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Poison Touch
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どくしゅ
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Underhanded
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Generation V
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May poison targets when a Pokémon makes contact.
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Poison Touch (Japanese: どくしゅ Underhanded) is an Ability introduced in Generation V. Five Pokémon can have this Ability, all but one of which are Template:Type2 Pokémon.
Effect
In battle
The contact-based attacks from a Pokémon with Poison Touch have a 30% chance of poisoning the target.
Outside of battle
Poison Touch has no effect outside of battle.
Pokémon with Poison Touch
In other languages
Trivia
- This ability appears to be the inverse of Poison Point, an ability introduced in Generation III.
- Seismitoad is the only Generation V Pokémon to have this ability.
- Also, Seismitoad is the only non-Template:Type2 Pokémon to have Poison Touch as an Ability.
- Coincidentally, Seismitoad is the only one who can have the Ability that does not have it as a Hidden Ability.