Poison Jab

Poison Jab
Type	Poison
Category	Physical
Base power	80
Accuracy	100%
PP	20
Priority	0

Poison Jab

Type

Poison

What it does

Has a 30% chance to poison the target.

At 80 base power it is the 19th strongest of the 39 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

17 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Poison Jab. The one that matters most is Kingambit, which is on 47.2% of teams and carrys it on 0% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Poison move it is super effective against Fairy and Grass, resisted by Ghost, Ground, Poison and Rock, and does nothing at all to Steel. 3 other Poison moves appear in this format: Sludge Bomb, Toxic, Gunk Shot.

Who could and does not

49 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Poison Jab at all, against the 17 that actually bring it. The gap is the interesting number: it is the set of Pokémon that have the option and decline it. The most-played of those are Venusaur, Kommo-o, Annihilape, Ceruledge, Sableye and Swampert — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Poison Jab accounts for an expected 0.09 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 52nd most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 0% of that comes from Kingambit alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Poison (8), Fighting (7) and Dark (4).

Where these numbers come from

Usage is Smogon's published statistics for the Regulation M-B VGC ladder, and the description is the one shipped in the Pokémon Showdown data set. Both are regenerated on every build rather than written by hand, so this page follows the format instead of trailing it. Take any of it to the team builder or the damage calculator.