Acid Armor (move)

Acid Armor とける Liquefy

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Battles Type  Poison Category  Status PP  40 (max. 64) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Self: Affects the user

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

Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  0   The user gains a star if their condition is good. Stars add one more heart to future appeals and reduce the chance of nervousness.

Super Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  0   Earn double the score in the next 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

Acid Armor (Japanese: とける Liquefy) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Acid Armor increases the user's Defense by two stages.

Acid Armor will do nothing if the user's Defense has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999. In Generation One only, the effect of Acid Armor is ignored by critical hits.

In the anime

Pokémon

Vaporeon. Vaporeon jumps into the water, glows blue, then dissapears. Seconds later, it jumps out of the water and hits the opponent.

• Used by Rainer's Vaporeon in The Battling Eevee Brothers.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0088 Grimer Poison 55 0089 Muk Poison 60 0134 Vaporeon Water 42 0134 Vaporeon Water 47 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 40 0089 Muk Poison 45 0134 Vaporeon Water 47 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" | 0218 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Slugma
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer, Muk

|- | 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0088 Grimer Poison 34 0089 Muk Poison 34 0134 Vaporeon Water 47 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" | 0218 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Slugma
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer, Muk
Gulpin, Swalot |- | 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" | Grimer, Muk
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 0088 Grimer Poison 39 0089 Muk Poison 44 0134 Vaporeon Water 64 0489 Phione Water 31 0490 Manaphy Water 31 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" | 0218 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Slugma
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer, Muk
Gulpin, Swalot |- | 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" | Grimer, Muk
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. |} |}

In other languages

• French: Acidarmure
• German: Säurepanzer
• Italian: Scudo Acido
• Norwegian: Syreskjold ("Acid Shield")
• Spanish: Armad. Ácida