ID number and secret ID number): they may be as low as 1/24576 (if none of the 25 values forced by Cute Charm result in Shiny Pokémon, so the Pokémon can only be Shiny if Cute Charm fails), or as high as 21.34% (if 8 out of the 25 values forced by Cute Charm result in Shiny Pokémon). Also, the lower the difference between the Trainer ID number and secret ID number, the higher the Shiny encounter chances.
Additionally, whose gender has been forced by Cute Charm in Generation IV only have one of 50 patterns (25 for male, 25 for female).
====Generation VIII====
In , the chance is 66% instead.
====Generation IX====
In , this Ability has no effect outside of battle.
==Pokémon with Cute Charm==
* In Pokémon Legends: Arceus's internal code, Incarnate Forme 's Ability is instead of Cute Charm.
==In other games==
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In , Cute Charm is 's Ability. When hit by an enemy attack at close range, it makes that enemy infatuated for a short time. Infatuated enemies approach the user against their will. This Ability goes on a 9s cooldown when triggered.
===Description===
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==In animation==
===Pokémon animated series===
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
* In , 's , Jiggly, and , Clefy, were revealed to have Cute Charm as their Ability.
* In the Japan Mini-volume 6 for the , 's , Veevee, was revealed to have Cute Charm as her Ability.
* 's , Ririri, was revealed to have Cute Charm as her Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.
* Whitney's , Buff Buff, and , Fafa, were revealed to have Cute Charm as their Ability.
==In other languages==
Category:Abilities that activate on contact
Category:Abilities that activate upon taking damage
Category:Abilities that inflict volatile status conditions
Category:Abilities that affect appearance of wild Pokémon
Category:Abilities with field effects
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es:Gran encanto
fr:Joli Sourire
it:Incantevole
ja:メロメロボディ
zh:迷人之躯（特性）