Nintendo Ability: Mold Breaker

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Mold Breaker

Categories: Alters Damage Done
This Pokémon is a rampaging brute and just smashes headlong into battle. Its raw, unfettered power shatters all attempts at weakening its assault.
Mold Breaker negates the effects of Abilities that could potentially weaken or negate moves or the side-effects of moves that only the Mold Breaker-bearing Pokémon uses (e.g. Mold Breaker will allow the user's Earthquake to hit a Pokémon with Levitate, but has no effect on your ally's Earthquake in double or triple battles).
Mold Breaker nullifies the following Abilities (even if they would end up boosting the power of the Mold Breaker Pokémon's move):
Battle Armor, Big Pecks
Clear Body, Contrary
Damp, Dry Skin
Filter, Flash Fire, Flower Gift, Friend Guard
Heatproof, Heavy Metal, Hyper Cutter
Immunity, Inner Focus, Insomnia
Keen Eye
Leaf Guard, Levitate, Light Metal, Lightningrod, Limber
Magic Bounce, Magma Armor, Marvel Scale, Motor Drive, Multiscale
Oblivious, Own Tempo
Paper Thin
Sand Veil, Sap Sipper, Shell Armor, Shield Dust, Simple, Snow Cloak, Solid Rock, Soundproof, Sticky Hold, Storm Drain, Sturdy, Suction Cups,
Tangled Feet, Telepathy, Thick Fat
Unaware
Vital Spirit, Volt Absorb
Water Absorb, Water Veil, White Smoke, Wonder Guard, Wonder Skin.

Mold Breaker only negates these Abilities in the event that they will weaken or negate the Mold Breaker's attack; they are active in any other instance. While a Mold Breaker Pokémon can bypass the effects of Abilities that prevent status (i.e. Immunity, Insomnia, Limber, Own Tempo, Vital Spirit etc.,), the status the Pokémon's move inflicts will be cured immediately after the attack is over. Lightningrod and Storm Drain still divert attacks in double or triple battles, but will not grant a stat boost to the victim and will not prevent the attacks from doing damage (and will not make any Electric- or Water-type attacks hit with 100% accuracy, respectively). Dry Skin still heals or damages the Pokémon in the appropriate weather.

Moves can be used regardless of abilities.

Main Examples: