Obstruct
Sword & Shield
Protects from damaging attacks. : -2 Def.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 10
- Priority
- +4
- Hits
- The user
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How it works in Gen VIII
The user is protected from most attacks made by other Pokémon during this turn, and Pokémon trying to make with the user have their Defense lowered by 2 . Non-damaging moves go through this . 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, Detect, Endure, King's Shield, Max Guard, Obstruct, Protect, Quick Guard, Spiky Shield, or Wide Guard, or if it was one of those moves and the user's protection 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. Direct contact harshly lowers the attacker’s Defense stat.”
In-game text, Sword & Shield
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, Instruct.
Who learns Obstruct
It isn’t in Pokémon Champions.