Wide Guard (move)

Wide Guard (Japanese: ワイドガード Wide Guard) is a non-damaging move introduced in Generation V.

Generation V
Wide Guard protects all Pokémon on the user's side of the field for the rest of that turn from damaging moves that can target multiple Pokémon, even those used by an ally that strike all Pokémon on the field (such as and ). Wide Guard will block these moves even in Single Battles. Wide Guard cannot block status moves that target multiple Pokémon, such as and.

Using Wide Guard,, , , or consecutively decreases the chance of success by 50% for each successful use.

This move has +3 priority, so will be executed before most other moves.

and lift the effect of Wide Guard when successfully used on an opponent's team.

Generation VI
Wide Guard can now be used consecutively without failing, although it still decreases the chance of success for, , , , and.

,, and will lift the effect of Wide Guard from the target's team when used successfully. Feint and Shadow Force now lift the effect of Wide Guard from all allies, if they hit an ally.

Generation VII
Wide Guard will now also protect against status moves that can target multiple Pokémon, such as or.

If a damaging Z-Move that targets multiple Pokémon targets a Pokémon protected by Wide Guard, the Z-Move will bypass Wide Guard but only do 25% of the original damage (Wide Guard remains in effect). Due to an oversight, in version 1.0 of, Wide Guard reduces the damage of all damaging Z-Moves, rather than just damaging Z-Moves that target multiple Pokémon; this was fixed in version 1.1 of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. (There are no damaging Z-Moves that target multiple Pokémon in .)

If powered up by a Rockium Z into Z-Wide Guard, the user's stat rises by one stage.

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In other languages
Rundumschutz Vastaguardia Garde Large Bodyguard ワイドガード 广域防守（招式）