| Sleep Powder | |
|---|---|
| Type | Grass |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | 75% |
| PP | 15 |
| Priority | 0 |
Venusaur
11.6%
38.1%
Vivillon
3.3%
92.3%
Vileplume
0.40%
85.3%
Mega Victreebel
0.18%
13.1%
Roserade
0.04%
87.8%
Causes the target to fall asleep.
5 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Sleep Powder. The one that matters most is Venusaur, which is on 11.6% of teams and carrys it on 38.1% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
As a Grass move it is super effective against Ground, Rock and Water, resisted by Bug, Dragon, Fire, Flying, Grass, Poison and Steel. 5 other Grass moves appear in this format: Solar Beam, Giga Drain, Leaf Storm, Energy Ball, Leech Seed.
5 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Sleep Powder at all, against the 5 that actually bring it. The gap is the interesting number: it is the set of Pokémon that have the option and decline it. Every measured Pokémon that can learn it does run it, which is rare and says the move is close to mandatory on anything with access.
Across the ladder, Sleep Powder accounts for an expected 0.08 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 58th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 56% of that comes from Venusaur alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Grass (4) and Poison (4).
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.