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 10% 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.

Generation IV

Acid 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 a black acid from its mouth.
Jessie's Ekans	Pokémon Shipwreck		Debut
Arbok	Arbok spits a black or purple acid from its mouth.
Jessie's Arbok	Pokémon Double Trouble		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

The user spits out acid from its mouth.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Arbok	Arbok spits out a thick venom from its mouth at the opponent that melts anything it touches.
Koga's Arbok	That Awful Arbok!		Debut

Trivia

• Acid is the only damaging Poison-type move that does not have a chance of poisoning the target.
• Acid has no effect on Steel-type Pokémon, despite that real-life acids react very strongly with most metals.
• No Pokémon from Generations II and IV can learn Acid via level-up. The only Generation II Pokémon that can learn this move is Bellossom through evolution.

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.