#0775 · Alola · Generation 7

Komala

Drowsing Pokémon · Normal-type

Komala is a Normal-type Pokémon, the Drowsing Pokémon, number 775 (#0775) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 7 and comes from the Alola region. It is 0.4 m tall and weighs 19.9 kg.

Komala is the Drowsing Pokémon, a koala-like Normal type that sleeps from the day it is born to the day it dies, yet still eats, walks and battles. The Pokédex says its movements are only the result of tossing and turning in its dreams.

How to pronounce Komala

Komala is pronounced koh-MAH-luh. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Komala said out loud:

In Japanese it is ネッコアラ (Nekkoara).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Komala is a blue-grey koala, 0.4 m (1'04") tall and 19.9 kg (43.9 lb), with big rounded ears, fluffy white eyebrows, a large black nose and eyes that are always shut. It is usually seen hugging a short wooden log, which the Moon Pokédex says its parents gave it at birth. Bulbapedia adds that it can feed, wander and even fight without waking.

Behaviour

Komala never wakes. Its face sometimes changes as if it knew what was happening around it, but Bulbapedia puts that down to its dreams. If its log is taken away it sleeps badly and thrashes about, and a Trainer it trusts may find it clinging to their arm.

Habitat

In Scarlet and Violet it lives in the South, East and West Provinces, including Tagtree Thicket, and in 4 star Tera Raids. It is not available in Legends: Z-A.

Diet

The Scarlet Pokédex says it feeds on leaves holding a strong poison that only Komala can break down, and the Ultra Moon Pokédex says the sedative effect keeps it asleep.

Powers

Its only Ability, Comatose, makes it behave as though it is always asleep. It rolls with Rollout, stores power with Stockpile, and hits with Slam, Sucker Punch, Wood Hammer and Thrash. With 115 base Attack and 95 base Special Defense it is a surprisingly strong physical attacker for a sleeper.

Name origin

Komala may combine 'coma' with 'koala'. The Japanese name is Nekkoara (ネッコアラ), which Bulbapedia links to nekko ('root' or 'stump'), ne ('sleep'), ko ('young animal') and 'koala'.

Design inspiration

Komala appears to be based on the koala, which can sleep up to twenty hours a day. The log it hugs is likely meant as a body pillow, or dakimakura. Bulbapedia notes that a Shiny Komala's log looks like a forest red gum, a tree koalas live in. These are fan readings.

In the games

Komala sleeps on Route 11 in Sun and Moon, where it debuted, and it returned in Scarlet and Violet.

In the anime

Komala debuted in 'The Guardian's Challenge!' as Samson Oak's Pokémon, mostly asleep and ringing the Pokémon School's bell. It also won the school's Pokémon Pancake Race, and from 'A Mission of Ultra Urgency!' it rings the bell frantically whenever the Ultra Guardians are needed.

Fun facts

• It shares its category name, the Drowsing Pokémon, with Musharna.
• The Violet Pokédex says diluting Komala's drool makes a potent anaesthetic that was used for surgery in the past.
• Bulbapedia says Hypno has been known to hunt Komala in Alola, and seems to prefer them to humans.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Komala (Pokémon) · Serebii: Komala (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 65
• Attack: 115
• Defense: 65
• Sp. Atk: 75
• Sp. Def: 95
• Speed: 65

Komala’s base stat total is 480. Its highest stat is Attack.

Type matchups

What is Komala weak to?

Komala takes extra damage from Fighting (2×) moves.

It is immune to Ghost moves.

Evolution

Komala does not evolve, and it does not evolve from any other Pokémon.

Abilities

• Comatose: This Pokémon always acts as though it were Asleep.

Moves

Moves Komala learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (44)

Komala can learn 44 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Charm, Protect, Low Kick, Acrobatics, Thief, Trailblaze, Facade, Bulldoze, Metal Claw, Rock Tomb, Low Sweep, Fling, Endure, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Brick Break, Zen Headbutt, U-turn, Shadow Claw, Bulk Up, Body Slam, Sleep Talk, Seed Bomb, Stomping Tantrum, Rock Slide, Swords Dance, Iron Head, Gunk Shot, Substitute, Ice Spinner, Play Rough, Calm Mind, Reversal, Earthquake, Giga Impact, Hyper Beam, Tera Blast, Knock Off, Super Fang, Psych Up, Double-Edge, Endeavor, Curse.

Egg moves (5):Charm, Play Rough, Sing, Superpower, Wish.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Field.
• Egg cycles: 20 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 2,560).
• Catch rate: 45 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
• Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 2 Attack effort values.
• Base experience yield: 168.

Pokédex entries

It stays asleep from the moment it's born. When it falls into a deep sleep, it stops moving altogether. (Ultra Sun)

It remains asleep from birth to death as a result of the sedative properties of the leaves that form its diet. (Ultra Moon)

The log it holds was given to it by its parents at birth. It has also been known to cling to the arm of a friendly Trainer. (Moon)

It is born asleep, and it dies asleep. All its movements are apparently no more than the results of it tossing and turning in its dreams. (Sun)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Taller than 11% of all Pokémon (0.4 m).
• Heavier than 42% of all Pokémon (19.9 kg).
• Base stat total 480, ranked #405 of 1,025.
• One of 131 Normal-type Pokémon (counting dual types).
• One of 170 blue Pokémon.
• Number 54 of 88 Pokémon introduced in Generation 7 (Alola).
• Can learn 59 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 45: about 5.9% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 4 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Komala (Pokémon), Serebii: Komala (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (koh-MAH-luh): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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