Does Safeguard protect against self-inflicted Confusion?

Jun. 10, 2013

Lets say you use Safeguard and then Thrash. Will you become confused?

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Safeguard prevents the user and its party from being affected by any status condition for five turns except those caused by special abilities, held items or self-inflicted statuses.

So no, safeguard does not protect your Pokemon against self-inflicted status.Source:http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Safeguard

No, it does not.>It does not prevent self-inflicted status such as that from Toxic Orb, or the confusion side-effect of Outrage. -Smogon

Safeguard prevents the user and its party from being affected by any status condition for five turnsexcept those caused byspecial abilities, held items orself-inflicted statuses.

So yes, it will become confused.

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