Toxic
Poison · Status · 12 Pokémon in Reg M-B| Toxic | |
|---|---|
| Type | Poison |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | 90% |
| PP | 10 |
| Priority | 0 |
| Toxic | |
|---|---|
| Type | Poison |
| Category | Status |
| Base power | — |
| Accuracy | 90% |
| PP | 10 |
| Priority | 0 |
Badly poisons the target. If a Poison-type Pokemon uses this move, the target cannot avoid the attack, even if the target is in the middle of a two-turn move.
12 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Toxic. The one that matters most is Toxapex, which is on 5.1% of teams and carrys it on 98.7% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.
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, Poison Jab, Gunk Shot.
180 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Toxic at all, against the 12 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 Incineroar, Garchomp, Whimsicott, Sneasler, Sylveon and Pelipper — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.
Across the ladder, Toxic accounts for an expected 0.05 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 75th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 95% of that comes from Toxapex alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Poison (9), Dark (3) and Fire (2).
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.
