Skill (Sleep)
Skills (Japanese: スキル skills) are one of the defining characteristics of Pokémon in Pokémon Sleep. There are two types of skills, Main Skills, which are unique to each Pokémon species, and Sub Skills, which are unique to each individual Pokémon.
Main Skills
Main Skills (Japanese: メインスキル main skills) are abilities that can be triggered whenever help is collected from a helper Pokémon. All Pokémon of the same species will always have the same Main Skill. Additionally, excluding branched Evolutions, all Pokémon in the same evolutionary line always have the same Main Skill.
Skills is one of the three possible Specialties a Pokémon species can have. Each Pokémon species has a different main skill chance, though the chance will always be much higher for Skill Specialists. The main skill chance for a Pokémon can be increased by having a Nature that increases main skill chance, or by having the Sub Skills Skill Trigger S or Skill Trigger M.
Main Skills can be leveled up, up to level 6, with main skills of higher levels having more potent effects. All Pokémon start with a main skill level of 1 when they are befriended, which can be leveled up in one of three ways:
- A Pokémon's main skill will level up by 1 when it is evolved.
- The Sub Skills Skill Level Up S and Skill Level Up M will increase a Pokémon's main skill level by 1 or 2 respectively.
- Using a Main Skill Seed on a Pokémon will increase its main skill level by 1.
The following main skills are are currently available:
| Skill | Effect | Amount per level | Pokémon |
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| Charge Strength S | Increases Snorlax's Strength by 400. | 400 569 785 1083 1496 2066 |
            
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| Increases Snorlax's Strength by anywhere from 200 to 800. | 200 to 800 285 to 1138 393 to 1570 542 to 2166 748 to 2992 1033 to 4132 |
                          
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| Charge Strength M | Increases Snorlax's Strength by 880. | 880 1251 1726 2383 3290 4546 |
        
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| Dream Shard Magnet S | Obtain 240 Dream Shards. | 240 340 480 670 920 1260 |
    
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| Obtain 120 to 480 Dream Shards. | 120 to 480 170 to 680 240 to 960 335 to 1340 460 to 1840 630 to 2520 |
  
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| Energizing Cheer S | Restores 14 Energy to another Pokémon chosen at random. | 14 17 22 28 38 50 |
        
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| Charge Energy S | Restores 12 Energy to the user. | 12 16 21 26 33 43 |
                      
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| Energy for Everyone S | Restores 5 Energy to each helper Pokémon on your team. | 5 7 9 11 15 18 |
      
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| Extra Helpful S | Instantly gets you ×5 the usual help from a helper Pokémon. | 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
   
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| Ingredient Magnet S | Gets you 6 ingredients chosen at random. | 6 8 11 14 17 21 |
                        
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| Cooking Power-Up S | Gives your pot room for 7 more ingredients the next time you cook. | 7 10 12 17 22 27 |
       
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| Metronome | Uses one randomly chosen main skill. The level of the skill used is the same as the level of this skill. |      
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| Tasty Chance S | Cooking will be more likely to produce an Extra Tasty dish. This effect lasts until an Extra Tasty dish is made or the player moves to a new site. | 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 10% |
 
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| Helper Boost | Your team of helpers will instantly gather a bonus amount of Berries and ingredients based on the type of the Skill owner, the number of different species of the corresponding type on your team, and the level of this skill. | 2-6 3-7 4-8 5-9 6-10 7-11 |
 
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Sub Skills
Sub skills are a set of five abilities learned by Pokémon as they reach levels 10, 25, 50, 75 and 100. Sub skills come in three rarities with the rarest being gold, the next level being colored blue and finally the most common skills are grey in color.
Using a Sub Skill Seed will increase the level of a random sub skill by one if it is able to be levelled up. There are three conditions that allow a sub skill to level up:
- A sub skill must be unlocked to level up
- Sub skills can't improve past the level that is currently available in the game, so a sub skill like Berry Finding S can't be levelled up to Berry Finding M as that skill doesn't exist yet
- A Pokémon may only have one of each sub skill in their current learnset, so if a Pokémon has the sub skills Inventory Up S and Inventory Up M, the lower levelled one will not be able to be upgraded.
If a Pokémon doesn't have any sub skills that meet these conditions, the use of the Sub Skill Seed will fail.
The following sub skills are are currently available:
| Skill Name | Levels | Description |
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| Berry Finding | S | Increases the number of Berries this Pokémon finds at one time by 1. |
| Energy Recovery Bonus | — | Multiplies the Energy the team recovers from sleep sessions by 1.14. |
| Helping Bonus | — | Allows team members to help 5% faster. |
| Helping Speed | S/M | Allows this Pokémon to help out 7% faster.Small Allows this Pokémon to help out 14% faster.Medium |
| Ingredient Finder | S/M | Slightly boosts the likelihood of this Pokémon finding ingredients.Small Boosts the likelihood of this Pokémon finding ingredients.Medium |
| Inventory Up | S/M/L | Increases the max number of Berries and ingredients this Pokémon can have by 6.Small Increases the max number of Berries and ingredients this Pokémon can have by 12.Medium Increases the max number of Berries and ingredients this Pokémon can have by 18.Large |
| Research EXP Bonus | — | Boosts the EXP you earn from performing sleep research by 6%. |
| Skill Level Up | S/M | Boosts the level of this Pokémon’s main skill by 1.Small Boosts the level of this Pokémon’s main skill by 2.Medium |
| Sleep EXP Bonus | — | Boosts the EXP earned by the team after sleep sessions by 14%. |
| Skill Trigger | S/M/L | Slightly boosts the chance of this Pokémon’s main skill being used.Small Boosts the chance of this Pokémon’s main skill being used.Medium |
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