Guard Swap (move)

Guard Swap ガードスワップ Guard Swap

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Battles Type  Psychic Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation IV Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Raises the score if the Voltage is low.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Guard Swap (Japanese: ガードスワップ Guard Swap) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Guard Swap switches any changes to the user's Defense stat and Special Defense stat with any changes to the target's Defense stat and Special Defense stat. The effect of Guard Swap may be Baton Passed.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0122 Mr. Mime Psychic -- 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 64 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 44 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying 54 0197 Umbreon Dark 78 0203 Girafarig Normal Psychic -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0063 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Abra
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Mr. Mime |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0096 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Drowzee
| colspan="2" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Mr. Mime |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0227 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Skarmory
| colspan="1" style="background:#60A1B8; text-align: center;" | Steel || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Natu, Xatu |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0303 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mawile
| colspan="2" style="background:#60A1B8; text-align: center;" | Steel | style="background: #FFF" | Umbreon
Girafarig |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0307 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Meditite
| colspan="1" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting || style="background:#EF4179" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Psychic | style="background: #FFF" | Mr. Mime

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0122 Mr. Mime Psychic -- 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 57 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 47 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying 59 0197 Umbreon Dark 78 0203 Girafarig Normal Psychic -- 0616 Shelmet Bug 52 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 other languages

• Chinese: 交換守衛 Jiāohuàn Shǒuwèi
• French: Permugarde
• German: Schutztausch
• Greek: Ανταλλαγή Άμυνας
• Italian: Barattoscudo
• Korean: 가드스웹 Guard Swap
• Spanish: Cambia Def.

Variations of the move Skill Swap
Skill Swap • Heart Swap • Power Swap • Guard Swap • Speed Swap

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