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Safeguard (Japanese: しんぴのまもり Mysterious Protection) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation II. It was TM20 from Generation III to Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon and in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and TM19 in Pokémon Sword and Shield.
Effect
 | This move effect may be in need of research. Reason: Can a disobedient Pokémon put itself to sleep while under the effect of Safeguard (in each generation)? You can discuss this on the talk page. |
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Generation II
Safeguard prevents the user and its allies from being inflicted with non-volatile status conditions and confusion for five turns. Existing status conditions are not cured by Safeguard and have their effects as normal.
Safeguard does not protect from self-inflicted sleep from Rest, but does prevent confusion due to fatigue after using Outrage, Petal Dance, or Thrash. Safeguard does not prevent a Pokémon becoming confused due to its held Berserk Gene.
Generation III
Safeguard no longer prevents confusion due to fatigue after using Outrage, Petal Dance, or Thrash. It also does not prevent allies from being confused by a held Figy, Wiki, Mago, Aguav or Iapapa Berry.
Safeguard prevents a Pokémon from being made drowsy by Yawn, but will not prevent it from falling asleep due to its effect if it is already drowsy.
Safeguard does not protect the user from being inflicted with a status condition by making contact with a Pokémon with the Ability Effect Spore, Static, Flame Body or Poison Point.
Generation IV
Safeguard prevents allies from being confused by a Figy, Wiki, Mago, Aguav or Iapapa Berry (regardless of whether it is consumed as a held item, via Fling, or via Bug Bite or Pluck) as well as being burned or poisoned by a held Flame Orb or Toxic Orb.
Safeguard is removed from a Pokémon's side of the field if it is hit by Defog (even if it was used by an ally).
Generation V onwards
Safeguard no longer prevents allies from being confused by a Figy, Wiki, Mago, Aguav or Iapapa Berry (regardless of whether it is consumed as a held item, via Fling, or via Bug Bite or Pluck). Safeguard no longer prevents allies from being burned or poisoned by a held Flame Orb or Toxic Orb. Safeguard now protects the user from being inflicted with a status condition when making contact with a Pokémon with the Ability Effect Spore, Static, Flame Body or Poison Point. Safeguard can be bypassed by Infiltrator.
If powered up by a Normalium Z into Z-Safeguard, the user's Speed stat is also raised by one stage.
Description
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Learnset
By leveling up
By breeding
By TM
By event
Generation II
In other games
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
Safeguard targets all team members in the same room, giving them the Safeguard status condition. This status prevents affected Pokémon from being afflicted by bad status conditions (including sleep from Drowsy), as well as move seals. Safeguard will not cure already existing status conditions. This lasts for 16-20RBTDS / 21GtISMD turns. This move is affected by Snatch.
Pokémon Masters EX
- Description prior to version 2.10.0 (from June 28, 2021): Blocks status conditions from affecting the allied field of play.
Pokémon UNITE
In Pokémon UNITE, Safeguard is Blissey's second move. It is obtained by evolving at level 4 and upgrading Heal Pulse into it instead of Soft-Boiled. The user grants both the targeted ally and themself a shield for 3s; purging hindrances and making both immune to hindrances for 3s. At level 10, the shield value is increased.
Description
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In the anime
 Dragonair  Delcatty  Slowking  Vivillon | |||
| The user creates a protective field. | |||
| Pokémon | Method | ||
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| User | First Used In | Notes | |
 | Lugia spreads its wings and a large light blue or green barrier forms around it, repelling attacks from it. | ||
| Lugia (M02) | The Power of One | Debut | |
| Lugia (anime) | A Promise is a Promise | None | |
 | Butterfree becomes surrounded in a blue barrier, repelling attacks, or Butterfree's body becomes outlined in light green. Then, its body starts to glow light green and it can block attacks. | ||
| Lisa's Butterfree | Spell of the Unown: Entei | None | |
| Jeremy's Butterfree | Weekend Warrior | None | |
 | Celebi crouches together and becomes surrounded in a pink and green, or just green energy shield. | ||
| Iron-Masked Marauder's Celebi | Celebi: The Voice of the Forest | None | |
| A wild Celebi | Celebi and Joy! | None | |
 | Dragonair's body becomes covered in a blue-green aura that protects it from attacks. | ||
| Clair's Dragonair | Great Bowls of Fire! | None | |
 | Latias's eyes glow light blue. Then a blue force field comes out of Latias's body and can stop attacks. | ||
| Latias (M05) | Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias | None | |
 | Latios's eyes glow light blue. Then, his body starts to glow light blue and a bright blue force field surrounds Latios's body, stopping attacks. | ||
| Latios (M05) | Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias | None | |
 | Milotic's body becomes outlined in green. | ||
| Robert's Milotic | Win, Lose or Drew! | None | |
| Wallace's Milotic | Our Cup Runneth Over! | None | |
 | Togepi's body glows blue, then it becomes surrounded by a blue force field that stops attacks. | ||
| Misty's Togepi | A Togepi Mirage! | None | |
| A wild Togepi | A Togepi Mirage! | None | |
 | Togetic's body glows blue and a blue force field surrounds it. | ||
| Misty's Togetic | A Togepi Mirage! | None | |
 | Delcatty's body glows light blue and it creates a light blue force field around itself that protects it from attacks. | ||
| Dr. Abby's Johnny | Delcatty Got Your Tongue | None | |
 | Ralts's body becomes outlined in green and a green barrier appears around it, blocking anything from getting in. | ||
| A Ralts Max befriended | Do I Hear a Ralts? | None | |
 | Gorebyss becomes surrounded in a green aura that blocks any attacks. | ||
| Juan's Gorebyss | The Great Eight Fate! | None | |
 | Wynaut's body glows green, blocking any attacks, or Wynaut's body glows teal and a green force field appears around Wynaut's body, protecting it from attacks. | ||
| Multiple wild Wynaut | Who, What, When, Where, Wynaut? | None | |
| Multiple wild Wynaut | Pikachu's Island Adventure | None | |
 | A green force field appears around Abra, preventing anything from getting through to Abra. | ||
| A wild Abra | Fear Factor Phony | None | |
 | Deoxys's body glows green and it pushes out a green barrier from its body that prevents anything from getting in. | ||
| Deoxys (anime) | Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys' Crisis! (Part 1) | None | |
 | A light green barrier appears around Bronzor's body, protecting it from attacks. | ||
| A Trainer's Bronzor | The Rise of Darkrai | None | |
 | Slowking leans its head forward and the gem on its crown glows light green. A large, crystallized barrier appears around Slowking's body, protecting it from attacks. | ||
| Conway's Slowking | Tag! We're It...! | None | |
 | Finneon's body becomes outlined in turquoise, then its whole body glows green, protecting it from attacks. | ||
| Zoey's Finneon | Staging a Heroes' Welcome! | None | |
 | Togekiss crosses its wings and its body starts to glow green. Then, it opens up its wings and a large green barrier comes out of its body, repelling attacks, or Togekiss faces its head towards the sky and it spins around. Two light green vortexes form on top and below Togekiss's body as it spins, and a cylinder of sparkling green energy appears around Togekiss's body. | ||
| Dawn's Togekiss | Dawn of a Royal Day! | None | |
 | Vivillon's body glows white and it forms a silver force field around its body, protecting it from attacks. | ||
| A wild Vivillon | To Catch a Pokémon Smuggler! | None | |
 | A turquoise force field appears in front of Altaria's body, protecting it from attacks. | ||
| Three wild Altaria | Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel | None | |
 | A turquoise force field appears in front of a Plant Cloak Wormadam's body, protecting it from attacks. | ||
| A wild Wormadam | Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel | None | |
| | A turquoise force field appears in front of Sandy Cloak Wormadam's body, protecting it from attacks. | ||
| A wild Wormadam | Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel | None | |
| | A turquoise force field appears in front of Trash Cloak Wormadam's body, protecting it from attacks. | ||
| A wild Wormadam | Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel | None | |
In the manga
Phantom Thief Pokémon 7
 Mime Jr. | |||
| The user protects itself from status ailments. | |||
| Pokémon | Method | ||
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| User | First Chapter Used In | Notes | |
 | Mime Jr. glows brightly and prevents the opponent from inflicting any status ailment on it. | ||
| Hiori's Mime Jr. | Stopping Darkrai!! | Debut | |
Pokémon Adventures
In other generations
Core series games
Side series games
Spin-off series games
Trivia
Safeguard ending in Battle Revolution.
- Safeguard displays an animation when it ends in Pokémon Battle Revolution.
- Despite having distinct effects in the games, Reflect, Light Screen, Barrier, Protect, and Safeguard are often depicted in the anime seemingly sharing the same effect that Protect has in the games (protecting the user from most the effect of moves).
