It is pertinent to mention that battling against Poison Pokemon can be challenging as their signature status condition and increasing toxicity will get out of hand if you are not prepared for it. Moreover, GameFreak has not been kind to poison types because, in general, all their stats are below average.

However, that does not mean you can take poison-type Pokemon for granted! Numerous poison-type Pokemon are notable exceptions to the rule. So, read the blog carefully to learn about the Poison-type Pokemon and the best attacks and Pokemon to use against them in the battle.

Poison Type Pokemon Details

Below are the details about Poison type Pokemon:

Poison type Pokemon are weak to

Make sure to use the attacks of the below Pokemon types to deal double damage against poison types.

Steel type is Immune to Poison Type Attacks

Make sure ot use a steel-type Pokemon in order to take no damage from an opponent’s poison-type attacks.

These Types Resist Poison Type Attacks:

Make sure to use Pokemon of the below types to take half damage from an opponent’s poison-type attacks.

Great Pokemon to Use Against Poison Types

Below are the Pokemon to use against Poison Type Pokemon:

• Claydol (ground/psychic)
• Metagross (psychic/steel)
• Steelix (ground/steel)
• Bronzong (psychic/steel)
• Nidoking and Nidoqueen (ground/poison)
• Solgaleo (psychic/steel)

Good Attacks to Use Against Poison Type Pokemon

Below are the attacks to use against Poison Type Pokemon:

• Earthquake (ground)
• Earth power (ground)
• High horsepower (ground)
• Psychic (psychic)
• Psybeam (psychic)
• Zen headbutt (psychic)

All Poison-type Pokémon Weaknesses Explained

It is worth mentioning that the weakness of Poison-type Pokémon is Ground and Psychic types Pokemons, suffering double damage to moves of each type. However, poison types also claim resistance to Fighting, Poison, Bug, Grass, and Fairy types.

Poison weakness: Ground

Just like Electric-type Pokémon, the only weakness of poison types is the moves of Ground-type Pokemon. The counter is not quite as strong as the Electric-Ground matchup, in which Ground-types are completely immune to Electric-type moves, but it is still a type Poison-types should be wary of.

Ground Moves to counter Poison-type Pokémon

• Earthquake
• Earth Power
• High Horsepower

Poison weakness: Psychic

Psychic is a powerful type to have a weakness since there is a huge amount of Psychic-type Pokémon, and many adjacent types, such as Ghost and Fairy can learn Psychic-type moves.

Additionally, while Poison-types are typically strong against Fairy-types, they must be careful to watch out for powerful moves such as Psychic, Extrasensory, and Psyshock from Fairies. Psychic types are another source of issue as they have more access to these moves than most other types.

Psychic Moves to counter Poison-type Pokémon

• Psychic
• Psybeam
• Zen Headbutt

Conclusion

Poison-type Pokemon have their own strengths so as weaknesses. So, make sure to go for its weaknesses and use them against them in the battle to win. Hopefully, the blog has provided you with the solution you wanted.

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