No Guard (Ability)

No Guard	ノーガード
	No Guard
Flavor text Generation IV Ensures the Pokémon and its foe's attacks land.DPPt Ensures both Pokémon's and foe's attacks land.HGSS Generation V Ensures attacks by or against the Pokémon land. Generation VI Ensures attacks by or against the Pokémon land.XY Ensures that attacks by or against the Pokémon will land.ORAS Generation VII The Pokémon employs no-guard tactics to ensure incoming and outgoing attacks always land. Generation VIII The Pokémon employs no-guard tactics to ensure incoming and outgoing attacks always land. Generation IX 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 Machop's evolutionary line.

Effect

In battle

All moves used by or against a Pokémon with this Ability cannot miss. It also allows Pokémon to be hit during the semi-invulnerable turn of Fly, Bounce, Dive, Dig, Shadow Force, Sky Drop, and Phantom Force. It does not bypass type immunities.

A Tatsugiri hidden inside a Dondozo's mouth via the Commander Ability is immune to the effects of No Guard.

In Diamond and Pearl, a Pokémon with No Guard can successfully hit a Pokémon that has used Protect or 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 Swift and Aerial Ace) will always be blocked. One-hit knockout moves are exempted from this behavior and will be protected against. This battle mechanic was a bug, and was fixed in 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 fainted), the wild Pokémon encounter rate increases by 100%. It shares this property with Arena Trap and Illuminate.

Generation VIII

In Pokémon Sword and Shield, this Ability only affects the rate at which random encounters happen.

Generation IX

In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, this Ability has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with No Guard

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0018		Pidgeot Mega Pidgeot	Normal	Flying	No Guard	None	None
0066		Machop	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	No GuardGen IV+	Steadfast
0067		Machoke	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	No GuardGen IV+	Steadfast
0068		Machamp	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	No GuardGen IV+	Steadfast
0588		Karrablast	Bug		Bug	Swarm	Shed Skin	No Guard
0622		Golett	Ground	Ghost	Iron Fist	Klutz	No Guard
0623		Golurk	Ground	Ghost	Iron Fist	Klutz	No Guard
0679		Honedge	Steel	Ghost	No Guard	None	None
0680		Doublade	Steel	Ghost	No Guard	None	None
0745		Lycanroc Midnight Form	Rock		Rock	Keen Eye	Vital Spirit	No Guard
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.

• Kubfu had No Guard coded as its Hidden Ability in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet versions 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 however it was removed in version 1.2.0. Kubfu was not legally obtainable in Scarlet and Violet during this period.

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

In the 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.

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, No Guard is Honedge's and Doublade's Ability. It increases the damage dealt and received by the user. After evolving into Aegislash, it becomes Stance Change.

Description

Games Description MDTD Allows Pokémon to ignore stat modifications to accuracy and evasion. MDS Allows Pokémon to ignore stat modifications to accuracy and evasiveness. BSL めいちゅうと かいひの だんかいを むしする MDGtI Unavailable 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. MDRTDX 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.

Trivia

• A Pokémon with No Guard can use one-hit knockout moves without missing. This may be a cause of several measures preventing Machop's evolutionary line from having the combination of No Guard and Fissure, which it can learn in Generation I. Although Machop's line can retain the move Fissure when transferred to Generation VII and Pokémon Sword and Shield, it can only have the Hidden Ability Steadfast, as Poké Transporter assigns the Hidden Ability to all Pokémon transferred from Virtual Console. Despite the introduction of the Ability Capsule and Ability Patch, they were restricted from changing a Hidden Ability to a standard Ability until Generation IX. If Machop's line appears in a future game with the Ability Patch, Pokémon HOME will not carry over Fissure to those games, but the combination of No Guard and Fissure will become possible in Sword and Shield only.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 無防守 Mòuh Fòhngsáu 無防禦 Mòuh Fòhngyuh * Mandarin 無防守 / 无防守 Wú Fángshǒu * 無防禦 Wú Fángyù * French Annule Garde German Schildlos Italian Nullodifesa Korean 노가드 No Guard Brazilian Portuguese Indefeso Spanish Indefenso Turkish Korumasızlık

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