Rest (move)

Rest ねむる Sleep

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Battles Type  Psychic Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally Affects the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I TM44 in Generation I TM44 in Generation II TM44 in Generation III TM44 in Generation IV TM44 in Generation V TM44 in Generation VI

Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   Can avoid being startled by others once.

Super Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Increased Voltage is added to the performance score.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cute Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Rest (Japanese: ねむる Sleep) is a non-damaging Psychic-type move introduced in Generation I. It has been TM44 in all generations so far.

Effect

Rest causes the user to fall asleep, restoring its HP to its maximum amount. The user will then be asleep for three turns, and wake up on the third turn (second turn in Generation I). The sleep countdown of Rest is not reset by switching.

Any major status ailments the user is affected by will be cured in all aspects, though a glitch in Generation I games causes the stat reductions associated with paralysis and burn to remain despite the fact that the Pokémon no longer has that status. The damage done by Toxic is also not reset in Generation I, and will continue from where it left off in amount if it is used again. Safeguard will not prevent usage of Rest, and the user of Safeguard will still sleep the full three turns. If a Pokémon with the Early Bird Ability uses Rest, its Ability still applies and the Pokémon's turns asleep will be rounded down from three to one. Rest will automatically fail if used by a Pokémon with Insomnia or Vital Spirit, as these Abilities prevent them from falling asleep.

Rest will fail if the user has full HP, but will also fail in Generation I if the user's maximum HP is 256 or 511, and their HP is one less than that amount.

Generation I

The user will awaken from Rest two turns after it is used.

Generation II and on

The user will awaken from Rest three turns after it is used.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

When used, the user regains all HP and becomes napping. When it wakes up, all other status ailments are also cured.

Description

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
039		Jigglypuff	Normal	Fairy	29			29			29			25				29			'
086		Seel	Water		Water	40			21			29			21				21			'
087		Dewgong	Water	Ice	44			21			29			21				21			'
143		Snorlax	Normal		Normal	--			36			28	25	25				28			28
128		Tauros	Normal		Normal				34			34			19				19			'
161		Sentret	Normal		Normal				33			40			28				28			'
162		Furret	Normal		Normal				38			48			32				32			'
213		Shuckle	Bug	Rock				37			37			27		35	25	20	'
216		Teddiursa	Normal		Normal				29			31			43				43			'
217		Ursaring	Normal		Normal				29			31			47				47			'
263		Zigzagoon	Normal		Normal							37			37				41			'
264		Linoone	Normal		Normal							47			47				53			'
293		Whismur	Normal		Normal							41			41				45			'
294		Loudred	Normal		Normal							51			51				57			'
295		Exploud	Normal		Normal							55			55				55			'
299		Nosepass	Rock		Rock							37			43				43	22	'
320		Wailmer	Water		Water							37			27				27			'
321		Wailord	Water		Water							37			27				27			'
325		Spoink	Psychic		Psychic							37			29				29			'
326		Grumpig	Psychic		Psychic							43			29				29			'
339		Barboach	Water	Ground							26			31				31			'
340		Whiscash	Water	Ground							26			33				33			'
363		Spheal	Ice	Water							37			37				37			'
364		Sealeo	Ice	Water							39			39				39			39
365		Walrein	Ice	Water							39			39				39			'
369		Relicanth	Water	Rock							50			64				64			'
382		Kyogre	Water		Water							50			50						'
383		Groudon	Ground		Ground							50			50	30		30			'
384		Rayquaza	Dragon	Flying							50			50	30		30			'
385		Jirachi	Steel	Psychic							5, 30			5, 30				5, 30			'
476		Probopass	Rock	Steel										43				43	22	'
480		Uxie	Psychic		Psychic										--				--			'
481		Mesprit	Psychic		Psychic										--				--			'
482		Azelf	Psychic		Psychic										--				--			'
613		Cubchoo	Ice		Ice														41			'
614		Beartic	Ice		Ice														41			'
702		Dedenne	Electric	Fairy																	30
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By TM

Other appearances

• Jigglypuff uses Rest as its down B attack in the Super Smash Bros. series. Its effect is vastly different than its Pokémon game counterpart, as rather than healing the player, it launches the opponent into the air and plants a damage-inflicting flower on their head (in Brawl) or sets them on fire (in Melee and the original SSB). This is a close range attack, using it even right next to the target will fail. Jigglypuff must be extremely close to the opponent for the attack to work; otherwise it will fall asleep doing no damage and leaving itself open to attacks.

In the anime

Snorlax Octillery Regice Venonat
The user falls asleep, healing all injuries and status problems.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Venonat falls asleep and lays down its antennas. As it sleeps it recovers all its energy.
Aya's Venonat	Ariados, Amigos		Debut
	Piloswine glows blue and falls asleep. As it sleeps it recovers all its energy.
Pryce's Piloswine	As Cold As Pryce		None
	Snorlax falls asleep. As it sleeps it recovers all of its energy.
Marcel's Snorlax	The Garden of Eatin'		None
Ash's Snorlax	Wheel of Frontier		None
	Octillery falls asleep and a bright green aura surrounds its body. As it sleeps, it recovers energy and nullifies any damage taken while sleeping.
Harley's Octillery	Harley Rides Again		None
	Munchlax falls asleep. As it sleeps, it recovers all of its energy.
May's Munchlax	Spontaneous Combusken!		Used via Metronome
	Regice falls asleep and its body glows bright blue. As it sleeps it recovers all of its energy.
Brandon's Regice	Pace - The Final Frontier!		None

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Gyarados Snorlax Rapidash
The user sleeps to restore lost energy.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Snorlax goes to sleep, restoring lost energy and HP.
Red's Snor	Forretress of Solitude		Debut
	Gyarados goes to sleep, restoring all of its lost energy and healing all of its wounds. While sleeping, it becomes covered in a glowing aura.
Silver's Gyarados	Viridian in the Heart		None
	Rapidash falls to the ground and goes to sleep, restoring any lost HP and regaining all of its energy.
Platinum's Rapidash	To and Fro with Froslass		None

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

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Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Trivia

• Although Rest does not deal any damage in the normal games, in the Super Smash Bros. series, Jigglypuff's Rest attack unleashes an internal explosion that sends any opponent it touches flying, almost always ending in a KO.
• It is possible to teach Rest to Pokémon with the Abilities Insomnia and Vital Spirit, even though they are immune to the sleep condition. In these cases Rest will fail, provided their Ability has not been Skill Swapped away or neutralized.
• According to Webster's friend in Johto, Rest is a contraction of Recover fast.
• This move is often combined with a Chesto Berry or a Lum Berry so that it acts like a Full Restore. The combination is widely featured in the games.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 睡覺 Shuìjiào Danish Hvile Dutch Rust Finnish Lepo French Repos German Erholung Greek Ανάπαυση Indonesian Tidur Italian Riposo Korean 잠자기 Jamjagi Polish Odpoczynek Brazilian Portuguese Descansar Serbian Odmor Spanish Descanso

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