Crobat Seriously hated Koga's team and his battling style in the elite 4, and this thing exemplified what Koga stands for with toxic and double team. But after kissing some Golbat ass, I can say this dude is sweet. One of the fastest out there, can wreak havoc with toxic (Koga-Sensei taught me well), learns Fly and gave a solarbeam more disrespect than Popo did to Goku's Kamehameha in the battle tower. To think the zubats we all tried to avoid would become into the thing we know as crobat. I remember finding a shiny zubat by complete accident in emerald in meteor falls, I caught him and he was known as the strongest member in my team. This thing would outspeed every pokemon it opposed, and with great attack and some pretty good moves it can learn along the way, this thing was definitely a force to be reconned with Just with Cross Poison and Aerial Ace, this thing is really good, taking care of any Grass, Bug, and Fighting types. You can also teach him Giga Drain, Steel Wing, Zen Headbutt, Dark Pulse, Heat Wave (in ORAS), X-Scissor, and Twister. Using him against an Aggron, however, under any circumstances, isn't recommended though. While some people might get turned off by him because of the frequency of zubats. Crobat is one of the fastest Pokemon in the whole series. With decent attack and defense to back it up, crobat has the highest stats out of any poison type. What other bat do you know of that is purple and has four wings?

Nidoking Nidoking, known in Japan as Nidoking, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. First off, let's just say that if you don't pink for you Nidoking, his shiny is blue! Gengar's shiny form looks like a tooth! Nidoking is part of a combo of male and female, Gengar is forever alone. Nidoking learns moves like earthquake and megahorn, plus a unique move earth power! Gengar's only famous for his shadow ball, hypnosis, dream eater combo. Giving him no unique movepool. Plus, if we are talking true poison type Pokemon, then Gengar isn't a poison type then at all! He is a primary ghost type, people hardly use him for his poison abilities at all. Nidoking, on the other hand, is a primary poison type, making him more assigned as number 1 of poison types. Another bonus, Gengar is just a shadow who gives people nightmares that aren't real! While Nidoking is a giant reptilian like monster that can can cause earthquakes and have a girlfreind! Talk about win for win. Let's face it, Gengar may get a mega evolution, but no one says to the KING! You made a paragraph about your like for Nidoking and STILL managed to get it's color wrong. Wow. All I have to say is this: He has a wife, he can be pink and still look epic, he has awesome typing, he looks like Godzilla, he's one of the few Pokemon that actually evolve from moon stones, it has a three evolution line, it has great Base Stat Total, solid movepool, knows earthquake, makes Rhyperior look like a play doll, and last but not least... HE'S THE MOTHA TRUCKING KING! Peace out. I love the Ground/poison combo of nidoking/nidoqueen. Either one of them will do for me. Plus they can learn earthquake, fighting moves and even megahorn to take out psychic types. Atk is good definitely is good, though speed ins't so great. Always one of my first go tos. Heck yeah Nidoking all the way! The king is in the house! His moveset is off the wall with Earthquake Mega horn and Earth power this guy is sick and crushes those other pokes under his epic rule.

Drapion Drapion is a very powerful pokemon. It is lethal with its defensive bulk,and has a decent attack stat. He is relatively fast and can learn some pretty decent moves. Now for its ability sniper, which increases the power of critical hits, you can easily use this to your advantage. If you give it a scope lens, it will increase it's critical hit ratio, plus with moves such as night slash and cross poison which have high critical hit ratios, it will become pretty hard for the hits to NOT be critical. Now with both cross poison and night slash receiving a STAB boost, the moves get base power 105, then with the extra high critical hit ratio, it's quite likely for the hits to become critical, increasing the damage by 2.25 because of sniper, the base power averages to roundabout 236. Now for a filter for the other slots you can have moves such as knock off and poison fang, which has a 50% chance to badly poison a target. You could also have toxic spikes or big bite. Also if you want to make ...more How is this badass being beaten by the overrated ghost? Only one weakness, Amazing defense, learns Acupressure, Awesome design... This pokemon is the perfect poison type, and almost redeems this awful type of my hatrid. It has a great defense and solid attack and speed. Ev train it's attack and sp defense and it'll be amazing in battle. When it learns cross poison it gets a 50% same type attack bonus so it can destroy. It has a good move poll too. So overall it's an awesome Pokemon. Drapion is both offensive and defensive. Its high defensive status and decent stats all around make it a kick ass wall that still can inflict some good damage.

Toxicroak Despite the x4 weakness to psychic, Toxicroak can learn loads of moves such as X Scissor, Rock Slide, Stone Edge, Earthquake, Poison Jab, Brick Break, Shadow Ball, Bullet Punch, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch, Bounce, and Dual Chop, this badass frog pokemon has the potential to wreck almost any team. Also, his name is LEGENDARY and has one of the most unique typings in Pokemon. Croagunk is my favourite pokemon and Toxicroak is 10 times as cool. I think this badass frog has a move pool that can give him excellent coverage against most types and his unique type is also pretty cool (both poison and fighting are my favourite types). The amount of moves this pokemon can learn is enough to cover all of its weaknesses. Its design is also pretty cool and its idle animation looks like its ready kick some butt. Shame it doesn't have a signature move though. He is awesome, he is strong, and he is not weaker than psychic or ground. But he is weaker than steel. He is the best pokemon ever, he does poison moves like venoshock, poison jab, sludge bomb, poison sting, belch and toxic! - Jaiden Ochoa

Gengar Gengar, known in Japan by the same name, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. Gengar is a pure beast while he can dream eat all those pokemon like Toxicroak Nidoking Drapion Crobat If I get to pick 1 GHOST TYPE/POISON TYPE I choose Gengar! Plus you can get it in Lavender Town or in a Graveyard or any spooky place Like come on give this guy a chance You won't regret it! Catch a gastly they're pretty common in scary place's Train him up to a Haunter Use your way of getting a Gengar I like never regretted using a Gengar I had a Gengar with those good ol hypnosis and dream eater He kicked butt! Like really! Plus he can hypnosis a legendary/mythical/rare AND GUESS WHAT?! It'll be a 1000 time's easier to catch! You'll catch it in no time with an ultra/dusk/great ball! Gengar is the only poison ghost type if you don't count Haunter and Gastly. This Pokemon has access to STAB sludge bomb and shadow ball. It can even learn thunderbolt! With super high special attack and amazing speed, it makes for the best sweeper. In the Pokemon rescue team games, he may be the bad guy, but on the battlefield he dominates! Ok gengar has been my partner Pokemon since gen 4 when my friend rekt my whole team with one gengar. Gengar not only is a beast but his stats are insane. Give him shadow ball and sludge bomb and he's unstoppable. And not only that he's not just poison but ghost also gives him so many more advantages. And his shiny forms AMAZING! Find it hard not to catch a gastly at the start of Soulsilver every time I start again. Gengar is outrageously good. Don't really use his poison side but you can, he looks awesome and his special attack is to be honest is quite special.

Venusaur Venusaur, known in Japan as Fushigibana, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. Energy Ball is a really good grass attack. Earthquake can take care of Fire, Poison, and Steel types. In my opinion, Sleep Powder is a better pairing to Solarbeam than Sunny Day is. It still doesn't solve all of Venusaur's weaknesses, however. Don't send this thing into battle against a Charizard, Skarmory, Swellow, or Talonflame. This thing is destroyer of all. It can mega evolve and gain thick fat to protect it from fire and ice types, and even if the mega slot is full you can give it a big root, then it's invincible. This definitely deserves top 5 at least. It's the best starter Pokemon of all time! Venusaur is well deserving of being in the Top 5, in my opinion. Many overlook its Poison capabilities which can knock the day lights out of an unprepared foe. Bolster it again, with its Mega Evolution and you've got yourself a killing machine. Seriously?

We have a Drapion and a Crobat above Venusaur-think.

And a Gengar-GENGAR IS NOT USED AS A POISON TYPE!



Venusaur is actually forgotten for its poison side, but its poison side is super powerful-it's the best tank-sure, speed isn't great, but it's a wall and a tanks and a massive BEAST!



AND MEGA VENUSAUR! This is like having a garchomp with a stat boost of 10000-you have unleashed the fairy finisher, the ELIMINATOR!



It's A FROG WITH A FLOWER ON ITS BACK-AWESOME!



Come on! Lets give Venusaur that top ten crown!

Scolipede I don't see why this amazing beast of a cantipede isn't at the top of the list. I mean, he's based on the fossilized centipede that grew to be the size of a car! He's got some pretty unbelievable speed stats for something his size, and, on my Pokemon omega ruby game, he sweeped the elite four and then destroyed the champion all by himself! He also only needed, like, 5 full restores. This beast should be at the top of this list! Definitely my favourite pokemon, it is very fast and has a respectable attack stat. Set up a sword dance on this beast and it can sweep. Furthermore it's hidden ability means it only gets faster as the battle continues and it has baton pass meaning these boosts can be passed on to other pokemon allowing them to sweep. So good with poison point or speed boost extremely fast a aggressive hunter with poison jab and x scissor earthquake and mega horn looks badass got a cool pokedex entry cool looking shiny I took down elite four with it its just amazing. It's A BEAST! I can not stress it enough... I absolutely LOVE this thing! It has never let me down in battle! Not even once! I love its unique typing as well! It is super fast and hits hard too!

Muk Muk, known in Japan as Betbeton, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. Muk is overall a very powerful Pokemon, and despite its special attack and speed stats, it can still do loads of damage with Brick Break and Gunk Shot. Plus, Shadow Sneak gives priority, which can pick up quick kills in a pinch. Also, Minimize sharply raises evasion, so using it a few times can make Muk nearly untouchable. There is no reason it's not the best poison type Pokemon. Muk is a purple blob of awesomeness, therefore the best poison type Pokémon of all time. With the exception of speed, its stats are great. Its moves are helpful, although it has a large amount of special moves that are basically useless. Use minimize and acid armor a few times, then poison jab and brick break. The first sentence was obviously the most important reason though... Muk is incredibly versatile, being able to force out a large number of Pokemon (including most of the new fairies), set up a curse to bolster its defense to match its Special defense, and also has access to priority in Shadow sneak, making it able to outspeed for the kill when needed. Way too underrated! Muk is an overpowered poison type that has a powerful Gunk Shot and its Toxic is a real advantage because it's damage worsens each turn. Minimize is OP because it will make Muk a dodging machine so they can't touch you. That is why I choose Muk.

Roserade What happened to it? Roserade is decent to have, with the best moves a poison type can ever use. It could learn Spikes, Toxic Spikes, Leech Seed, Sleep Powder and such, added with decent Speed and Special Attack. Train it right, and you got yourself a poisonous bomb. Roserade is the best because it has good stats good moves, can survive to a super effective move if you train it well and its really cute with those sexy curves.

It's a super good Pokemon my team wouldn't be the same without him.

P. S: he/she should have a mega evalution Hands down the best Venoshocker in any game. Able to also Petal Dance away, set up hazards and do a 100 power weather based attack, no Poison Pokemon messes with him. Not even Nidoking. Roserade is probably one of the most over-looked Pokemon. He has a base 125 Special Attack and a very respectable 100 base Special Defense and 90 base Speed.

Arbok 10 Arbok and ekans are my favorite poison type pokemon and weezing and koffing too. But the only thing about koffing and weezing is that weezing always looks depressed and koffings voice in indigo league just personally, annoys me. Also, in the diglett episode, when jessies ekans and james koffing evolve, they wouldve beaten ash and stolen his pikachu if they didn't dive down under ground and getting beaten up by those diglett and dugtrio. I think that Arbok should be #1 because he can whip crobats butt. A wild Arbok appeared, go arceus. Arceus used judgement, it cuts 68% of arboks hp. Arbok used poison fang, it cut 29% of arceus hp, but wait! Arceus is know badly poisoned, poison is pulsing through his veins, its reaching its Arceus heart and Arceus died from poison. You try to run away, you can't, you use struggle, it cuts 2% of arboks hp while cutting your own health by 7%, and all this time arbok is using coil and screaming LOOL. In your face Personally, Arbok is my favorite Pokemon. My Arbok Nagini and I beat Giovanni together. And I ONLY used that Pokemon. In my opinion, it is very underrated for one of the 1st gen Pokemon. I think that this is probably, besides gengar and crobat, the best poison type pokemon and weezing too.

The Contenders

Weezing 11 Weezing what can I say about him that makes it one of the best poison types, well fer starters its ability "levitate" makes it immune to one of its 2 only weaknesses ground typing, not only that you can make it either physically or specially offensive because of its balanced special and physical attack stats and through breeding teach it toxic spikes, not only that its got great defensive bulk and decent special defense. and yes I rather like the design fer Weezing as well. Weezing has always been a staple for poison types in the game and as a Pokemon in general in the original anime. Easily one of the most recognizable Pokemon of all time and can be an all out tank with strong defense stats and the ability to learn a wide set of TM's. Will always stay in my heart as my favorite poison types and one of, if not just flat out my all time favorite Pokemon. It's literally a living toxin distiller. It mixes, creates, scavenges, then chemically produces SEVERELY poisonous gasses. Being only poison type, mainly focused on poison unlike other poison types(gengar), I think Weezing deserves the top spot as Best poison type because he fits the role of poison type the best. I have ALWAYS loved weezing, ever since pokemon blue and red. Not only does it look cool, but it looks intriguing! It's an amazing pokemon with great defense and attack stats. Coming way ahead of Muk in my opinion.

Nidoqueen 12 Great design and good type match. I also love Nidoran (female), so cute! (and I like their color) I think Nidoqueen is way better then Nidoking. Ya he's good but his stats don't fit him because they mainly learn attack moves not sp and Nidoking is sp and NIdoqueen is attack. { Just my opnoin} An awesome pokemon that can learn 3 one hit

KO moves and knows epic moves for all elements

A pokemon with such as a poisonous heart earns

A place in the top ten at the least If nidoking is second then she should be first

She is the mother of all poison types and can destroy steel with earth quake

Dragalge 13 One of the most underrated 6th gen Pokemon and a top contender for one of the best poison types. Sure, its stats are unremarkable and its normal abilities are useless, but one look at its HA shows just how powerful this sea horse can be. Adaptability turns up STAB moves from 1.5x to 2x power. Do you know what that means? Any poison or dragon move suddenly does the same damage as a super effective hit. One wonderful adaptability sludge wave means goodbye for any pesky fairy types! Just look at it. It doesn't care about wut u think. The only thing it cares about is chillaxing, and wrecking all who oppose it.



In all seriousness, Dragalge is an incredible Pokemon, and for good reasons. First, it has a unique dual typing of Dragon/Poison, giving it 4 weaknesses(Ground, Psychic, Dragon, and Ice) and resists 7 types(Poison, Grass, Fire, Fighting, Bug, Water, and Electric). While it does have 4 weaknesses, Psychic and Ice are commonly special attacks. This is important because Dragalge's highest stat is Special Defense, which can help it shrug off some super effective moves. While its Special attack may seem average, don't be fooled. Dragalge is 1 out of 10 Pokemon capable of having the ability, Adaptability! Put a Life Orb on it with Adaptibility, and you will witness true power! And it isn't a slouch in moves either, learning powerful moves like Sludge Bomb, Gunk Shot, Dragon Pulse, Draco Meteor, and even Focus Blast! With these tools, Dragalge will punch ...more Has a ton of defense makes this thing a major stalker. Also a great counter for fairy types. Dragalge is really cool, and is the only Poison/Drago type!

Tentacruel 14 Tentacruel is good if you're up against fairies, because of its resistance to fairies as well as its high special defense.

As a bonus, it was that one Pokemon that you were a little scared of when it destroyed cities, so why not? Come on No.11 people what about these moves Sludge Wave, Scald, Toxic, and Toxic Spikes with Liquid Ooze it is bad for Leech seed, Giga Drain, Mega Drain, and absorb so use it and you won't be upset with the results It is easily one of the best Pokemon. only 3 weaknesses and 8 resists.

Also learns toxic spikes and can do decent damage.

Great sp definitely and fair definitely stats with healthy hp stat make it good as a wall. Epic Pokemon though it is under appreciated it has epic specials and speed and a considerate defense

Swalot Swalot, known in Japan as Marunoom, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. 15 Swalot refuses to die. Maybe not the highest defense for a poison-type pokemon, but my favorite because he doesn't die and does a lot of damage. Out of all I've used - Muk, Garbodor, Swalot, Tenticruel, Nidoking/Nidoqueen and other pokemon - something about Swalot and how powerful he is makes him my favorite. I think swalots are just great. They've got a unique design including whiskers and diamonds. They have access to strange moves you wouldn't expect such as ice beam, earthquake and explosion. And I think it really helped my team when I used one in saphire version. When you look past the whole "poisonous bag that eats everything whole" thing, Swalot is really cute. In Pokemon y I got one early on used it as a tank and swept the rest of the game with the bloody thing... So yeah swalot top 5 at least

Croagunk 16 When evolves makes other Pokemon cry This thing is absolutely adorable. Croagunk has got the best attitude. Stabs brock in the back

Ivysaur 17 Very useful against water Pokémon. Can know all venusaurs moves however is easyer to 1 shot on the other hand it can get leach seeds out and PSn pow and do more damage than a lot of the guys on this list

Bulbasaur Bulbasaur, known in Japan as Fushigidane, is the first Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. 18 It is so cute! It probably isn't one of my favorite grass pokemon because Leafeon is my favorite pokemon but bulbasaur is a good starter wiv a cute face and epic evolutions! His final evolution, Venusaur, is poison. Not bulbasaur himself. Bulbasaur is so cute plus he is the strongest out of charmander and squirtle I think he's great :D It's A CUTE GRASS AND POISON Pokemon Pokemon FOR ME

Haunter Haunter, known in Japan as Ghost, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. 19 He screams "veronica, open the, open the door please"

Skuntank Skuntank (Japanese: スカタンク Skutank) is a dual-type Poison/Dark Pokémon introduced in Generation IV of the Pokémon series. It is categorized as the Skunk Pokémon and it evolves from Stunky. Skuntank is known for its noxious fluid which smells dreadful. It can spray this fluid over 160 feet, ...read more. 20 Skuntank can take a hit, so if you run with Toxic (100% hit) and Venoshock (65 power doubled if it's already poisoned), then you're doing great. It's flinch Abilities should be coupled with moves that also can cause flinch, so your opponent gets nice and frustrated, like Dark Pulse. Finally, flamethrower isn't a bad idea, but consider Incenerate to remove all berries from an opponent with no hope of getting them back. Since Venoshock and Dark Pulse also give Skuntank stab, you're looking at a true tank. Couple it with Leftovers or Black Sludge or Shell Bell to build back large portions of HP. Skuntank is one of two poison type that don't have to worry about psychics and it can throw opposing teams for a loop if you're go at predicting moves. Try this set:

Snatch

Thief

Sucker Punch

Poison Jab

First take their item with thief. Then they won't expect a second dark attack in sucker punch, then when they try to boost to avoid the sucker punch use snatch.

Or if you know you're fighting a boosting Pokemon like a cloyster or a dragonite snatch first.

This is a top 5 poison Pokemon HE is a tank he learns Explosion as the final move and he is a dark and poison type. IMMUNE to psychic types and psychic types are a threat. Look Skuntank has everything great stats great moves great design. If you watch TheKingNappy he says inone of his Insurgence videos that " SKUNTANK IS POWER" Those are his exact words. Really guys! When you put a poison out, they switch to an Espeon or something like that. But not Skuntank. His dark side makes him immune to psychic, and his po7son side makes him normal to bug and fighting. That makes Skuntank's only weakness is ground.

Beedrill 21 Scope lens, focus energy, sniper beedrill is a beast it will tear a team apart with 100% chance x3 crits, and adaptability mega beedrill's speed and attack are ridiculous, it has access to fell stinger, pin missile, poison jab, agility, x-scissor and u-turn, set it up and only a talon flame could stop it. Sweeper because it has mega evolve and can sweep a lot because of speed and ability is open Beedrill has been my favorite bug Pokemon for as long as I can remember Mega beedrill sweeps teams so fast they don't know whats coming

Salazzle 22 Salazzle may have a x4 weakness to ground, but she's wicked strong. A few stat boosts and a Baton Pass made my Salazzle a sweeper to rock the ages. Salazzle is a great poisen type pokemon I always have her first in my battles cause she is strong Salazzle should at least be in the top tens. That artwork of Salazzle. It is Dazzling I even have her as my main

Venomoth 23 As a poison trainer I like poison pokemon but

I suggest that venomoth should be in the ten.

But why? Because I traded my venomoth from hg

To my diamond and managed to sucseed in the

Whole game with Venomoth, nidoqueen, gengar

Toxicroak, muk and weezing! I also managed to

Beat the champion in 1 minute with my lv 100

Venomoth! IN YOUR FACE CYNTHIA! Venomoth is an exellent Pokemon. You Can easly pass trough the Pokemon league just with him and defeat opponent Pokemons that have an higher level than your Venomoth.

Skorupi 24 Skorupi is the only scorpion Pokemon that actally looks like a scorpion. Unlike Drapion and his weird neck thing. Drapion is still good. I love skorupi he's powerful and can use moves that are affective against types he weak to! I love skorupi he's way better than weezing in my opinion