Strength Sap
Pokémon Champions
User heals HP=target's Atk stat. Lowers Atk by 1.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 8 Scarlet & Violet: 10
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
- On Showdown
- 0.1% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Strength Sap changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 10 → 8 Nerfed
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
Lowers the target's Attack by 1 stage. The user restores its HP equal to the target's Attack stat calculated with its stat stage before this move was used. If Big Root is held by the user, the HP recovered is 1.3× normal, rounded half down. Fails if the target's Attack stat stage is -6.
“The user restores its own HP by the same amount as the target's Attack stat. It then lowers the target's Attack stat.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Strength Sap, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Blocks or weakens it
1
- Magic Bouncebounces it back
Changes how it works
1
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
Only in other games 1
Boosts it
1
- Triage+3 priority
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Good to know
- Heal Block stops the healing.
- Magic Coat sends it back to the user too.
Who runs Strength Sap on Showdown
Sinistcha7.5% of its sets
Mega Victreebel59.2% of its sets
Arboliva14.7% of its sets
Vileplume4.8% 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 Strength Sap among their most used moves.
Who learns Strength Sap
5 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 19 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →