Horn Leech
Pokémon Champions
User recovers 50% of the damage dealt.
- Power
- 75
- Accuracy
- 100%
- Hit chance
- PP
- 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
- Cooldown
- Wind-up
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Horn Leech 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 1/2 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 drains the target's energy with its horns. The user's HP is restored by up to half the damage taken by the target.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Horn Leech, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
3
- Tough Claws×1.3
- Poison Touch30% to poison
- Triage+3 priority
Big Rootheals ×1.3
Blocks or weakens it
2
- Fluffytakes ½
- Aura Guardtakes ½
Punishes the user
13
- Rough Skintakes ⅛ back
- Iron Barbstakes 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
- Tangling Hair−1 Speed
- Mummyreplaces its ability
- Lingering Aromareplaces its ability
- Wandering Spiritswaps abilities
- Perish Bodya 3-turn faint countdown for both
- Aftermathtakes ¼ if it knocks the holder out
- Pickpocketsteals its item
Sticky Barbcan stick to it- Liquid Oozehurts the user instead
Changes how it works
4
- Long Reachno contact
Protective Padsno contact effects- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect
- Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
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 Horn Leech 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 Horn Leech among their most used moves.
Who learns Horn Leech
1 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
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