Psyshield Bash
Pokémon Champions
100% chance to raise the user's Defense by 1.
- Power
- 90 Scarlet & Violet: 70
- Accuracy
- 90%
- PP
- 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Psyshield Bash changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
Power 70 → 90 Buffed
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
Has a 100% chance to raise the user's Defense by 1 stage.
“Cloaking itself in psychic energy, the user slams into the target. This also boosts the user’s Defense stat.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Psyshield Bash, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
3
- Tough Claws×1.3
- Poison Touch30% to poison
- Sheer Force×1.3, loses the effect
Blocks or weakens it
3
- Fluffytakes ½
- Aura Guardtakes ½
- Shield Dustblocks the effect
Punishes the user
12
- Rough Skintakes ⅛ back
Rocky Helmettakes ⅙ back- Static30% paralysis
- Flame Body30% burn
- Poison Point30% poison
- Effect Spore30% poison, paralysis or sleep
- Cute Charm30% infatuation
- Gooey−1 Speed
- Mummyreplaces its ability
- Wandering Spiritswaps abilities
- Aftermathtakes ¼ if it knocks the holder out
- Pickpocketsteals its item
Changes how it works
4
- Long Reachno contact
- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
- Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
Only in other games 8
Boosts it
1
- Serene Gracedoubles the chance
Blocks or weakens it
1
Covert Cloakblocks the effect
Punishes the user
5
- Iron Barbstakes ⅛ back
- Tangling Hair−1 Speed
- Lingering Aromareplaces its ability
- Perish Bodya 3-turn faint countdown for both
Sticky Barbcan stick to it
Changes how it works
1
Protective Padsno contact effects
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Who runs Psyshield Bash 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 Psyshield Bash among their most used moves.
Who learns Psyshield Bash
1 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
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