Acid Armor (move)

Acid Armor とける Liquefy

The user alters its cellular structure to liquify itself, sharply raising its Defense stat.

Battles Type  Poison Category  Status PP  40 (max. 64) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally Affects the user

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

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  0 The user gains a star if their condition is good. Stars add one more heart to future appeals and reduce the chance of nervousness.

Super Contests Category  Tough Appeal  0 Earn double the score in the next turn.

Acid Armor on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Acid Armor on Eevee's Movedex

Acid Armor (Japanese: とける Liquefy) is a non-damaging Poison-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Acid Armor increases the user's Defense by two stages.

Acid Armor will do nothing if the user's Defense has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999. The effect of Acid Armor is ignored by critical hits.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
088		Grimer	Poison		55
089		Muk	Poison		60
134		Vaporeon	Water		42RGB
134		Vaporeon	Water		47Y
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
088		Grimer	Poison		40
089		Muk	Poison		45
134		Vaporeon	Water		47
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
218		Slugma	Fire		Grimer, Muk
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 III

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
088		Grimer	Poison		34
089		Muk	Poison		34
134		Vaporeon	Water		47
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
218		Slugma	Fire		Grimer, Muk Gulpin, Swalot
316		Gulpin	Poison		Grimer, Muk Slugma, Magcargo
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
088		Grimer	Poison		39
089		Muk	Poison		44
134		Vaporeon	Water		64
489		Phione	Water		31
490		Manaphy	Water		31
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
218		Slugma	Fire		Grimer, Muk Gulpin, Swalot
316		Gulpin	Poison		Grimer, Muk Slugma, Magcargo
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

Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Vaporeon	Vaporeon jumps into the water, glows blue, then disappears. Seconds later, it jumps out of the water.
Rainer's Vaporeon	The Battling Eevee Brothers		None

In other languages

• French: Acidarmure
• German: Säurepanzer
• Italian: Scudo Acido
• Norwegian: Syreskjold ("Acid Shield")
• Spanish: Armad. Ácida

Variations on the move Acid Armor
	Acid Armor | Agility | Amnesia | Barrier Swords Dance | Iron Defense | Tail Glow Acupressure | Nasty Plot | Rock Polish

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