Abilities and Natures

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Natures and abilities are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Natures" instead a noun "Abilities".

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Abilities and natures are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Abilities" instead a noun "Natures".

Abilities and Natures can be influenced by breeding, but getting the correct combination on the right Pokemon is still time consuming and challenging.

Source: Scrappy Mechanic / Pokémon
Introduced in Gen III, abilities and natures, much like IVs (Individual Values) mentioned above, are in the game to add variety to individual Pokemon, but also like the IV system, they're subject to the RNG (Random Number Generator).

Source: Scrappy Mechanic / Pokémon
On a more meta level, IVs were created to give each Pokemon a unique "personality", then Abilities and Natures were added for even more diversity.

Source: Enough to Go Around

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