Sleep Talk
Pokémon Champions
User must be . Uses another known move.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- —
- PP
- 10
- Hits
- The user
Changes over time
How Sleep Talk changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen IX
… select Assist, Beak Blast, Belch, Bide, added: Blazing Torque, Celebrate, Chatter, added: Combat Torque, Copycat, Dynamax Cannon, Focus Punch, Hold Hands, added: Magical Torque, Me First, Metronome, Mimic, Mirror Move, Nature Power, added: Noxious Torque, Shell Trap, Sketch, Sleep Talk, Struggle, Uproar, added: Wicked Torque, or any two-turn
dropped: move, or any Max Move.added: move. - Gen VIII
… Blast, Belch, Bide, Celebrate, Chatter, Copycat, added: Dynamax Cannon, Focus Punch, Hold Hands, Me First, … Uproar, any two-turn move, or any
dropped: Z-Move.added: Max Move. - Gen VII
… PP. This move cannot select Assist, added: Beak Blast, Belch, Bide, Celebrate, Chatter, Copycat, Focus … Metronome, Mimic, Mirror Move, Nature Power, added: Shell Trap, Sketch, Sleep Talk, Struggle, Uproar, added: any two-turn move, or any
dropped: two-turn move.added: Z-Move. - Gen VI
… PP. This move cannot select Assist, added: Belch, Bide, added: Celebrate, Chatter, Copycat, Focus Punch, added: Hold Hands, Me First, Metronome, Mimic, Mirror Move, …
- Gen V
… Copycat, Focus Punch, Me First, Metronome, added: Mimic, Mirror Move, added: Nature Power, Sketch, Sleep Talk, added: Struggle, Uproar, or any two-turn move.
- Gen IV
… not have PP deducted from it,
dropped: but if itadded: and can currentlydropped: hasadded: have 0dropped: PP it will fail to be used.added: PP. This move cannot select Assist, Bide, added: Chatter, Copycat, Focus Punch, added: Me First, Metronome, Mirror Move, Sleep Talk, Uproar, or any two-turn move. - Gen III
… not have PP deducted from it,
dropped: and canadded: but if it currentlydropped: haveadded: has 0dropped: PP.added: PP it will fail to be used. This move cannot select added: Assist, Bide, added: Focus Punch, Metronome, Mirror Move, Sleep Talk, added: Uproar, or any two-turn move.
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
One of the user's known moves, besides this move, is selected for use at random. Fails if the user is not . The selected move does not have PP deducted from it, and can currently have 0 PP. This move cannot select Assist, Beak Blast, Belch, Bide, Blazing Torque, Celebrate, Chatter, Combat Torque, Copycat, Dynamax Cannon, Focus Punch, Hold Hands, Magical Torque, Me First, Metronome, Mimic, Mirror Move, Nature Power, Noxious Torque, Shell Trap, Sketch, Sleep Talk, Struggle, Uproar, Wicked Torque, or any .
“The user randomly uses one of the moves it knows. This move can only be used while the user is asleep.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
Good to know
- Can't be used through: Metronome, Assist, Copycat, Sleep Talk, Encore, Instruct, Mimic.
- Works while the user is asleep.
Works with or against it
Who learns Sleep Talk
315 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
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