Poison Types in Competitive Pokemon.

Competitive Singles has seen many different Poison types throughout the years.

Poison started off as one of the absolute worst Types in the game, but over the years it gained more and more advantages.

In Gen 6 Poison would truly have it's day. With the new Fairy type introduced, Poison now resisted AND dealt Super Effective Damage to Fairy types.

This is sane. Let's explore Poison types throughout the years.

0:00 Intro
1:05 Gen 1
3:54 Gen 2
6:52 Gen 3
14:42 Gen 4
17:46 Gen 5
21:40 Gen 6
23:35 Gen 7
26:31 Gen 8
29:33 Gen 9

[Super_Top_Secret_Area]

The Horse Council is ignoring the fact that Smeargle can also learn the move Transform, meaning that it can in fact transform into a proper horse like Magcargo or Snorlax.

[seanod]

Poison types day 1 - :(
Poison types post toxic spikes :|
Poison types post dream world :)
Poison types post fairy type >:)

[napp]

I would like to add another buff of the Poison type, which is Toxic being made 100% accurate when used by a Poison type starting in gen VI. Also a bit of a sidenote Nidoking and Venusaur don't use Sludge Bomb in Gen II because they do not learn it yet for some reason.

[JamesRBroklin]

Smeargle's beret gives away the fact that he is actually a French Pokemon trying to infiltrate the Horse Council on behalf of Linoone and the rest of the French Legionaires.

[Blue-pp]

Poison used to hit bug super effectively too in gen 1, but bug was so bad back then that everyone forgets that.

[shepardice]

This has become my comfort channel, despite the fact that I'm not as interested in competitive Pokemon as i used to be. Something about dear Jimothy's voice, humour and phraseology scratches my brain in just the right way

[Ruckus]

This all started with horsea getting in. I even said at the time that this would cause a slippery slope and next thing you know Ditto and smeargal would want to be in the horse council too. Our values and traditions have really gone downhill.

[not_relevant_nr]

Been going through an awful bit of depression but I saw this notification and my day got so much brighter. Thanks for all you do, Jimothy.

[josearmortegah]

I particularly love Reverend's description of Weezing in Gen 1: "I think it's pretty underrated. You can switch into Tauros, and...Explode. It's like if Golem was...even worse...and that's pretty good👍"

[ronz]

Weezing Wednesday and Muk Monday thank you for your support.

[llorencalbons]

The video just came out for my lunchtime, this is incredible folks.

[LukeA]

I'm just here to say my Iron Mugulis arrived safely

[GlorySnowstar]

Poison’s my favorite Type, both biologically clever and insanely punk. We had to wait nearly 20 years to have an offensive presence but it was worth the wait, thank you Fairy :)

[SuperZilla]

Muk came in and said "not on my mondays" to the fairy types

[flookaraz]

The Horse Council saga is the best thing I've ever seen. I literally tune in for updates on Horse drama. It's insane, folks.

[Phil]

I’ve always thought that poison should be super effective on water because of pollution and whatnot. I think from a design perspective it would also help balance out bulky water types a bit.

[Jsolo]

Water Poison is such a great defensive typing. The 3 weaknesses are Electric, Ground, Psychic which all have immunities such as Lando who is immune to two of them

[Eldred]

My favorite poison type is probably Nidoking. The visual design is classic and I love that they gave him Sheer Force to really make use of his vast offensive movepool to hit really hard on various sides of the typing spectrum.

[zaknork]

Poison might just be the most improved pokémon type in the series.

[lasercraft]

Its always confused my how Poison (the thing literally known for killing things) is a better defensive type than it is offensive... But it actually makes perfect sense if you think about Poison's playstyle of using poison to whittle down the opponents health over time.