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Draining Kiss

Fairy · Special · 7 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Fairy
Draining Kiss
TypeFairy
CategorySpecial
Base power50
Accuracy100%
PP10
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Mega Floette 15.0% 24.1% Klefki 0.43% 63.2% Mega Clefable 0.11% 12.6% Mega Audino 0.09% 12.7% Mega Chimecho 0.08% 11.3% Floette-Eternal 0.08% 1.4% Dedenne 0.06% 0.9%

What it does

The user recovers 3/4 the HP lost by the target, rounded half up. If Big Root is held by the user, the HP recovered is 1.3x normal, rounded half down.

At 50 base power it is the 39th strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

7 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Draining Kiss. The one that matters most is Mega Floette, which is on 15.0% of teams and carrys it on 24.1% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Fairy move it is super effective against Dark, Dragon and Fighting, resisted by Fire, Poison and Steel. 4 other Fairy moves appear in this format: Moonblast, Dazzling Gleam, Play Rough, Charm.

Who could and does not

31 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Draining Kiss at all, against the 7 that actually bring it. The gap is the interesting number: it is the set of Pokémon that have the option and decline it. The most-played of those are Sylveon, Grimmsnarl, Milotic, Ninetales-Alola, Vivillon and Gallade — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Draining Kiss accounts for an expected 0.04 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 89th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 92% of that comes from Mega Floette alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Fairy (6) and Steel (2).

Where these numbers come from

Usage is Smogon's published statistics for the Regulation M-B VGC ladder, and the description is the one shipped in the Pokémon Showdown data set. Both are regenerated on every build rather than written by hand, so this page follows the format instead of trailing it. Take any of it to the team builder or the damage calculator.