Competitive Crunch #7: Protean, Magician, and Bulletproof!

Hey, guys! Welcome to today's Competitive Crunch segment! Today, I'll be discussing the three Hidden Abilities of the Kalos Starters. Greninja gets Protean, Delphox gets Magician, and Chesnaught gets Bulletproof.

Protean

The ability Protean is usable by Froakie and its evolutions along with Kecleon.
Protean is a very interesting ability that changes typing with the move you use. For example, if Frogadier uses Ice Beam, an Ice-type move, it will turn into an Ice-type until its next move or until it switches out.

Since Greninja and Kecleon get a wide variety of moves, Protean is a very useful and unique ability for them.

Magician

Another unique ability, Magician is only obtainable by Fennekin, Braixen, and Delphox as well as Klefki.
This ability will steal an opponent's item when a move attacks them after they no longer have an item.

If Fennekin doesn't have an item and uses Flamethrower on Munchlax with Leftovers, Fennekin will "magically" take the Munchlax's Leftovers item. (Tada!)

Bulletproof

Bulletproof is another ability introduced in X and Y and is only obtainable by Chespin, Quilladin, and Chesnaught. Bulletproof gives immunities to moves related to balls (Real mature. I know you laughed when you read that), bombs, cannons, throws, etc. You can find the list of moves Bulletproof negates here.

~Credits to Smogon and Bulbapedia for the data used in this post. THANKS, SMOGON AND BULBAPEDIA!!!~

That's all for today. I might end up posting something tomorrow, so be sure to stay around.

Until then, stay awesome!