Poison (type)
Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Notable Trainers that specialize in Poison-type Pokémon include Koga, Aya and Janine of Fuchsia City, It should be noted that all of these trainers are related. Some villainous teams, such as Team Rocket, also frequently use Poison-type Pokémon.
Statistical averages
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Battle properties
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Characteristics
When used defensively, the Poison type is considered one of the best in the game. This is because of its ability to block or cause status ailments and resist common moves. Its obvious weakness, Earthquake, can be mitigated by the variety of dual-typed Grass and Bug/Poison Pokémon, as well as the Zubat family's Flying type and the Gastly and Koffing families' Levitate. Additionally, the Poison type resists itself, Bug, Fighting, and Grass, giving it resistances to common moves such as Grass Knot, X-Scissor, and Close Combat. Moreover, Poison-types tend to hold potent status and support moves, such as Haze, Toxic Spikes, and Toxic. Immune to Poison and Toxic Spikes themselves, they have an opportunity to absorb status effects as well. Koga's words of "confusion, sleep, poison" describe the Poison type very well.
Offensively, Poison moves are only suggested for inflicting the Poison condition, STAB or using support moves. Its only strength, which is against the Grass-type is largely mitigated by the variety of Grass/Poison Pokémon as well as Torterra's Ground and the Lileep and Cradily's Rock. Ice, Fire and Flying are much more useful in countering the Grass-type. Also, Poison moves are not very effective on Poison, Rock, Ghost, Ground, and completely ineffective against Steel. Hence, resistances to Poison are far more common than weaknesses to it. Poison moves are better off used for longer battles than they are for attempting to defeat an opponent with one blow.
When used in contests, Poison-type moves typically become Smart moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types, excluding Cute.
Pokémon
In total, there are 57 Pokémon within the Poison type.
Pure Poison-type Pokémon
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Half Poison-type Pokémon
Primary Poison-type Pokémon
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Secondary Poison-type Pokémon
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Moves
Damage-dealing moves
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Non-damaging moves
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Trivia
- All damage dealing Poison-type moves have a secondary effect; the side effect for all except Acid, Venom Shock, Acid Bomb and Clear Smog is to poison the opponent.
- With the exception of Arceus holding a Toxic Plate, there has yet to be a Poison-type legendary Pokémon. As of Generation V, The Poison type is the only type that remains to have a Legendary Pokémon of its type in existence.
- Poison is one of three types that can never be doubly super effective against any Pokémon because it is only super effective against one type, the Template:Type2. It shares this trait with the Template:Type2, which is only effective against itself, and the Template:Type2, which isn't super effective against anything.
- Poison was the most common type in Generation I; even as of Generation V, almost two thirds of the Poison-type Pokémon currently known were introduced in the first generation.
- In Generation I Poison was super effective against the Template:Type2, while the Bug-type was super effective against Poison. This trait has never been shared with any other type match-up, and is likewise no longer true.
- Seviper and Qwilfish are currently the only Poison-type Pokémon without evolutionary relatives.
- Croagunk and Toxicroak are currently the only Poison-types to have any double weakness (to Psychic).
- The Poison type is the only one of the original 15 types not mentioned in the song 2.B.A. Master. Instead, the "Flame-type" (which doesn't exist) is mentioned.
- There has yet to be a pure Poison-type Pokémon which is the final stage in a three-stage evolutionary line.
- A Pokémon of every type except Poison was added to the Sinnoh Pokédex in Pokémon Platinum.
- Generation I is currently the only generation to have introduced more than ten Poison-types.
- Pure Poison-types are only introduced every other generation.
In other languages
- Chinese: 毒 dú
- Dutch: Gif
- Finnish: Myrkky
- French: Poison
- German: Gift
- Greek: Διλητήριο - Dilitirio
- Hebrew: רעל ra'al
- Italian: Veleno
- Japanese: どく (毒) doku
- Korean: 독 dok
- Polish: Trujący
- Portuguese (Brazilian): Veneno Poison / Venenoso Poisonous
- Russian: Ядовитый yadovityi
- Spanish: Veneno