Acid (move)

Acid ようかいえき Melting Liquid

The foe is attacked with a spray of harsh acid. It may also lower the target's Sp.Def stat.

Battles Type  Poison Category  Special PP  30 (max. 48) Power  40 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally Affects both foes

Availability Introduced  Generation I Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

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

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

Acid on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Acid on Eevee's Movedex

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

Effect

Generation I

Acid does damage and has a 9.8% chance of lowering the target's Defense by one stage.

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

Generation IV

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

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
023		Ekans	Poison		38
024		Arbok	Poison		47
043		Oddish	Grass	Poison	24
044		Gloom	Grass	Poison	28
069		Bellsprout	Grass	Poison	26
070		Weepinbell	Grass	Poison	29
072		Tentacool	Water	Poison	--
073		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
023		Ekans	Poison		37
024		Arbok	Poison		43
043		Oddish	Grass	Poison	23
044		Gloom	Grass	Poison	24
069		Bellsprout	Grass	Poison	23
070		Weepinbell	Grass	Poison	24
072		Tentacool	Water	Poison	19
073		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
023		Ekans	Poison		32
024		Arbok	Poison		38
043		Oddish	Grass	Poison	23
044		Gloom	Grass	Poison	24
069		Bellsprout	Grass	Poison	23
070		Weepinbell	Grass	Poison	24
072		Tentacool	Water	Poison	19
073		Tentacruel	Water	Poison	19
345		Lileep	Rock	Grass	15
346		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

#		Pokémon	Type		Father
331		Cacnea	Grass		Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel
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
023		Ekans	Poison		20
024		Arbok	Poison		20
043		Oddish	Grass	Poison	9
044		Gloom	Grass	Poison	-- 9
069		Bellsprout	Grass	Poison	23
070		Weepinbell	Grass	Poison	23
072		Tentacool	Water	Poison	12
073		Tentacruel	Water	Poison	12
345		Lileep	Rock	Grass	8
346		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

#		Pokémon	Type		Father
331		Cacnea	Grass		Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel
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

	Ekans
The user spits out acid from its mouth.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Ekans	Ekans spits out black acid from its mouth.
Jessie's Ekans	Pokémon Shipwreck		Debut

Trivia

• Acid is the only damaging Poison-type move that does not have a chance of poisoning the target.

In other languages

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

This move article is part of Project MoveDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each move.