Wonderguard

[redlizard]

can anyone explain to me why wonder guard can't be skill swapped?

[Seerow]

It can, I believe.

[WER]

It can't be Skill Swapped because if it gets onto the wrong Pokemon, you're nearly guaranteed a win. Skill Swapping Wonder Guard onto Sableye or Spiritomb means only Forsighted Fighting attacks will hit it, besides stuff like Toxic/Leech Seed/etc.

[redlizard]

that makes sense
how cool would it be to use a gameshark or action replay to give a spiritomb wonder guard? that would soooo rule!

[WER]

People have done it before. Actually, for some reason Fire Fang always hit through Wonderguard, regardless of typing.

[Skittleman]

Perhaps the Wonderguard was never meant to be on any other pokemon, and was programmed only to let through any attack super effective against Shedinja, regardless of which pokemon has the Wonderguard.

[WER]

Perhaps the Wonderguard was never meant to be on any other pokemon, and was programmed only to let through any attack super effective against Shedinja, regardless of which pokemon has the Wonderguard.

Which is why you can't Skill Swap it. :tease:

Then again I don't know if other Fire attacks hit Wonder Guard Pokemon all the time, too.

[Sini]

I don't think the new way of dividing attacks into physical and special removes type weaknesses or neutralities. Ghosts can still receive damage from elemental punches and other non-normal or non-fighting type moves -some of them now titled as physical- as they used to, and Fangs are not exceptional attacks, either. Wonder Guard should let any super-effective attack go through. Or does somebody know an example of when this did not happen?

Eesh, buggy English...

[WER]

As I mentioned before, Fire Fang hits through Wonder Guard no matter what Pokemon is using it (I believe they tested it with Spiritomb).