Burning Bulwark (move)

Burning Bulwark かえんのまもり Protective Flame

Battles Type  Fire Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  +4 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by Mirror Move Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally Affects the user

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

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IX

Burning Bulwark (Japanese: かえんのまもり Protective Flame) is a non-damaging Fire-type move introduced in Generation IX. It is the signature move of Gouging Fire.

Effect

Main article: Protection

Burning Bulwark protects the user from all effects of physical and special moves that target it during the turn it is used. If Burning Bulwark blocks an attack that would make contact with the user, the attacker becomes burned (unless they are immune). (Moves that are blocked do not activate other effects that require making contact, like Rocky Helmet or Rough Skin.)

If the user goes last in the turn, the move will fail. The chance that Burning Bulwark will succeed also drops each time the user successfully and consecutively uses Endure, any protection move that only affects the user, Quick Guard, or Wide Guard. Each time, the chance of success is divided by 3.

Some moves will do damage through Burning Bulwark. Moves that break protection, like Feint, will do their full damage and remove the effects of Burning Bulwark. The Ability Unseen Fist allows contact moves to bypass Burning Bulwark.

Burning Bulwark is an increased priority move that will go before most attacks in a turn.

Description

Games Description SV The user’s intensely hot fur protects it from attacks and also burns any attacker that makes direct contact with it.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Level
						IX
						SV
1020		Gouging Fire		No Eggs Discovered		No Eggs Discovered	49
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.

Trivia

• Burning Bulwark is the only protection move that is able to be called by Metronome.
  • It is also the only signature move of a Paradox Pokémon to be a status move.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 火焰守護 Fóyihm Sáuwuh Mandarin 火焰守護 / 火焰守护 Huǒyàn Shǒuhù French Rempart Brûlant German Flammenschild Italian Egida Ignea Korean 화염의수호 Hwayeom-ui Suho Spanish Llama Protectora

Variations of the move Protect
Protect • Detect • King's Shield • Spiky Shield • Baneful Bunker • Obstruct • Silk Trap • Burning Bulwark

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