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 * In Generation II, after the appearance of the '''"[Pokémon's name] PROTECTING itself!"''' message, another message saying that the opponent's Pokémon missed the move was transmitted. The second message was removed in Generation III, likely to avoid redundancy.
 * The description for this move's capability isn't entirely true. The only moves it will ''never'' block are Shadow Force and Feint.
-*Due to the fact that {{m|Protect}} has the exact same effect, a higher PP and that all Pokémon capable of learning Detect can learn Protect, Detect is [[Imprison (move)|alm]][[Disable (move)|ost]] completely redundant compared to Protect.
+*Due to the fact that {{m|Protect}} has the exact same effect, a higher PP and that all Pokémon capable of learning Detect can learn Protect, Detect is [[Imprison (move)|alm]][[Disable (move)|ost]] completely redundant compared to Protect. However, the decay of Detect is less severe than that of Protect, which somewhat alleviates the problem.
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