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 one turn, and wake up on the next 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.

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.

In the anime

Pokémon

Venonat. Venonat falls asleep and lays down its antennas. As it sleeps it recovers energy and nullifies any damage taken while sleeping.

• Used by Aya's Venonat in Ariados, Amigos!. Debut.

Octillery. Octillery falls asleep and a bright orange glow surrounds it. As it sleeps it recovers energy and nullifies any damage taken while sleeping.

• Used by Harley's Octillery in Harley Rides Again!.

Snorlax. Snorlax falls asleep. As it sleeps it recovers energy and nullifies any damage taken while sleeping.

• Used by Ash's Snorlax in Wheel of... Frontier!.

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.

• Used by Brandon's Regice in Pace - The Final Frontier!.

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	35Pt
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		50
383		Groudon	Ground		50
384		Rayquaza	Dragon	Flying	50
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.

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 it is 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 abilites 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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