Poison Gas (move)

Poison Gas どくガス Poison Gas

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Battles Type  Poison Category  Status PP  40 (max. 64) Power  — Accuracy  85% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Other Side: Affects the opponent's side of the field

Availability Introduced  Generation I 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  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

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 Gas (Japanese: どくガス Poison Gas) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I to IV

Poison Gas poisons the target and has an accuracy of 55. Poison Gas cannot poison the target if it has a Substitute, already has a major status ailment, or is a Poison- or Template:Type2. Poison Gas targets one opponent in Double Battles.

Generation V

Poison gas' Accuracy is increased to 85 and now targets all opponents in Double Battles and all adjacent opponents in Triple Battles.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0088 Grimer Poison 30 0089 Muk Poison -- 30 0096 Drowzee Psychic 29 0097 Hypno Psychic 33 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 -- 0089 Muk Poison -- 0096 Drowzee Psychic 31 0097 Hypno Psychic 33 0109 Koffing Poison -- 0110 Weezing 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 0088 Grimer Poison -- 0089 Muk Poison -- 0096 Drowzee Psychic 31 0096 Drowzee Psychic 21 0097 Hypno Psychic 39 0097 Hypno Psychic 21 0109 Koffing Poison -- 0110 Weezing Poison -- 0316 Gulpin Poison 9 0317 Swalot Poison -- 9 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 -- 0089 Muk Poison -- 0096 Drowzee Psychic 18 0097 Hypno Psychic 18 0109 Koffing Poison -- 0110 Weezing Poison -- 0316 Gulpin Poison 9 0317 Swalot Poison -- 9 0434 Stunky Poison Dark 4 0435 Skuntank Poison Dark -- 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.

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0088 Grimer Poison -- 0089 Muk Poison -- 0096 Drowzee Psychic 17 0097 Hypno Psychic 17 0109 Koffing Poison -- 0110 Weezing Poison -- 0316 Gulpin Poison 9 0317 Swalot Poison -- 9 0434 Stunky Poison Dark 4 0435 Skuntank Poison Dark -- 4 0568 Yabukuron Yabukuron Poison -- 0569 Dasutodasu Dasutodasu 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.

In the anime

Grimer
A cloud of poison gas is sprayed in the foe's face.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Koffing releases dark green toxic gases from the holes on its body at the opponent.
James's Koffing	The Ghost of Maiden's Peak		Debut Koffing could not legally learn Poison Gas at the time
	Weezing releases a thick brown toxic gas from its larger mouth at the opponent.
James's Weezing	The Song of Jigglypuff		Weezing could not legally learn Poison Gas at the time
	Grimer opens its mouth and releases a thick dark green gas from its mouth at the opponent.
A Grimer Dawn used briefly	Camping it Up!		None
	Yabukuron opens its mouth and releases a smaal smog of dark green gas from its mouth that lingers around the surroundings.
A wild Yabukuron	BW012		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Adventures Muk Poison Gas Weezing Smog.png Muk
The user releases a cloud of poisonous gas at the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Muk releases a thick poisonous gas from its mouth at the opponent.
Koga's Muk	Weezing Winks Out		Debut

In other languages

• Dutch: Gifgas
• Finnish: Myrkkykaasu
• French: Gaz Toxik
• German: Giftwolke
• Greek: Δηλητηριώδες Αέριο
• Hindi: Zehereeli Gas
• Italian: Velenogas
• Korean: 독가스 Dok Gas
• Spanish: Gas Venenoso

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