Baneful Bunker
Pokémon Champions
Protects from moves. : .
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- —
- PP
- 5 Scarlet & Violet: 10
- Priority
- +4
- Hits
- The user
- On Showdown
- 0.1% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Baneful Bunker changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 10 → 5 Nerfed
- Gen IX
… move used is not Baneful Bunker, added: Burning Bulwark, Detect, Endure, King's Shield, Max Guard, Obstruct, Protect, Quick Guard, added: Silk Trap, Spiky Shield, or Wide Guard, or …
- Gen VIII
… Baneful Bunker, Detect, Endure, King's Shield, added: Max Guard, Obstruct, Protect, Quick Guard, Spiky Shield, or …
Numbers: PokéAPI’s changelog. Descriptions: Pokémon Showdown’s for each generation, PokéAPI’s notes where Showdown’s don’t differ. Champions: Pokémon Showdown.
See it in the games
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How it works in Champions
The user is protected from most attacks made by other Pokémon during this turn, and Pokémon making with the user become . This move has a 1/X chance of being successful, where X starts at 1 and triples each time this move is successfully used. X resets to 1 if this move fails, if the user's last move used is not Baneful Bunker, Burning Bulwark, Detect, Endure, King's Shield, Max Guard, Obstruct, Protect, Quick Guard, Silk Trap, Spiky Shield, or Wide Guard, or if it was one of those moves and the user's was broken. Fails if the user moves last this turn.
“In addition to protecting the user from attacks, this move also poisons any attacker that makes direct contact.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
Good to know
- Priority +4: it goes before moves of lower priority, whatever the Speed.Priority moves
- Protect-like: using any of these in a row usually fails (each success makes the next a third as likely).Protect moves
- Can't be used through: Metronome, Assist, Copycat.
Who runs Baneful Bunker on Showdown
Smogon · Showdown Champions VGC · Sep 2026: Smogon’s usage stats from Pokémon Showdown, not the in-game ladder.
On the ladder today
Ranked Doubles Pokémon with Baneful Bunker among their most used moves.
Who learns Baneful Bunker
1 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
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