Magic Guard (Ability)

Magic Guard	マジックガード
	Magic Guard
Flavor text Generation IV The Pokémon only takes damage from attacks. Generation V The Pokémon only takes damage from attacks. Generation VI The Pokémon only takes damage from attacks. Generation VII The Pokémon only takes damage from attacks. Generation VIII The Pokémon only takes damage from attacks. Generation IX The Pokémon only takes damage from attacks. Champions The Pokémon takes damage only from attacks.

Magic Guard (Japanese: マジックガード Magic Guard) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV. Prior to Generation V, it was the signature Ability of Clefairy's evolutionary line.

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• Effect
  • In battle
    • Generation IV
    • Generation V onwards
  • Outside of battle
• Pokémon with Magic Guard
• In other games
  • Description
• In animation
  • Pokémon animated series
• In the manga
  • Pokémon Adventures
• In other languages

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Effect

In battle

Magic Guard prevents the Pokémon from receiving indirect damage, but does not prevent it from becoming afflicted by statuses that would deal such damage. Additional effects, such as being trapped while bound or having its Attack reduced by burn, are not prevented even though their damage is.

Magic Guard prevents damage caused by effects including weather, poison and burn, effects like Curse and Leech Seed, entry hazards, recoil (except from Struggle), crash damage, and damage from using Mind Blown or Steel Beam. Magic Guard prevents the damage inflicted by a Life Orb, but the holder still gains the power boost.

Magic Guard does not prevent confusion damage or direct modification of a Pokémon's HP through means other than damage, such as by Pain Split, Belly Drum, Substitute, or a Ghost type cutting its own HP to use Curse. Moves that cause the user to faint, Destiny Bond, and Perish Song can still cause a Pokémon with Magic Guard to faint.

When a Pokémon with Magic Guard is badly poisoned, Magic Guard still prevents poison damage, but it does not prevent the counter from increasing every turn. Consequently, if the Pokémon's Magic Guard is suppressed or changed, it will begin taking poison damage proportional to the counter's current value.

Magic Guard blocks damage from the Gulp Missile counterattack, but does not prevent the Defense drop or paralysis from it.

If a Pokémon with Magic Guard hits a target holding a Jaboca Berry with a physical attack, or a target holding a Rowap Berry with a special attack, the Pokémon will not eat the berry and no damage will be dealt.

Generation IV

If a Pokémon with Magic Guard is paralyzed, it cannot be prevented from using a move due to paralysis, although its Speed is still reduced. A Pokémon with Magic Guard cannot be poisoned by Toxic Spikes.

Generation V onwards

Magic Guard no longer grants immunity to being fully paralyzed and no longer prevents poisoning from Toxic Spikes (but it still prevents poison damage).

Outside of battle

Magic Guard has no effect outside of battle. This means a poisoned Pokémon with Magic Guard will still take damage in the field in Generation IV (but not later generations, because poison no longer causes damage in the field starting in Generation V).

Pokémon with Magic Guard

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0035		Clefairy	Fairy		Fairy	Cute Charm	Magic GuardGen IV+	Friend Guard
0036		Clefable	Fairy		Fairy	Cute Charm	Magic GuardGen IV+	Unaware
0063		Abra	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	Inner Focus	Magic Guard
0064		Kadabra	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	Inner Focus	Magic Guard
0065		Alakazam	Psychic		Psychic	Synchronize	Inner Focus	Magic Guard
0173		Cleffa	Fairy		Fairy	Cute Charm	Magic GuardGen IV+	Friend Guard
0561		Sigilyph	Psychic	Flying	Wonder Skin	Magic Guard	Tinted Lens
0577		Solosis	Psychic		Psychic	Overcoat	Magic Guard	Regenerator
0578		Duosion	Psychic		Psychic	Overcoat	Magic Guard	Regenerator
0579		Reuniclus	Psychic		Psychic	Overcoat	Magic Guard	Regenerator
Please note that Abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

In other games

Description

Games Description MDTDS Protects the Pokémon from all damage except from direct attacks. BSL わざや こうげき いがいからの ダメージを うけない MDGtI Unavailable SMD The Pokémon is protected from most indirect damage, such as damage from a sandstorm, a Blast Trap, or getting poisoned. But it takes damage from attack moves. MDRTDX The Pokémon won't take damage from things like the Sandstorm weather condition, Blast Traps, or getting Poisoned.

In animation

Pokémon animated series

Clefable
The Pokémon is unaffected by indirect damage through means such as poison.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Clefable is unaffected by indirect damage through means such as poison.
Lusamine's Clefable	10,000,000 Reasons to Fight!		Debut

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• White's Duosion, Solly, was revealed to have Magic Guard as his Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	魔法防守 Mōfaat Fòhngsáu
	Mandarin	魔法防守 Mófǎ Fángshǒu * 魔法防禦 Mófǎ Fángyù *
Danish		Magic Guard
Finnish		Taikasuoja
French		Garde Magik
German		Magieschild
Italian		Magicscudo
Korean		매직가드 Magic Guard
Norwegian		Magic Guard
Polish		Magiczna Ochrona
Portuguese		Escudo Mágico
Spanish		Muro Mágico
Swedish		Magic Guard
Vietnamese		Phòng Ngự Ma Thuật

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.