Move card

Barrier

Stats and effect
Psychic Status
Power —
Accuracy —
PP 20
Priority 0
Effect

Raises the user’s Defense by two stages.

Target: User Introduced: Generation I (Kanto) Learned by 30 Pokémon
Move properties
  • Snatchable — The opponent can steal it with Snatch.
Changes between games

Some moves had different values in earlier games. Below you can see what changed and from which game the value you see now applies.

Changes to move values between game releases.
Game Prop­erty Before
X/Y PP 30
  • PP 20 now

Each row is one change in one game. The Property column says what changed, Before shows the value that applied before that game, and Now is the value today. In X/Y, “PP” was 30; it is now 20.

Pokémon that learn this move (30)

The tiles cover all games at once. “From Lv.” is the level from the latest game in which that species learns this move by level-up — hover over the number to see which game. No number means it never learns the move by level-up.