Team Defense
Essential decision points for team survival.
Actively integrate Wide Guard into your Doubles teams to provide essential protection for vulnerable partners against devastating spread moves like Heat Wave or Rock Slide, securing crucial turns.
Don't let widespread attacks dismantle your team strategy. Even if multiple Pokémon can use Protect, common multi-target moves will bypass individual defenses and hit your exposed allies.
Essential logic for shielding fragile partners.
While Protect shields a single Pokémon, Wide Guard provides team-wide protection against moves that target multiple Pokémon simultaneously. This is critical for safeguarding frail allies from powerful widespread attacks such as Heat Wave, Rock Slide, and Eruption. By blocking these area-of-effect attacks, Wide Guard prevents significant damage to your side, covering a crucial vulnerability that individual Protect cannot address. It allows you to maintain momentum and position without fear of being swept by a single broad assault.
Condensed cues for rapid tactical review.
Wide Guard blocks all incoming multi-target moves for your entire side of the field.
Crucial for protecting fragile allies from widespread damage that bypasses individual Protect.
Mitigates common threats like Heat Wave, Rock Slide, and Eruption in Doubles format.
Backing claims
Teammates that can use Wide Guard, such as Pelipper or Garganacl, are valuable for Mega Beedrill to protect it from powerful spread moves like Heat Wave and Rock Slide, which it cannot survive due to its frailty.
IfIn doubles format, when facing spread moves.
Garganacl can use Wide Guard in Doubles to protect its allies from moves that target multiple Pokémon.
IfIn Doubles format.
Wide Guard is effective for blocking widespread damaging moves like Eruption and Heat Wave.
IfOpponent uses widespread damaging moves.
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