Poison Tail (move)

Poison Tail ポイズンテール Poison Tail

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Battles Type  Poison Category  Physical PP  25 (max. 40) Power  50 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

Availability Introduced  Generation III Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0   Worsens the condition of those that made appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Judge's Voltage goes up.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Poison Tail (Japanese: ポイズンテール Poison Tail) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III. It is the signature move of Seviper.

Effect

Poison Tail deals damage and has an increased critical hit ratio. It has a 10% chance of poisoning the target.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0336 Seviper Poison 16 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0336 Seviper Poison 16 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" | 0023 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Seviper

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB
from this move. |} |}

In the anime

File:SeviperPoisonTail.png Seviper
An attack with a high critical-hit ratio.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	The dagger part of Seviper's tail glows purple and Seviper hits the opponent with it.
Jessie's Seviper	A Tail with a Twist		Debut
Lucy's Seviper	Queen of the Serpentine!		None

Trivia

• Of the four Pokémon who can learn this, three are snakes. The only other Pokémon to learn it is Smeargle, by using Sketch.

In other languages

• Chinese: 毒尾 Poison Tail
• Dutch: Gifstaart
• Finnish: Myrkkyhäntä
• French: Queue-Poison
• Hindi: Zehreeli Poonch
• Italian: Velenocoda
• Portuguese (European): Cauda Venenosa
• Spanish (Latin American dub): Cola Venenosa
• Spanish: Cola Veneno

Variations of the move Karate Chop
Karate Chop • Poison Tail

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