Yawn (move)

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Yawn あくび Yawn

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation III Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   Makes all Pokémon after the user nervous.

Super Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jamming  0   Makes the remaining Pokémon nervous.

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

Yawn (Japanese: あくび Yawn) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

In the turn that Yawn is used, the only effect will be the user yawning at the target. At the end of the next turn, the target (if still active) will fall asleep unless it gets affected by a major status condition in the meantime, a status-protecting move is used (like Uproar), or the battle ends.

Yawn will fail immediately if the target has a substitute, a major status condition, or when used against a Pokémon with Insomnia or Vital Spirit as its Ability.

If a Pokémon is afflicted by status condition (including sleep) while affected by Yawn, then cured from it before Yawn would cause it to fall asleep, Yawn's effect proceeds as normal.

Description

Games Description RSE Lulls the foe into yawning, then sleeping the next turn. FRLG A huge yawn lulls the foe into falling asleep on the next turn. Makes the target yawn and fall asleep next turn. The user lets loose a huge yawn that lulls the target into falling asleep on the next turn.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
079		Slowpoke	Water	Psychic	--			--				--			--
080		Slowbro	Water	Psychic	--			--				--			--
143		Snorlax	Normal		Normal	--	21	20				20			20
175		Togepi	Fairy		Fairy	16	13	15				13			13
176		Togetic	Fairy	Flying	16	13	15				13			13
194		Wooper	Water	Ground	31			29				29			29
195		Quagsire	Water	Ground	35			31				31			31
199		Slowking	Water	Psychic	--			--				--			--
206		Dunsparce	Normal		Normal	11			9				8	16	16
218		Slugma	Fire		Fire	--			--				--			--
219		Magcargo	Fire	Rock	--			--				--			--
230		Kingdra	Water	Dragon				--				--			--
287		Slakoth	Normal		Normal	--			--				--			--
289		Slaking	Normal		Normal	--			--				--			--
316		Gulpin	Poison		Poison	6			6				6			6 5
317		Swalot	Poison		Poison	--, 6			--, 6				--, 6			--, 6 --, 5
322		Numel	Fire	Ground									36	36
323		Camerupt	Fire	Ground									39	39
358		Chimecho	Psychic		Psychic	25			25				25			25 13
369		Relicanth	Water	Rock	22			22				22			22 35
399		Bidoof	Normal		Normal				25				25			25
400		Bibarel	Normal	Water				28				28			28
433		Chingling	Psychic		Psychic											13
449		Hippopotas	Ground		Ground				13				13			13
450		Hippowdon	Ground		Ground				--, 13				--, 13			--, 13
480		Uxie	Psychic		Psychic				31				31			31
513		Pansear	Fire		Fire								16			16
517		Munna	Psychic		Psychic								7			7
616		Shelmet	Bug		Bug								25			25
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 breeding

#	Pokémon		Type		Father
					II		III		IV		V		VI
007		Squirtle	Water		Water
054		Psyduck	Water		Water
133		Eevee	Normal		Normal
216		Teddiursa	Normal		Normal
258		Mudkip	Water		Water
261		Poochyena	Dark		Dark
322		Numel	Fire	Ground
324		Torkoal	Fire		Fire
363		Spheal	Ice	Water
393		Piplup	Water		Water
422		Shellos	Water		Water
498		Tepig	Fire		Fire
506		Lillipup	Normal		Normal
509		Purrloin	Dark		Dark
531		Audino	Normal		Normal
554		Darumaka	Fire		Fire
613		Cubchoo	Ice		Ice
618		Stunfisk	Ground	Electric
667		Litleo	Fire	Normal
677		Espurr	Psychic		Psychic
684		Swirlix	Fairy		Fairy
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.

Special move

Generation IV

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0054 Psyduck Water Pokéwalker - Stormy Beach 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 V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0422 Shellos Water Dream World - Sparkling Sea 422E Shellos Water Dream World - Sparkling Sea 0531 Audino Normal Dream World - Dream Park 0618 Stunfisk Ground Electric Dream World - Sparkling Sea 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 event

Generation III

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying Wish Egg 0115 Kangaskhan Normal Wish Egg 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

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0025 Pikachu Electric Onemuri Event Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

Slowbro Snorlax Hippopotas
The user lets loose a huge yawn, releasing varying amounts of bubbles that float over and pop in the opponent's face, causing them to fall asleep.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Slugma opens its mouth and releases a large pink bubble from its mouth. The bubble floats over to the opponent and pops in its face, making it fall asleep.
Flannery's Meg	Going, Going, Yawn		Debut
	Snorlax opens its mouth and releases multiple pink bubbles. When the bubbles burst in the opponent's face, it becomes drowsy and falls asleep.
Marcel's Snorlax	The Garden of Eatin'		None
	Slowbro opens its mouth and releases a blue bubble at the opponent. The bubble then pops in the opponent's face. When it pops, its body glows yellow-green and it falls asleep.
Solidad's Slowbro	Channeling the Battle Zone!		None
	Hippopotas opens its mouth and releases a clear bubble from it at the opponent. The bubble pops in the opponent's face, and after a couple minutes, the opponent falls asleep.
A wild Hippopotas	Mass Hip-Po-Sis!		None

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Torkoal
The user yawns loudly, making the opponent fall asleep.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Torkoal faces its head towards the opponent and yawns widely. A beam of light flashes from its mouth and hits the opponent, causing it to fall asleep instantly.
Tabitha's Torkoal	Very Vexing Volbeat		Debut
	Swalot yawns and stretches its arms, causing the opponent to yawn, and then fall asleep.
The Battle Frontier's Swalot	VS. Swalot		None

In the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga

Slakoth
The opponent becomes drowsy and them falls asleep when the user yawns.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Slakoth opens its mouth and puffs of smoke are released. If the smoke touches the opponent, the opponent becomes drowsy and gets very sleepy.
Norman's Slakoth	There's Someone More Important Than Clefairy?!		Debut

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

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 Slowpoke's yawn is said to summon rain (according to history of the Slowpoke Well in Azalea Town), and Kingdra's yawn is said to cause whirlpools to form, neither of these are the case in battle.
• Yawn is the only move whose name begins with the letter Y.
• Its basis stems from the phenomenon of how yawns are contagious from person to person.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 哈欠 Hāqian Finnish Haukotus French Bâillement German Gähner Greek Χάσμησμα Hindi ओबासी Obasi Indonesian Menguap Italian Sbadiglio Korean 하품 Hapum Brazilian Portuguese Bocejo Serbian Zevanje Spanish Bostezo

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