Baneful Bunker (move)

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Baneful Bunker トーチカ Pillbox

Battles Type  Poison Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  +4 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by Mirror Move Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Self: Affects the user

Availability Introduced  Generation VII Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Baneful Bunker (Japanese: トーチカ Pillbox) is a non-damaging Poison-type move introduced in Generation VII. It is the signature move of Toxapex.

Effect

Baneful Bunker protects the user from all effects of moves that target the user during the turn it is used, including damage. (This does not include damage afflicted by weather conditions it is susceptible to, or damage from a status ailment that it obtained on a previous turn.) Additionally, if Baneful Bunker blocks an attack that would make contact with the user, the attacker becomes poisoned. However, if an attack is blocked by Baneful Bunker, the effects of the user's Rocky Helmet, Rough Skin, and Iron Barbs will not activate. If Sucker Punch is used on a Pokémon that has used Baneful Bunker, the move fails and the Pokémon does not take damage.

Using Protect, Detect, Endure, Spiky Shield, King's Shield, Baneful Bunker, Wide Guard, or Quick Guard consecutively decreases the chance of success of Protect, Detect, Endure, Spiky Shield, King's Shield, and Baneful Bunker for each consecutive use.

It is an increased-priority move that will always go before attacks during the turn.

Feint, Phantom Force, Shadow Force, Hyperspace Hole, and Hyperspace Fury lift Baneful Bunker's protection for the rest of the turn.

Baneful Bunker is unable to defend against some moves. If powered up by a Poisonium Z into Z-Baneful Bunker, the user's Defense stat rises by one stage.

Description

Games Description SM In addition to protecting the user from attacks, this move also poisons any attacker that makes direct contact.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Level
						I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
0748		Toxapex		Water 1		Water 1	1, Evo.
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 碉堡 Dīubóu Mandarin 碉堡 Diāobǎo French Blockhaus German Bunker Italian Fortino Korean 토치카 Tochka Spanish Búnker

Variations of the move Protect
Protect • Detect • King's Shield • Spiky Shield • Baneful Bunker • Obstruct • Silk Trap • Burning Bulwark

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