The Poison-type (Japanese: どくタイプ Doku type) is one of the seventeen elemental types.
Notable trainers that specialize in Poison-type Pokémon include Koga, Aya and Janine of Fuchsia City. Some villainous teams, such as Team Rocket, also frequently use Poison-type Pokémon.
Statistical averages
| HP:
| 62
|
|
| Attack:
| 68
|
|
| Defense:
| 60
|
|
| SpAtk:
| 68
|
|
| SpDef:
| 65
|
|
| Speed:
| 62
|
|
Battle properties
Generation I
Poison-type moves:
- Are super-effective against: Bug, Grass
- Are not very effective against: Ghost, Ground, Poison, Rock
- Have no effect against: None (Steel wasn't introduced until Generation II)
Poison-type Pokémon:
Generation II-onward
Poison-type moves:
Poison-type Pokémon:
Characteristics
Defensively, the Poison-type is quite useful. The Poison-type is often combined with Grass or Bug, removing its Ground weakness, and Bug also assists it against its other weakness, Psychic. It resists itself (and cannot be poisoned as well), Bug, Grass and Fighting, making some Poison-types (such as Weezing) decent counters to physical sweepers, which are commonly Fighting-types.
Offensively, the Poison-type is considered one of the worst types. It is only super effective against one type, Grass, many of which are half Poison themselves, which nullifies their Poison weakness. Just as well, it is resisted by Ground, Rock, and Ghost and completely ineffective against Steel. The only advantage of Poison type moves is that most of them may poison the opponent, unless the foe is also Poison-type or Steel-type, in which case it will not be able to be poisoned, although it is possible to poison a Steel-type through Twineedle in Generation II.
In total, there are 50 Pokémon with the Poison-type.
Pokémon
Pure Poison-type Pokémon
Half Poison-type Pokémon
Primary Poison-type Pokémon
Secondary Poison-type Pokémon
Moves
Damage-dealing moves
Non-damaging moves
| Name
| Category
| Contest
| Power
| Accuracy
| PP
| Target
| Notes
|
| Acid Armor
| 
| 
| —
| —%
| 40
| User
| Increases the user's Defense by 2 levels.
|
| Gastro Acid
|
| 
| —
| 100%
| 10
| One foe
| Cancels the foe's ability.
|
| Poison Gas
|
| 
| —
| 55%
| 40
| One foe
| Poisons the target.
|
| PoisonPowder
|
|
| —
| 75%
| 35
| One foe
| Poisons the target.
|
| Toxic
|
|
| —
| 85%
| 10
| One foe
| Badly poisons the target. Its poison damage worsens every turn.
|
| Toxic Spikes
|
|
| —
| —%
| 20
| Both foes
| Lays poisonous spikes that poison opponents who switch into battle. Will badly poison a foe when switched in if used twice.
|
Trivia
- Acid is the only damage dealing Poison-type attack that does not have a chance to poison the opponent.
- With the exception of Arceus holding a Toxic Plate, there has yet to be a Poison-type legendary Pokémon.
- Poison is the first type encountered in National Pokédex order, an honor it shares with the Grass-type.
- Posion has the dubious honor of being one of three types that will never be doubly super effective against any Pokémon because it is only super effective against one type, the Grass-type. It shares this trait with the Dragon-type which is only effective against itself, and the Normal-type, which isn't super effective against anything. It should also be noted that in Generation I, Poison was super effective against Bug-types, making Paras, and Parasect doubly weak to Poison.
- Poison was the most common type in Generation I.
- Almost two thirds of the Poison-type Pokémon are from Generation I.
- As of yet, no pure Poison-type Pokémon have been introduced in an even numbered generation.
- Gulpin is the only pure Poison-type Pokémon that is not colored blue or purple.
In other languages
- French: Poison
- German: Gift
- Italian: Veleno
- Spanish: Veneno
- Korean: 독 dok
- Hebrew: רעל ra'al
