Liquid Ooze (Ability)

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Liquid Ooze ヘドロえき
Oozing Liquid
Flavor text
Generation III
Draining causes injury.
Generation IV
Inflicts damage on foes using any draining move.
Generation V
Damages attackers using any draining move.
Generation VI
Damages attackers using any draining move.
Generation VII
Oozed liquid has strong stench, which damages attackers using any draining move.
Generation VIII
Currently unknown
Generation IX
Currently unknown

Liquid Ooze (Japanese: ヘドロえき Oozing Liquid) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. All Pokémon that have this Ability are Poison types.

Effect

In battle

Liquid Ooze causes HP-draining moves used on the Pokémon with this Ability to damage their user instead of healing them.

If a Pokémon with Liquid Ooze is hit by a draining move such as Giga Drain or Leech Life (including the status move Strength Sap), or takes damage from the effect of Leech Seed, the amount of HP that would be recovered by the opponent is dealt as damage instead (after applying the effect of Big Root). The damage dealt by the move is not affected.

Even if the user of the HP-draining move cannot heal from its effect due to having full HP or the effect of Heal Block, it will still take damage.

Draining moves

The Ability affects the following moves:

Move Type Cat. Gen
Absorb  Grass  Special III+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}
Drain Punch  Fighting  Physical IV+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}
Draining Kiss  Fairy  Special VI+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}
Dream Eater  Psychic  Special V+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}
Giga Drain  Grass  Special III+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}
Horn Leech  Grass  Physical V+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}
Leech Life  Bug  Physical III+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}
Leech Seed  Grass  Status III+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}
Mega Drain  Grass  Special III+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}
Oblivion Wing  Flying  Special VI+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}
Parabolic Charge  Electric  Special VI+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}
Strength Sap  Grass  Status VII+ {{{4}}} {{{5}}} {{{6}}}

Outside of battle

Liquid Ooze has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Liquid Ooze

# Pokémon Types First Ability Second Ability Hidden Ability
0072 Tentacool Tentacool
Water Poison Clear Body Liquid Ooze Rain Dish
0073 Tentacruel Tentacruel
Water Poison Clear Body Liquid Ooze Rain Dish
0316 Gulpin Gulpin
Poison Poison Liquid Ooze Sticky Hold Gluttony
0317 Swalot Swalot
Poison Poison Liquid Ooze Sticky Hold Gluttony
Please note that Abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later.
  • For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

In other games

Description

Games Description
MDRB Inflicts damage on the foe if hit by a move that drains HP.
MDTDS Inflicts damage on a foe that tries to drain the Pokémon's HP with an attack.
BSL HPを すいとるわざを うけたときに ぎゃくに ダメージを あたえる
MDGtI Unavailable
SMD When the Pokémon is attacked by an HP-absorbing move, the enemy takes damage without the Pokémon's HP being absorbed!


In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 污泥漿 Wūnàihjēung *
黏液 Nìhmyihk *
Mandarin 污泥漿 / 污泥浆 Wūníjiāng *
黏液 Nián​yè​ *
France Flag.png French Suintement
Germany Flag.png German Kloakensoße
Italy Flag.png Italian Melma
South Korea Flag.png Korean 해감액 Haegam Aek
Portugal Flag.png Portuguese Lodo Líquido
Spain Flag.png Spanish Lodo Líquido


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