Rest (move)

Rest ねむる Sleep

The user goes to sleep for two turns. It fully restores the user's HP and heals any status problem.

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 BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally Affects the user

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

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. Pokémon with the Insomnia ability cannot use Rest as they cannot fall 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-IV

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

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 039 Jigglypuff Normal 29 086 Seel Water 40 087 Dewgong Water Ice 44 143 Snorlax Normal -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By TM44

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation I can learn Rest.

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 039 Jigglypuff Normal 29 086 Seel Water 21 087 Dewgong Water Ice 21 128 Tauros Normal 34 143 Snorlax Normal 36 161 Sentret Normal 33 162 Furret Normal 38 213 Shuckle Bug Rock 37 216 Teddiursa Normal 29 217 Ursaring Normal 29 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By TM44

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation II can learn Rest.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 039 Jigglypuff Normal 29 086 Seel Water 29 087 Dewgong Water Ice 29 128 Tauros Normal 34 143 Snorlax Normal 28RSE 143 Snorlax Normal 25FRLG 161 Sentret Normal 40 162 Furret Normal 48 213 Shuckle Bug Rock 37 216 Teddiursa Normal 31 217 Ursaring Normal 31 263 Zigzagoon Normal 37 264 Linoone Normal 47 293 Whismur Normal 41 294 Loudred Normal 51 295 Exploud Normal 55 299 Nosepass Rock 37 320 Wailmer Water 37 321 Wailord Water 37 325 Spoink Psychic 37 326 Grumpig Psychic 43 339 Barboach Water Ground 26 340 Whiscash Water Ground 26 363 Spheal Ice Water 37 364 Sealeo Ice Water 39 365 Walrein Ice Water 39 369 Relicanth Water Rock 50 382 Kyogre Water 50 383 Groudon Ground 50 384 Rayquaza Dragon Flying 50 385 Jirachi Steel Psychic 5 30 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By TM44

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation III can learn Rest.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 039 Jigglypuff Normal 25 086 Seel Water 21 087 Dewgong Water Ice 21 128 Tauros Normal 19 143 Snorlax Normal 25 161 Sentret Normal 28 162 Furret Normal 32 213 Shuckle Bug Rock 27DP 213 Shuckle Bug Rock 35PtHGSS 216 Teddiursa Normal 43 217 Ursaring Normal 47 263 Zigzagoon Normal 37 264 Linoone Normal 47 293 Whismur Normal 41 294 Loudred Normal 51 295 Exploud Normal 55 299 Nosepass Rock 43 320 Wailmer Water 27 321 Wailord Water 27 325 Spoink Psychic 29 326 Grumpig Psychic 29 339 Barboach Water Ground 31 340 Whiscash Water Ground 33 363 Spheal Ice Water 37 364 Sealeo Ice Water 39 365 Walrein Ice Water 39 369 Relicanth Water Rock 64 382 Kyogre Water 30DPPt 383 Groudon Ground 30DPPt 383 Groudon Ground 50HGSS 384 Rayquaza Dragon Flying 30DPPt 384 Rayquaza Dragon Flying 50HGSS 385 Jirachi Steel Psychic 5 30 476 Probopass Rock Steel 43 480 Uxie Psychic -- 481 Mesprit Psychic -- 482 Azelf Psychic -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By TM44

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation IV can learn Rest, except Regigigas.

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 makes Jigglypuff fall asleep and launches the opponent into the air and plants a damage-inflicting flower on their head. This is a close range attack, using it even right next to the target will fail.

In the anime

	Octillery	Regice
The user falls asleep, healing all injuries and status problems.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode 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 energy and nullifies any damage taken while sleeping.
Ash's Snorlax	Wheel of Frontier		None
Octillery	Octillery falls asleep and a bright green glow surrounds it. As it sleeps it recovers energy and nullifies any damage taken while sleeping.
Harley's Octillery	Harley Rides Again		None
Regice	Regice falls asleep and a bright blue waving glow surrounds it. As it sleeps it recovers energy and nullifies any damage taken while sleeping.
Brandon's Regice	Pace - The Final Frontier!		None

Trivia

• Rest doesn't do any damage in the normal games, but in the Super Smash Bros. series, Jigglypuff's Rest liberates an internal explosion that if touched by the opponent, it will be sent flying, almost always ending in a KO.
• Strangely, 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.

In other languages

• French: Repos
• German: Erholung
• Italian: Riposo
• Spanish: Descanso
• Dutch: Rust

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