History NoSell / Pokemon

** Mimikyu has the unique ability of Disguise. Unless it's up against something that ignores Abilities, it takes no damage from the first directly damaging attack that hits it. This includes Z-Moves, meaning that you can drop a continent on a Mimikyu and all you'll do is make its fake head fall over. On top of that, it has three immunities (Normal, Fighting, and Dragon) due to its type.

** Sunsteel Strike and Moongeist Beam, the signature moves of Solgaleo and Lunala respectively, have a built-in Mold Breaker effect.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Legendary Pokémon often simply evade Poké Balls. This is because they have very low catch rates, and in the first games only, failing to catch a Pokémon on a very low chance of doing so will cause the ball to miss entirely.

** Infiltrator lets Pokémon ignore barriers [note]Reflect, Light Screen, Safeguard, Mist, Aurora Veil[/note] and Substitutes.

** Infiltrator lets Pokemon ignore barriers [note] Reflect, Light Screen, Safeguard, Mist, Aurora Veil[/note] and Substitutes.

** The Decidueye family-exclusive ability Long Reach lets them no-sell abilities that would activate on contact.
** Infiltrator lets Pokemon ignore Substitutes.

** Wonder Guard takes this up a notch. Unless the attack that would deal damage is super effective, it does no damage at all. Unsurprisingly, this ability is often found illegitimately in online battles. On top of that, the Pokémon Spiritomb and Sableye have the type Ghost/Dark, which gave them zero weaknesses at all until Fairy was introduced in Generation VI. This means that, if you hacked Wonder Guard onto Spiritomb or Sableye, they would be immune to all normal damage -- only passive damage like poison or sandstorms would hurt them. The one exception is Fire Fang, which for some reason always hits through Wonder Guard. This might be a glitch, but it could be an anti-Wondereye/Wondertomb measure, as Fire Fang would hit the only legal user of Wonder Guard anyway (a Fire-type attack against a Bug/Ghost type would deal super-effective damage).

** Wonder Guard takes this up a notch. Unless the attack that would deal damage is super effective, it does no damage at all. Unsurprisingly, this ability is often found illegitimately in online battles. On top of that, the Pokémon Spiritomb and Sableye have the type Ghost/Dark, which gave them zero weaknesses at all until Fairy was introduced in Generation VI. This means that, if you hacked Wonder Guard onto Spiritomb or Sableye, they would be immune to all normal damage -- only passive damage like poison or sandstorms would hurt them. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Fire Fang]], which for some reason always hits through Wonder Guard. This might be a glitch, but it could be an anti-Wondereye/Wondertomb measure, as Fire Fang would hit the only legal user of Wonder Guard anyway.

** Normal-type Pokemon are immune to Ghost-type attacks (damaging ones anyway, moves like Confuse Ray still work against Normal-types) and vice versa.

--> ''Tauros used Hyper Beam[[note]]A Normal-type attack[[/note]]! It doesn't affect Gengar[[note]]A Ghost-type Pokémon, who are immune to Normal-type attacks[[/note]]...''

** A Pokémon being a specific type will allow it to no sell statuses. Poison and Steel [[note]]Due to an oversight in [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver 2nd gen]], Steel types could be poisoned through Twineedle[[/note]] types are immune to the poison status; Fire types are immune to the burn status; Ice types are immune to being frozen; Grass types cannot be hit by Leech Seed, powder, or spore moves; and starting with ''[[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY X and Y]]'', Electric types can't be paralyzed. Also as of ''X and Y'', Ghost types are immune to trapping moves, Shadow Tag, and Arena Trap.

** Just how does a mole take no damage from a lion ramming into it while covered in electricity?
** The Fairy type's immunity to the Dragon type is particularly baffling. Don't try to comprehend how something like Jigglypuff is now capable of being clawed, sucked into twisters, having meteors dropped on it, or even being subjected to the time-space warping powers of the god-like Palkia and Dialga without suffering so much as a scratch.
** Also, because of how type effectiveness is calculated, type immunities override all other type-vs-type relationships. For example, Electric-type attacks are normally super-effective against Water-type Pokémon, but completely helpless against dual-Water/Ground.
** Flying type Pokemon immune to Ground type moves. This makes sense in a way. However, there are a few moves that are labeled as a Ground type that seemingly aren't ground types, most notably ones with "Bone" in it such as Bonemerang. How throwing a Bonemerang against a Flying type doesn't hurt it at all is baffling.
** Dark-types are as of [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Gen VII]] passively immune to moves boosted by the Prankster ability, which allows the holder to move first if using a status move.

** Abilities:
*** Levitate, which makes the Pokémon immune to Ground-type attacks.
*** A couple of Pokémon have an ability called Mold Breaker (or its variations Turboblaze or Teravolt), which essentially lets them ignore the defensive effects of their target's ability and damage them anyway (for example, something with Levitate, like Rotom, can be hit by Earthquake).
*** Bibarel and Quagsire's Unaware, which lets them ignore all stat changes in opponents (except for Speed, as that would be mechanically problematic in group battles). Unless the opponent has the aforementioned Mold Breaker, in which case, they will No Sell your No Sell.
*** Solgaleo and Lunala's abilities, Full Metal Body and Shadow Shield, No-Sell abilities like Mold Breaker. The former is otherwise functionally identical to the aforementioned Clear Body, making it a No-Sell that can't be No Sold.
*** Rayquaza's Air Lock (or its variation, Cloud Nine) ability, which negates all weather effects caused by abilities or attacks.
*** Clear Body prevents negative stat changes inflicted by the opponent.
*** Soundproof (and the unused Cacophony) makes sound-based attacks useless.
*** The ability Keen Eye, which acts as an immunity to accuracy reduction.
*** The ability Scrappy, which lets Normal and Fighting-type moves pummel the Ghost-types that they are usually unable to hurt. The moves Foresight and Odor Sleuth are this in move form. Miracle Eye is an equivalent that removes Dark-types' immunity to Psychic.
*** Wonder Guard takes this up a notch. Unless the attack that would deal damage is super effective, it does no damage at all. Unsurprisingly, this ability is often found illegitimately in online battles. On top of that, the Pokémon Spiritomb and Sableye have the type Ghost/Dark, which gave them zero weaknesses at all until Fairy was introduced in Generation VI. This means that, if you hacked Wonder Guard onto Spiritomb or Sableye, they would be immune to all normal damage -- only passive damage like poison or sandstorms would hurt them. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Fire Fang]], which for some reason always hits through Wonder Guard. This might be a glitch, but it could be an anti-Wondereye/Wondertomb measure, as Fire Fang would hit the only legal user of Wonder Guard anyway.
*** Tsareena's ability Queenly Majesty and Bruxish's ability Dazzling prevent the opponent from using priority moves.
*** Mimikyu has the unique ability of Disguise. Unless it's up against something that ignores Abilities, it takes no damage from the first directly damaging attack that hits it. This includes Z-Moves, meaning that you can drop a continent on a Mimikyu and all you'll do is make its fake head fall over. On top of that, it has three immunities (Normal, Fighting, and Dragon) due to its type.
*** Dewpider and Araquanid's ability Water Bubble both weakens damage taken from Fire-type moves and makes them immune to being burned.
*** Galarian Ponyta and Rapidash's ability Pastel Veil grants their team immunity to poison.
*** Arrokuda and Barraskewda's ability Propeller Tail and Duraludon's ability Stalwart let them ignore the effects of moves and abilities that ordinarily cause the user to draw in attacks, such as Follow Me and Lightning Rod.
*** Urshifu's ability Unseen Fist lets it bypass the effects of protection moves.
** Moves:
*** Gastro Acid functions similar to Mold Breaker above, but with all abilities.
*** Haze functions similar to Unaware.
*** Clever application of the moves Mimic, Role Play, Camouflage, Skill Swap, Worry Seed, Conversion, and Conversion 2 also could result in this (depending on what move/ability/type is imitated/replaced).
*** Psychic Terrain protects Pokémon that are on the ground (i.e. not currently affected by Levitate, Telekinesis, Magnet Rise, or the passive effect of the Flying type, or had the effect of one of those negated by Smack Down or Thousand Arrows) from priority moves.
*** Electric Terrain protects Pokémon on the ground from sleep.
*** Misty Terrain protects Pokémon from sleep, poison, paralysis, freeze, and burn.
*** Sunsteel Strike and Moongeist Beam, the signature moves of Solgaleo and Lunala respectively, have a built-in Mold Breaker effect.
** [[ElementalRockPaperScissors Type resistances/immunities]]:
*** Just how does a mole take no damage from a lion ramming into it while covered in electricity?
*** The Fairy type's immunity to the Dragon type is particularly baffling. Don't try to comprehend how something like Jigglypuff is now capable of being clawed, sucked into twisters, having meteors dropped on it, or even being subjected to the time-space warping powers of the god-like Palkia and Dialga without suffering so much as a scratch.
*** Also, because of how type effectiveness is calculated, type immunities override all other type-vs-type relationships. For example, Electric-type attacks are normally super-effective against Water-type Pokémon, but completely helpless against dual-Water/Ground.
*** Flying type Pokemon immune to Ground type moves. This makes sense in a way. However, there are a few moves that are labeled as a Ground type that seemingly aren't ground types, most notably ones with "Bone" in it such as Bonemerang. How throwing a Bonemerang against a Flying type doesn't hurt it at all is baffling.
*** Dark-types are as of [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Gen VII]] passively immune to moves boosted by the Prankster ability, which allows the holder to move first if using a status move.

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Legendary Pokémon often simply evade Poké Balls. This is because they have very low catch rates, and in the first games only, failing to catch a Pokémon on a very low chance of doing so will cause the ball to miss entirely.