That was one of Pokémon No. 123, Pinsir's abilities—
Mold Breaker!
[123. Pinsir · Ability · Mold Breaker: When using moves, it can ignore the effects of the opponent's abilities.]
Mold Breaker was an ability that could ignore the effects of an opponent's abilities.
For any Pokémon, abilities were traits with an enormous impact.
There was no need to look far; Mu Yun's Pokémon were a perfect example.
At the beginning, they had all relied on powerful abilities to gain formidable strength.
Even now, abilities still played a major role.
Take Xiao Du, for instance. The reason he could achieve same-level "one-second kills" was largely thanks to his Critical Hit +1 ability, which treated final damage as a critical hit and modified it to 750%.
The main reason Mu Yun chose Mold Breaker for Xiao Du was because he had seen the effects of its enhanced form when strengthening Youlan and Manzi's abilities before.
[Break All Laws: Mutation Enhancement of the Mold Breaker ability. It can nullify the opponent's abilities and status buffs, seal items within held-item spaces, ignore all defensive moves, and strike the opponent directly. Whenever any of these effects is triggered, the power of its own moves increases by 25%, for a maximum move power bonus of 100%. Limit-Breaking Points required: 5.]
Break All Laws was an ability that did not offer much of a boost to move power, only reaching 100% at most.
But what truly caught Mu Yun's attention was not the extra move power it provided, but its four effects.
Nullifying the opponent's abilities, nullifying the opponent's status buffs, sealing the items in the opponent's held-item space, and ignoring all of the opponent's defensive moves.
It was no exaggeration to say that even Mu Yun's Pokémon would find an ability