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Poison Sting どくばり
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%
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
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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 on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Poison Sting on Eevee's Movedex

Poison Sting is a Poison-type move introduced in Generation I that deals very little damage.

Contents 1 Effect 1.1 Generation I 2 In the anime 2.1 Pokémon 3 Learnset 3.1 Generation I 3.1.1 By leveling up 3.2 Generation II 3.2.1 By leveling up 3.3 Generation III 3.3.1 By leveling up 3.4 Generation IV 3.4.1 By leveling up 4 In other languages

Effect

Generation I

Poison Sting does damage and has a 19.9% chance of poisoning the opponent.

Poison Sting can't poison an opponent that has a Substitute, already has a major status ailment, or is a poison type.

In the anime

Jessie's Arbok using Poison Sting.

Pokémon

Ekans and Arbok. It opens its mouth a purple darts shot out at the opponent.

• Used by Jessie's Ekans and Arbok from EP002 to AG005.

Croagunk. Same as above.

• Used by Brock's Croagunk from Gymbliar to ???.

Drapion. Same as above.

• Used by the J's Drapion in Mutiny in the Bounty!.

Weedle and Beedrill. It stabs the foe with it's body stinger.

• Used by a wild Weedle in Challenge of the Samurai
• Used by wild Beedrills in Challenge of the Samurai

Learnset

Generation I

Generation II

Generation III

Generation IV

In other languages

Spanish: Picotazo Ven., French: Dard Venin, German: Giftstachel.

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