This Pokémon inflicts twice as much damage with moves whose types match its own, rather than the usual same-type attack bonus of 1.5×.

Powers up moves of the same type as the Pokémon.

Adaptability

Whenever a move makes contact with this Pokémon, the move's user has a 30% chance of being poisoned.

Contact with the Pokémon may poison the attacker.

Poison Point

This Pokémon's contact moves have a 30% chance of poisoning the target with each hit.

This counts as an extra effect for the purposes of shield dust.  This ability takes effect before mummy.

May poison a target when the Pokémon makes contact.

Poison Touch

level-up

dragalge

skrelp

poison-point

poison-touch

adaptability

Skrelp

attack

defense

special-attack

special-defense

speed

poison

water

Skrelp looks like a piece of rotten seaweed, so it
can blend in with seaweed drifting on the ocean
and avoid being detected by enemies.

shield

It drifts in the ocean, blending in with floating
seaweed. When other Pokémon come to feast on
the seaweed, Skrelp feasts on them instead.

sword

It’s not good at swimming, so it clings to the
seaweed. In the Alola region, it’s often found
near Dhelmise.

ultra-moon

It vanishes into seaweed and remains perfectly
still to avoid attacks from large Pokémon.
Rotten seaweed is its main food source.

ultra-sun

It looks just like rotten kelp. It hides from foes
while storing up power for its evolution.

alpha-sapphire

Camouflaged as rotten kelp, they spray
liquid poison on prey that approaches
unawares and then finish it off.

	Base Stats			Stat
HP	50	—		125
Attack	60	—		80
Defense	60	—		80
Sp.Atk	60	—		80
Sp.Def	60	1		80
Speed	30	—		50
Total	320	1	0/510	495

Skrelp

Stat

Evolution Chain

Type Matchups