Hyper Cutter (Ability)

Hyper Cutter (Japanese: かいりきバサミ Superpowerful Claws) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.

In battle
Hyper Cutter prevents other Pokémon from lowering the stat stage of the Pokémon with this Ability. It does not prevent the Pokémon with this Ability from lowering its own Attack, such as by using.

Effects that decrease Attack without using stat stages, such as, , and , are unaffected by Hyper Cutter.

This Ability can be ignored with, , and.

Generation III
In, if a Pokémon with Hyper Cutter uses in the overworld, it will remove all tall grass within a two-square radius of the player's position, as opposed to a one-square radius without this Ability.

Generation IV Onward
Hyper Cutter has no effect outside of battle due to the removal of the ability to cut tall grass.

Description

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In the Pokémon Adventures manga

 * In Pinsir Me, I Must Be Dreaming, the  that  used during his  match against  was revealed to have Hyper Cutter as its Ability by Emerald's Pokédex.
 * In the Japan Mini-volume 6 for the, 's was revealed to have Hyper Cutter as its Ability.
 * 's is revealed to have Hyper Cutter as his Ability.

In other languages
Scherenmacht Corte fuerte Hyper Cutter Ipertaglio かいりきバサミ 怪力钳（特性）