Keen Eye (Ability) - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokmon encyclopedia

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Keen Eye

するどいめ

Keen Eye

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Generation V
Prevents other Pokémon from lowering accuracy.

Generation VII
Keen eyes prevent other Pokémon from lowering this Pokémon's accuracy.

Generation VIII
Keen eyes prevent other Pokémon from lowering this Pokémon's accuracy.

Generation IX
The Pokémon's keen eyes prevent its accuracy from being lowered.

Keen Eye (Japanese: するどいめ Keen Eye) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In battle

Generation III

Keen Eye prevents other Pokémon from lowering the accuracy stat stage of the Pokémon with this Ability. It does not prevent Spectral Thief from stealing (i.e., resetting) positive stat changes.

Effects that decrease accuracy without using stat stages, such as Wonder Skin and Sand Veil, are unaffected by Keen Eye.

This Ability can be ignored with Mold Breaker, Teravolt, and Turboblaze.

Generation VI

Keen Eye now also ignores the target's evasion stages.

Outside of battle

From Pokémon Emerald onward, if a Pokémon with Keen Eye is in the first place in the party (even if fainted), there is a 50% chance it will prevent a random wild encounter that would have occurred if the wild Pokémon would be at least 5 levels lower than the Pokémon with Keen Eye. It shares this effect with Intimidate.

Generation VIII onwards

Keen Eye appears to have no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Keen Eye

In other games

Description

Games	Description
MDRB	Prevents Accuracy from going down.
MDTD S	Prevents the Pokémon's accuracy from being reduced.
BSL	めいちゅうがさがらない
Conq.	Prevents the Pokémon from losing accuracy.
MDGtI	Prevents accuracy from being lowered.* Accuracy won't be lowered! Never ever!*
SMD	The Pokémon's accuracy won't be lowered! Never ever! The Pokémon won't be affected by the enemy's boosted evasiveness, either!
MDRTDX	The Pokémon's accuracy won't be lowered–never ever! The Pokémon won't be affected by an enemy's boosted evasiveness, either.

In the anime

Pokémon	Method
Meowstic
The Pokémon's keen eyes make it difficult for opponents to dodge the Pokémon's attacks.
User	First Used In	Notes
	Meowstic can redirect its attacks, making them extremely difficult to evade.
Olympia's Meowstic	All Eyes on the Future!	Debut