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Smog

Type	Power	Accuracy	PP	Priority	Damage	Target
Poison	20	70%	20	0	Special	Single non-user

Description

Deals damage and has a 40% chance to poison the target.

Competitive Use

Smog is simply too weak to see any competitive use. While the 40% chance to poison the opponent is nice, and higher than any similar moves, the lack of Base Power means that you are better off either using Toxic or a different Poison-type move. Interestingly, a multitude of Fire-types get this attack; however, the one main type they would want to hit with this move would be the Grass-type, and their STAB already scores a super effective hit on said type.

Related Moves

Sludge Bomb is a more powerful alternative, with only a 30% chance to poison the target.

Sludge Wave is a more powerful alternative, with only a 10% chance of poisoning the opponent.

Pokémon	Type	Tier	Abilities	HP	Atk	Def	SpA	SpD	Spe	BST
Chandelure	Ghost / Fire	UU	Flash Fire / Flame Body / Shadow Tag	60	55	90	145	90	80	520
Emboar	Fire / Fighting	RU	Blaze / Reckless	110	123	65	100	65	65	528
Flareon	Fire	NU	Flash Fire / Guts	65	130	60	95	110	65	525
Gastly	Ghost / Poison	LC	Levitate	30	35	30	100	35	80	310
Gengar	Ghost / Poison	OU	Levitate	60	65	60	130	75	110	500
Gulpin	Poison	LC	Liquid Ooze / Sticky Hold / Gluttony	70	43	53	43	53	40	302
Haunter	Ghost / Poison	NU	Levitate	45	50	45	115	55	95	405
Houndoom	Dark / Fire	UU	Early Bird / Flash Fire / Unnerve	75	90	50	110	80	95	500
Houndour	Dark / Fire	LC	Early Bird / Flash Fire / Unnerve	45	60	30	80	50	65	330
Koffing	Poison	LC	Levitate	40	65	95	60	45	35	340
Lampent	Ghost / Fire	NU	Flash Fire / Flame Body / Shadow Tag	60	40	60	95	60	55	370
Litwick	Ghost / Fire	LC	Flash Fire / Flame Body / Shadow Tag	50	30	55	65	55	20	275
Magby	Fire	LC	Flame Body / Vital Spirit	45	75	37	70	55	83	365
Magcargo	Fire / Rock	NU	Magma Armor / Flame Body / Weak Armor	50	50	120	80	80	30	410
Magmar	Fire	NU	Flame Body / Vital Spirit	65	95	57	100	85	93	495
Magmortar	Fire	RU	Flame Body / Vital Spirit	75	95	67	125	95	83	540
Skuntank	Poison / Dark	NU	Stench / Aftermath / Keen Eye	103	93	67	71	61	84	479
Slugma	Fire	LC	Magma Armor / Flame Body / Weak Armor	40	40	40	70	40	20	250
Stunky	Poison / Dark	LC	Stench / Aftermath / Keen Eye	63	63	47	41	41	74	329
Swalot	Poison	NU	Liquid Ooze / Sticky Hold / Gluttony	100	73	83	73	83	55	467
Tepig	Fire	LC	Blaze / Thick Fat	65	63	45	45	45	45	308
Torkoal	Fire	NU	White Smoke / Shell Armor	70	85	140	85	70	20	470
Weezing	Poison	NU	Levitate	65	90	120	85	70	60	490