Drowzee

The Hypnosis Pokémon
#096 - Drowzee
Evolve	Hypno
Debut	Pokémon: Red Version Pokémon: Green Version
Species Info
Type	+
Height	1.0 m (3'03")
Weight	32.4 kg (71.4 lbs.)
Color	Yellow
Gender Ratio	1♂ : 1♀
Ability	Insomnia / Forewarn
Hidden Ability
Egg Group	Humanshape
Icon		Sprite
		File:096sprite.png
Footprint
30px
Base Statistics
Hit Points	60	Speed	42
Attack	48	Sp. Attack	43
Defense	45	Sp. Defense	90
Training Info
Catch Rate	190	Hatch Steps	5,120
Base Exp.	102	Effort Points	SpD
Happiness	70
To Lv.100	Normal

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Drowzee is a tapir-like Pokémon with psychic powers that was introduced in the first generation games. Its evolved form is Hypno.

Information

Drowzee is a Pokémon that puts people to sleep and then eats their dreams. It remembers all the dreams it has eaten, and it rarely eats adult's dreams due to preferring the taste of children's dreams, having a love for fun dreams. If one sleeps by a Drowzee all the time, it will sometimes show the person their dreams that they have eaten in the past. They have been known to get sick from eating bad dreams. It can usually tell where someone is sleeping and what they are dreaming about whenever it twitches its nose.

It has been described as a descendant of the legendary animal baku. Drowzee have been known to eat people's dreams through their nostrils while standing above their pillow, with a sign of this being the person having an itchy nose. They are skilled hypnotists, which makes them useful in battles. Drowzee evolves into Hypno at Level 26.

Appearances

Mainstream Games

In Pokémon: Red, Blue, Yellow, FireRed and LeafGreen, Drowzee could be uncommonly found at Route 11. They could also be found at Berry Forest in FireRed/LeafGreen.

In Gold, Silver, Crystal, HeartGold and SoulSilver, they commonly appeared at Routes 11, 34 and 35. In Crystal, they were nocturnal and also could be found on Route 6. In HeartGold/SoulSilver, they were also found at the Safari Zone's Swamp area. In Diamond, Pearl and Platinum, Drozwee appeared at Route 215 in swarms.

Other Games

In Pokémon Pinball, Drowzee could be caught at Vermilion City Seaside and Vermilion City Streets. Among the Pokémon e-Reader line, Drowzee was featured in a minigame called "Dream Eater" where the player controlled a Drowzee trying to put a Primeape to sleep, and the Drowzee had to avoid being spotted by the Primeape until the hypnosis was complete. In Pokémon Trozei!, it appeared at Secret Storage 7, Secret Storage 18, Endless Level 13 and Mr. Who's Den.

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Teams, Drowzee could be recruited at the ninth through fourteenth floors of Buried Relic and the first five floors of Solar Cave. In Pokémon Ranger, Drowzee appeared at the Waterworks, and a character appearing after the end of the game called a Drowsy Man had two Drowzee that he could use to make the player relive earlier parts of the game. In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness, it could be recruited at the fifteenth basement floor of Spacial Rift and the first four basement floors of Deep Spacial Rift. A nonplayable Drowzee also appeared as an antagonist who kidnapped Azurill and forced it to get treasure for him until the player's team defeated him and had him arrested. Drowzee later winds up helping the player in ways such as helping them enter Azurill's nightmare to stop it.

In Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, Drowzee was found at Cargo Ship. Drowzee also appeared in Pokémon Rumble, at Eternal Tower.

Other Appearances

Video Games

• In Super Smash Bros. Melee, Drowzee made a cameo appearance among a group of Pokémon during the game's intro sequence.

Other Media

• It was initially featured in an episode of the Pokémon anime where both a Drowzee and a Hypno belonged to a Pokémon Lover's Club. Ash and his friends worked with the Drowzee to undo the damage that the Hypno's hypnosis had caused. A later Orange Islands episode featured a Drowzee being used by Butch and Cassidy to hypnotize the Pokémon of an island into becoming their Pokémon until Ash and his friends came to stop them. It ended with Togepi and Drowzee competing in using the Metronome move, and Togepi caused an explosion that knocked it out. They have also made other, mostly minor appearances throughout the series.
• In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Drowzee have made only a few minor appearances belonging to members of Team Rocket and Team Galactic. It was also shown among the Pokémon that Gold had at his home.

Trivia

• Its name is a play on "drowsy". The "z" in its name could have been added to emphasize its connection with sleep, as zs are often using to represent sleeping.
• Drowzee is designed based on the tapir-like Japanese mythological creature called the Baku, which is known for eating people's dreams and nightmares. This connection is actually acknowledged in its Pokédex entry. The fifth generation later introduces Munna] and Musharna, a pair of dream-eating Pokémon that also are inspired by the Baku.