What are all the moves that affect a target's ability?

Question

I was wondering which would be best for a Smeargle (I saw this but I don't know if it's outdated) for catching purposes.

Answer 1

Doodle
Entrainment
Role Play
Simple Beam
Skill Swap
Transform
Worry Seed
Gastro Acid
Core enforcer

These are all the moves that can affect abilities. Of these only Simple beam, worry seed, Gastro Acid, entrainment, core enforcer and Skill Swap actually affect the target's ability. In regards to the other question the 3 moves they listed for ability changing are still all good and Worry See/entrainment work just as well as the other moves for changing the target's ability. Core enforcer is not good for removing abilities when it comes to that smeargle set because core enforcer does damage that may kill what your trying to catch.

Comments

How does Transform affect the target's ability? Doesn't that only affect the user?

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"Of these only Simple beam, worry seed, Gastro Acid, entrainment and Skill Swap actually affect the target's ability."

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The top list lists all the moves that affect abilities. The lower list is the ones that affect the targets ability

Edit: Ax beat me to the comment by 10 seconds lol

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If you're including Gastro Acid, you should also mention Core Enforcer.

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Ah, okay. I didn't read.

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#Amethyst
Thanks I forgot about core enforcer