Sludge (move)

Sludge ヘドロこうげき Sludge Stream

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

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

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: Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

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

Effect

Sludge does damage and has a 30% chance of poisoning the target. Sludge cannot poison a target that has a Substitute, already has a major status ailment, or is a Template:Type2 or Template:Type2.

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.

By breeding^HGSS

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. |} |}

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0088 Grimer Poison 20 0089 Muk Poison 20 0109 Koffing Poison 28 0110 Weezing Poison 28 0316 Gulpin Poison 14 0317 Swalot Poison -- 14 0568 Trubbish Poison 18 0569 Garbodor Poison 18 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" | 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

Trubbish Koffing Grimer
Unsanitary sludge is hurled at the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Koffing spews dark brown sludge at the opponent from its mouth.
James's Koffing	Ash Catches a Pokémon		Debut
	Weezing spews dark brown sludge at the opponent from the mouth on its larger body or from both mouths at the same time.
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
	Grimer fires large balls of sludge from its mouth at the opponent, one after the other.
A Grimer Dawn used briefly	Camping it Up!		None
	Trubbish opens its mouth and releases a ball of brown sludge from its mouth at the opponent. When the ball of sludge misses the opponent, it releases a thick yellow mist in the air which smells.
A wild Trubbish	Here Comes the Trubbish Squad!		Dub only

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Ekans Weezing Acid Sludge Adventures.png Weezing
The user squirts sludge at the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Horsea spits out black sludge at the opponent from its mouth.
Silver's Horsea	Cloystered		Debut Horsea cannot legally learn Sludge.
	Weezing spits out sludge at the opponent from its bigger body's mouth.
Harry's Weezing	Ekans the Ecstasy		None

Trivia

• All of the Pokémon to learn this move by leveling up are pure Template:Type2 Pokémon and are a part of a two-stage evolutionary line.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 泥漿攻擊 Níjiāng Gōngjī Dutch Modder European French Détritus German Schlammbad Greek Γλίτσα Italian Fango Korean 오물공격 Omul Gonggyeok Norwegian Gjørmeangrep Serbian Mulj European Spanish Residuos

Variations of the move Psybeam
Spark Psybeam • Bubble Beam • Aurora Beam • Sludge

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