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Max Guard ダイウォール Dai Wall

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  — (max. —) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  +4 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by Mirror Move Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Self: Affects the user

Availability Introduced  Generation VIII Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation VIII Generation IX

Max Guard (Japanese: ダイウォール Dai Wall) is a non-damaging Normal-type Max Move introduced in Generation VIII.

Effect

Max Guard protects the user from moves for the rest of the turn. Unlike other protection moves, it fully protects the user from Max Moves. It can also guard the user against Phantom Force, Transform, and Psych Up.

Max Guard does not protect the user against Feint, but will still protect the user from subsequent attacks. It also does not block Role Play, Perish Song, or Decorate.

All of a Pokémon's status moves, regardless of type, will convert to Max Guard upon Dynamaxing.

The chance of the move failing after subsequent uses is the same one as its non-Max Move counterpart, meaning that using moves like Protect or Detect immediately after using Max Guard have the same chance to fail.

Description

Learnset

Any Dynamax Pokémon can use Max Guard if it knows a status move.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 極巨防壁 Gihkgeuih Fòhngbīk Mandarin 極巨防壁 / 极巨防壁 Jíjù Fángbì French Gardomax German Dyna-Wall Italian Dynabarriera Korean 다이월 Dai Wall Spanish Maxibarrera

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