Poison Powder (move)

Move data

Type	Poison
Category	Status
Power	—
Accuracy	75
PP	35 (max. 56)
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 was 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 Pokemon.

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	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 Sun & Moon and may vary in other games; check the respective Pokédex pages for details.