Cotton Guard
Pokémon Champions
Raises the user's Defense by 3.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- —
- Hit chance
- PP
- 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
- Cooldown
- Wind-up
- Hits
- The user
Changes over time
How Cotton Guard changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 10 → 12 Buffed
Numbers: PokéAPI’s changelog. Descriptions: Pokémon Showdown’s for each generation, PokéAPI’s notes where Showdown’s don’t differ. Champions: Pokémon Showdown.
See it in the games
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How it works in Champions
“The user protects itself by wrapping its body in soft cotton, drastically boosting its Defense stat.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Cotton Guard, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
1
- Prankster+1 priority
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
Good to know
- Snatch can steal it.
Who runs Cotton Guard on Showdown
Smogon · Showdown Champions VGC · Sep 2026: Smogon’s usage stats from Pokémon Showdown, not the in-game ladder.
On the ladder today
Ranked Doubles Pokémon with Cotton Guard among their most used moves.
Who learns Cotton Guard
9 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 17 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →