Gastro Acid (move)

Gastro Acid いえき Gastric Juice

Battles Type  Poison Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

Availability Introduced  Generation IV Move Tutor in Pokémon Platinum Move Tutor in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going up in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Gastro Acid (Japanese: いえき Gastric Juice) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Gastro Acid cancels the target's in-battle ability. Therefore, the target's ability will be ignored until it is switched out, even if it Transforms. It does not affect abilities that only have an effect outside of battle, such as Pickup. Furthermore, Gastro Acid does not negate abilities that have an immediate effect at the start of the battle, such as Drizzle, because the ability will activate before Gastro Acid can even be used. Gastro Acid cannot be used to deactivate the ability of a Plate-holding Arceus.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0023 Ekans Poison 33 0024 Arbok Poison 42 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 35 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 35 0213 Shuckle Bug Rock 40 0213 Shuckle Bug Rock 35 0316 Gulpin Poison 44 0317 Swalot Poison 52 0345 Lileep Rock Grass 36 0346 Cradily Rock Grass 46 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 move tutor

In Pokémon Platinum, HeartGold and SoulSilver

#   Pokémon Type 0023 Ekans Poison 0024 Arbok Poison 0043 Oddish Grass Poison 0044 Gloom Grass Poison 0045 Vileplume Grass Poison 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 0071 Victreebel Grass Poison 0151 Mew Psychic 0182 Bellossom Grass 0213 Shuckle Bug Rock 0316 Gulpin Poison 0317 Swalot Poison 0345 Lileep Rock Grass 0346 Cradily Rock Grass 0455 Carnivine Grass 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0023 Ekans Poison 36 0024 Arbok Poison 44 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison 35 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison 35 0213 Shuckle Bug Rock 31 0316 Gulpin Poison 49 0317 Swalot Poison 59 0345 Lileep Rock Grass 36 0346 Cradily Rock Grass 46 0495 Snivy Grass 40 0496 Servine Grass 48 0497 Serperior Grass 56 0595 Bachuru Bachuru Bug Electric 23 0596 Galvantula Bug Electric 23 0603 Shibibiiru Shibibiiru Electric 64 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

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0590 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Tamagetake | style="background: #FFF" | Tamagetake
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel
Snivy, Servine, Serperior

|- | colspan="6" | 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 manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Weepinbell Gastro Acid Adventures.png Weepinbell
The user hurls gastric acid at the foe and prevents them from using its ability.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Weepinbell shoots gastric acid from its mouth and prevents the opponents ability from activating.
Sebastian's Weepinbell	VS. Weepinbell		Debut

Trivia

• Despite being introduced in Generation IV, no Pokémon introduced in that generation can learn this move until Platinum. Even via the Platinum move tutor, only one Generation IV Pokémon can learn this move, Carnivine.

In other languages

• French: Suc Digestif
• German: Magensäfte
• Greek: Γαστρικό Οξύ
• Italian: Gastroacido
• Korean: 위액 Wiaek
• Spanish: Bilis

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.