Smog (move)

Smog (Japanese: スモッグ Smog) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generations I-II

Smog inflicts damage and has a 39.8% chance of poisoning the target. It has a base power of 20 and a 70% accuracy rate.

Smog can't poison a target that has a Substitute, already has a major status ailment, or is a Template:Type2.

Generation III and on

Same as before, but with a 40% chance of poisoning the target.

In the anime

Pokémon

Koffing. A thick fog pours out of the holes covering Koffing's body.

• Used by James's Koffing from Pokemon Emergency to ???. Debut.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0109 Koffing Poison -- 0110 Weezing Poison -- 0126 Magmar Fire 52 0136 Flareon Fire 42 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 II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0109 Koffing Poison 9 0110 Weezing Poison -- 9 0126 Magmar Fire -- 13 0136 Flareon Fire 42 0218 Slugma Fire -- 0219 Magcargo Fire Rock -- 0228 Houndour Dark Fire 13 0229 Houndoom Dark Fire 13 0240 Magby Fire 13 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0109 Koffing Poison 9 0110 Weezing Poison -- 9 0126 Magmar Fire -- 13 0136 Flareon Fire 42 0218 Slugma Fire -- 0219 Magcargo Fire Rock -- 0228 Houndour Dark Fire 13 0229 Houndoom Dark Fire 13 0240 Magby Fire 13 0324 Torkoal Fire 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" | 0316 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Gulpin
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Koffing, Weezing
Slugma, Magcargo

|- | 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. |} |}

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0109 Koffing Poison 6 0110 Weezing Poison -- 6 0126 Magmar Fire -- 0136 Flareon Fire 57 0218 Slugma Fire -- 0219 Magcargo Fire Rock -- 0228 Houndour Dark Fire 9 0229 Houndoom Dark Fire -- 9 0240 Magby Fire -- 0324 Torkoal Fire 4 0467 Magmortar Fire -- 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" | 0316 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Gulpin
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Koffing, Weezing
Slugma, Magcargo |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0434 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Stunky
| colspan="1" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison || style="background:#624D4E" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Dark | style="background: #FFF" | Flareon
Houndour, Houndoom
Torkoal

|- | 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

• Despite it being a Template:Type2 move, Koffing and Weezing are the only Poison-type Pokémon that can learn Smog naturally, with Gulpin and Stunky learning it through breeding.
  • In fact, the other Pokémon that can learn it naturally are either pure or part Template:Type2.

In other languages

• French: Puredpois
• German: Smog
• Italian: Smog
• Spanish: Polucion

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