Sheer Force (Ability)

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Sheer Force (Japanese: ちからずく Sheer Force) is an Ability introduced in Generation V.
==Effect==
===In battle===
Sheer Force raises the base power of all damaging moves that have any additional effects by approximately 30% (a multiplier of 5325/4096), but their additional effects are ignored. Sheer Force boosts even if is not activated, and increases to stats (if any) apply normally.
Reducing the target's stats, increasing the user's stats, inflicting a status condition on the target (volatile or otherwise, but excluding being bound), and causing the target to flinch are all considered additional effects, so damaging moves that have a chance (up to and including a 100% chance) to cause these effects will have their power increased, in exchange for ignoring whatever chance they had to cause these effects. Furthermore, , , , , , , , and are explicitly considered to have added effects that can be removed by Sheer Force. However, , whose effect is otherwise identical to Anchor Shot and Spirit Shackle, is not.
Sheer Force does not consider recoil or decreasing the user's own stats to be additional effects. Properties of moves—such as , , having or , or having a , Remove screens (Reflect, Light Screen, Aurora Veil), among others—are not considered additional effects. Moves that have one of these properties in addition to an additional effect will be powered up and only the additional effect will be negated. For example, inflicts recoil damage to the user, but also has an additional effect to ; if the user has Sheer Force, Flare Blitz's damage will be boosted by 30% and the user will take recoil damage, but it cannot burn the target. Effects of caused by holding specific items are not considered additional effects for the purposes of Sheer Force. is not considered to have additional effects for the purposes of Sheer Force.
If (and only if) a move is boosted by the effect of Sheer Force, several effects that normally happen after attacking will be skipped. This includes the effects of Eject Button, Red Card, Shell Bell, Kee Berry, and Maranga Berry; the recoil damage from Life Orb; the Abilities , , , , , and ; as well as 's opportunity to switch forms if it acquires Sheer Force and uses . Other effects are not negated this way; therefore, if a Pokémon with Sheer Force holding a Life Orb uses a move boosted by Sheer Force, it will gain the passive damage boost (because it isn't a secondary effect of the move nor is it on the list of skipped effects), but the Pokémon will not be damaged by the Life Orb.
Sheer Force does not affect Max Moves, neither powering them up nor removing their secondary effects.
====Affected moves====
The table below lists the moves affected by Sheer Force, as well as the Pokémon that can have Sheer Force 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 currently cannot be learned by any Pokémon with Sheer Force. They may, however, be called via , , , or , or be used by a Pokémon that gained Sheer Force by an Ability like or or a move such as or .
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			Power and Boost	Power and Boost
===Outside of battle===
Sheer Force does not have an effect outside of battle.
==Pokémon with Sheer Force==
==In other games==
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Sheer Force raises the power of all damaging moves that have any additional effects by 20%, but their additional effects are ignored.
===Description===
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==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
*In A Cold Reception, Drayden's was mentioned to have Sheer Force as its Ability.
*In , 's , Brav, was revealed to have Sheer Force as his Ability.
*'s was revealed to have Sheer Force as his Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.
==Trivia==
*When this Ability was first revealed in CoroCoro Comic, it ちからづく (Invigorate) in Japanese. In the games, it is named ちからずく (Sheer Force) in Japanese. Both have the same pronunciation, but different spelling.
*Formerly, Sheer Force would boost , despite the fact that this move has no additional effects. This was patched.
==In other languages==
Category:Abilities with negative effects
Category:Abilities that affect the odds of additional effects
Category:Abilities that increase move power
de:Rohe Gewalt
es:Potencia bruta
fr:Sans Limite
it:Forzabruta
ja:ちからずく
zh:强行（特性）