Spiky Shield

In Pokémon ChampionsGen VIChanged in Champions

Game

Pokémon Champions

GrassStatus

Protects from moves. Contact: loses 1/8 max HP.

Power: –
Accuracy: —
Hit chance
PP: 8 Scarlet & Violet: 10
Cooldown
Wind-up
Priority: +4
Hits: The user
On Showdown: 0.6% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it

Changes over time

How Spiky Shield changed from game to game, newest first.

Champions
PP 10 → 8 Nerfed
Gen IX
… last move used is not Baneful Bunker, added: Burning Bulwark, Detect, Endure, King's Shield, Max Guard, Obstruct, Protect, Quick Guard, added: Silk Trap, Spiky Shield, or Wide Guard, or if it …
Gen VIII
… is not Baneful Bunker, Detect, Endure, King's Shield, added: Max Guard, Obstruct, Protect, Quick Guard, Spiky Shield, or Wide Guard, or …
Gen VII
… user's last move used is not added: Baneful Bunker, Detect, Endure, King's Shield, Protect, Quick Guard, Spiky Shield, …

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 is protected from most attacks made by other Pokémon during this turn, and Pokémon making contact with the user lose 1/8 of their maximum HP, rounded down. This move has a 1/X chance of being successful, where X starts at 1 and triples each time this move is successfully used. X resets to 1 if this move fails, if the user's last move used is not Baneful Bunker, Burning Bulwark, Detect, Endure, King's Shield, Max Guard, Obstruct, Protect, Quick Guard, Silk Trap, Spiky Shield, or Wide Guard, or if it was one of those moves and the user's protection was broken. Fails if the user moves last this turn.

“In addition to protecting the user from attacks, this move also damages any attacker that makes direct contact.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

Abilities and items that boost Spiky Shield, block it, punish its user or change how it works.

Boosts it

Prankster+1 priority

Good to know

Protect-like: using any of these in a row usually fails (each success makes the next a third as likely).Protect moves
Can't be used through: Metronome, Assist, Copycat.