Mega Drain
Scarlet & Violet
User recovers 50% of the damage dealt.
- Power
- 40
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 15
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Mega Drain changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen V
… HP lost by the target, rounded
dropped: down.added: half up. If Big Root is held by the user, the HP recovered is 1.3× normal, rounded added: half down. - Gen IV
PP 10 → 15 Buffed
… lost by the target, rounded down. added: If Big Root is held by the user, the HP recovered is 1.3× normal, rounded down.
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 Gen IX
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.
“A nutrient-draining attack. 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 Mega Drain, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
3
- Triage+3 priority
Big Rootheals ×1.3- Technician×1.5
Punishes the user
1
- Liquid Oozehurts the user instead
Changes how it works
1
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
Good to know
- Heal Block stops the healing.
- Heal Block stops the healing.
Who learns Mega Drain
It isn’t in Pokémon Champions.