Sludge (move)

Sludge ヘドロこうげき Sludge Stream

Battles Type  Poison Category  Special PP  20 (max. 32) Power  65 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  Tough Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  4 ♥♥♥♥ Badly startles the Pokémon in front.

Super Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs last in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Tough 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

Sludge (Japanese: ヘドロこうげき Sludge Stream) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Sludge does damage and has a 29.7% chance of poisoning the target. Sludge cannot poison a target that has a Substitute or already has a major status ailment.

Generation II and on

Same as Generation I, though with a 30% chance of poisoning non-Template:Type2s instead.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0088 Grimer Poison 37 0089 Muk Poison -- 37 0109 Koffing Poison 32 0110 Weezing Poison -- 32 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 0088 Grimer Poison 16 0089 Muk Poison 45 0109 Koffing Poison 21 0110 Weezing Poison 21 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 0088 Grimer Poison 13 0089 Muk Poison 13 0109 Koffing Poison 21 0110 Weezing Poison 21 0316 Gulpin Poison 14 0317 Swalot Poison -- 14 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 0088 Grimer Poison 20 0089 Muk Poison 20 0109 Koffing Poison 24 0110 Weezing Poison 24 0316 Gulpin Poison 14 0317 Swalot Poison -- 14 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^HGSS

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0001 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Mudkip, Marshtomp, Swampert |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0258 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mudkip
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Shellos, Gastrodon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0422 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Shellos
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer, Muk
Koffing, Weezing
Gulpin, Swalot |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0422 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Shellos
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer, Muk
Koffing, Weezing
Gulpin, Swalot

|- | 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:EP003 031.jpg Koffing File:Sludge Bomb Anime.jpg Gulpin
Unsanitary sludge is hurled at the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Koffing spews sludge at its opponent.
James's Koffing	Ash Catches a Pokémon		Debut
	Horsea squirts sludge from its mouth.
Misty's Horsea	Tentacool & Tentacruel		Horsea cannot legally learn Sludge.
	Weezing spews sludge at its opponent.
James's Weezing	The Flame Pokémon-athon!		None
	Gulpin opens its mouth and spits a ball of sludge at the opponent.
Multiple wild Gulpin	Gulpin it Down		None
	Muk spews peices of mud constantly at the opponent.
Three wild Muk	The Psyduck Stops Here!		None
	Grimer fires peices of dark-brown mud at the opponent.
A Grimer Dawn trained briefly	Camping it Up!		None

Trivia

• Misty's Horsea can use Sludge, although it cannot legally learn this move in any game. This is an example of anime move errors.

In other languages

• French: Détritus
• German: Schlammbad
• Italian: Fango
• Norwegian: Gjørmeangrep ("Mud Attack")
• Spanish: Residuos

Variations of the move Psybeam
Spark Psybeam • Bubble Beam • Aurora Beam • Sludge

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