Insomnia (Ability)

Insomnia	ふみん
	Insomnia
Flavor text Generation III Prevents sleep. Generation IV Prevents the Pokémon from falling asleep. Generation V Prevents the Pokémon from falling asleep. Generation VI Currently unknown Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Insomnia (Japanese: ふみん Insomnia) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Eleven Pokémon can have this Ability. It is one of two abilities that prevent sleeping (the other is Vital Spirit).

Effect

In battle

Insomnia prevents Sleep by either the opponent or themselves. If a Pokémon with Insomnia uses Rest, it will automatically fail.

Outside of battle

Insomnia has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Insomnia

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0096		Drowzee	Psychic		Psychic	Insomnia	Forewarn	Inner Focus
0097		Hypno	Psychic		Psychic	Insomnia	Forewarn	Inner Focus
0163		Hoothoot	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
0164		Noctowl	Normal	Flying	Insomnia	Keen Eye	Tinted Lens
0167		Spinarak	Bug	Poison	Swarm	Insomnia	Sniper
0168		Ariados	Bug	Poison	Swarm	Insomnia	Sniper
0198		Murkrow	Dark	Flying	Insomnia	Super Luck	Prankster
0225		Delibird	Ice	Flying	Vital Spirit	Hustle	Insomnia
0353		Shuppet	Ghost		Ghost	Insomnia	Frisk	Cursed Body
0354		Banette	Ghost		Ghost	Insomnia	Frisk	Cursed Body
0430		Honchkrow	Dark	Flying	Insomnia	Super Luck	Moxie
Please note that Abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

Trivia

• The move Worry Seed changes the target's ability to Insomnia.
• Delibird is the only Pokémon that has Insomnia as its Hidden Ability.
  • Coincidentally, Delibird already has access to another Ability with the exact same effect.
• No Generation V Pokémon has access to Insomnia.

In other languages

Language Title French Insomnia German Insomnia Greek Αϋπνία Italian Insonnia Korean 불면 Bulmyeon Portuguese Insônia Spanish Insomnio

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