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Sleep Powder

In Pokémon ChampionsGen I
Game

Pokémon Champions

GrassStatus

Causes the target to fall asleep.

Power
–
Accuracy
75%
PP
16 Scarlet & Violet: 15
Hits
One Pokémon next to the user
On Showdown
0.7% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Properties
PowderReflectable

Changes over time

How Sleep Powder changed from game to game, newest first.

  1. Champions

    PP 15 → 16 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

No clip of Sleep Powder here yet. Find Sleep Powder on YouTube →

How it works in Champions

“The user scatters a cloud of soporific dust that puts the target to sleep.”

In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

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

Boosts it

1

Blocks or weakens it

2

Changes how it works

1
Only in other games 1

Blocks or weakens it

1

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

Good to know

  • Magic Coat sends it back to the user too.
  • It puts the target to sleep the target.

Who runs Sleep Powder on Showdown

  1. Venusaur84.0% of its sets
  2. Vivillon99.3% of its sets
  3. Vileplume85.5% of its sets
  4. Mega Venusaur21.8% of its sets
  5. Mega Victreebel26.3% of its sets

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 Sleep Powder among their most used moves.

Venusaur, ladder rank #21Vivillon, ladder rank #64Vileplume, ladder rank #162Victreebel, ladder rank #197Roserade, ladder rank #218

Who learns Sleep Powder

7 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

VenusaurVileplumeVictreebelRoseradeVivillonMega VenusaurMega Victreebel

All 37 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →