Pokemon Nature Chart - Pokemon Natures List and Guide

Pokemon’s Nature plays an important role to excel in every battle. Aside from working and improving hold items, level, experience, and movesets, trainers must also pay attention to the right nature as it can greatly affect a Pokemon’s growth and performance as you go through the game.

Nature is randomly applied to each Pokemon upon obtaining them. There are 25 Pokemon natures that will increase one base stat to 10% and decrease the other one by 10%. You can easily find and determine the nature of a Pokemon by viewing the “Summary” screen.

From Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver to the recent Pokemon game versions and including some Pokemon GBA ROM Hacks, stats are affected by a Pokemon’s Nature. The increased stat is typically highlighted in red text and blue text for the decreased stat (See image below).

This Pokemon nature list has 25 known natures along with its increase/decrease stat equivalent and favorite/dislike flavors.

Pokemon Nature Chart Guide

Pokemon Nature	Increases	Decreases	Favorite Flavor	Disliked Flavor
Adamant	Attack	Sp. Attack	Spicy	Dry
Bashful	Sp. Attack	Sp. Attack
Bold	Defense	Attack	Sour	Spicy
Brave	Attack	Speed	Spicy	Sweet
Calm	Sp. Defense	Attack	Bitter	Spicy
Careful	Sp. Defense	Sp. Attack	Bitter	Dry
Docile	Defense	Defense
Gentle	Sp. Defense	Defense	Bitter	Sour
Hardy	Attack	Attack
Hasty	Speed	Defense	Sweet	Sour
Impish	Defense	Sp. Attack	Sour	Dry
Jolly	Speed	Sp. Attack	Sweet	Dry
Lax	Defense	Sp. Defense	Sour	Bitter
Lonely	Attack	Defense	Spicy	Sour
Mild	Sp. Attack	Defense	Dry	Sour
Modest	Sp. Attack	Attack	Dry	Spicy
Naive	Speed	Sp. Defense	Sweet	Bitter
Naughty	Attack	Sp. Defense	Spicy	Bitter
Quiet	Sp. Attack	Speed	Dry	Sweet
Quirky	Sp. Defense	Sp. Defense
Rash	Sp. Attack	Sp. Defense	Dry	Bitter
Relaxed	Defense	Speed	Sour	Sweet
Sassy	Sp. Defense	Speed	Bitter	Sweet
Serious	Speed	Speed
Timid	Speed	Attack	Sweet	Spicy

Tips, Tricks and Strategy

Since Nature is given to each Pokemon randomly, some trainers take advantage of “soft resetting” method. This way, trainers can choose and have the ideal nature for their starter Pokemon.

Another trick, capture numbers of the same Pokemon until you get the right nature.

Paying attention to a Pokemon’s nature and utilizing it effectively is a good and valuable strategy which have been popularly used nowadays by many trainers. Using the list of Pokemon Natures above and its equivalent information makes a huge difference to every battle. If you’re lucky enough, you can have the nature of your choice after few attempts of soft resets and captures.