Also there is a poison trick. On gameboy only you can pre poison your pokémon before the battle so they wont have any worse statis change. This poison wont affect you much if you get it from a L12 oddish poison powder. Fight an oddish and let it keep attacking until it poisons you. After that use a max potion and an either. This is seriouly cheating!

I gets rid of all secondary status changes.

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"Probability can be a real b!tch."
-Mr. K

Take a browse thru the Attacks section to see what I mean. Toxic has some interesting stuff, and there's a ridiculously detailed account of Rage, among other things...

Once you pokemon are poisoned you fight someone else by link. Having you pokemon poisoned by poison powder is better than having any other statis change.

does that clear it up?

The only reason we're mentioning it on the Poison page is to show just how useless of a status modifier it is...just another of the many ways poor Koffing got the bone.

Is there any word on poison being improved in G/S? Maybe they made it super effective against more types? Personally, I think Poison should be super effective against nothing, but weak against nothing at the same time.

Who made up the type advantages anyway? I mean, I can understand water putting out fire, ground absorbing electricity and ice killing grass, but how do you explain psychics advantage over poison? Makes no sense!

Anyways, here's my two cents. Doing that poison cheat is very unethical. Using it indicates that you don't have enough confidence in your skills as a trainer and in the strength of your pokemon in battle.

I do have a problem with the poison modifier. I don't feel that it's fair that the idea is "thank you for poisoning me". I also don't know why they didn't let multiple stat effects accumulate: they have one byte allocated to it, three bits of which are sleep bits, the rest of the bits are either unused or mean a specific thing. There is no reason, short of display on the GB screen, why you can't poison and sleep someone at the same time, except that they didn't code it like that. That would be a good combo, but we'll never see it.

In all fairness, poison should have some other negative effect. I've always thought making all attacks miss an extra 10-15% of the time would be nice on a poisoned monster (kinda woozy because they are unwell inside).

This wouldn't be as nice as paralyzation (where you can lock up any move, even non-attacks), but you would still be getting the lost rounds.

-cfalcon

Sandlash gets poisoned.

Sandslash's bowels attempt to reject poison by swelling up.

Sandlsah becomes bloated and irritable (attack + 1/2)

Sandslash explodes in a fountain of toxic gore

So no change to poison on G/S I assume? I don't get why they'd make poison so weak in the first place, I mean a third of the pokemon from the original 151 are part poison. Their one advantage? They can't be poisoned. Well whoopadeedoo!

I wonder when we'll get to meet the God of poison. A Poison/Psychic type. Bwahahaha that would rock. Of course it'd be quad weak to bug, but...ok forget it

Being poisoned should lower all stats but to a small degree only. I mean, if I was poisoned, I'd be a lot slower, a lot weaker, unable to defend myself and unable to effectively use special attacks. I should start a petition to send to Nintendo, demanding an upgrade to poison type and poison status.

And ban all other pokemon except poison types from learning toxic.

In g/s, it just gets worse I think both Evil and steel are resistant to poison. Poison is the only type to actually suck worse than bug types, but atleast Nintendo improved bugs....

Whoomp

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--Rhyann

Combating existentialism in a city near you.

Wanna know another crappy thing about poison? The two types that it's super effective against (i.e. Grass and Bug) are also super effective against poison. So someone like Victreebel for example, would have immunity to poison attacks because of its poison type AND it would be super effective if they used a grass atatck. It just keeps getting worse and worse for Weezing.

They also have advantages ghosts don't.

I just wish they had a one-round lead when using Toxic, I guess...

-cfalcon

*slaps forehead* A poison activist not knowing poison's resistant types. Geez...

Red/Blue/Yellow -
Strong against: Grass, Bug
Weak against: Poison, Ground, Rock, Ghost
Resistant to: Grass, Fighting, Poison
Weak to: Ground, Psychic, Bug

Gold/Silver -
Strong against: Grass
Weak against: Poison, Ground, Rock, Ghost
Useless against: Steel
Resistant to: Grass, Fighting, Poison, Bug
Weak to: Ground, Psychic

A move with 120 Base Power AND 86.4% Accurracy is good enough for you?

And there is a good Poison move now.

It`s a TM [36 I think[ and it`s called Hydro Bomb with:

90 Base Powder
100% Accurracy
30% chance of poison [it has 30% chance of doing something, I am saying poison because it`s MY guess].

Caos2

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And there is a good Poison move now.

It`s a TM [36 I think[ and it`s called Hydro Bomb with:

90 Base Powder
100% Accurracy
30% chance of poison [it has 30% chance of doing something, I am saying poison because it`s MY guess].

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Sweet...can weezing learn it? Kinda like a poison version of ice beam eh? They should have a poison version of Blizzard that has a 10% chance of Toxicing. That would kick ass.

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~Slick has spoken~

This post was made solely by the will of the giant grinning demon scarecrows
sent to torture and manipulate me. And those damn kittens....