Poison Sting (move)

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Poison Sting
どくばり Poison Needle
The foe is stabbed with a poisonous barb of some sort. It may also poison the target.
Battles
Type  Poison
Category  Physical
PP  35 (max. 56)
Power  15
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
May affect anyone but the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation I
Contests
Category  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Jam  3 ♥♥♥
Startles the Pokémon that appeals before the user.
Super Contests
Category  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Poison Sting (Japanese: どくばり Poison Needle) is a damage-dealing Poison-type move introduced in Generation I.

Contents

Effect

Generation I

Poison Sting inflicts damage and has a 19.9% chance of poisoning the target. Poison Sting cannot poison the target if it has a Substitute, already has a major status ailment, or is a Poison-type.

Generation II and on

Same as Generation I with a 20% chance of poisoning all Pokémon except Poison-types and Steel-types.

In the anime

Pokémon

Weedle. Weedle jumps at the foe with its stinger pointed at it.

Beedrill. Beedrill stabs at the foe with it's body stinger.

Arbok. Arbok open its mouth and multiple white or purple darts are shot at the opponent in rapid succession.

Tentacruel. Tentacruel stabs the opponent with its large blue tentacle on its face.

Croagunk. Croagunk opens its mouth and purple darts are shot at the opponent.

Drapion. Drapion opens its mouth and purple darts are shot at the opponent.

Dustox. Dustox opens its mouth and purple darts are shot at the opponent.

Nidoran♂. Nidoran opens its mouth and purple darts are shot at the opponent.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
013 Weedle Bug Poison --
023 Ekans Poison 10
024 Arbok Poison --
10
027 Sandshrew Ground 24
028 Sandslash Ground 27
029 Nidoran♀ Poison 14RGB
029 Nidoran♀ Poison 17Y
030 Nidorina Poison 14RGB
030 Nidorina Poison 19Y
031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground 14RGB
031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground 19Y
032 Nidoran♂ Poison 14RGB
032 Nidoran♂ Poison 17Y
033 Nidorino Poison 14RGB
033 Nidorino Poison 17Y
034 Nidoking Poison Ground --
072 Tentacool Water Poison 18
073 Tentacruel Water Poison --
18
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
013 Weedle Bug Poison --
023 Ekans Poison 9
024 Arbok Poison --
9
027 Sandshrew Ground 17
028 Sandslash Ground 17
029 Nidoran♀ Poison 17
030 Nidorina Poison 19
031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground --
032 Nidoran♂ Poison 17
033 Nidorino Poison 19
034 Nidoking Poison Ground --
072 Tentacool Water Poison --
073 Tentacruel Water Poison --
167 Spinarak Bug Poison --
168 Ariados Bug Poison --
207 Gligar Ground Flying --
211 Qwilfish 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
013 Weedle Bug Poison --
023 Ekans Poison 8
024 Arbok Poison --
8
027 Sandshrew Ground 17
028 Sandslash Ground 17
029 Nidoran♀ Poison 17
030 Nidorina Poison 18
031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground --
032 Nidoran♂ Poison 17
033 Nidorino Poison 18
034 Nidoking Poison Ground --
072 Tentacool Water Poison --
073 Tentacruel Water Poison --
167 Spinarak Bug Poison --
168 Ariados Bug Poison --
207 Gligar Ground Flying --
211 Qwilfish Water Poison --
265 Wurmple Bug 5
315 Roselia Grass Poison 9
331 Cacnea Grass --
332 Cacturne Grass Dark --
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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
013 Weedle Bug Poison --
023 Ekans Poison 4
024 Arbok Poison --
4
027 Sandshrew Ground 9
028 Sandslash Ground 9
029 Nidoran♀ Poison 13
030 Nidorina Poison 13
031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground --
032 Nidoran♂ Poison 13
033 Nidorino Poison 13
034 Nidoking Poison Ground --
072 Tentacool Water Poison --
073 Tentacruel Water Poison --
167 Spinarak Bug Poison --
168 Ariados Bug Poison --
207 Gligar Ground Flying --
211 Qwilfish Water Poison --
265 Wurmple Bug 5
315 Roselia Grass Poison 7
331 Cacnea Grass --
332 Cacturne Grass Dark --
407 Roserade Grass Poison --
416 Vespiquen Bug Flying 3
451 Skorupi Poison Bug --
452 Drapion Poison Dark --
453 Croagunk Poison Fighting 8
454 Toxicroak Poison Fighting --
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.

In other languages

  • Spanish: Picotazo Ven.
  • French: Dard Venin
  • German: Giftstachel ("Poison Spikes")
  • Italian: Velenospina
  • Norwegian: Giftangrep ("Poison Attack")
  • Dutch: Gifangel ("Poison Stinger")


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