Top 5 Most Useless Abilities

[WhyBuffet]

A while ago I was thinking back to the glory days of Ruby and Sapphire, when Abilities were just introduced. It was a fresh new concept at the time, and since then it's become a Pokémon staple. That being said, while most Abilities are great assets in battle, some of them are frustrating, annoying, and just plain useless. So this is my top 5 most useless Abilities list.

5. Hustle
This one is pretty low on the list because at least it bumps up your Attack. But it also has the VERY annoying drawback of making all your attacks hit with 80% accuracy. Most trainers will probably agree that training their Zweilous to level 64 was 10 times harder thanks to this Ability.

4. Defeatist
This is a new Ability that the Acheops line picked up. It's halves your attacking stats when your HP goes below half. Fortunately, Archeops is so frail that most Super Effective hits will OHKO him anyway, so this Ability might not even get a chance to activate.

3. Illuminate
We have the frustrating (Hustle), the annoying (Defeatist), and the flat out useless. Illuminate is the latter. Increases the chances of finding Pokémon in the wild? Great! In battle effect? Nothing? that's... yeah. It's pointless, and everyone knows it.

2. Slow Start
Have you ever seen anyone use a Regigigas in battle? No? That's probably because of Slow Start, which halves your Attack and Speed for five turns. I could understand it doing this if after the five turns your original Attack and Speed got a boost, but no. Just halves them for no adequately explored reason... Hmph.

1. Truant
You all knew this was coming. The Ability that will forever ensure that Slaking stays in NU. Every other turn, Slaking does nothing. It's a horrible stain on an otherwise devastatingly good Pokémon. Maybe that's why he has Truant though. Maybe Game Freak thought he was TOO good, so they had to cripple him somehow. Well, they sure as heck succeeded.

Well, that's my list of the top 5 most useless Abilities. Feel free to comment on them or even post your own.

 

[SphealsFTW]

Definitely Slow Start and Defeatist... They make two great Pokemon seemingly useless.

Illuminate is really useful to shiny hunters :>.

 

[MonkeyX]

hustle isnt that bad my darumaka didnt have too much trouble with its accuracy i think damp is worse it only saves you from explosion and selfdestruct and it didnt even get the neat focus sash like boost that sturdy got

 

[Zenotwapal]

Keen Eye

i mean sh*t, who actually reduces accuracy? Except ingame trainers?

 

[Plight of Leon]

I sat that it is this:

5. illuminate

4. truant

3. Mummy

2. Simple

1. Justified

Illuminate has no use in battle, and most of the time you want to avoid battles!

Truant is bad, but with moves like skill swap, it can be relieved.

Mummy looks good on paper, until all your Pokemomn have the ability Mummy, instead of a good ability.

Simple is another that look good on paper, till you take a scary face or a screech, and watch your stats plummet

Yes, the worst is justified! When are you going ot go up against a pure dark type user and not pwn him with the fighting four(the kions and keldeo). Really, the stat boost is good, but you got more of a chance getting a critical hit with Anger Point that being hit six times with a dark type move.

 

[VS]

siple and mummy

 

[ManhattanTheStarr]

Keen Eye

i mean sh*t, who actually reduces accuracy? Except ingame trainers?

I do... D:
I find it pretty useful, actually. T^T

 

[Jak2551]

Turant and Slow start wouldent be so bad if the user had the move Skill Swap. But then again, not very many pokes have both :/

 

[Rakurai]

Really, the stat boost is good, but you got more of a chance getting a critical hit with Anger Point that being hit six times with a dark type move.

Beat Up says hello.

 

[Hejiru]

Simple is another that look good on paper, till you take a scary face or a screech, and watch your stats plummet

That would suck, but I wouldn't call it the worst ability. There's a lot more with worse effects than that. Besides, Simple users can use moves like Amnesia for awesome effects.

Run Away is probably the most useless. No effect in trainer battles, plus running from wild Pokemon is very, very easy even without this ability.

 

[zapto369]

I agree with that list, all of those abilities are awful!

 

[Darkseeker]

I still got a slaking with truant, normally I just use a choice band and something like hyperbeam or gigaimpact (It's gonna do NOTHING the next turn anyway)

 

[Dattebayo]

What's the point of Slow Start when Regigigas has a legendary status meaning he's bound to be Uber material, unless this was so he could be available in the Battle Frontier and Battle Subway because only main legendaries and event Pokemon are banned. Also, what about Run Away and Big Pecks?

 

[TheBluePorygon]

Those abilities are horrible but I think defeatist is worse than all those abilities except truant

 

[WhyBuffet]

I still got a slaking with truant, normally I just use a choice band and something like hyperbeam or gigaimpact (It's gonna do NOTHING the next turn anyway)

That's very true, actually. Kinda makes me want to make my own CB Slaking...

 

[SphealsFTW]

hustle isnt that bad my darumaka didnt have too much trouble with its accuracy i think damp is worse it only saves you from explosion and selfdestruct and it didnt even get the neat focus sash like boost that sturdy got

The next time you run into a wild shiny pokemon that knows self-destruct or explosion, you better hope that you have a pokemon with Damp in your party... ;P

 

[Asterveil]

What about Klutz? Only useful is you're using Switcheroo or Trick.

 

[spartanlaser]

Defeatist isn't bad if you have a Jolly archeops. I have one, and It pwns everything in 1 turn
Plus and minus SUCK

 

[Guywhoiam]

How about Normalize? I think that is very useless.

 

[Battlestar]

Yep I agree with you 100% percent all this abilities make these awesome stat wise pokemon useless pretty much. Also defeatist is terrible but I still love that flying rock.