Sleep Powder (move)

Sleep Powder ねむりごな Sleep Powder

The user scatters a big cloud of sleep-inducing dust around the foe.

Battles Type  Grass Category  Status PP  15 (max. 24) Power  — Accuracy  75% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect either foe, but not the ally

Availability Introduced  Generation I Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Smart Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  3 ♥♥♥ Badly startles those that have made appeals.

Super Contests Category  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Sleep Powder on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Sleep Powder on Eevee's Movedex

Sleep Powder (Japanese: ねむりごな Sleep Powder) is a non-damaging Grass-type move introduced in Generation I.

It appears to be a sleep counterpart to PoisonPowder and Stun Spore, as the accuracy, contest group, appeal, effects, Japanese names and animation are the same or very similar. They are also usually learned at the same level or in a similar pattern.

Effect

Generation I-II

Sleep Powder puts the target to sleep. It will not affect a target that already has a major status ailment. In Stadium, Sleep Powder can't affect a target that has a Substitute.

Generation III and on

Sleep Powder's effects remain the same, except that now it can't affect targets with Insomnia or Vital Spirit as their ability.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 41 002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 46 003 Venusaur Grass Poison 55 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 15Y 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 17RGB 043 Oddish Grass Poison 19 044 Gloom Grass Poison -- 19 045 Vileplume Grass Poison -- 19 048 Venonat Bug Poison 38 049 Venomoth Bug Poison 43 069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 18 070 Weepinbell Grass Poison -- 18 071 Victreebel Grass Poison -- 18 102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 48 114 Tangela Grass 39 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 15 002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 15 003 Venusaur Grass Poison 15 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 15 043 Oddish Grass Poison 18 044 Gloom Grass Poison 18 048 Venonat Bug Poison 36 049 Venomoth Bug Poison 42 069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 15 070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 15 071 Victreebel Grass Poison -- 102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 37 114 Tangela Grass 4 187 Hoppip Grass Flying 17 188 Skiploom Grass Flying 17 189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 17 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 15 002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 15 003 Venusaur Grass Poison 15 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 15 043 Oddish Grass Poison 18 044 Gloom Grass Poison 18 048 Venonat Bug Poison 36 049 Venomoth Bug Poison 42 069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 15 070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 15 071 Victreebel Grass Poison -- 102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 37 114 Tangela Grass 4 187 Hoppip Grass Flying 17 188 Skiploom Grass Flying 17 189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 17 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 13 002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 13 003 Venusaur Grass Poison 13 012 Butterfree Bug Flying 12 043 Oddish Grass Poison 17 044 Gloom Grass Poison 17 048 Venonat Bug Poison 29 049 Venomoth Bug Poison 29 069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 13 070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 13 071 Victreebel Grass Poison -- 102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 23 114 Tangela Grass 5 187 Hoppip Grass Flying 16 188 Skiploom Grass Flying 16 189 Jumpluff Grass Flying 16 465 Tangrowth Grass 5 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 breeding

#   Pokémon Type Father 315 Roselia Grass Poison Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel Exeggcute, Exeggutor Tangela, Tangrowth Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff Carnivine 406 Budew Grass Poison Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel Exeggcute, Exeggutor Tangela, Tangrowth Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff Carnivine 455 Carnivine Grass Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel Exeggcute, Exeggutor Tangela, Tangrowth Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff Roselia, Roserade Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move. *Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding.

In the anime

Butterfree	Venonat	Oddish
The user scatters a big cloud of sleep-inducing dust around the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Butterfree	Butterfree flaps its wings above the opponent and blue, shining powder comes is released from them, instantly putting the opponent to sleep.
Ash's Butterfree	Challenge of the Samurai		Debut
Ritchie's Happy	Friend and For Alike		None
Lisa's Butterfree	Spell of the Unown		None
Venomoth	Venomoth flaps it wings and a light tan powder comes out, putting the opponent to sleep.
Koga's Venomoth	The Ninja Poké-Showdown		None
Venonat	Venonat shakes its body and blue powder falls out of its fur, putting the opponent to sleep.
Tracey's Venonat	Tracey Gets Bugged		None
Victreebel	Victreebel opens the large leaf on its head and a shining blue powder is released from its mouth, putting the opponent to sleep.
James's Victreebel	A Way Off Day Off		None
Bulbasaur	A sparkling, light blue powder is released from the bulb on Bulbasaur's back. Anything who comes into contact with the powder instantly fall asleep.
Ash's Bulbasaur	Misty Meets Her Match		None
Bellossom	The two large flowers on Bellossom's head spin around and a shining blue powder comes out of them, putting the opponent to sleep.
Bailey's Belle	Flower Power		None
Bailey's Bella	Flower Power		None
Oddish	Oddish releases a blue, sparkling powder from the leaves on top of its head. Anything that goes into this powder will instantly fall asleep.
Mariah's Oddish	Foul Weather Friends		None
Multiple wild Oddish	Jump for Joy!		None
A wild Oddish	Gettin' Twiggy with It!		None
Venusaur	Venusaur releases a sparkling blue powder out from the flower on its back, putting the opponent to sleep.
A wild Venusaur	Houndoom's Special Delivery		None
Parasect	Parasect shakes the large mushroom on its back and a shining blue powder is released from it.
Multiple wild Parasect	For Ho-Oh, the Bells Toll!		Parasect cannot legally learn Sleep Powder.
A wild Parasect	Hocus Pokémon		Parasect cannot legally learn Sleep Powder
Gloom	Gloom releases a indigo powder from the flower on its head, putting the opponent to sleep.
A Coordinator's Gloom	Once More with Reeling!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

The user scatters a big cloud of sleep-inducing dust around the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Round Used In		Notes
Bulbasaur	Bulbasaur releases a seed from the back of its bulb at the opponent. The seed explodes above the opponent and releases spores from it, making the opponent fall asleep.
Red's Saur	Sigh for Psyduck		Debut

In other languages

• Dutch: Slaappoeder
• French: Poudre Dodo
• German: Schlafpuder
• Hindi: Neend Ka Powder
• Italian: Sonnifero
• Portuguese: Pó do Sono
• Spanish: Somnifero

Variations of the move Sleep Powder
	Sleep Powder | Will-O-Wisp

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