Role Play (move)

Role Play (Japanese: なりきり Change Appearance) is a non-damaging move introduced in Generation III. It is the inverse of.

Effect
Role Play replaces the user's Ability with the target's Ability.

Role Play bypasses checks to always hit, unless the target is in the  of a move such as  or. It is not affected by, , or , but will fail if the target is protected by.

Role Play fails if the target's Ability is (Generation V onward),,  (Generation V onward),  (Generation V onward), , , , , , , , , , , , , or.

Role Play fails if the user's Ability is or.

Generation III to IV
If the target has the same Ability as the user, Role Play will succeed, but Abilities such as that activate when they are gained will not activate at this time.

Generation V onward
Role Play now displays the Ability the user had before using Role Play.

Role Play now fails if the target has the same Ability as the user.

If powered up by a Psychium Z into Z-Role Play, the user's stat is raised by one stage.

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Trivia

 * In Generation III, the status screen erroneously states that the move has 100% accuracy, even though it ignores accuracy and evasion checks.

In other languages
Rollentausch Imitación Imitation Giocodiruolo なりきり 扮演（招式）