Poison Tail (move)

Poison Tail ポイズンテール Poison Tail

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Battles Type  Poison Category  Physical PP  25 (max. 40) Power  50 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

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

Availability Introduced  Generation III 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  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Judge's Voltage goes up.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Poison Tail (Japanese: ポイズンテール Poison Tail) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III. It is the signature move of Seviper.

Effect

Poison Tail deals damage and has an increased critical hit ratio. It has a 10% chance of poisoning the target.

In the anime

• Poison Tail Anime.jpg

  Seviper using Poison Tail

The Pokémon's tail glows light purple and uses it to slash at the foe.

Pokémon

Seviper. The body part that uses the move is from the end of the purple ring in its tail to the tip of it. Seviper uses its long body to amplify the force of the move and the damage.

• Used by Jessie's Seviper from A Tail with a Twist, and has since become its signature move, to present. Debut.
• Used by Lucy's Seviper in Queen of the Serpentine!.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0336 Seviper Poison 16 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 0336 Seviper Poison 16 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" | 0023 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Seviper

|- | colspan="6" | 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 other languages

• Spanish: Cola Veneno
• Latin American Spanish dub: Cola Venenosa
• Italian: Velenocoda
• Dutch: Gifstaart
• European Portuguese: Cauda Venenosa