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

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
023		Ekans	Poison		Poison	28			''''
024		Arbok	Poison		Poison	32			''''
072		Tentacool	Water	Poison	26			''''
073		Tentacruel	Water	Poison	26			''''
316		Gulpin	Poison		Poison	34			''''
317		Swalot	Poison		Poison	38			''''
434		Stunky	Poison	Dark	32			''''
435		Skuntank	Poison	Dark	32			''''
568		Trubbish	Poison		Poison	12			''''
569		Garbodor	Poison		Poison	12			''''
603		Eelektrik	Electric		Electric	49			'
617		Accelgor	Bug		Bug	-- 4			'
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By breeding

#	Pokémon		Type		Father
					II		III		IV		V		VI
088		Grimer	Poison		Poison
194		Wooper	Water	Ground
211		Qwilfish	Water	Poison
223		Remoraid	Water		Water
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

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

Language Title 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.