No Guard (Ability)

No Guard	ノーガード
	No Guard
Flavor text Generation III Currently unknown 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. 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. Nine Pokémon can have this Ability. 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.

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 like 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 leading the party, the wild Pokémon encounter rate increases by 50%.

Pokémon with No Guard

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
018M	Pidgeot	Pidgeot	Normal	Flying	No Guard	None	None
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
0679		Honedge	Steel	Ghost	No Guard	None	None
0680		Doublade	Steel	Ghost	No Guard	None	None
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 Turkish Korumasızlık

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