Toxic (move)

Toxic どくどく Excessive Poison

A move that leaves the target badly poisoned. Its poison damage worsens every turn.

Battles Type  Poison Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  85% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect 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 TM06 in Generation I TM06 in Generation II TM06 in Generation III TM06 in Generation IV

Contests Category  Smart Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0 Worsens the condition of those that made appeals.

Super Contests Category  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Toxic on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Toxic on Eevee's Movedex

Toxic (Japanese: どくどく Excessive Poison) is a mostly accurate Poison-type move introduced in Generation I that badly poisons the target.

Effect

Toxic badly poisons the target. Each time the target takes recurrent damage, the damage will equal

N * max(1, int(0.0625*MaxHP))

N starts as 1 and increases by 1 each time the afflicted Pokémon endures recurrent damage (including by Leech Seed). The target will lose 1/16 of its maximum HP during the first turn of being poisoned. During the second turn of being badly poisoned, the target will lose 2/16 (1/8) of its maximum HP. The target will then lose 3/16 of its maximum HP, in it's third turn of being badly poisoned. The target will continue to lose an extra 1/16 of its maximum HP at the end of each consecutive turn. Toxic can cause the target to faint in six turns, using up 1PP.

The N value of Toxic resets via Haze, switching or ending the battle, but not by Rest. If a Pokémon uses Rest and becomes either normally poisoned, burned, or Leech Seeded without switching out, the N value will influence the amount of damage done. The damage will increase each time recurrent damage is done. However, if the target becomes badly poisoned again, the cumulative value will be reset. Unlike other types of damage, the recurrent damage done by Toxic can exceed the target's current HP.

Toxic can't affect a target that has a Substitute, already has a major status ailment, or is of the Poison- or Steel-type.

In Stadium, the N value of Toxic will be reset by Rest.

In the anime

Pokémon

Arbok. Arbok opens its mouth and releases a black smog.

• Used by Jessie's Arbok from Make Room for Gloom to ???. Debut.

Learnset

Generation I

By TM06

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation I can learn Toxic.

Generation II

By TM06

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation II can learn Toxic.

Generation III

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
269		Dustox	Bug	Poison	38
315		Roselia	Grass	Poison	45
316		Gulpin	Poison		28
317		Swalot	Poison		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 TM06

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation III can learn Toxic.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
269		Dustox	Bug	Poison	38
315		Roselia	Grass	Poison	37
316		Gulpin	Poison		28
317		Swalot	Poison		30
416		Vespiquen	Bug	Flying	27
434		Stunky	Poison	Dark	20DP
434		Stunky	Poison	Dark	27Pt
435		Skuntank	Poison	Dark	20DP
435		Skuntank	Poison	Dark	27Pt
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 TM06

All Pokémon that can learn TMs in Generation IV can learn Toxic.

Trivia

• In Pokémon Battle Revolution, Toxic is depicted as two purple orbs spinning around each other towards the target. However, when Spinda or Carnivine use Toxic, the orbs travel in an erratic fashion.

In other languages

• French: Toxik
• German: Toxin
• Italian: Tossina
• Spanish: Tóxico
• Korean: 맹독 mengdok

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