Acid (move)

Acid ようかいえき Melting Liquid

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Battles Type  Poison Category  Special PP  30 (max. 48) Power  40 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 Unknown

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

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  4 ♥♥♥♥ Subtracts four appeal points from the preceeding Pokémon.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Acid (Japanese: ようかいえき Melting Liquid) is a Poison-type move introduced in Generation I that deals a small amount of damage.

Effect

Generation I

Acid does damage and has a 9.8% chance of lowering the opponent's Defense by 1 level.

Acid will not be able to lower the opponent's Defense if it has reached a level of -6 or a value of 1, or if the opponent has a Substitute.

Generation III

Acid will hit both opponents in a Double Battle and has a 10% chance of lowering the target's Defense by 1 level.

Generation IV

Acid will hit both opponents in a Double Battle and has a 10% chance of lowering the target's Special Defense by 1 level.

Mystery Dungeon 2

Power: 8

Accuracy: 88

Range: Foe in Front, cuts corners

Effect: Randomly lowers foe's Sp. Defense by 1.

Power Points: 17

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0023 Ekans Poison 38 0024 Arbok Poison 47 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 24 0044 Gloom Grass Poison 28 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 26 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 29 0072 Tentacool Water Poison -- 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison -- 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 0023 Ekans Poison 37 0024 Arbok Poison 43 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 23 0044 Gloom Grass Poison 24 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 23 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 24 0072 Tentacool Water Poison 19 0073 Tentacruel Water 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.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0023 Ekans Poison 32 0024 Arbok Poison 38 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 23 0044 Gloom Grass Poison 24 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 23 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 24 0072 Tentacool Water Poison 19 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison 19 0345 Lileep Rock Grass 15 0346 Cradily Rock Grass -- 15 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" | 0331 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel

|- | 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. |} |}

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0023 Ekans Poison 20 0024 Arbok Poison 20 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 9 0044 Gloom Grass Poison --,9 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 23 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 23 0072 Tentacool Water Poison 12 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison 12 0345 Lileep Rock Grass 8 0346 Cradily Rock Grass --,8 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" | 0331 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel

|- | 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. |} |}

Trivia

• Acid is the only Template:Type2 damaging move that does not poison the opponent.

In other languages

• French: Acide
• German: Säure
• Italian: Acido
• Spanish: Ácido