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Notable trainers that specialize in Poison-type Pokémon include Koga, Aya and Janine of Fuchsia City. Some villainous teams, such as Team Rocket, also frequently use Poison-type Pokémon.
Statistical averages
Overall
Fully evolved
Battle properties
Generation I
Poison-type moves:
- Are super-effective against: Bug, Grass
- Are not very effective against: Ghost, Ground, Poison, Rock
- Have no effect against: None (Steel wasn't introduced until Generation II)
Poison-type Pokémon:
Generation II-onward
Poison-type moves:
Poison-type Pokémon:
Characteristics
Defensively, Poison is one of the better types to use. Its only common weakness is Earthquake, as the usage of Psychic-type moves dwindled greatly in Generation IV, and even that weakness is easily mitigated by the many Bug/Poison and Grass/Poison type-combinations in the game, as well as the part-Flying Crobat and levitating Weezing and Gengar, who are all immune to Ground moves. On the other hand, the Poison-type resists itself, Bug, Fighting, and Grass, giving it many common resistances, such as Aura Sphere, Megahorn, and Close Combat. Moreover, Poison-types tend to hold great status and support moves, such as Haze, Toxic Spikes, and most of all, Toxic. They are also immune to Poison and Toxic Spikes themselves, giving them an opportunity to absorb status effects as well. Therefore, Koga's words of "confusion, sleep, poison" describe the Poison-type very well.
Offensively, Poison isn't a good type. It is only super-effective against the Template:Type2, of which many are also Poison-type, making them neutral to Poison attacks. Ice and Fire are much more useful in countering the Grass-type. Also, all Pokémon weak to Poison by now are also weak to Flying. On the other hand, Poison moves are not very effective to Poison, Rock, Ghost, Ground, and Steel, which is impervious to it and also immune to being poisoned, making resistances to Poison far more common than weaknesses to it. Poison moves are considered best to use when finishing off opponents rather than attempting to knock them out in one hit.
Pokémon
In total, there are 50 Pokémon within the Poison-type; 22 are fully evolved.
Pure Poison-type Pokémon
Half Poison-type Pokémon
Primary Poison-type Pokémon
Secondary Poison-type Pokémon
Moves
Damage-dealing moves
Non-damaging moves
Trivia
- Acid is the only damage dealing Poison-type attack that does not have a chance to poison the opponent.
- Additionally, the three Poison-type moves that cannot poison all have Acid in their names (Acid, Acid Armor, and Gastro Acid).
- With the exception of Arceus holding a Toxic Plate, there has yet to be a Poison-type legendary Pokémon.
- Poison is the first type encountered in National Pokédex order, an honor it shares with the Template:Type2.
- Posion has the dubious honor of being one of three types that isn't doubly super effective against any Pokémon because it is only super effective against one type, the Template:Type2. It shares this trait with the Template:Type2 which is only effective against itself, and the Template:Type2, which isn't super effective against anything. It should also be noted that in Generation I, Poison was super effective against Template:Type2s, making Paras, and Parasect doubly weak to Poison.
- Poison was the most common type in Generation I.
- Almost two thirds of the Poison-type Pokémon are from Generation I.
- As of yet, no pure Poison-type Pokémon have been introduced in an even-numbered generation.
- Gulpin is the only pure Poison-type Pokémon that is not colored blue or purple.
- In Generation I Poison was super effective against the Template:Type2, while the Bug-type was super effective against Poison. This trait has never been shared with any other type match-up.
In other languages
- Dutch: Gif
- French: Poison
- German: Gift
- Italian: Veleno
- Spanish: Veneno
- Korean: 독 dok
- Hebrew: רעל ra'al
