Acid Spray (move)

Acid Spray (Japanese: アシッドボム Acid Bomb) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation V. It is considered to be a more effective version of Acid, due to their similar effect.

Effect

Acid Spray inflicts damage and lowers the target's Special Defense by two stages.

Acid Spray will not be able to lower the target's Special Defense if it has reached a level of -6 or a value of one, or if the target is behind a Substitute.

Learnset

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0023 Ekans Poison 28 0024 Arbok Poison 32 0072 Tentacool Water Poison 26 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison 26 0316 Gulpin Poison 34 0317 Swalot Poison 38 0434 Stunky Poison Dark 32 0435 Skuntank Poison Dark 32 0568 Trubbish Poison 12 0569 Garbodor Poison 12 0603 Eelektrik Electric 49 0617 Accelgor Bug -- 4 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" | 0088 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Gulpin, Swalot
Eelektrik, Eelektross |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0194 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Wooper
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#915121" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Stunky, Skuntank |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0211 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Qwilfish
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Remoraid, Octillery |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0223 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Remoraid
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Wooper, Quagsire

|- | 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. |} |}

Trivia

• Acid Spray, along with Seed Flare, are the only damaging moves that have secondary effect by lowering certain stat by two stages.
• Acid Spray is the first move introduced in Pokémon Black and White in Alphabetical order.

In other languages

• French: Bombe Acide
• German: Säurespeier
• Italian: Acidobomba
• Spanish: Bomba Ácida

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.