Barricade Buddies (Skill)

Barricade Buddies (Japanese: 技後特防アップＧ Group Special Defense Boost After Move) is a family of skills in Pokémon Masters EX.

Barricade Buddies	技後特防アップＧ
	Group Special Defense Boost After Move
Passive Skill Raises the Sp. Def of all allied sync pairs by [X] stat rank(s) when the user's move is successful.

Effect

The Sp. Def of a Pokémon and its allies increases by one stat rank per skill rank when a sync pair's move is successfully used in battle. The effect applies to both the Pokémon's moves and the Trainer's moves.

Skill rank	Increase
Barricade Buddies 1	1
Barricade Buddies 2	2
Barricade Buddies 3	3
Barricade Buddies 4	4
Barricade Buddies 5	5
Barricade Buddies 6	6

Availability

Barricade Buddies 1

As grid skill (red tiles)

Red sync grid tiles require the sync pair to use a specific move to activate the skill effect.

Scottie/Bettie
& Mesprit
(Light Screen)

Bede
(Champion)
& Galarian Articuno
(Intimidating Freezing Glare)

Dana
& Regice
(X Sp. Def All)

Elesa
(Classic)
& Emolga
(Light Screen)

Iono
& Wattrel
(Clip This!)

Sygna Suit Kris
& Suicune
(Spring of Knowledge!)

Leaf
& Eevee
(Let's Go!)

Lillie
(Special Costume)
& Polteageist
(X Sp. Def All)

Marlon
& Carracosta
(X Defense All)

Sygna Suit Mina
& Tapu Fini
(Rain Dance)

Roxanne
& Nosepass/Probopass
(Study Buddies!)

As lucky skill

Lucky Cookie	Appearance Rate
Rosa Lucky Cookie 1	100%

Barricade Buddies 2

As grid skill (red tiles)

Red sync grid tiles require the sync pair to use a specific move to activate the skill effect.

Elaine
& Eevee
(Let's Go Together!)

In other languages

Language Title Japanese 技後特防アップＧ Mandarin Chinese 招式後特防提升Ｇ French Capacité Coach Déf. Spé. German Attacken-Sp.-Vert.↑ T Italian Mossagace-G Korean 기술후특수방어업G Spanish Mov. Defensa Especial ↑ M +

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