Poison (type)
Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Notable trainers that specialize in Poison-type Pokémon include Koga, Aya and Janine of Fuchsia City. Some villainous teams, such as Team Rocket, also frequently use Poison-type Pokémon.
Statistical averages
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Battle properties
Generation I
Poison-type moves:
- Are super-effective against: Bug, Grass
- Are not very effective against: Ghost, Ground, Poison, Rock
- Have no effect against: None (Steel wasn't introduced until Generation II)
Poison-type Pokémon:
Generation II-onward
Poison-type moves:
- Are super-effective against: Grass
- Are not very effective against: Ghost, Ground, Poison, Rock
- Have no effect against: Steel
Poison-type Pokémon:
Characteristics
When used defensively, the Poison-type is very useful because of it's 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. Additionally, the Poison-type resists itself, Bug, Fighting, and Grass, giving it many common resistances, such as Aura Sphere, Megahorn, 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, 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 is typically only used for inflicting the Poison condition or using support moves. It is only super-effective against Grass, of which many are also Poison-types, making them neutral to Poison attacks. Ice, Fire and Flying are much more useful in countering the Grass-type. Also, Poison moves are not very effective to Poison, Rock, Ghost, Ground, and completely ineffective against Steel. Hence, resistances to Poison are far more common than weaknesses to it. Despite STAB, even many Poison-types, such as Weezing, regularly do not use their STAB Poison attacks, and instead use moves of a different type (such as in Weezing's case, Fire Blast).
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 50 Pokémon within the Poison-type; 22 are fully evolved.
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
- Acid is the only damage dealing Poison-type attack that does not have a chance to poison the opponent.
- Additionally, the three Poison-type moves that cannot poison all have Acid in their names (Acid, Acid Armor, and Gastro Acid).
- With the exception of Arceus holding a Toxic Plate, there has yet to be a Poison-type legendary Pokémon.
- Poison is the first type encountered in National Pokédex order, shared with the Template:Type2.
- 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.
- In Generation I, Poison was super effective against Template:Type2s, making Paras and Parasect doubly weak to Poison.
- Poison was the most common type in Generation I.
- Almost two thirds of the Poison-type Pokémon are from Generation I.
- As of yet, no pure Poison-type Pokémon have been introduced in an even-numbered generation.
- Gulpin and Seviper are the only pure Poison-type Pokémon not colored blue or purple.
- 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.
- 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), due to their Poison/Fighting type combination.
- 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.
- Poison Fang is the only non-status move that is capable of inflicting toxic poison to the opponent.
In other languages
- Brazilian Portuguese: Veneno, Venenoso
- Dutch: Gif
- French: Poison
- German: Gift
- Italian: Veleno
- Korean: 독 dok
- Polish: Trujący
- Spanish: Veneno