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

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

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

Rest on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Rest on Eevee's Movedex

Rest (Japanese: ねむる Sleep) is a non-damaging Psychic-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Rest causes the user to fall asleep, restoring its HP to its maximum amount. The user will then be asleep for two turns, and wake up on the third turn. 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 turn's 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.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V
039		Jigglypuff	Normal		Normal	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
128		Tauros	Normal		Normal	no			34			34			19				19
161		Sentret	Normal		Normal	no			33			40			28				28
162		Furret	Normal		Normal	no			38			48			32				32
213		Shuckle	Bug	Rock	no			37			37			27		35	25
216		Teddiursa	Normal		Normal	no			29			31			43				43
217		Ursaring	Normal		Normal	no			29			31			47				47
263		Zigzagoon	Normal		Normal	no			no			37			37				41
264		Linoone	Normal		Normal	no			no			47			47				53
293		Whismur	Normal		Normal	no			no			41			41				45
294		Loudred	Normal		Normal	no			no			51			51				57
295		Exploud	Normal		Normal	no			no			55			55				55
299		Nosepass	Rock		Rock	no			no			37			43				43
320		Wailmer	Water		Water	no			no			37			27				27
321		Wailord	Water		Water	no			no			37			27				27
325		Spoink	Psychic		Psychic	no			no			37			29				29
326		Grumpig	Psychic		Psychic	no			no			43			29				29
339		Barboach	Water	Ground	no			no			26			31				31
340		Whiscash	Water	Ground	no			no			26			33				33
363		Spheal	Ice	Water	no			no			37			37				37
364		Sealeo	Ice	Water	no			no			39			39				39
365		Walrein	Ice	Water	no			no			39			39				39
369		Relicanth	Water	Rock	no			no			50			64				64
382		Kyogre	Water		Water	no			no			50			50
383		Groudon	Ground		Ground	no			no			50			50	30		50
384		Rayquaza	Dragon	Flying	no			no			50			50	30		50
385		Jirachi	Steel	Psychic	no			no			5, 30			5, 30				5, 30
476		Probopass	Rock	Steel	no			no			no			43				43
480		Uxie	Psychic		Psychic	no			no			no			--				--
481		Mesprit	Psychic		Psychic	no			no			no			--				--
482		Azelf	Psychic		Psychic	no			no			no			--				--
613		Cubchoo	Ice		Ice	no			no			no			no				41
614		Beartic	Ice		Ice	no			no			no			no				41
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

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 extremley 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	Venonat falls asleep and lays down its antennas. As it sleeps it recovers all its energy.
Aya's Venonat	Ariados, Amigos		Debut
Piloswine	Piloswine glows blue and falls asleep. As it sleeps it recovers all its energy.
Pryce's Piloswine	As Cold As Pryce		None
Snorlax	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	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	Munchlax falls asleep. As it sleeps, it recovers all of its energy.
May's Munchlax	Spontaneous Combusken!		Used via Metronome
Regice	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

Pokémon Adventures

Gyarados	Snorlax	Rapidash
The user sleeps to restore lost energy.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Round/Chapter Used In		Notes
Snorlax	Snorlax goes to sleep, restoring lost energy and HP.
Red's Snor	Forretress of Solitude		Debut
Gyarados	Gyarados goes to sleep, restoring all of its lost energy and healing all of its wounds.
Silver's Gyarados	Viridian in the Heart		None
Rapidash	Rapidash falls to the ground and goes to sleep, restoring any lost HP and regaining all of its energy.
Platinum's Rapidash	VS. 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)	FRLG	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (International)	HGSS	Generation V	BW	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (International)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battle Revolution (Alternative animation)	Battrio	PMD: Red and Blue	PMD: Time, Darkness, Sky	Rumble	Rumble Blast

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)	FRLG	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (International)	HGSS	Generation V	BW	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (International)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battle Revolution (Alternative animation)	Battrio	PMD: Red and Blue	PMD: Time, Darkness, Sky	Rumble	Rumble Blast

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 status effect. 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 for "Recover fast."

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 睡覺 Shuìjiào French Repos German Erholung Greek Ανάπαυση Indonesian Tidur Italian Riposo Korean 잠자기 Jamjagi Portuguese Descansar Serbian Odmor Spanish Descanso

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