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Poison Tail (move)

Poison Tail
ポイズンテール Poison Tail
Poison Tail IX.png
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Type  Poison
Category  Physical
PP  25 (max. 40)
Power  50
Accuracy  100%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
May affect anyone adjacent to the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
Condition  Smart
Appeal  3 ♥♥♥
Jam  0  
Worsens the condition of those that made appeals.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Earn +2 if the Judge's Voltage goes up.
Condition  Clever
Appeal  3 ♥♥♥
Jamming  0  
Brings down the energy of any Pokémon that have already used a move this turn.

Poison Tail (Japanese: ポイズンテール Poison Tail) is a damage-dealing Poison-type move introduced in Generation III. Prior to Generation V, it was the signature move of Seviper. It is TM026 in Generation IX.

Effect

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

Poison Tail can also be used as part of a Contest Spectacular combination, with the user gaining extra three appeal points if the move Focus Energy was used in the prior turn.

Description

Games Description
RSEColo.XD Has a high critical-hit ratio. May also poison.
FRLG An attack with a high critical-hit ratio. It may also poison the foe.
DPPtHGSSPBR An attack with a high critical-hit ratio. This tail attack may also poison the foe.
BWB2W2 The user hits the target with its tail. It may also poison the target. Critical hits land more easily.
XYORAS
SMUSUM
SwShBDSPLA 		The user hits the target with its tail. This may also poison the target. Critical hits land more easily.
SV The user hits the target with its tail. This move has a heightened chance of landing a critical hit and may also poison the target.


Learnset

By leveling up

# Pokémon Types Egg Groups Level
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX
194   Wooper
Paldean Form 		 
  		Water 1 Field 8
336   Seviper
   Field Dragon 16 16 16BW
12B2W2 		12XY
10ORAS 		9 9BDSP 9
543   Venipede
  
  		Bug Bug 19 19 19 12
544   Whirlipede
  
  		Bug Bug 19 19 19 12
545   Scolipede
  
  		Bug Bug 19 19 19 12
690   Skrelp
  
  		Water 1 Dragon 23 23 25 25
691   Dragalge
  
  		Water 1 Dragon 23 23 25 25
706   Goodra
   Dragon Dragon 1 1
890   Eternatus
  
  		No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered 1 1
980   Clodsire
  
  		Water 1 Field 12
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.


By TM

# Pokémon Types Egg Groups Machine
I
-- 		II
-- 		III
-- 		IV
-- 		V
-- 		VI
-- 		VII
-- 		VIII
-- 		IX
TM026
151   Mew
   No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered ✔
194   Wooper
Paldean Form 		 
  		Water 1 Field ✔
206   Dunsparce
   Field Field ✔
211   Qwilfish
  
  		Water 2 Water 2 ✔
211   Qwilfish
Hisuian Form 		 
  		Water 2 Water 2 ✔
215   Sneasel
Hisuian Form 		 
  		Field Field ✔
336   Seviper
   Field Dragon ✔
434   Stunky
  
  		Field Field ✔
435   Skuntank
  
  		Field Field ✔
690   Skrelp
  
  		Water 1 Dragon ✔
691   Dragalge
  
  		Water 1 Dragon ✔
706   Goodra
   Dragon Dragon ✔
757   Salandit
  
  		Monster Dragon ✔
758   Salazzle
  
  		Monster Dragon ✔
843   Silicobra
   Field Dragon ✔
844   Sandaconda
   Field Dragon ✔
849   Toxtricity
Amped Form 		 
  		Human-Like Human-Like ✔
849   Toxtricity
Low Key Form 		 
  		Human-Like Human-Like ✔
890   Eternatus
  
  		No Eggs Discovered No Eggs Discovered ✔
903   Sneasler
  
  		Field Field ✔
904   Overqwil
  
  		Water 2 Water 2 ✔
945   Grafaiai
  
  		Field Field ✔
980   Clodsire
  
  		Water 1 Field ✔
982   Dudunsparce
   Field Field ✔
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.


By breeding

# Pokémon Types Parent
Egg Groups 		Egg Move
II III IV V VI VII VIII IX
023   Ekans
   Field Dragon ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔BDSP
029   Nidoran♀
   Monster Field ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
032   Nidoran♂
   Monster Field ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
207   Gligar
  
  		Bug Bug ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔BDSP
451   Skorupi
  
  		Bug Water 3 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔BDSP
621   Druddigon
   Dragon Monster ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
704   Goomy
   Dragon Dragon ✔ ✔
843   Silicobra
   Field Dragon ✔ ✔
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.


In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, Poison Tail is a move with 10 base power, 88% accuracy and 17 PP. The user attacks enemy in front of them, possibly inflicting poison. The move has increased critical-hit raito.

In Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky, the move's PP has been decreased to 15.

Pokémon Conquest

 
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Stars: ★★
Power: 29
Accuracy: 100%
Effect: Has a 10% chance of poisoning each target and an increased critical hit ratio.
Users:  
Grid assumes the user is in the square marked by > facing to the right.
Orange squares indicate spaces that are hit.
Red squares indicate the knockback on hit Pokémon.
A blue square indicates the user's position after performing the move.

Pokémon Masters EX

Category Move Gauge MP Base Power Max Power Accuracy Target Effect Tag Description Playable Users
Physical 2 — 38 45 100% An opponent — Critical hits land more easily. Has a chance (10%) of leaving the target poisoned. Roxie & Whirlipede/Scolipede
Scottie/Bettie & Strike/Support Nidoran♀/Nidorina/Nidoqueen Egg
Scottie/Bettie & Strike/Support Ekans/Arbok Egg
  • Description prior to Version 2.10.0*: Critical hits land more easily. Has a very small chance of leaving the target poisoned.

Pokémon Rumble Rush

  Poison Tail
★★★
Attack power 57.15929
Charge time 0.98 seconds
Range type Dash
Number of hits 1
Number of projectiles 1
Critical hit rate 3%
Additional effect May poison the foe

Description

Games Description
MDRB Inflicts damage on the target. It may also leave the target poisoned. It has a high critical-hit rate.
MDTDS Inflicts damage on the target. It may also afflict the targeted enemy with a Poisoned status condition, which causes periodic damage. It has a high critical-hit rate.
BSL てきポケモンに ダメージをあたえる しかも いっていのかくりつで どくじょうたいにかえる きゅうしょにあたりやすい
Conq. An attack with a high critical-hit ratio. This tail attack may also poison the target.
MDGtI It damages an enemy. It could also cause the Poisoned status condition. With the Poisoned status, the enemy keeps taking damage and can't restore its HP naturally.
SMD It could make an enemy poisoned. It has a high critical-hit rate.*
It damages an enemy. It could also make the enemy poisoned. It has a high critical-hit rate.*


In the anime

       
Seviper Scolipede Sean's father's Scolipede
Part of the user's tail glows purple and it then hits the opponent with it. This may also poison the opponent.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
  Seviper The dagger part of Seviper's tail glows purple and Seviper hits the opponent with it. On occasion, this will poison the opponent.
Jessie's Seviper A Tail with a Twist Debut
Lucy's Seviper Queen of the Serpentine! None
  Scolipede Scolipede's tails glow purple and Scolipede hits the opponent with them.
Sean's father's Scolipede Battling the Bully! None
A wild Scolipede Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot! None


In the manga

Pokémon Adventures


Pokémon Battle Frontier


In other generations

Core series games

       
Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI
   
Generation VII Generation VIII

Side series games

     
Colosseum XD Battle Revolution

Spin-off series games

       
MD: Red and Blue MD: GTI SMD Masters EX

Trivia

  • Goomy cannot learn Poison Tail through TM in Generation IX, despite learning it through breeding in Generations VI and VII.

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 毒尾 Duhkméih
Mandarin 毒尾 Dúwěi
  Dutch Gifstaart
  Finnish Myrkkyhäntä
  French Queue-Poison
  German Giftschweif
  Greek Δηλητηριώδης Ουρά
  Hindi ज़हरीली पूँछ Zehreeli Poonch
  Indonesian Ekor Beracun
  Italian Velenocoda
  Korean 포이즌테일 Poijeunteil
  Polish Trujący Ogon*
Trujące Żądło*
Trujące Ukłucie*
  Portuguese Cauda Venenosa
  Romanian Coada Otrăvitoare
  Serbian Otrovni Rep
Spanish   Latin America Cola Venenosa
  Spain Cola Veneno
  Turkish Zehirli Kuyruk
  Vietnamese Đuôi Độc



Variations of the move Karate Chop
  Karate Chop • Poison Tail


Generation IX TMs
001 • 002 • 003 • 004 • 005 • 006 • 007 • 008 • 009 • 010 • 011 • 012 • 013 • 014 • 015 • 016 • 017 • 018 • 019
020 • 021 • 022 • 023 • 024 • 025 • 026 • 027 • 028 • 029 • 030 • 031 • 032 • 033 • 034 • 035 • 036 • 037 • 038
039 • 040 • 041 • 042 • 043 • 044 • 045 • 046 • 047 • 048 • 049 • 050 • 051 • 052 • 053 • 054 • 055 • 056 • 057
058 • 059 • 060 • 061 • 062 • 063 • 064 • 065 • 066 • 067 • 068 • 069 • 070 • 071 • 072 • 073 • 074 • 075 • 076
077 • 078 • 079 • 080 • 081 • 082 • 083 • 084 • 085 • 086 • 087 • 088 • 089 • 090 • 091 • 092 • 093 • 094 • 095
096 • 097 • 098 • 099 • 100 • 101 • 102 • 103 • 104 • 105 • 106 • 107 • 108 • 109 • 110 • 111 • 112 • 113 • 114
115 • 116 • 117 • 118 • 119 • 120 • 121 • 122 • 123 • 124 • 125 • 126 • 127 • 128 • 129 • 130 • 131 • 132 • 133
134 • 135 • 136 • 137 • 138 • 139 • 140 • 141 • 142 • 143 • 144 • 145 • 146 • 147 • 148 • 149 • 150 • 151 • 152
153 • 154 • 155 • 156 • 157 • 158 • 159 • 160 • 161 • 162 • 163 • 164 • 165 • 166 • 167 • 168 • 169 • 170 • 171
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