Pokemon TCG: Pocket Sleep Update

In Pokémon TCG Pocket, Sleep is the most frustrating status condition. While there's a cure, its lingering effects can significantly impact your game. Here’s a complete guide to understanding and overcoming Sleep.

What Does Sleep Mean in Pokémon TCG Pocket?

When a Pokémon is afflicted with Sleep, it's completely incapacitated. It cannot attack, use abilities, or retreat. Essentially, your sleeping Pokémon becomes a vulnerable target on your active spot until cured.

How to Cure Sleep

There are two primary ways to wake a sleeping Pokémon: a successful coin toss at the start of each turn, or evolution. The turn-based coin toss offers a chance for recovery each turn, potentially freeing your Pokémon quickly. However, consecutive unlucky flips can leave your Pokémon asleep for multiple turns, putting you at a disadvantage. While you can prepare alternative attackers or hope for an evolution, your opponent might capitalize on this vulnerability.

A less common method involves the Koga Trainer card, which can return a sleeping Weezing or Muk to your hand. This is a Pokémon-specific solution.

All Sleep Cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket

Eight cards currently inflict Sleep in Pokémon TCG Pocket, including Darkrai, Wigglytuff, and Hypno—with Hypno proving the most strategically valuable. Below is a complete list detailing each card, its method, and acquisition:

Hypno stands out due to its ability to inflict Sleep from the bench, making it a powerful support card for Psychic decks, particularly when combined with Mewtwo ex and Gardevoir.

While Frosmoth and Wigglytuff ex are viable in specific decks, Hypno’s unique advantage currently makes it the most competitive Sleep card in the Pokémon TCG Pocket meta without hindering overall strategy. Now that you understand Sleep, explore other powerful combinations, such as the best Palkia ex deck.