Hypnosis

さいみんじゅつ Hypnosis

Introduced:	Generation I

Battle Data

Type:
Category:
Power:	N/A
Accuracy:	60%^[1]
PP:	20, max: 32
Priority:	0
Contact:	No

Affected by

Magic Coat:	Yes
Magic Bounce:	Yes
Bright Powder:	Yes
Detect/Protect:	Yes
Snatch:	No
Mirror Move:	Yes
King's Rock:	No

Contest Data

Contests (RS E)

Condition:	Smart
Appeal:	1 ♥
Jam:	3 ♥♥♥
Badly startles those that have made appeals.

Super Contests (DP Pt)

Condition:	Smart
Appeal:	2 ♥♥
Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Condition:	Clever
Appeal:	1 ♥
Jam:	3 ♥♥♥
Badly startles all of the Pokémon to act before the user.

Hypnosis is a Psychic-type move introduced in Generation I.

Description[]

Games	Description
GS C	May put the foe to sleep.
RS E	A hypnotizing move that may induce sleep.
FRLG	Hypnotic suggestion is used to make the foe fall into a deep sleep.
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2	The user employs hypnotic suggestion to make the target fall into a deep sleep.
XY ORAS SM USUM PE SwSh BDSP	The user employs hypnotic suggestion to make the target fall into a deep sleep.
LA	The user employs hypnotic suggestion to make the target drowsy.
SV	The user employs hypnotic suggestion to make the target fall asleep.

Effect[]

In battle[]

Hypnosis causes the target to fall asleep. In a Double Battle, Hypnosis can target any Pokémon around the user. In a Triple Battle, Hypnosis can only target a Pokémon that's adjacent to the user. Hypnosis will have no effect on Pokémon with Insomnia or Vital Spirit.

Learnset[]

By leveling up[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Ninetales	fire	Field							1PE
	Ninetales	ice/fairy	Field							1PE
	Zubat	poison/flying	Flying								6LA
	Golbat	poison/flying	Flying								6LA
	Persian	normal	Field							1PE
	Persian	dark	Field							1PE
	Psyduck	water	Water 1/Field								18LA
	Golduck	water	Water 1/Field								18LA
	Poliwag	water	Water 1	16	7	7	8	8	8	8	1
	Poliwhirl	water	Water 1	1, 16	1, 7	1, 7	1, 8	1, 8	1, 8	1, 8	1
	Poliwrath	water/fighting	Water 1	1, 16	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Kadabra	psychic	Human-Like								6LA
	Alakazam	psychic	Human-Like								6LA
	Ponyta	fire	Field								21LA
	Rapidash	fire	Field							1PE	21LA
	Gastly	ghost/poison	Amorphous	27	1	1	1	1	1	1	4SwSh BDSP 25LA	4
	Haunter	ghost/poison	Amorphous	29	1	1	1	1	1	1	1SwSh BDSP 25LA	1
	Gengar	ghost/poison	Amorphous	29	1	1	1	1	1	1	1SwSh BDSP 25LA	1
	Drowzee	psychic	Human-Like	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1, 21, 37BDSP	1
	Hypno	psychic	Human-Like	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1, 21, 37BDSP	1
	Exeggcute	grass/psychic	Grass	1	1	1	1	1	1	1SM USUM 7PE	1
	Exeggutor	grass/psychic	Grass	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Exeggutor	grass/dragon	Grass							1	1
	Mr. Mime	psychic/fairy	Human-Like								6LA
	Mr. Mime	ice/psychic	Human-Like								32
	Articuno	psychic/flying	Undiscovered								15	15
	Hoothoot	normal/flying	Flying		16	16	9DP 5Pt HGSS	5	5	4	36
	Noctowl	normal/flying	Flying		16	16	1, 9DP 1, 5Pt HGSS	1, 5	1, 5	1, 4	48
	Crobat	poison/flying	Flying								6LA
	Politoed	water	Water 1		1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Yanma	bug/flying	Bug			23FRLG	38	38	38	38	38BDSP 18LA
	Misdreavus	ghost	Amorphous								11LA
	Stantler	normal	Field		15	19RS E 17FRLG	10	10	10	10	10BDSP 9LA	10
	Ralts	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous			41	43	45	45XY 37ORAS	37	9SwSh BDSP 18LA	9
	Kirlia	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous			47	50	53	53XY 44ORAS	44	9SwSh BDSP 18LA	9
	Gardevoir	psychic/fairy	Human-Like/Amorphous			51	60	65	65XY 49ORAS	49	9SwSh BDSP 18LA	9
	Spinda	normal	Field/Human-Like			23	23	23	23XY 19ORAS	19	19BDSP
	Lunatone	rock/psychic	Mineral			19	12	12BW 9B2W2	9XY 5ORAS	5	5
	Solrock	rock/psychic	Mineral								5
	Chimecho	psychic	Amorphous								18LA
	Drifloon	ghost/flying	Amorphous								5LA
	Drifblim	ghost/flying	Amorphous								5LA
	Mismagius	ghost	Amorphous								11LA
	Glameow	normal	Field				13	13	13	13	13BDSP 5LA
	Purugly	normal	Field				13	13	13	13	13BDSP 5LA
	Chingling	psychic	Undiscovered								18LA
	Bronzor	steel/psychic	Mineral				7	7BW 5B2W2	5	5	20SwSh BDSP 25LA	20
	Bronzong	steel/psychic	Mineral				1, 7	1, 7BW 1, 5B2W2	1, 5	1, 5	20SwSh BDSP 25LA	20
	Mime Jr.	psychic/fairy	Undiscovered								6LA
	Spiritomb	ghost/dark	Amorphous				13	13	13	13	55SwSh BDSP 6LA	55
	Yanmega	bug/flying	Bug								1BDSP 18LA
	Gallade	psychic/fighting	Human-Like/Amorphous								1SwSh BDSP 18LA	1
	Uxie	psychic	Undiscovered								57LA
	Darkrai	dark	Undiscovered				20	20	20	20	20BDSP 6LA
	Patrat	normal	Field					18	18	18
	Watchog	normal	Field					18	18	18
	Munna	psychic	Field					19	19	19	4
	Musharna	psychic	Field					1	1	1	1
	Sigilyph	psychic/flying	Flying					4	4	4	10
	Gothita	psychic	Human-Like								24	24
	Gothorita	psychic	Human-Like								24	24
	Gothitelle	psychic	Human-Like								24	24
	Inkay	dark/psychic	Water 1/Water 2						18	18	3
	Malamar	dark/psychic	Water 1/Water 2						18	18	1
	Sandygast	ghost/ground	Amorphous							27	30	30
	Palossand	ghost/ground	Amorphous							27	30	30
	Lunala	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered							1	1
	Xurkitree	electric	Undiscovered							43	30
	Blacephalon	fire/ghost	Undiscovered								35
	Orbeetle	bug/psychic	Bug								20
	Mr. Rime	ice/psychic	Human-Like								32
	Wyrdeer	normal/psychic	Field								9LA	10
	Iron Valiant	fairy/fighting	Undiscovered									7
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

By breeding[]

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Gallery[]

Main games

Main series

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References[]

^ Hypnosis has an accuracy of 60% in all games but Diamond and Pearl, with the latter instead having an accuracy of 70%

[1] Hypnosis has an accuracy of 60% in all games but Diamond and Pearl, with the latter instead having an accuracy of 70%

[1]

v · d · e List of Psychic-type moves

Generation I · Generation II · Generation III · Generation IV · Generation V · Generation VI · Generation VII · Generation VIII · Generation IX

A	Agility Ally Switch Amnesia

B	Barrier

C	Calm Mind Confusion Cosmic Power

D	Dream Eater

E	Eerie Spell Esper Wing Expanding Force Extrasensory

F	Freezing Glare Future Sight

G	Glitzy Glow Gravity Guard Split Guard Swap

H	Heal Block Heal Pulse Healing Wish Heart Stamp Heart Swap Hyperspace Hole Hypnosis

I	Imprison Instruct

K	Kinesis

L	Light Screen Lumina Crash Lunar Blessing Lunar Dance Luster Purge

M	Magic Coat Magic Powder Magic Room Meditate Miracle Eye Mirror Coat Mist Ball Mystical Power

P	Photon Geyser Power Split Power Swap Power Trick Prismatic Laser Psybeam Psyblade Psychic Psychic Fangs Psychic Noise Psychic Terrain Psycho Boost Psycho Cut Psycho Shift Psyshield Bash Psyshock Psystrike Psywave

R	Reflect Rest Role Play

S	Skill Swap Speed Swap Stored Power Synchronoise

T	Take Heart Telekinesis Teleport Trick Trick Room Twin Beam

W	Wonder Room

Z	Zen Headbutt

See also	Bug-type Dark-type Dragon-type Electric-type Fairy-type Fighting-type Fire-type Flying-type Ghost-type Grass-type Ground-type Normal-type Poison-type Rock-type Steel-type Water-type

Moves

v · d · e List of moves introduced in Generation I

Bug-type · Dark-type · Dragon-type · Electric-type · Fairy-type · Fighting-type · Fire-type · Flying-type · Ghost-type · Grass-type · Ground-type · Ice-type · Normal-type · Poison-type · Psychic-type · Rock-type · Steel-type · Water-type

A	Absorb Acid Acid Armor Agility Amnesia Aurora Beam

B	Barrage Barrier Bide Bind Bite Blizzard Body Slam Bone Club Bonemerang Bubble Bubble Beam

C	Clamp Comet Punch Confuse Ray Confusion Constrict Conversion Counter Crabhammer Cut

D	Defense Curl Dig Disable Dizzy Punch Double Kick Double Slap Double Team Double-Edge Dragon Rage Dream Eater Drill Peck

E	Earthquake Egg Bomb Ember Explosion

F	Fire Blast Fire Punch Fire Spin Fissure Flamethrower Flash Fly Focus Energy Fury Attack Fury Swipes

G	Glare Growl Growth Guillotine Gust

H	Harden Haze Headbutt High Jump Kick Horn Attack Horn Drill Hydro Pump Hyper Beam Hyper Fang Hypnosis

I	Ice Beam Ice Punch

J	Jump Kick

K	Karate Chop Kinesis

L	Leech Life Leech Seed Leer Lick Light Screen Lovely Kiss Low Kick

M	Meditate Mega Drain Mega Kick Mega Punch Metronome Mimic Minimize Mirror Move Mist

N	Night Shade

P	Pay Day Peck Petal Dance Pin Missile Poison Gas Poison Powder Poison Sting Pound Psybeam Psychic Psywave

Q	Quick Attack

R	Rage Razor Leaf Razor Wind Recover Reflect Rest Roar Rock Slide Rock Throw Rolling Kick

S	Sand Attack Scratch Screech Seismic Toss Self-Destruct Sharpen Sing Skull Bash Sky Attack Slam Slash Sleep Powder Sludge Smog Smokescreen Soft-Boiled Solar Beam Sonic Boom Spike Cannon Splash Spore Stomp Strength String Shot Struggle Stun Spore Submission Substitute Super Fang Supersonic Surf Swift Swords Dance

T	Tackle Tail Whip Take Down Teleport Thrash Thunder Thunder Punch Thunder Shock Thunder Wave Thunderbolt Toxic Transform Tri Attack Twineedle

V	Vine Whip ViceGrip

W	Water Gun Waterfall Whirlwind Wing Attack Withdraw Wrap

See also	Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Generation I