Sleep Powder (move)

Contents
Flavor text
Learnt by level up
Learnt by breeding

Move data

Type	Grass
Category	Status
Power	—
Accuracy	75
PP	15 (max. 24)
Makes contact?	No
Introduced	Generation 1

Effects

Sleep Powder puts the target to sleep, if it hits. Sleeping Pokémon cannot move (with some exceptions such as Snore). Sleep lasts for 1-3 turns.

Pokémon with the abilities Insomnia or Vital Spirit, or those behind a Substitute cannot be put to sleep.

Z-Move effects

When a Pokémon is holding Grassium Z and uses its Z-Power, Sleep Powder turns into Z-Sleep Powder and raises Speed one stage, in addition to its usual effect as above.

Move target

Foe

User

Ally

Targets a single adjacent Pokémon.

Other languages

English	Sleep Powder
Japanese	ねむりごな (Nemuri Gona)
German	Schlafpuder
French	Poudre Dodo
Italian	Sonnifero
Spanish	Somnífero
Korean	수면가루
Chinese (Simplified)	催眠粉
Chinese (Traditional)	催眠粉

Game descriptions

Gold/Silver Crystal	May cause the foe to fall asleep.
Ruby/Sapphire Emerald	Scatters a powder that may cause the foe to sleep.
FireRed/LeafGreen	A sleep-inducing dust is scattered in high volume around a foe.
Diamond/Pearl Platinum HeartGold/SoulSilver	The user scatters a big cloud of sleep-inducing dust around the foe.
Black/White Black 2/White 2	The user scatters a big cloud of sleep-inducing dust around the target.
X/Y O.Ruby/A.Sapphire	The user scatters a big cloud of sleep-inducing dust around the target.
Sun/Moon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon L.G. Pikachu/L.G. Eevee	The user scatters a big cloud of sleep-inducing dust around the target.
Sword/Shield B.Diamond/S.Pearl	The user scatters a big cloud of sleep-inducing dust around the target.
Scarlet/Violet	The user scatters a cloud of soporific dust that puts the target to sleep.

Learnt by level up

These Pokémon learn Sleep Powder at the level specified. The numbers given are for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet and may vary in other games; check the respective Pokédex pages for details.