Sludge (move)

Sludge
ヘドロこうげき Sludge Stream

Battles

Type	Poison
Category	Special
PP	20 (max. 32)
Power	65
Accuracy	100%
Priority	0
Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range

Opponent	Opponent	Opponent
Self	Ally	Ally
Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

Availability

Introduced	Generation I
Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests

Condition	Tough
Appeal	1 ♥
Jam	4 ♥♥♥♥
Badly startles the Pokémon in front.

Super Contests

Condition	Tough
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs last in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars

Condition	Tough
Appeal	0
Jamming	0

On Smogon's Movedex:

Sludge (Japanese: ヘドロこうげき Sludge Stream) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Sludge does damage and has a 29.7% chance of poisoning the target. Sludge cannot poison a target that has a Substitute or already has a major status ailment.

Generation II and on

Same as Generation I, though with a 30% chance of poisoning non-Template:Type2s instead.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#	Pokémon	Type	Level
0088	Grimer	Poison	37
0089	Muk	Poison	-- 37
0109	Koffing	Poison	32
0110	Weezing	Poison	-- 32
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation II

By leveling up

#	Pokémon	Type	Level
0088	Grimer	Poison	16
0089	Muk	Poison	45
0109	Koffing	Poison	21
0110	Weezing	Poison	21
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation III

By leveling up

#	Pokémon	Type	Level
0088	Grimer	Poison	13
0089	Muk	Poison	13
0109	Koffing	Poison	21
0110	Weezing	Poison	21
0316	Gulpin	Poison	14
0317	Swalot	Poison	-- 14
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#	Pokémon	Type	Level
0088	Grimer	Poison	20
0089	Muk	Poison	20
0109	Koffing	Poison	24
0110	Weezing	Poison	24
0316	Gulpin	Poison	14
0317	Swalot	Poison	-- 14
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0001 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Mudkip, Marshtomp, Swampert |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0258 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mudkip
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Shellos, Gastrodon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0422 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Shellos
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer, Muk
Koffing, Weezing
Gulpin, Swalot |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0422 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Shellos
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer, Muk
Koffing, Weezing
Gulpin, Swalot

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

In the anime

Pokémon	Method
File:EP003 031.jpg Koffing File:Sludge Bomb Anime.jpg Gulpin
Unsanitary sludge is hurled at the foe.
User	First Used In	Notes
	Koffing spews sludge at its opponent.
James's Koffing	Ash Catches a Pokémon	Debut
	Horsea squirts sludge from its mouth.
Misty's Horsea	Tentacool & Tentacruel	Horsea cannot legally learn Sludge.
	Weezing spews sludge at its opponent.
James's Weezing	The Flame Pokémon-athon!	None
	Gulpin opens its mouth and spits a ball of sludge at the opponent.
Multiple wild Gulpin	Gulpin it Down	None
	Muk spews peices of mud constantly at the opponent.
Three wild Muk	The Psyduck Stops Here!	None
	Grimer fires peices of dark-brown mud at the opponent.
A Grimer Dawn trained briefly	Camping it Up!	None