Malignant Chain (move)

Malignant Chain じゃどくのくさり Toxic Chain

Battles Type  Poison Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  100 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by Mirror Move Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation IX Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IX

Malignant Chain (Japanese: じゃどくのくさり Toxic Chain) is a Poison-type damage-dealing move introduced during Generation IX, in The Indigo Disk (though it was not made available until the release of Mochi Mayhem). It is the signature move of Pecharunt.

Effect

Malignant Chain inflicts damage and has a 50% chance of badly poisoning the target.

Description

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Level
						IX
						SV
1025		Pecharunt		No Eggs Discovered		No Eggs Discovered	48
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose Evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

Trivia

• Malignant Chain is the last Generation IX move in index number order.

In other languages

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