Magic Guard (Ability)

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Magic Guard マジックガード
Magic Guard
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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.

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.

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.

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 Clefairy
Fairy Fairy Cute Charm Magic GuardGen IV+ Friend Guard
0036 Clefable Clefable
Fairy Fairy Cute Charm Magic GuardGen IV+ Unaware
0063 Abra Abra
Psychic Psychic Synchronize Inner Focus Magic Guard
0064 Kadabra Kadabra
Psychic Psychic Synchronize Inner Focus Magic Guard
0065 Alakazam Alakazam
Psychic Psychic Synchronize Inner Focus Magic Guard
0173 Cleffa Cleffa
Fairy Fairy Cute Charm Magic GuardGen IV+ Friend Guard
0561 Sigilyph Sigilyph
Psychic Flying Wonder Skin Magic Guard Tinted Lens
0577 Solosis Solosis
Psychic Psychic Overcoat Magic Guard Regenerator
0578 Duosion Duosion
Psychic Psychic Overcoat Magic Guard Regenerator
0579 Reuniclus 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 IconTrapSMD.pngBlast 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

Lusamine Clefable Magic Guard.png
Clefable


The Pokémon is unaffected by indirect damage through means such as poison.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
Clefable 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

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 *
Denmark Flag.png Danish Magic Guard
Finland Flag.png Finnish Taikasuoja
France Flag.png French Garde Magik
Germany Flag.png German Magieschild
Italy Flag.png Italian Magicscudo
South Korea Flag.png Korean 매직가드 Magic Guard
Norway Flag.png Norwegian Magic Guard
Poland Flag.png Polish Magiczna Ochrona
Portugal Flag.png Portuguese Escudo Mágico
Spain Flag.png Spanish Muro Mágico
Sweden Flag.png Swedish Magic Guard
Vietnam Flag.png Vietnamese Phòng Ngự Ma Thuật


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