Poison Sting (move)

Poison Sting どくばり Poison Needle

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Battles Type  Poison Category  Physical PP  35 (max. 56) Power  15 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

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

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

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  3 ♥♥♥ Startles the Pokémon that appeals before the user.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Poison Sting (Japanese: どくばり Poison Needle) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Poison Sting inflicts damage and has a 30% chance of poisoning the target. Poison Sting cannot poison the target if it has a Substitute, already has a major status ailment, or is a Poison-type or Steel-type.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0013 Weedle Bug Poison -- 0023 Ekans Poison 10 0024 Arbok Poison -- 10 0027 Sandshrew Ground 24 0028 Sandslash Ground 27 0029 Nidoran♀ Poison 14 0029 Nidoran♀ Poison 17 0030 Nidorina Poison 14 0030 Nidorina Poison 19 0031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground 14 0031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground 19 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 14 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 17 0033 Nidorino Poison 14 0033 Nidorino Poison 17 0034 Nidoking Poison Ground -- 0072 Tentacool Water Poison 18 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison -- 18 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 0013 Weedle Bug Poison -- 0023 Ekans Poison 9 0024 Arbok Poison -- 9 0027 Sandshrew Ground 17 0028 Sandslash Ground 17 0029 Nidoran♀ Poison 17 0030 Nidorina Poison 19 0031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground -- 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 17 0033 Nidorino Poison 19 0034 Nidoking Poison Ground -- 0072 Tentacool Water Poison -- 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison -- 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison -- 0168 Ariados Bug Poison -- 0207 Gligar Ground Flying -- 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison -- 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 0013 Weedle Bug Poison -- 0023 Ekans Poison 8 0024 Arbok Poison -- 8 0027 Sandshrew Ground 17 0028 Sandslash Ground 17 0029 Nidoran♀ Poison 17 0030 Nidorina Poison 18 0031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground -- 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 17 0033 Nidorino Poison 18 0034 Nidoking Poison Ground -- 0072 Tentacool Water Poison -- 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison -- 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison -- 0168 Ariados Bug Poison -- 0207 Gligar Ground Flying -- 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison -- 0265 Wurmple Bug 5 0315 Roselia Grass Poison 9 0331 Cacnea Grass -- 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark -- 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 0013 Weedle Bug Poison -- 0023 Ekans Poison 4 0024 Arbok Poison -- 4 0027 Sandshrew Ground 9 0028 Sandslash Ground 9 0029 Nidoran♀ Poison 13 0030 Nidorina Poison 13 0031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground -- 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 13 0033 Nidorino Poison 13 0034 Nidoking Poison Ground -- 0072 Tentacool Water Poison -- 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison -- 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison -- 0168 Ariados Bug Poison -- 0207 Gligar Ground Flying -- 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison -- 0265 Wurmple Bug 5 0315 Roselia Grass Poison 7 0331 Cacnea Grass -- 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark -- 0407 Roserade Grass Poison -- 0416 Vespiquen Bug Flying 3 0451 Skorupi Poison Bug -- 0452 Drapion Poison Dark -- 0453 Croagunk Poison Fighting 8 0454 Toxicroak Poison Fighting -- 8 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0013 Weedle Bug Poison -- 0023 Ekans Poison 4 0024 Arbok Poison -- 4 0027 Sandshrew Ground 9 0028 Sandslash Ground 9 0029 Nidoran♀ Poison 13 0030 Nidorina Poison 13 0031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground -- 0032 Nidoran♂ Poison 13 0033 Nidorino Poison 13 0034 Nidoking Poison Ground -- 0072 Tentacool Water Poison -- 0073 Tentacruel Water Poison -- 0167 Spinarak Bug Poison -- 0168 Ariados Bug Poison -- 0207 Gligar Ground Flying -- 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison -- 0265 Wurmple Bug 5 0315 Roselia Grass Poison 7 0331 Cacnea Grass -- 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark -- 0407 Roserade Grass Poison -- 0416 Vespiquen Bug Flying 3 0451 Skorupi Poison Bug -- 0452 Drapion Poison Dark -- 0453 Croagunk Poison Fighting 8 0454 Toxicroak Poison Fighting -- 8 0543 Fushide Fushide Bug Poison 5 0544 Hoiiga Hoiiga Bug Poison -- 5 0545 Pendra Pendra Bug Poison -- 5 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" | 0595 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Bachuru | style="background: #FFF" | Bachuru
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#FAC000" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Weedle, Kakuna, Beedrill
Spinarak, Ariados
Gligar, Gliscor
Wurmple, Silcoon, Beautifly, Cascoon, Dustox
Skorupi, Drapion
Fushide, Hoiiga, Pendra

|- | 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. |} |}

In the anime

File:Croagunk Poison Sting.png Croagunk File:Arbok Poison Sting.png Arbok Ariados Tentacruel
The foe is stabbed with a poisonous barb of some sort.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Weedle jumps at the opponent with its stinger pointed at it and stabs it.
A wild Weedle	Challenge of the Samurai		Debut
	Beedrill stabs the opponent with its body stinger.
Multiple wild Beedrill	Challenge of the Samurai		None
Jeanette Fisher's Beedrill	The Fourth Round Rumble		None
	Arbok open its mouth and fires multiple white or purple darts at the opponent from its mouth.
Jessie's Arbok	The Flame Pokémon-athon!		None
	Tentacruel stabs the opponent with the large blue beak on its face, or Tentacruel fires multiple white or purple darts from under its beak at the opponent. Or the gem on Tentacruel's head glows purple and it fires multiple purple darts at the opponent.
Marina's Tentacruel	Bye Bye Psyduck		None
Captain Crook's Tentacruel	Viva Las Lapras		None
Kim's Tentacruel	Cerulean Blues		None
Kail's Tentacruel	Cerulean Blues		None
Kai's Tentacruel	Cerulean Blues		None
A Coordinator's Tentacruel	A Cacturne for the Worse		None
Multiple wild Tentacruel	DP190		None
	Gligar points the large stinger at the end of its tail at the opponent and it starts to glow white. Multiple white needles are then shot at the opponent from the stinger.
Gligarman's Gligar	The Superhero Secret		None
	Sandslash rolls into a ball and spins around quickly, firing white needles from out of the quills on its back at the opponent.
Koji's Sandslash	Good 'Quil Hunting		None
	Spinarak fires multiple white needles from its mouth at the opponent.
Bugsy's Spinarak	Gettin' the Bugs Out		None
	Nidorina fires multiple white darts from its mouth at the opponent.
Whitney's Nidorina	A Goldenrod Opportunity		None
	Venonat jumps into the air and spins around quickly, releasing multiple white needles from its body at the opponent.
Aya's Venonat	Ariados, Amigos		None
	Dustox opens its mouth and white or purple darts are fired from its mouht at the opponent.
Jessie's Dustox	Seeing is Believing!		None
	Cacturne fires multiple white or purple darts from the middle hole of its mouth at the opponent.
Harley's Cacturne	A Cacturne for the Worse		None
	Ariados fires multiple purple needles from its mouth at the opponent.
Multiple wild Ariados	Following a Maiden's Voyage!		None
Multiple wild Ariados	Historical Mystery Tour!		None
	Croagunk fires multiple purple darts from its mouth at the opponent.
Brock's Croagunk	Gymbaliar!		None
	Drapion opens its mouth and fires multiple purple darts at the opponent from its mouth.
J's Drapion	Mutiny in the Bounty!		None
	Nidoran♂ opens its mouth and fires multiple purple darts from its mouth at the opponent.
A wild Nidoran♂	Leading a Stray!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Adventures Arbok Poison Sting.png Arbok
The user strikes the opponent with a sharpened body part.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	The tip of Arbok's tail turns into a horn-like object and it stabs the opponent with it.
Agatha's Arbok	Weezing Winks Out		Debut
	Qwilfish sucks up water until its body grows to a massive size. It then points the spines on the top of its head at the opponent and fires multiple thin energy beams from its spines at the opponent.
Chris's Qwilfish	VS. Qwilfish		None

Trivia

• Despite being a physical move, Poison Sting is often featured as a special attack in the anime.

In other languages

• Chinese: 毒針　Dúzhēn
• Dutch: Gifangel
• French: Dard Venin
• German: Giftstachel
• Greek: Δηλητηριώδες Κεντρί
• Hindi: Zehereeli Sui
• Italian: Velenospina
• Norwegian: Giftangrep
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Picada Venenosa
• Spanish: Picotazo Ven.

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