Draining Kiss
Fairy · Special · 8 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Draining Kiss | |
|---|---|
| Type | Fairy |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 50 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 10 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Draining Kiss | |
|---|---|
| Type | Fairy |
| Category | Special |
| Base power | 50 |
| Accuracy | 100% |
| PP | 10 |
| Priority | 0 |
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 38th strongest of the 39 damaging special moves that appear in this format.
8 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Draining Kiss. The one that matters most is Mega Floette, which is on 17.1% of teams and carrys it on 23.5% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
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.
31 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Draining Kiss at all, against the 8 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, Ninetales-Alola, Milotic, Vivillon and Primarina — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Draining Kiss accounts for an expected 0.04 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 81st most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 97% 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 (7) and Steel (2).
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.
