Does Wide Guard protect against Dragon Darts?
I was looking to try out double battles online, and from my short experience it seems that Dragapult is a major player in most teams in Sword and Shield.
Dragapult has a unique move called Dragon Darts, which seems to work in a unique way:
The user attacks twice using Dreepy. If there are two targets, this move hits each target once.
Serebii also states:
In Doubles, if one of the two opponents protects or is a Fairy-type Pokemon, it hits the opponent that doesn't protect twice.
One strategy I thought about using was the move Wide Guard, it is a move that protects from area moves such as Surf, Rock Slide, or anything that hits multiple Pokemon. The move states:
The user and its allies are protected from wide-ranging attacks for one turn.
I was wondering, does Dragon Darts count as a "wide-ranging attack"?
Sometimes it only targets one Pokemon, another time it hits both...
Will it get blocked by Wide Guard?
Solution 1:
According to this Smogon Sword/Shield Battle Mechanics research thread,
it has been confirmed that Wide Guard does not protect against Dragon Darts.
Here is a video on Youtube that shows an online battle where Dragon Darts hits the enemy while Wide Guard was up: