Can Wonder Guard transfer through Mummy?

Question

I was thinking that if I were to be in a triple battle with Cofagrigus on the left, a Spiritomb in the middle and Shedinja on the right, I could use a priority move with Cofagrigus to transfer Mummy to Spiritomb, then use another priority move with Spiritomb to attack Shedinja.
That way I would end up having a Spiritomb with Wonder Guard and with it only having a weakness to Fairy. The only problem is that I heard Wonder Guard is non transferable except with Trace, but nothing specifically talks about Mummy. Since Trace is an ability, I'd imagine Mummy would work too.

Comments

this post isn't about wonder guard transfer, but watch the replay.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7doublesubers-538364281
this is another way to transfer wonder guard.
using entrainment.
luckily I used follow me when the shedinja was giving the mimicked entrainment to an audino.

Answer 1

You've got the concept of Mummy wrong.

By doing as you've said,

• Cofagrigus attacks Spiritomb. If Cofagrigus is the attacking Pokemon, Mummy will not transfer.
• Mummy is not an exchange of abilities. It is rather the changing of the attacking Pokemon's ability into Mummy. The attacked Pokemon will not gain the target's ability.
• Wonder Guard has little to no transfer medium.
• By your method, Mummy will spread to all your Pokemon, and all your Pokemon will have Mummy.

All in all, this and a number of things can go wrong with this strategy, so no, this has no chance of working, sorry :/

Hope I helped!

Comments

Thanks, I had a huge misconception about mummy then.