Poison Powder (move)

Contents
Flavor text
Learnt by level up
Learnt by breeding

Move data

Type	Poison
Category	Status
Power	—
Accuracy	75
PP	35 (max. 56)
Makes contact?	No
Introduced	Generation 1

Effects

Poison Powder causes the target to become poisoned. Poisoned Pokémon lose ¹⁄₈ of their maximum HP each turn.

Poison or Steel type Pokémon, those with the ability Immunity or those behind a Substitute cannot be poisoned.

Changes

In Generations 1-5, this move's name is formatted as PoisonPowder.

Z-Move effects

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

Move target

Foe

User

Ally

Targets a single adjacent Pokémon.

Other languages

English	Poison Powder
Japanese	どくのこな (Doku no Kona)
German	Giftpuder
French	Poudre Toxik
Italian	Velenpolvere
Spanish	Polvo Veneno
Korean	독가루
Chinese (Simplified)	毒粉
Chinese (Traditional)	毒粉

Game descriptions

Gold/Silver Crystal	A move that may poison the foe.
Ruby/Sapphire Emerald	Scatters a toxic powder that may poison the foe.
FireRed/LeafGreen	A cloud of toxic dust is scattered. It may poison the foe.
Diamond/Pearl Platinum HeartGold/SoulSilver	A cloud of poisonous dust is scattered on the foe. It may poison the target.
Black/White Black 2/White 2	The user scatters a cloud of poisonous dust on the target. It may poison the target.
X/Y O.Ruby/A.Sapphire	The user scatters a cloud of poisonous dust on the target. This may also poison the target.
Sun/Moon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon L.G. Pikachu/L.G. Eevee	The user scatters a cloud of poisonous dust that poisons the target.
Sword/Shield B.Diamond/S.Pearl	The user scatters a cloud of poisonous dust that poisons the target.
Scarlet/Violet	The user scatters a cloud of poisonous dust that poisons the target.

Learnt by level up

These Pokémon learn Poison Powder at the level specified. The numbers given are for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet and may vary in other games; check the respective Pokédex pages for details.