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Power

Poison Sting

Poisonphysical

Has a chance to poison the target.

Pokémon that learn it
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Power15
Accuracy100%
PP35
Priority0
Effect chance30%

In-battle effect

Inflicts regular damage. Has a chance to poison the target.

Changes across generations

Poison Sting had different stats in earlier games. A dash means that value was unchanged from what it is today, and an arrow marks what happened when that era ended — ▲ raised or ▼ lowered.

GamesTypePowerAccuracyPP
Before Gen 2 (G/S)—15100%35
CurrentPoison15100%35

Pokémon that learn Poison Sting

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Grouped by National Pokédex number. Learn methods and availability vary by game; open a Pokémon to check its game-specific learnset.

Weedle#0013Beedrill#0015Ekans#0023Arbok#0024Sandshrew#0027Sandslash#0028Nidoran♀#0029Nidorina#0030
No. 001–151 (14)
No. 152–251 (4)
No. 252–386 (8)
No. 387–493 (8)
No. 494–649 (7)
No. 722–809 (2)
No. 810–905 (1)
No. 906 onward (1)

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“Poison Sting”. Pokémonism. Retrieved [date] from pokemonism.com/moves/poison-sting.

Move data from PokéAPI.