Poison (type)

Types

Normal

Fire

Fighting

Water

Flying

Grass

Poison

Electric

Ground

Psychic

Rock

Ice

Bug

Dragon

Ghost

Dark

Steel

Fairy

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Stellar

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The Poison type (Japanese: どくタイプ Poison type) is one of the seventeen types. Notable Trainers that specialize in Poison-type Pokémon include Koga and Janine of Fuchsia City, who are both related, and Roxie from Virbank City. Some villainous teams, such as Team Rocket, also frequently use Poison-type Pokémon. Prior to Generation IV, where moves are designated physical or special based on the move itself rather than its type, all Poison-type moves were physical.

Statistical averages

Overall

Fully evolved

Battle properties

Generation I

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×	None		0×	None

Generation II-onward

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×			0×	None

Characteristics

Defense

When used defensively, the Poison type is considered one of the best in the game. This is because of its ability to block or cause status ailments and resist common moves. Its obvious weakness, Earthquake, can be mitigated by the variety of dual-type Grass and Bug/Poison Pokémon, as well as the Zubat family's Flying type and the Gastly and Koffing families' Levitate. Additionally, the Poison type resists itself, Bug, Fighting, and Grass, giving it resistances to common moves such as Grass Knot, X-Scissor, and Close Combat. Moreover, Poison-types tend to hold potent status and support moves, such as Toxic Spikes, and Toxic. Immune to Poison and Toxic Spikes themselves, they have an opportunity to absorb status effects as well. Koga's words of "confusion, sleep, poison" describe the Poison type very well.

Offense

Offensively, Poison-type moves are only suggested for inflicting the Poison condition, STAB or using support moves. Its only strength, which is against the Grass-type is largely mitigated by the variety of Grass/Poison Pokémon as well as Torterra's Ground, Lileep and Cradily's Rock, and especially Ferroseed and Ferrothorn's Steel. Ice, Fire, Flying, and even Bug (to some extent) are much more useful in countering the Grass-type. Also, Poison moves are not very effective on Poison, Rock, Ghost, or Ground, and are completely ineffective against Steel. Hence, resistances to the Poison type are far more common than weaknesses to it. Poison-type moves are better when used to wear down the opponent in long battles rather than to knock out the opponent in a few moves.

Contest Properties

When used in Contests, Poison-type moves typically become Smart moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types, excluding Cute.

Pokémon

As of Generation V, there are 57 Poison-type Pokémon or 8.78% of all Pokémon, making it the eighth most common type.

Pure Poison-type Pokémon

# Name 023 Ekans 024 Arbok 029 Nidoran♀ 030 Nidorina 032 Nidoran♂ 033 Nidorino 088 Grimer 089 Muk 109 Koffing 110 Weezing 316 Gulpin 317 Swalot 336 Seviper 568 Trubbish 569 Garbodor

Half Poison-type Pokémon

Primary Poison-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground 034 Nidoking Poison Ground 041 Zubat Poison Flying 042 Golbat Poison Flying 169 Crobat Poison Flying 434 Stunky Poison Dark 435 Skuntank Poison Dark 451 Skorupi Poison Bug 452 Drapion Poison Dark 453 Croagunk Poison Fighting 454 Toxicroak Poison Fighting

Secondary Poison-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 003 Venusaur Grass Poison 013 Weedle Bug Poison 014 Kakuna Bug Poison 015 Beedrill Bug Poison 043 Oddish Grass Poison 044 Gloom Grass Poison 045 Vileplume Grass Poison 048 Venonat Bug Poison 049 Venomoth Bug Poison 069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 071 Victreebel Grass Poison 072 Tentacool Water Poison 073 Tentacruel Water Poison 092 Gastly Ghost Poison 093 Haunter Ghost Poison 094 Gengar Ghost Poison 167 Spinarak Bug Poison 168 Ariados Bug Poison 211 Qwilfish Water Poison 269 Dustox Bug Poison 315 Roselia Grass Poison 406 Budew Grass Poison 407 Roserade Grass Poison 543 Venipede Bug Poison 544 Whirlipede Bug Poison 545 Scolipede Bug Poison 590 Foongus Grass Poison 591 Amoonguss Grass Poison

Moves

Trivia

• With the exception of Arceus holding a Toxic Plate, there is no Poison-type legendary Pokémon. This makes it the only type without any persistent legendary Pokémon.
• Poison is the most common type in Generation I; even as of Generation V, over half of the Poison-type Pokémon currently known were introduced in the first generation.
  • Nearly 1/4 of the Generation I Pokémon are Poison type.
• Only a small handful of Poison-type moves do not have a chance to poison their target (under normal battle conditions).
• In Generation I, the Poison type is super effective against Bug-type Pokémon, while the Bug is super effective against Poison-type Pokémon. This trait has never been shared with any other type match-up, and is likewise no longer true.
• The 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.
• A Pokémon of every type except Poison was added to the Sinnoh Pokédex in Pokémon Platinum.
• Only odd numbered generations have introduced pure Poison-type Pokémon.
  • Also, every such generation has a two stage family of blob-shaped pure Poison types: Grimer and Muk in Generation I, Gulpin and Swalot in Generation III, and Trubbish and Garbodor in Generation V.
• Generation I introduced the most Poison-type Pokémon of any Generation with 33, and Generation II introduced the fewest Poison-type Pokémon, with four.
• The Poison type is one of three types that will never (with the current type chart) be doubly super effective against any Pokémon, as it is only super effective against one type. The other two are the Normal-type and Dragon-type.
  • However, in Generation I, due to Bug being weak to Poison, it was doubly super effective against Grass/Bug-type Pokémon (Paras and Parasect), and would have been doubly super effective against Wormadam with the Plant Cloak, Sewaddle, Swadloon, and Leavanny, had the type match-ups not been changed.
• Generation I introduced the most Poison-type moves of any generation with eight, and Generation II introduced the fewest Poison-type moves, with only one.

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