Toxic (move)

Move data

Type	Poison
Category	Status
Power	—
Accuracy	90
PP	10  (max. 16)
Makes contact?	No
Introduced	Generation 1

Machine/Record

Effects

Toxic causes the target to be badly poisoned. Pokémon that are badly poisoned will lose an increasing amount of HP at the end of each turn.

The affected Pokémon will lose ¹⁄₁₆ of its maximum HP at the end of the first turn, which then increases by ¹⁄₁₆ each turn. In other words, they lose ¹⁄₁₆, ¹⁄₈, ³⁄₁₆, ¹⁄₄ and so on.

If used by a Poison-type Pokémon, Toxic will always hit, even if the target is in the invulnerable stage of Bounce, Dig, Dive, Fly, Phantom Force, Shadow Force or Sky Drop.

Toxic doesn't affect Pokémon already carrying a major status ailment, Pokémon behind a Substitute nor Poison- or Steel-type Pokémon.

Changes

• In Generations 1-4, Toxic has 85% accuracy.
• In Generation 1, Toxic also increases the damage taken by Leech Seed.
  

Z-Move effects

When a Pokémon is holding Poisonium Z and uses its Z-Power, Toxic turns into Z-Toxic and raises Defense one stage, in addition to its usual effect as above.

Move target

Targets a single adjacent Pokémon.

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