Detect: Power, Accuracy & Champions Usage

Changes over time

How Detect changed from game to game, newest first.

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 …
Gen VII
… user's last move used is not added: Baneful Bunker, Detect, Endure, King's Shield, Protect, Quick …
Gen VI
… where X starts at 1 and ~~dropped: doubles~~ added: triples each time this move is successfully used. X resets to 1 if this move ~~dropped: fails or~~ added: fails, if the user's last move used is not Detect, Endure, added: King's Shield, Protect, Quick Guard, added: Spiky Shield, or Wide ~~dropped: Guard.~~ added: Guard, or if it was one of those moves and the user's protection was broken. Fails if the user moves last this turn.
Gen V
… each time this move is successfully ~~dropped: used, up to a maximum of 8.~~ added: used. X resets to 1 if this … move used is not Detect, Endure, added: Protect, Quick Guard, or ~~dropped: Protect.~~ added: Wide Guard. Fails if the user moves last this turn.
Gen IV
… during this turn. This move has ~~dropped: an X/65536~~ added: a 1/X chance of being successful, where X starts at ~~dropped: 65535~~ added: 1 and ~~dropped: halves, rounded down,~~ added: doubles each time this move is successfully ~~dropped: used. After the fourth successful use in~~ added: used, up to a ~~dropped: row, X drops to 118 and continues with seemingly random values from 0-65535 on subsequent successful uses.~~ added: maximum of 8. X resets to ~~dropped: 65535~~ added: 1 if this move fails or if …
Gen III
The user is protected from added: most attacks made by ~~dropped: the opponent~~ added: other Pokémon during this turn. This move has an ~~dropped: X/255~~ added: X/65536 chance of being successful, where X starts at ~~dropped: 255~~ added: 65535 and halves, rounded down, each time this move is successfully used. added: After the fourth successful use in a row, X drops to 118 and continues with seemingly random values from 0-65535 on subsequent successful uses. X resets to ~~dropped: 255~~ added: 65535 if this move fails or if … or Protect. Fails if the user ~~dropped: has a substitute or~~ moves last this turn.

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. 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.

“This move enables the user to protect itself from all attacks. Its chance of failing rises if it is used in succession.”
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.