Poison-Touch
Summary
Poison Touch is an ability in the Pokémon series that augments the possibility of conferring the Poison status condition on adversaries. Precisely, when a Pokémon equipped with Poison Touch employs a move involving physical contact, there exists a 30% probability that the target will suffer from poisoning. This ability proffers users an extra tier of offensive utility, making physical attacks increasingly threatening due to the potential for residual damage induced by poison.
Effects:
- Poison Status Infliction: When a Pokémon with Poison Touch strikes an opponent through a contact move, there's a 30% likelihood that the foe will be poisoned. Poison progressively depletes the afflicted Pokémon’s HP, continually eroding their health over consecutive turns.
- Contact Moves: Only actions requiring physical touch activate Poison Touch. Certain examples encompass standard physical maneuvers like "Tackle" and advanced techniques like "Poison Jab". Notably, the latter can intensify the chances of poisoning because the move inherently carries a possibility to inflict such status.
Effects
- This Pokémon's contact moves have a 30% chance of poisoning the target with each hit. This counts as an extra effect for the purposes of shield dust. This ability takes effect before mummy.
Flavor Texts
- black-white: May poison targets when a Pokémon makes contact.
- black-2-white-2: May poison targets when a Pokémon makes contact.
- x-y: May poison a target when the Pokémon makes contact.
- omega-ruby-alpha-sapphire: May poison a target when the Pokémon makes contact.
- sun-moon: May poison a target when the Pokémon makes contact.
- ultra-sun-ultra-moon: May poison a target when the Pokémon makes contact.
- lets-go-pikachu-lets-go-eevee: May poison a target when the Pokémon makes contact.
- sword-shield: May poison a target when the Pokémon makes contact.
- scarlet-violet: May poison a target when the Pokémon makes contact.
Pokémon with the Poison-Touch ability
Grimer
Types: Poison
Muk
Types: Poison
Croagunk
Types: Poison, Fighting
Toxicroak
Types: Poison, Fighting
Seismitoad
Types: Water, Ground
Skrelp
Types: Poison, Water
Dragalge
Types: Poison, Dragon
Sneasler
Types: Fighting, Poison
Grafaiai
Types: Poison, Normal
Grimer-Alola
Types: Poison, Dark
Muk-Alola
Types: Poison, Dark