Move card

Toxic

Stats and effect
Poison Status
Power —
Accuracy 90%
PP 10
Priority 0
Effect

Badly poisons the target, inflicting more damage every turn.

Target: Selected target Introduced: Generation I (Kanto) Learned by 981 Pokémon
Move properties
  • Reflectable — Magic Coat and the Magic Bounce ability bounce it back.
Changes between games

Some moves had different values in earlier games. Below you can see what changed and from which game the value you see now applies.

Changes to move values between game releases.
Game Prop­erty Before
Black/White Accuracy 85%
  • Accuracy 90% now

Each row is one change in one game. The Property column says what changed, Before shows the value that applied before that game, and Now is the value today. In Black/White, “Accuracy” was 85%; it is now 90%.

Machines that teach this move
  • TM06 Red/Green (Japan), Blue (Japan), Red/Blue, Yellow, Gold/Silver, Crystal, Ruby/Sapphire, Colosseum, FireRed/LeafGreen, Emerald, XD: Gale of Darkness, Diamond/Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold/SoulSilver, Black/White, Black 2/White 2, X/Y, Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, Sun/Moon, Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon
  • TM27 Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee
  • TM175 Scarlet/Violet, Scarlet/Violet: The Teal Mask
  • TM07 Legends: Z-A

The same move has different numbers in different games — check the number for your version before going after the machine.

Pokémon that learn this move (981)

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The tiles cover all games at once. “From Lv.” is the level from the latest game in which that species learns this move by level-up — hover over the number to see which game. No number means it never learns the move by level-up.