Spiky Shield
Grass
Effect Summary
Blocks damaging attacks and damages attacking Pokémon for ⅛ their max
HP
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.Detailed Effect
Spiky Shield protects the user from any moves targeted at it for the rest of the turn.
Spiky Shield has highly increased priority meaining it will move before most other moves.
If Spiky Shield goes last in the turn anyway, it will fail.
When Spiky Shield blocks a contact making attack, the attacker's receives ⅛ of their maximum HP
as damage.
A contact making multi strike move such as Arm Thrust only counts once per use.
This is also the case if the user was type-immune to the contact move.
Once blocked, the move will not activate other effects that require contact such as Rocky Helmet
Attackers with the ability Unseen Fist ignore the protection effect of Spiky Shield with contact moves and do not suffer recoil damage.
Each time Spiky Shield is successfully and consecutively used, its chances to succeed are lowered by 66.67%. This is also shared with other protection moves that only protect the user, Endure, Quick Guard and Wide Guard.
The list of unprotectable moves is the same as Protect.
Damaging Z-Moves and Max Moves do 25% of the original damage except G-Max One Blow and G-Max Rapid Flow which are not protected from.
Spiky Shield has highly increased priority meaining it will move before most other moves.
If Spiky Shield goes last in the turn anyway, it will fail.
When Spiky Shield blocks a contact making attack, the attacker's receives ⅛ of their maximum HP
as damage.A contact making multi strike move such as Arm Thrust only counts once per use.
This is also the case if the user was type-immune to the contact move.
Once blocked, the move will not activate other effects that require contact such as Rocky Helmet
Attackers with the ability Unseen Fist ignore the protection effect of Spiky Shield with contact moves and do not suffer recoil damage.
Each time Spiky Shield is successfully and consecutively used, its chances to succeed are lowered by 66.67%. This is also shared with other protection moves that only protect the user, Endure, Quick Guard and Wide Guard.
The list of unprotectable moves is the same as Protect.
Damaging Z-Moves and Max Moves do 25% of the original damage except G-Max One Blow and G-Max Rapid Flow which are not protected from.
Description
XY ORAS SM USUM LGPLGE | In addition to protecting the user from attacks, this move also damages any attacker who makes direct contact. |
SWSH | In addition to protecting the user from attacks, this move also damages any attacker that makes direct contact. |
Meta Information
| Move Target |  Selfmeans that the Pokémon can not be selected.means that the Pokémon can be selected.means that the Pokémon will be selected. | ||||
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