Poison Tail (move)

Poison Tail ポイズンテール Poison Tail

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Battles Type  Poison Category  Physical PP  25 (max. 40) Power  50 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone but the user

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

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0   Worsens the condition of those that made appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Judge's Voltage goes up.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Poison Tail (Japanese: ポイズンテール Poison Tail) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III. Prior to Generation V, it was the signature move of Seviper.

Effect

Poison Tail deals damage and has an increased critical hit ratio. It has a 10% chance of poisoning the target.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0336 Seviper Poison 16 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 0336 Seviper Poison 16 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0023 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" |

|- | colspan="6" | 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0336 Seviper Poison 16 0543 Fushide Fushide Bug Poison 19 0544 Hoiiga Hoiiga Bug Poison 19 0545 Pendra Pendra Bug Poison 19 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0023 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0029 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♀
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0032 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0207 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Gligar
| colspan="1" style="background:#915121; text-align: center;" | Ground || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0451 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Skorupi
| colspan="1" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison || style="background:#91A119" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0621 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Crimgan | style="background: #FFF" | Crimgan
| colspan="2" style="background:#5060E1; text-align: center;" | Dragon | style="background: #FFF" |

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB
from this move. |} |}

In the anime

File:SeviperPoisonTail.png Seviper
An attack with a high critical-hit ratio.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	The dagger part of Seviper's tail glows purple and Seviper hits the opponent with it.
Jessie's Seviper	A Tail with a Twist		Debut
Lucy's Seviper	Queen of the Serpentine!		None

In other languages

• Chinese: 毒尾' Dúwěi'
• Dutch: Gifstaart
• Finnish: Myrkkyhäntä
• French: Queue-Poison
• German: Giftschweif
• Greek: Δηλητηριώδης Ουρά
• Hindi: Zehreeli Poonch
• Italian: Velenocoda
• Korean: 포이즌테일 Poison Tail
• Portuguese (European): Cauda Venenosa
• Spanish: Cola Veneno
• Spanish (Latin American): Cola Venenosa (anime)
• Serbian: Otrovni Rep

Variations of the move Karate Chop
Karate Chop • Poison Tail

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