Detect

Type

Fighting

Category

status

Power

—

Accuracy

—

PP

5

Priority

4

Target

self

Contact

No

Spread

No

Protect blocks

Yes

Wide Guard blocks

No

Prized for its priority, letting the user act before faster threats or enabling support in key turns.

• Tyranitar Mega
• Blaziken Mega
• Hawlucha Mega
• Houndoom Mega
• Heracross Mega
• Scizor Mega
• Sceptile Mega
• Aerodactyl Mega
• Pidgeot Mega
• Dragonite Mega
• Lucario Mega Z
• Lucario Mega
• Scrafty Mega
• Feraligatr Mega
• Meganium Mega
• Dragonite
• Aerodactyl
• Machamp Gmax
• Machamp
• Feraligatr
• Flareon
• Tyranitar
• Jolteon
• Skarmory Mega
• Typhlosion
• Vaporeon
• Blaziken
• Absol Mega
• Raichu Mega Y
• Absol Mega Z
• Heracross
• Raichu Mega X
• Raichu Alola
• Sceptile
• Scizor
• Clefable Mega
• Meganium
• Politoed
• Samurott Hisui
• Conkeldurr
• Pidgeot
• Samurott
• Typhlosion Hisui
• Clefable
• Scrafty
• Houndoom
• Lucario
• Sableye Mega
• Umbreon
• Espeon
• Hawlucha
• Medicham Mega
• Raichu
• Absol
• Skarmory
• Pikachu Starter
• Watchog
• Medicham
• Pikachu
• Pikachu Alola Cap
• Pikachu Belle
• Pikachu Cosplay
• Pikachu Gmax
• Pikachu Hoenn Cap
• Pikachu Kalos Cap
• Pikachu Libre
• Pikachu Original Cap
• Pikachu Partner Cap
• Pikachu Phd
• Pikachu Pop Star
• Pikachu Rock Star
• Pikachu Sinnoh Cap
• Pikachu Unova Cap
• Pikachu World Cap
• Sableye

Detect is a Fighting-type status move. It targets the user and has 5 PP. It has +4 priority, letting it move before most attacks. Detect is a Fighting-type status move. It targets the user and has 5 PP. It has +4 priority, so it acts before most moves.

Prized for its priority, letting the user act before faster threats or enabling support in key turns.

Consider Detect when your team needs the utility it provides rather than direct damage. Status moves define speed control, redirection, protection and disruption in VGC. Its value depends on whether your team can exploit the turns it creates. Check your team composition for Pokémon that benefit from the positioning or tempo it generates.

In team building, Detect competes with other support and disruption options for a limited number of moveslots. Ask whether your team has enough offense to justify a utility move, and whether you have the speed or bulk to use it safely. Many successful teams run one or two status moves that enable the rest of the roster, so treat it as part of your overall gameplan rather than an afterthought.

Common mistakes with Detect include: Using it without a clear plan for the turns it creates. Forgetting that Protect and Detect can block it, wasting a key turn. Assuming priority always goes first without accounting for Quick Guard or Psychic Terrain. Not considering how redirectors like Follow Me and Rage Powder change targeting.

Protect and Detect block this move. Quick Guard and Psychic Terrain can stop priority versions. These interactions are situational, so test them in the team builder and matchup analyzer before committing to the moveslot.

Use the tools below to test Detect in a full team context and compare it with alternative options.

• Protect / Detect: blocks this move.
• Wide Guard: does not block this move.
• Follow Me / Rage Powder: spread moves are not redirected.
• Quick Guard: blocks this priority move.