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Protect (Japanese: まもる Protect) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation II. It was TM17 from Generation II to Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, and TM07 in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!. It is TM25 in Generation VIII.

Effect

Generation II

Protect protects the user from all effects of moves that target it during the turn it is used, including damage.

This does not include damage inflicted by weather it is susceptible to, or damage from a status condition that it obtained on a previous turn (as these are not moves that targeted the user this turn). If the user goes last this turn, the move will fail.

Protect will fail if the user is behind a substitute.

Each time any of Protect, Detect, or Endure is successfully used without other moves used in between, the success rate will halve. In this generation, the success rate is implemented as a single byte over 255 which starts at the maximum of 255 and is floor-divided by 2 each time. This causes the success rate to drop to 0 on its ninth consecutive successful use.[1]

Turn Success Rate 1 255 2 127 3 63 4 31 5 15 6 7 7 3 8 1 9 0

Generation III

Protect can now be used when the user is behind a substitute.

Like in Generation II, the success rates of Protect, Detect, and Endure halve each time any of the three are used successfully and consecutively. In this generation, the halving was intended to cap at a 12.5% success rate on the fourth consecutive successful use, but a bug[citation needed] causes the cap to not work, causing the game to read garbage values and causing Protect's success rate on the fifth and future turns to follow an erratic sequence.[2][3]

The following success rates are accurate to Ruby and Sapphire; from the 53rd turn onward, FireRed and LeafGreen have a different sequence of values, as does Emerald.[4] These numbers represent success rates out of 65536, which means that the move has a 1/65536 chance of missing on the first use.[5]

Turn Success Rate Turn Success Rate Turn Success Rate Turn Success Rate Turn Success Rate 1 65535 17 168 33 89 49 2000 65 110 2 32767 18 266 34 56 50 100 66 90 3 16383 19 289 35 57 51 65535 67 64 4 8191 20 270 36 61 52 65535 68 95 5 118 21 343 37 157 53 22 69 69 6 165 22 271 38 247 54 30 70 99 7 166 23 264 39 129 55 23 71 187 8 102 24 65535 40 129 56 40 72 1 9 65534 25 51201 41 100 57 2 73 3084 10 68 26 38404 42 20 58 50 74 2820 11 243 27 25609 43 250 59 68 75 2827 12 182 28 20496 44 40 60 60 76 1285 13 197 29 10272 45 500 61 19 77 0 14 203 30 5168 46 60 62 70 15 194 31 78 47 1000 63 24 16 214 32 75 48 80 64 80

Protect can also be used as part of a Pokémon Contest combination, with the user gaining an extra appeal point if Harden was used in the prior turn.

Generation IV

Protect now properly caps at a minimum success rate of 12.5% on the fourth and future consecutive turns.

In Diamond and Pearl only, if an attack is given perfect accuracy through the effect of a move (Lock-On/Mind Reader), the weather (Thunder in Rain, or Blizzard in Hail), a Micle Berry, or an Ability (No Guard), it has a chance to hit through Protect equal to (100 - move accuracy)% . OHKO moves are unaffected, and will never hit through Protect. This behavior was reverted in Platinum.

Generation V

Protect's success rate no longer has a lower bound of 12.5%. Quick Guard and Wide Guard now also count toward this halving.[6]

Generation VI onwards

Successfully using Protect, Detect, Endure, Wide Guard, Quick Guard, Spiky Shield, King's Shield, or Baneful Bunker consecutively now divides the chance of success of Protect, Detect, Endure, Spiky Shield, King's Shield, and Baneful Bunker by 3 for each consecutive use, with a minimum (1/3)^6 (1/729 or ~0.1%) chance.[7]

If a damaging Z-Move or a Max Move targets a Pokémon that used Protect, the move will bypass Protect but only do 25% of the original damage. The effects of Protect are not lifted.

If powered up by a Normalium Z into Z-Protect, all of the user's lowered stats are reset.

Moves that bypass Protect

In addition to damaging Z-Moves and Max Moves, the following moves cannot be stopped by Protect:

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

Moves that target the user, moves that target the user and all allies, moves that target all Pokémon (except Shadow Shed, Shadow Half, and Teatime), and entry hazard moves cannot be blocked by Protect.

Abilities that bypass Protect

Unseen Fist is an ability that allows all moves that make contact to bypass moves like protect.

Because of a bug in the games, No Guard allows a Pokémon to bypass Protect if it uses a move with less than 100% accuracy that is not a one-hit knockout move in Diamond and Pearl. This was fixed in Platinum.

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In other games

The user is protected from all attacks for a set amount of turns, which ends on the user's turn. However, items such as toss items can still hit.

Description

Games Description MD R B The user gains the Protect status, preventing damage from enemy attacks and moves. MD T D Gives the user a Protect status. A Pokémon with the Protect status doesn't take damage from enemy attacks and moves, and is also protected from the effects of moves. MD S Gives the user a Protect status. A Pokémon with the Protect status doesn't take damage from enemy attacks and moves and is also protected from the effects of moves. B S L じぶんを まもりじょうたいにかえる まもりじょうたいになると てきのこうげきや わざのこうかを うけない MD GtI You'll get the Protect status, which enables you to evade enemies' attacks and move effects. Its chance of failing rises if you use it multiple times in a row. S MD You'll protect yourself and evade enemies' attacks and move effects. But its chance of failure rises if you use it after you use a move that evades enemies' attacks.

In the anime

In the main series

In the Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 Animated Trailer

In Pokémon Generations

In the manga

In the Ash & Pikachu manga

Snorlax The user puts up one of its arms to block an attack. Pokémon Method User First Chapter Used In Notes Snorlax Snorlax crosses its arm and avoids getting hurt by an attack. Ash's Snorlax An Awesome Showdown!! Debut

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

In the Be the Best! Pokémon B+W manga

In the Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl manga

Alakazam The user protects itself from attacks. Pokémon Method User First Chapter Used In Notes Alakazam Alakazam forms a barrier with it hands and protects itself from attacks. A wild Alakazam PDP08 Debut

In the Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys manga

In the Pokémon Gotta Catch 'Em All manga

In the Pocket Monsters Platinum: Aim to Be Battle King manga

Dusknoir The user puts up its hands to block an attack. Pokémon Method User First Chapter Used In Notes Dusknoir Dusknoir puts up its hands to protect itself. Unknown Trainer's Dusknoir PBK8 Debut

In the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga

Roselia The user avoids getting hit by any type of attack. Pokémon Method User First Chapter Used In Notes Roselia Roselia crosses its arms and is not hit by an opponent's attack. A Rich Boy's Roselia PMDP58 Debut

In other generations

Core series games

Side series games

Spin-off series games

Trivia

In Generation II, after the "[Pokémon's name] protected itself!" message appears, there is another message saying that the opponent's move missed. This is caused by Protect's effect internally leading moves with an accuracy check to miss, and was changed in Generation III to omit the second message.

Protect is the most common move among the movesets of Video Game World Championships team's winners.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 守住 Sáujyuh Mandarin 守住 Shǒuzhù Danish Beskyt Dutch Bescherm Finnish Suojaus French Canada Protéger * Europe Abri German Schutzschild Greek Προστασία Prostasía Hebrew הגנה Hagana Hindi बचाओ Bachao

रक्षा कवच Raksha Kavach Indonesian Lindungi

Bertahan

Berlindung Italian Protezione Korean 방어 Bang'eo Polish Ochrona *

Tarcza Obronna * Portuguese Brazil Proteção Portugal Proteção

Proteger Romanian Protecția Russian Щит Schit Serbian Zaštita Spanish Protección Swedish Försvara Vietnamese Bảo Vệ

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