Secondary effects of Poison-type moves

[Banz]

In the Pokémon games, Poison type moves have a secondary effect of Poisoning the target (either normal poison or bad poison) or lowering of some some of the opponent's stats.

However in the real world poisons can have varied effects which could be better explained by other status conditions.
Many venomous animals use their venom to paralyse their victims. Corrosive toxins (see moves Acid/Acid Spray) cause burns. Neurotoxins can cause convulsions or hallucinations (Confusion).

These should be reflected in secondary effects of Poison type moves. It would be great to have some variety in the secondary effects that they produce, instead of the same old posioning effect.

 

[JohnnyGolduck]

So far for paralyzing there is Thunder Wave (Electric), Glare (Normal) and Stun Spore (Grass). It would have been cool if one of them was a poison attack.

 

[Kabocha❤]

It would work, but Poison type has already been established as inflicting Poison which can be interpreted in many ways.

 

[kingdenas]

That would be awesome but the Poison-type is already connected to the Poisoned condition and I think GF won't make Poison-type moves which inflict other status conditions instead of the poisoned one, since we already have other moves to do that.

 

[Banz]

It would work, but Poison type has already been established as inflicting Poison which can be interpreted in many ways.

That would be awesome but the Poison-type is already connected to the Poisoned condition and I think GF won't make Poison-type moves which inflict other status conditions instead of the poisoned one, since we already have other moves to do that.

Yes but that makes it a bit monotonous. Poison is already a terrible attacking type so adding a few moves with different effects could help. I don't see any reason why Poison type moves should only cause poisoning and not paralysis or burn. Poison status itself does nothing other than reducing HP per turn. Anyways I don't think GameFreak would do this, but it would be great if they did. Maybe they should look into effects of poisons in the real world.

 

[kingdenas]

Yes but that makes it a bit monotonous. Poison is already a terrible attacking type so adding a few moves with different effects could help. I don't see any reason why Poison type moves should only cause poisoning and not paralysis or burn. Poison status itself does nothing other than reducing HP per turn. Anyways I don't think GameFreak would do this, but it would be great if they did. Maybe they should look into effects of poisons in the real world.

I can agree with you. I don't use Poison types just because they aren't THAT useful, and I do prefer causing paralysis or confusion instead of the poison status. I think they need a buff of some sort. Even though the introduction of the Fairy-type has helped the Poison-type Pokémon being more useful, you still have the Steel-type :/ And, as I already said, I doubt GF would make poison-type moves inflict other status than the Poison status, basically because Poison is already connected to the Poison condition :/

 

[Lunar]

I understand the reasoning and personally I agree that some Poison type moves should paralyze an opponent. Despite this I don't think it will happen as poison types and moves have been associated with poisoning their target which is unfortunate because it would be cool to see a different secondary effect of a poison type move.

 

[Hikarin]

It'd be nice though if they at least made more varying degrees of Poison beyond just two. There's Toxic Spike poison and Bad Poison, why not make just a normal Poison which takes 3% per turn? Or one that automatically cures after a number of turns, but saps 9% per turn? There is so much potential for Poison beyond Spikers, it's just a matter of GF making the decision to add those layers of complexity.

I do certainly agree, though, that making Poison-type moves inflict BRN or PRZ is stupidly imbalanced.

 

[NathanW]

I feel it wouldn't be so outrageous if there was a move like that, given that it clearly specified in the move description that it did indeed paralyse over poisoning. Might be neat if the status condition was random too