Justified (Ability)

Justified (Japanese: せいぎのこころ Heart of Justice) is an Ability introduced in Generation V.

Effect

In battle

When a Pokémon with Justified is hit by a Dark-type damaging move, its Attack is increased by one stage. This Ability does not provide immunity or reduction to the damage, nor does it activate from a Dark-type move hitting its Substitute. Dark-type multistrike moves (such as Beat Up) will activate Justified once per strike, increasing the Attack stat that many stages.

Outside of battle

Justified has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Justified

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0058		Growlithe	Fire		Fire	Intimidate	Flash Fire
0059		Arcanine	Fire		Fire	Intimidate	Flash Fire
0359		Absol	Dark		Dark	Pressure	Super LuckGen IV+
0448		Lucario	Fighting	Steel	Steadfast	Inner Focus
0475		Gallade	Psychic	Fighting	Steadfast	SharpnessGen IX+
0638		Cobalion	Steel	Fighting		None	None
0639		Terrakion	Rock	Fighting		None	None
0640		Virizion	Grass	Fighting		None	None
0647		Keldeo	Water	Fighting		None	None
Please note that Abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

• In Pokémon Legends: Arceus's internal code, Hisuian Growlithe's and Arcanine's Hidden Ability is Justified instead of Rock Head.

In other games

Description

In animation

Pokémon animated series

Gallade Arcanine
When the Pokémon is hit by a Dark-type attack, its attack power is boosted by its sense of justice.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	When Gallade gets hit by a Dark-type move, orange energy bursts out of his chest, and he becomes surrounded by an orange aura. Then, his arm blades glow longer than usual and become wrapped in ribbon-like tendrils of orange energy, increasing his attack power.
Rinto's Gallade	Beyond Chivalry… Aiming to be a Leek Master!		Debut
	When Arcanine gets hit by a Dark-type move, it becomes surrounded by an orange aura, increasing its attack power.
Diana's Arcanine	The Three Explorers		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• Blake's Keldeo, Kelden, is revealed to have Justified as its Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.

Trivia

• Justified is the only Ability whose name begins with the letter J.
• Except in Inverse Battles, no Pokémon with this Ability is weak to Dark.
  • Only three Pokémon with this Ability—Growlithe, Arcanine, and Gallade—do not normally resist Dark-type moves.

In other languages

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.