Cotton Guard (move)

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Cotton Guard
コットンガード Cotton Guard
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Type  Grass
Category  Status
PP  10 (max. 16)
Power  —
Accuracy  —%
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  • Does not make contact
  • Not affected by Protect
  • Not affected by Magic Coat
  • Affected by Snatch
  • Not affected by King's Rock
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
Affects the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation V
Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]]
Appeal  0  
Jam  0  
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Appeal  0  
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Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Cotton Guard (Japanese: コットンガード Cotton Guard) is a non-damaging Grass-type move introduced in Generation V.

Effect

Cotton Guard raises the user's Defense stat by three stages.

Description

Games Description
The user protects itself by wrapping its body in soft cotton, drastically raising the user's Defense stat.


Learnset

By leveling up

# Pokémon Type Level
I II III IV V VI
179   Mareep Electric Electric 32 36 '
180   Flaaffy Electric Electric 36 43 '
181   Ampharos Electric Electric 40 46 '
333   Swablu Normal Flying 40 39 '
334   Altaria Dragon Flying 46 42 '
546   Cottonee Grass Grass 37 '
556   Maractus Grass Grass 55 '
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.
A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method.
An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.


By breeding

# Pokémon Type Father
II III IV V VI
187   Hoppip Grass Flying   
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.
A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method.
An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.


By event

Generation V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with
0354   Banette Ghost Global Link
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB
from this move.


In the anime

 
Cottonee


The user protects itself with a flurry of cotton balls.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
  The cotton on the lower half of Cottonee's body puffs up and forms more cotton in front of it, creating a wall of cotton on the front of its body to protect itself against attacks, or Cottonee pulls its body up a little bit and the cotton on its lower body puffs up and then comes out of its body, forming an orb of soft white cotton around it and protecting it from attacks.
A wild Cottonee Cottonee in Love! Debut


In other languages

Language Title
Mandarin Chinese 棉花防禦 Miánhuā Fángyù
  Dutch Wattenschild
  French Cotogarde
  German Watteschild
  Italian Cotonscudo
  Korean 코튼가드 Cotton Guard
  Brazilian Portuguese Defesa de Algodão
Spanish   Latin America Guardia Algodón
  Spain Rizo Algodón


Variations of the move Tail Glow
  Tail GlowCotton Guard


  This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.