No Guard (Ability)

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No Guard (Japanese: ノーガード No Guard) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV. Prior to Generation V, it was the signature Ability of 's evolutionary line.
==Effect==
===In battle===
All moves used by or against a Pokémon with this Ability cannot miss. It also allows Pokémon to be hit during the semi-invulnerable turn of , , , , , , and . It does not bypass type immunities.
A hidden inside a 's mouth via the Ability is immune to the effects of No Guard.
In , a Pokémon with No Guard can successfully hit a Pokémon that has used or , but only if it uses a move with less than 100% accuracy. The lower the initial accuracy of the move, the higher its chance of breaking through Protect or Detect. Thus, when used against Protect or Detect, moves that never miss (such as and ) will always be blocked. One-hit knockout moves are exempted from this behavior and will be protected against. This battle mechanic was a bug, and was fixed in so that most moves are blocked by Protect and Detect.
===Outside of battle===
Outside of battle, if a Pokémon with No Guard is in the first place in the party (even if fainted), the wild Pokémon encounter rate increases by 100%. It shares this property with and .
====Generation VIII====
In , this Ability only affects the rate at which random encounters happen.
====Generation IX====
In , this Ability has no effect outside of battle.
==Pokémon with No Guard==
* had No Guard coded as its Hidden Ability in versions 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 however it was removed in version 1.2.0. Kubfu was not legally obtainable in Scarlet and Violet during this period.
==In other games==
===Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series===
In the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers series, No Guard causes the Pokémon to ignore both harmful and beneficial modifications to accuracy and evasiveness for both the target and itself. This prevents the Pokémon's own Concentrator and Clutch Performer IQ skills from working.
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In , No Guard is 's and 's Ability. It increases the damage dealt and received by the user. After evolving into , it becomes .
===Description===
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==Trivia==
* A Pokémon with No Guard can use one-hit knockout moves without missing. This may be a cause of several measures preventing Machop's evolutionary line from having the combination of No Guard and , which it can learn in Generation I. Although Machop's line can retain the move Fissure when transferred to Generation VII and Pokémon Sword and Shield, it can only have the Hidden Ability , as Poké Transporter assigns the Hidden Ability to all Pokémon transferred from Virtual Console. Despite the introduction of the Ability Capsule and Ability Patch, they were restricted from changing a Hidden Ability to a standard Ability until Generation IX. If Machop's line appears in a future game with the Ability Patch, Pokémon HOME will not carry over Fissure to those games, but the combination of No Guard and Fissure will become possible in Sword and Shield only.
==In other languages==
Category:Abilities that affect appearance of wild Pokémon
Category:Abilities with field effects
Category:Abilities with negative effects
de:Schildlos
es:Indefenso
fr:Annule Garde
it:Nullodifesa
ja:ノーガード
zh:无防守（特性）