Wake-Up Slap
Sun & Moon and Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon
Power doubles if target is asleep, and wakes it.
- Power
- 70
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 10
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Wake-Up Slap changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen VI
Power 60 → 70 Buffed
- Gen V
Power doubles if the target is asleep. If
dropped: this move is successful,added: the user has not fainted, the target wakes up.
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 VII
“This attack inflicts big damage on a sleeping target. This also wakes the target up, however.”
In-game text, Sun & Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon and Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Wake-Up Slap, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
2
- Tough Claws×1.3
- Poison Touch30% to poison
Blocks or weakens it
2
- Fluffytakes ½
- Aura Guardtakes ½
Punishes the user
17
- 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
Changes how it works
5
- Long Reachno contact
Protective Padsno contact effects- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect
- Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Good to know
- Its power changes with the situation; How it works gives the rule.
Works with or against it
Who learns Wake-Up Slap
It isn’t in Pokémon Champions.