Feint
Pokémon Champions
Nullifies Detect, , and Quick/Wide Guard.
- Power
- 30
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 10
- Priority
- +2
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
- On Showdown
- 0.2% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Feint changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen VII
If this move is successful, it breaks through the target's added: Baneful Bunker, Detect, King's Shield, Protect, or Spiky …
- Gen VI
If this move is successful, it breaks through the target's
dropped: Detectadded: Detect, King's Shield, Protect, ordropped: Protectadded: Spiky Shield for this turn, allowing other Pokémon to attack the target normally. If thedropped: target is an opponent and itsadded: target's side is protected by added: Crafty Shield, Mat Block, Quickdropped: Guardadded: Guard, or Wide Guard, that protection is … and other Pokémon may attack thedropped: opponent'sadded: target's side normally. - Gen V
Power 50 → 30
dropped: Fails unless the target is using Detect or Protect.If this move is successful, it … Pokémon to attack the target normally. added: If the target is an opponent and its side is protected by Quick Guard or Wide Guard, that protection is also broken for this turn and other Pokémon may attack the opponent's side normally.
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
If this move is successful, it breaks through the target's Baneful Bunker, Detect, King's Shield, , or Spiky Shield for this turn, allowing other Pokémon to attack the target normally. If the target's side is protected by Crafty Shield, Mat Block, Quick Guard, or Wide Guard, that protection is also broken for this turn and other Pokémon may attack the target's side normally.
- Hits through Protect
“This attack can hit a target using a move such as Protect or Detect. This also lifts the effects of those moves.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
Good to know
- Priority +2: it goes before moves of lower priority, whatever the Speed. Psychic Terrain, Dazzling, Queenly Majesty and Armor Tail block it.Priority moves
- Goes through Protect.Moves that go through Protect
- Doesn't make contact: Rough Skin, Rocky Helmet and similar don't trigger.
- Breaks through Protect and similar moves, ending their protection.
- Can't be used through: Metronome, Assist, Copycat.
Who runs Feint on Showdown
Maushold25.5% of its sets
Kleavor28.3% of its sets
Sirfetch’d30.6% of its sets
Grapploct19.5% of its sets
Weavile27.1% of its sets
Tinkaton19.4% of its sets
Lucario35.1% of its sets
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 Feint among their most used moves.
Who learns Feint
45 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
Show all 45 in Champions
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