No Guard (Ability)

No Guard	ノーガード
	No Guard
Flavor text Generation III Generation IV Ensures the Pokémon and its foe's attacks land. Generation V Ensures attacks by or against the Pokémon land. Generation VI Currently unknown Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

No Guard (Japanese: ノーガード No Guard) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV. Seven Pokémon can have this Ability. Prior to Generation V, it was the signature Ability of the Machop family.

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, and Sky Drop.

In Diamond and Pearl, a Pokémon with No Guard can successfully hit an opponent's Pokémon that has used Protect or Detect, but only if the attacker uses a move with less than 100% accuracy; the lower the initial accuracy of the move is, the higher the chance of the move breaking through Protect/Detect. Thus, when used against Protect or Detect, moves like Swift and Aerial Ace will always be blocked. OHKO moves are exempted from this behavior; they will always miss. This was a bug, and was fixed in Platinum.

In a Double Battle or a Triple Battle, the effect only applies to the Pokémon with No Guard and any Pokémon targeting it.

Outside of battle

Outside of battle, if a Pokémon with No Guard is leading the party, the wild Pokémon encounter rate is increased to 150%.

Pokémon with No Guard

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0066		Machop	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	No Guard	Steadfast
0067		Machoke	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	No Guard	Steadfast
0068		Machamp	Fighting		Fighting	Guts	No Guard	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
0???	Honedge	Honedge	Steel	Ghost	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.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 無防禦 Wú Fángyù French Annule Garde German Schildlos Italian Nullodifesa Korean 노가드 No Guard Portuguese Sem Proteção Spanish Indefenso

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