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Draining Kiss

In Pokémon ChampionsGen VI

Game

Pokémon Champions

FairySpecial

User recovers 75% of the damage dealt.

Power: 50
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user
On Showdown: 0.7% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it

Properties

Contact Drain¾

Changes over time

How Draining Kiss changed from game to game, newest first.

Champions
PP 10 → 12 Buffed

Numbers: PokéAPI’s changelog. Descriptions: Pokémon Showdown’s for each generation, PokéAPI’s notes where Showdown’s don’t differ. Champions: Pokémon Showdown.

See it in the games

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How it works in Champions

The user recovers 3/4 the HP lost by the target, rounded half up. If Big Root is held by the user, the HP recovered is 1.3× normal, rounded half down.

“The user steals the target's HP with a kiss. The user's HP is restored by over half the damage taken by the target.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

Abilities and items that boost Draining Kiss, block it, punish its user or change how it works.

Boosts it

4

Tough Claws×1.3
Poison Touch30% to poison
Big Rootheals ×1.3
Technician×1.5

Blocks or weakens it

2

Fluffytakes ½
Aura Guardtakes ½

Punishes the user

13

Rough Skintakes ⅛ back
Rocky Helmettakes ⅙ back
Static30% paralysis
Flame Body30% burn
Poison Point30% poison
Effect Spore30% poison, paralysis or sleep
Cute Charm30% infatuation
Gooey−1 Speed
Mummyreplaces its ability
Wandering Spiritswaps abilities
Aftermathtakes ¼ if it knocks the holder out
Pickpocketsteals its item
Liquid Oozehurts the user instead

Changes how it works

4

Long Reachno contact
Unseen Fistgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
Infiltratorgoes through Substitute

Only in other games 7

Boosts it

1

Triage+3 priority

Punishes the user

5

Iron Barbstakes ⅛ back
Tangling Hair−1 Speed
Lingering Aromareplaces its ability
Perish Bodya 3-turn faint countdown for both
Sticky Barbcan stick to it

Changes how it works

1

Protective Padsno contact effects

Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.

Good to know

Heal Block stops the healing.
Heal Block stops the healing.

Who runs Draining Kiss on Showdown

Smogon · Showdown Champions VGC · Sep 2026: Smogon’s usage stats from Pokémon Showdown, not the in-game ladder.

On the ladder today

Ranked Doubles Pokémon with Draining Kiss among their most used moves.

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