Sleep Powder (move)

Sleep Powder
ねむりごな Sleep Powder

Battles

Type	Grass
Category	Status
PP	15 (max. 24)
Power	—
Accuracy	75%
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
Unknown

Availability

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

Contests

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

Super Contests

Condition	Smart
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars

Condition	Smart
Appeal	0
Jamming	0

On Smogon's Movedex:

Sleep Powder (Japanese: ねむりごな Sleep Powder) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 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
0001	Bulbasaur	Grass	Poison	41
0002	Ivysaur	Grass	Poison	46
0003	Venusaur	Grass	Poison	55
0012	Butterfree	Bug	Flying	15
0012	Butterfree	Bug	Flying	17
0043	Oddish	Grass	Poison	19
0044	Gloom	Grass	Poison	-- 19
0045	Vileplume	Grass	Poison	-- 19
0048	Venonat	Bug	Poison	38
0049	Venomoth	Bug	Poison	43
0069	Bellsprout	Grass	Poison	18
0070	Weepinbell	Grass	Poison	-- 18
0071	Victreebel	Grass	Poison	-- 18
0102	Exeggcute	Grass	Psychic	48
0114	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
0001	Bulbasaur	Grass	Poison	15
0002	Ivysaur	Grass	Poison	15
0003	Venusaur	Grass	Poison	15
0012	Butterfree	Bug	Flying	15
0043	Oddish	Grass	Poison	18
0044	Gloom	Grass	Poison	18
0048	Venonat	Bug	Poison	36
0049	Venomoth	Bug	Poison	42
0069	Bellsprout	Grass	Poison	15
0070	Weepinbell	Grass	Poison	15
0071	Victreebel	Grass	Poison	--
0102	Exeggcute	Grass	Psychic	37
0114	Tangela	Grass		4
0187	Hoppip	Grass	Flying	17
0188	Skiploom	Grass	Flying	17
0189	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
0001	Bulbasaur	Grass	Poison	15
0002	Ivysaur	Grass	Poison	15
0003	Venusaur	Grass	Poison	15
0012	Butterfree	Bug	Flying	15
0043	Oddish	Grass	Poison	18
0044	Gloom	Grass	Poison	18
0048	Venonat	Bug	Poison	36
0049	Venomoth	Bug	Poison	42
0069	Bellsprout	Grass	Poison	15
0070	Weepinbell	Grass	Poison	15
0071	Victreebel	Grass	Poison	--
0102	Exeggcute	Grass	Psychic	37
0114	Tangela	Grass		4
0187	Hoppip	Grass	Flying	17
0188	Skiploom	Grass	Flying	17
0189	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
0001	Bulbasaur	Grass	Poison	13
0002	Ivysaur	Grass	Poison	13
0003	Venusaur	Grass	Poison	13
0012	Butterfree	Bug	Flying	12
0043	Oddish	Grass	Poison	17
0044	Gloom	Grass	Poison	17
0048	Venonat	Bug	Poison	29
0049	Venomoth	Bug	Poison	29
0069	Bellsprout	Grass	Poison	13
0070	Weepinbell	Grass	Poison	13
0071	Victreebel	Grass	Poison	--
0102	Exeggcute	Grass	Psychic	23
0114	Tangela	Grass		5
0187	Hoppip	Grass	Flying	16
0188	Skiploom	Grass	Flying	16
0189	Jumpluff	Grass	Flying	16
0465	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

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0315 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur
Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel
Exeggcute, Exeggutor
Tangela, Tangrowth
Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff
Carnivine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0406 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Budew
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur
Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel
Exeggcute, Exeggutor
Tangela, Tangrowth
Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff
Carnivine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0455 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Carnivine
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur
Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel
Exeggcute, Exeggutor
Tangela, Tangrowth
Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff
Roselia, Roserade

|- | colspan="6" | 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. |} |}

By event

#		Pokémon	Type		Obtained with
0114		Tangela	Grass		My Pokémon Ranch
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

Pokémon	Method
File:Butterfree Sleep Powder.jpg Butterfree File:VenonatSleepPowder.jpg Venonat File:Oddish Sleep Powder.JPG Oddish
The user scatters a big cloud of sleep-inducing dust around the foe.
User	First Used In	Notes
	Butterfree flaps its wing 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 flaps it wings and a light tan powder comes out, putting the opponent to sleep.
Koga's Venomoth	The Ninja Poké-Showdown	None
A Coordinator's Venomoth	Staging a Heroes' Welcome!	None
	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 opens the large leaf on its head and a shining blue powder is released from its mouth.
James's Victreebel	A Way Off Day Off	None
	A sparkling, light blue powder is released from its bulb. Anything who comes into contact with the powder will instantly fall asleep.
Ash's Bulbasaur	Misty Meets her Match	None
	The two large flowers on Bellossom's head spins around and a shining blue powder comes out of them.
Bailey's Belle	Flower Power	None
Bailey's Bella	Flower Power	None
	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 releases a sparkling blue powder out from the flower on its back.
A wild Venusaur	Houndoom's Special Delivery	None
	Parasect shakes its large mushroom 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	See above
	Gloom releases a indigo powder from the flower on its head.
A Coordinator's Gloom	Once More with Reeling!	None