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Feint

In Pokémon ChampionsGen IV
Game

Pokémon Champions

NormalPhysical

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.

  1. Gen VII

    If this move is successful, it breaks through the target's added: Baneful Bunker, Detect, King's Shield, Protect, or Spiky …

  2. Gen VI

    If this move is successful, it breaks through the target's dropped: Detect added: Detect, King's Shield, Protect, or dropped: Protect added: Spiky Shield for this turn, allowing other Pokémon to attack the target normally. If the dropped: target is an opponent and its added: target's side is protected by added: Crafty Shield, Mat Block, Quick dropped: Guard added: Guard, or Wide Guard, that protection is … and other Pokémon may attack the dropped: opponent's added: target's side normally.

  3. 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

  1. Maushold25.5% of its sets
  2. Kleavor28.3% of its sets
  3. Sirfetch’d30.6% of its sets
  4. Grapploct19.5% of its sets
  5. Weavile27.1% of its sets
  6. Tinkaton19.4% of its sets
  7. 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