Precarious Poison Types Trivia Quiz

Answer: Poison

Pure Poison types are the most plentiful but only by one Pokemon, Grass being the second highest. There are fifteen pure Poison types out of 57 Poison types. Despite Grass and Poison types sporting the most, many of our first experiences with Poison types were probably with the twelve Bug types that are also Poison.

In the Viridan Forest, Weedles are Bug/Poison and evolve into Kakuna and Beedrill keeping it's Bug/Poison types through all evolutions. Same goes with Spinarak and Ariados in "Pokemon Gold" and "Pokemon HeartGold" and Dustox in "Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire." As stated in the introduction Poison types are only super-effective against one type and that's Grass.

However, since Grass has so many subtypes, Poison is not always a sure shot against them unlike Flying or Fire. Poison types are only weak to Ground and Psychic, and all of their Poison type attacks are useless against Steel types since they're immune to them. Also Ground, Rock, Bug, Poison, and Ghost types are pretty resistant to their attacks. Poison types themselves are resistant to Fighting, Grass and Bug type attacks.

Answer: Nidoran

The move Attract did not exist until "Pokemon Gold/Silver" for the Game Boy Color, where Pokemon were actually given genders. Exceptions to these were "mineral" Pokemon such as Magnemite. Also other Pokemon could only be one genders such as Hitmonlee could only be male and Jynx could only be female.

In "Pokemon Diamond/Pearl" some Pokemon of different genders were given different appearances and some were very subtle. In "Pokemon Black/White" genders were taken to the extreme in Pokemon such as Unfezant and Frillish as males and females were totally different colors. Before all of this gender differentiation though there were two little Pokemon known as Nidoran. Nidoran Female is aquamarine and Nidoran Male is purple.

These would be the only two that could use this move because as soon as they evolved into Nidorina and Nidorino the gender sign attached to their name was gone. Nidorina and Nidorino, if exposed to a Moon Stone would then evolve into Nidoqueen and Nidoking, in which they would become Poison/Ground types instead of pure Poison types. Of these Pokemon, excluding Dream World abilities, they can either have the ability Poison Point or Rivalry. Poison Point has the ability to possibly Poison the opponent if they use a physical move against you. Rivalry, increases your attack power if you are fighting a Pokemon that is the same gender as you.

Answer: Basketball

When you first face the basketball player he will face you with Venipede's first evolved form, Whirlipede. Whirlipede is also Burgh's (the Castellia City Gym Leader) first Pokemon. Later, in the game if you challenge the basketball player again his Pokemon's level has gone up and uses a Scolipede which is Venipede's final evolved form. Every Pokemon in the Venipede family is Bug/Poison. Venipede can first be found in the interior of the Pinwheel Forest just between Nacrene City and the Sky Arrow Bridge.

As seasons change so do the trainers you can battle in the sports dome. As you progress through the game more trainers, including other sports players and fans will start appearing in the sports domes. The players may use different Pokemon but the fans, will always be a double battle with them using the same Pokemon as the players.

For example, when you face the fans hanging around the tennis players you will be fighting against two Zebstrikas which are also the Pokemon that the tennis players use.

Answer: Payapa Berry

Two of the listed berries would be good choices to give Poison types. These two berries are Shuca berries and Payapa berries. The main factor that gives you the answer is knowing about Weezing. Weezing has the ability Levitate, which unless No Guard, Gastro Acid etc. is applied a Shuca Berry which protects against super-effective Ground type moves is going to be pretty useless. Because Levitate protects Weezing from Ground type attacks, that leaves it's only weakness to be a Psychic type attack. Payapa berries protect the user from a super-effective Psychic type attack. Starting in "Pokemon Diamond/Pearl" for the DS, berries were introduced that can protect against every super-effective type of move.

The exception to this is the Chilan Berry. Chilan berries protect the holder from Normal type attacks. Since no type is weak against Normal, it just lessens the damage. Charti Berries protects from super-effective Rock type moves and a Kebia Berry protects a super-effective Poison type move.

Answer: it lowered encounter rate with wild Pokemon

Stench is an ability that can only be had by certain Poison-type Pokemon. These Pokemon are: Grimer, Muk, Stunky, Skuntank, Trubbish, and Garbodor. Also Gloom, can have this ability if you catch it in the Dream World or evolve it from an Oddish that has the ability Run Away.

In "Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire" the only purpose that Stench had was to lower the encounter rate of wild Pokemon much like the ability Illuminate heightens the encounter rate of wild Pokemon. There is no ability that causes wild Pokemon to flee, only certain wild Pokemon flee such as Raikou, Tornadus, and other roaming legendary Pokemon.

In "Pokemon Black/White" Stench was slightly modified. Along with keeping the same ability to lower encounter rates with wild Pokemon, if your Pokemon uses a physical move against your opponent and it connects, there is the possibility of making your opponent flinch.

Answer: Venomoth

Venomoth is the evolved from of Venonat, both which are Bug/Poison types. Venomoth appeared along side Mr. Mime, Kadabra, and Alakazam in the Saffron City Gym led by Sabrina in "Pokemon Red/Blue". In "Pokemon Yellow" her team was an Abra, a Kadabra, and an Alakazam. Venomoth is a very bizarre Pokemon as though even though it is a type that is weak against Psychic it learns a lot of Psychic moves including: Confusion, Psybeam, Zen Headbutt, and Psychic. For being a Bug/Poison type it only learns two Poison type moves Poisonpowder and Poison Fang.

It does learn quite a few Bug type moves though. So even though it is weak to Psychic type moves, it can defend itself since many Psychic types are weak to Bug type moves.

Answer: Meowth

"Pokemon Yellow" is a different version of "Pokemon Red/Blue" and is supposed to be based off the "Pokemon" TV series. You start out as a trainer but instead of getting to choose Squirtle, Bulbasaur, or Charmander as a starter you get Pikachu. You do have the opportunity to get all three starters, later in the game. Like in the TV series, Pikachu walks behind you outside of it's Pokeball.

This concept would reappear in "Pokemon SoulSilver/HeartGold". This was the first instance of the concept of Pokemon compatibility as you could talk to Pikachu and it's liking to you could be read by the expression on it's face. Also whenever Pikachu was sent into battle, it actually said it's name instead of the bits and blips that are Pokemon cries today.

The two familiar Rocket Grunts that you face are of course Jessie and James. Their first roster consists of Koffing, Ekans, and Meowth. These are the Pokemon they had in the beginning of the series before their respective Pokemon evolved into Weezing and Arbok.

In the TV series, Jessie and James seem to specialize in Poison-type Pokemon having the following Pokemon: Ekans, Koffing, Weezing, Arbok, Victreebel, Seviper, and Dustox. They also had the following non-Poison types: Cacnea, Lickitung (only for a little bit), Wobbuffet, Mime Jr., Carnivine, Yanmega, Chimecho and Woobat. Meowth considers himself to be part of Team Rocket as he's the only Meowth that can talk. He doesn't fight often, but if things come down to it he can.

Answer: Three

The only type these Pokemon could be are Poison/Dark, as Dark types can't be hit by Psychic attacks unless a move like Miracle Eye is used on them. All three of these Poison/Dark type Pokemon were introduced in Generation IV. These Pokemon are Stunky, Skuntank, and Drapion. Stunky and Skuntank could only be found in "Pokemon Diamond." Skuntank had a very bizarre quality as that as soon as it evolved from a Stunky, it had the ability to learn Flamethrower. Drapion evolves from a Pokemon that would be able to be hit by Psychic type moves. Skorupi is the pre-evolved form of Drapion and is a Bug/Poison type only being able to be found in the Great Marsh in Pastoria City.

Much like Water/Ground types, Poison/Dark types only have one weakness. Dark types are weak to Bug and Fighting type moves but their Poison type cancels that weakness.

However, unlike Water/Ground types they do not have a quadruple weakness to their one weak point. Dark/Poison types are weak to Ground type moves but they only take double damage from it, instead of quadruple damage.

Answer: Science Club

The "Pokemon Trading Card Game" followed the same premise as most Pokemon games, as you had to collect eight badges (medals in this case) to battle the Elite Four. In this game the Elite Four each controlled a Legendary Pokemon in their deck these being Dragonite, Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres.

When the trading card game first came out there were only seven types of Pokemon, even though back then there were 15 types of Pokemon. Other Pokemon fell in other types of groups such as Ice Pokemon being included in the Water Group and Ghost types in the Psychic Group. Dark types and Steel types have been added since then.

There were two extra clubs in this game. The Rock Club used Fighting Energy just like in the game, and the Science Club which had people using Poison type Pokemon cards used Grass Energy also just like in the game.

The other six clubs were: Fighting Club, Fire Club, Grass Club, Electric Club, Psychic Club, and the Water Club. The game also followed suit with other Pokemon games by you having a rival trying also to collect the Legendary Pokemon Cards. Your rival's name was Ronald. You collected more cards by battling Club members/leaders and getting Booster Packs from Professor Mason.

A special Meowth promotional card came with the game.

Answer: Black Sludge

Amoonguss and it's previous form Foongus are both Grass/Poison types. Black Sludge is the poison equivalent to the item Leftovers. As long as a Pokemon's type is Poison, Black Sludge recovers a little HP every turn. This does cause problems if a Pokemon uses the move Soak or something.

But then again the opportunities of that are somewhat rare since most people wouldn't put a Water type against a part Grass type. Soak changes the Pokemon's type to Water. If Soak was used Poison types would not gain the benefit of Black Sludge. If Black Sludge is used on an opponent who's not a Poison type it takes away HP every turn. Amoonguss can also be a real pain with it's arsenal of moves being able to chip away opponent's HP and constantly recover it's own.

As a Poison type it of course can learn Poison type moves one of the most deadly being Toxic, which before Sludge Bomb was introduced was regarded as the most powerful Poison type move in the first generation. Toxic doesn't do any direct damage but it does poison the opponent, if it connects since it doesn't have 100% accuracy.

However unlike a regular Poison condition it takes more and more health away from your opponent as the battle goes on and it can take away huge amounts of HP. Foongus and Amoonguss can also learn Ingrain, Synthesis, and a variety of "Drain" moves. All of these are grass type moves which are designed to heal HP. Ingrain works like Leftovers for a Grass type. The catch to this move though is that the Pokemon can't switch out. Synthesis is like Recover as it recovers a large amount of HP for the user. The catch to this move is the weather affects how much HP you recover, recovering more if it's sunny, less if it's rainy. Absorb, Mega Drain, and Giga Drain all sap opponents of HP and recover part of it to your HP. The catch to this move is the very rare ability Liquid Ooze. If you're battling an opponent with the ability Liquid Ooze, you'll actually lose HP instead of gaining some. Pokemon such as Tentacool can have this ability.