Is Sacred Sword affected by negative stat changes?

Apr. 22, 2021

Sacred Sword says “The user attacks by slicing with its long horns. The target’s stat changes don’t affect this attack’s damage.” so I know that if they use something like Harden or Defense Curl it wont do anything, but will negative stat changes do anything to it? Like if I used Leer would Sacred Sword still do the same amount of damage?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

No, Sacred Sword ignores opposing defense dropsIf you use the Pokémon Showdown damage calculator and you put 1+ defense on the opposing Pokémon, it shows that Sacred Sword doesn’t factor in the defense boost for it’s damage, while other attacks do. If you do the same thing but drop the opposing Pokémon’s defense, it will show that Sacred Sword ignores the defense drop as well.

So basically, Sacred Sword does the same amount of damage if the opponent has a defense drop as if the opponent had normal defense or a defense boost.