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Battle Bond

きずなへんげ

Bond Transformation

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Generation III
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Generation IV
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Generation V
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Generation VI
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Generation VII
Defeating an opposing Pokémon strengthens the Pokémon's bond with its Trainer, and it becomes Ash-Greninja. Water Shuriken gets more powerful.


Generation VIII
Defeating an opposing Pokémon strengthens the Pokémon's bond with its Trainer, and it becomes Ash-Greninja. Water Shuriken gets more powerful.

Battle Bond (Japanese: きずなへんげ Bond Transformation) is an event-exclusive Ability introduced in Generation VII. It is the signature Ability of Greninja.

Effect

In battle

When a Greninja with Battle Bond directly causes another Pokémon (including allies) to faint by using a damaging move, unless this ends the battle, it will change into Ash-Greninja. After the battle, the Pokémon reverts to its original form.

Ash-Greninja has higher base stats than regular Greninja. If Ash-Greninja uses Water Shuriken, the move's power becomes 20 (rather than the usual 15) and it always hits three times. If a Pokémon transforms into Ash-Greninja, Battle Bond does not affect the transformed Pokémon's use of Water Shuriken.

Multiple Greninja can activate this Ability during the same battle. If Ash-Greninja faints in battle, it will revert to its original form, and that Greninja cannot change into Ash-Greninja again during the same battle even after being revived.

Gastro Acid, Worry Seed, Simple Beam, and Entrainment fail if the target has Battle Bond. Role Play and Skill Swap fail if either Pokémon has Battle Bond. Battle Bond cannot be copied by Trace, Power of Alchemy, or Receiver. Battle Bond cannot be replaced by Mummy or suppressed by Core Enforcer. If a Pokémon other than Greninja obtains Battle Bond with Imposter or Transform, the Pokémon cannot change form into Ash-Greninja even if it knocks out another Pokémon.

Outside of battle

Greninja with this Ability cannot breed nor be used in the Battle Spot if Special Pokémon are banned. However, they can be used in the battle facilities.

Pokémon with Battle Bond

#	Pokémon	Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
	Greninja Battle Bond Greninja	Water	Dark	Battle Bond	None	None
	Greninja Ash-Greninja	Water	Dark	Battle Bond	None	None
Please note that this is only 100% accurate to Generation VIII games. For Generation III games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation IV or later and Hidden Abilities. For Generation IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities. For Generation V games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VI or later. For Generation VI games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VII or later. For Generation VII games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VIII or later.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

In the Japan Mini-volume 6 for the X & Y chapter, Y's Greninja, Croaky, was revealed to have Battle Bond as his Ability.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	牽絆變身 Hīnbuhn Binsān
Chinese	Mandarin	牽絆變身 / 牵绊变身 Qiānbàn Biànshēn
French		Synergie
German		Freundschaftsakt
Italian		Morfosintonia
Korean		유대변화 Yudae Byeonhwa
Russian		Узы Сражения Uzy Srazheniya
Spanish		Fuerte Afecto