Are there any moves which rely on a Pokemon's defense?

Question

Moves that get stronger if you have high defense.

Answer 1

First, to answer your question, there is no attack move that is affected by the user's Defense stat (correct me please if I'm wrong).

With the move Power Trick, however, Attack and Defense stats are swapped, so every physical move then relies on the Defense stat. There is, to my knowledge, no special equivalent to Power Trick (swapping Special Attack with Special Defense).

For example, Shuckle (who has the highest Defense stat but one of the lowest Attack stats) would deal massive damage under the effects of Power Trick).

Bide, Counter, and Mirror Coat deal back twice the damage taken previously, so Pokémon with a higher defense will deal less damage with this move, and vice versa.

That's all I can think of.

Comments

Body press uses the users defense stat instead of their attack stat and furthermore using moves like iron defense which boost body presses power.

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Body Press didn’t exist back in 2014.

Answer 2

Hm, while there's no move that gets stronger on the defence stat alone, there's a few moves that get stronger when your defence is boosted in battle, i.e. when Defence Curl is used before using Rollout or Ice Ball.

Ice Ball
Rollout

Answer 3

Years 2020 and gamefreak finally decided to bestow to us the move
Body Press

You are now rewarded with an attack for going full defense evs.

As far as I know that's the only move that's been added that takes defense into calculation.

Let's wait another year for a Sp.Def counter part. yay

Answer 4

Nope, no Moves rely on Defense to get stronger.