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{{AbilityInfobox
|name=No Guard
|jpname=ノーガード
|jptrans=No Guard
|jptranslit=Nō Gādo
|colorscheme=fighting
|gen=4
|text4=Ensures the Pokémon and its foe's attacks land.{{sup/4|DPP}}<br/>Ensures both Pokémon's and foe's attacks land.{{sup/4|HGSS}}
|text5=Ensures attacks by or against the Pokémon land.
|text6=Ensures attacks by or against the Pokémon land.
|text7=The Pokémon employs no-guard tactics to ensure incoming and outgoing attacks always land. 
|text8=The Pokémon employs no-guard tactics to ensure incoming and outgoing attacks always land.
}}
'''No Guard''' (Japanese: '''ノーガード''' ''No Guard'') is an [[Ability]] introduced in [[Generation IV]]. Prior to [[Generation V]], it was the [[signature Ability]] of {{p|Machop}}'s [[evolution]]ary line.

==Effect==
===In battle===
All [[move]]s used by or against a Pokémon with this Ability cannot miss. It also allows Pokémon to be hit during the [[semi-invulnerable turn]] of {{m|Fly}}, {{m|Bounce}}, {{m|Dive}}, {{m|Dig}}, {{m|Shadow Force}}, {{m|Sky Drop}}, and {{m|Phantom Force}}. It does not bypass [[type]] [[Type#Type effectiveness|immunities]].

In {{2v2|Diamond|Pearl}}, a Pokémon with No Guard can successfully hit a Pokémon that has used {{m|Protect}} or {{m|Detect}}, but only if it uses a move with less than 100% accuracy. The lower the initial accuracy of the move, the higher its chance of breaking through Protect or Detect. Thus, when used against Protect or Detect, moves that never miss (such as {{m|Swift}} and {{m|Aerial Ace}}) will always be blocked. [[One-hit knockout move]]s are exempted from this behavior and will be protected against. This battle mechanic was a bug, and was fixed in {{v2|Platinum}} so that most moves are blocked by Protect and Detect.

===Outside of battle===
Outside of battle, if a Pokémon with No Guard is in the first place in the [[party]] (even if [[fainting|fainted]]), the wild Pokémon encounter rate increases by 100%.
It shares this property with {{a|Arena Trap}} and {{a|Illuminate}}.

==Pokémon with No Guard==
{{Ability/head|Fighting}}
{{Ability/entry|018|form=-Mega|Pidgeot|Normal|Flying|No Guard|None|None|formlink={{color2|000|Mega Evolution|Mega Pidgeot}}}}
{{Ability/entry|066|Machop|Fighting|Fighting|Guts|No Guard|Steadfast}}
{{Ability/entry|067|Machoke|Fighting|Fighting|Guts|No Guard|Steadfast}}
{{Ability/entry|068|Machamp|Fighting|Fighting|Guts|No Guard|Steadfast}}
{{Ability/entry|588|Karrablast|Bug|Bug|Swarm|Shed Skin|No Guard}}
{{Ability/entry|622|Golett|Ground|Ghost|Iron Fist|Klutz|No Guard}}
{{Ability/entry|623|Golurk|Ground|Ghost|Iron Fist|Klutz|No Guard}}
{{Ability/entry|679|Honedge|Steel|Ghost|No Guard|None|None}}
{{Ability/entry|680|Doublade|Steel|Ghost|No Guard|None|None}}
{{Ability/entry|745|form=-Midnight|Lycanroc|Rock|Rock|Keen Eye|Vital Spirit|No Guard|formlink={{color2|000|List of Pokémon with form differences#Lycanroc|Midnight Form}}}}
{{Ability/foot|Fighting}}

==In other games==
===Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series===
In the [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness|Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers series]], No Guard causes the Pokémon to ignore both harmful and beneficial modifications to accuracy and evasiveness for both the target and itself. This prevents the Pokémon's own Concentrator and Clutch Performer [[IQ]] skills from working.

==={{g|UNITE}}=== 
In {{g|UNITE}}, No Guard is {{p|Honedge}}'s and {{p|Doublade}}'s Ability. It increases the damage dealt and received by the user. After evolving into {{p|Aegislash}}, it becomes {{a|Stance Change}}.

===Description===
{{movedesc|Fighting}}
{{movedescentry|{{gameabbrevmd|TD}}|Allows Pokémon to ignore stat modifications to accuracy and evasion.}}
{{movedescentry|{{gameabbrevmd|S}}|Allows Pokémon to ignore stat modifications to accuracy and evasiveness.}}
{{movedescentry|{{gameabbrevmd|BSL}}|{{tt|めいちゅうと かいひの だんかいを むしする|Allows Pokémon to ignore stat modifications to accuracy and evasiveness.}}}}
{{movedescentry|{{gameabbrevmd|GTI}}|Unavailable}}
{{movedescentry|{{gameabbrevmd|SMD}}|The hit rate of moves and attacks won't be lowered even if accuracy is lowered or evasiveness is boosted! It has the same effects on you as on your enemies. Abilities that boost evasiveness have no effects, either.}}
{{movedescentry|{{gameabbrevmd|RTDX}}|When changes to the Pokémon's and its target's accuracy or evasiveness make it more difficult for attacks to land, those changes go away so that the Pokémon can have a fair fight.}}
|}
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==In other languages==
{{Langtable|color={{fighting color}}|bordercolor={{fighting color dark}}
|zh_yue=無防守 ''{{tt|Mòuh Fòhngsáu|No Guard}}''<br>無防禦 ''{{tt|Mòuh Fòhngyuh|No Defense}}'' {{tt|*|M19 Website}}
|zh_cmn=無防守 / 无防守 ''{{tt|Wú Fángshǒu|No Guard}}'' {{tt|*|Games}}<br>無防禦 ''{{tt|Wú Fángyù|No Defense}}'' {{tt|*|DP National Pokédex guidebook}}
|fr=Annule Garde
|de=Schildlos
|it=Nullodifesa
|pt_br=Indefeso
|es=Indefenso
|ko=노가드 ''No Guard''
|tr=Korumasızlık}}
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[[Category:Abilities that affect appearance of wild Pokémon]]
[[Category:Abilities with field effects]]
[[Category:Abilities with negative effects]]

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