Wide Guard

Type

Rock

Category

status

Power

—

Accuracy

—

PP

10

Priority

3

Target

allies

Contact

No

Spread

No

Protect blocks

Yes

Wide Guard blocks

No

Blocks spread attacks like Heat Wave and Glacial Lance, swinging key turns.

Wide Guard is a Rock-type status move. It targets the user's team and has 10 PP. It has +3 priority, letting it move before most attacks. Protects the user's team from spread moves this turn.

Blocks spread attacks like Heat Wave and Glacial Lance, swinging key turns.

Consider Wide Guard 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, Wide Guard 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 Wide Guard 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 Wide Guard 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.