Status effectVerified on build 25143593

Poison

Takes damage at the start of every turn. Incoming healing is less effective but cures 1 Poison.

What it does

With X stacks: Takes X damage at the start of each of its turns. Incoming healing is less effective but cures 1 Poison.
Without a count: Takes damage at the start of every turn. Incoming healing is less effective but cures 1 Poison.

The game counts it as a debuff: anything that cleanses debuffs removes it.

Damage by stacks

Stacks	Turn 1	Turn 2	Turn 3	Turn 4	Turn 5	Total
1	1	1	1	1	1	5
2	2	2	2	2	2	10
3	3	3	3	3	3	15
5	5	5	5	5	5	25
10	10	10	10	10	10	50

It deals its stacks every turn and never wears off on its own; each heal received removes one stack. First five turns, before armor, healing or cleansing; worked out from the tooltip above.

Most stacks in one go 121 sources

Elephant's Foot10 your cats, next fight
Elephant's Foot Even Closer10 your cats, next fight
Bottle of Viper Booze7 your cats, next fight
Broken Canister6 your cats, next fight
Forbidden Fart (upgraded)6 inflicts
Angelic Kitten5 inflicts
Demon Core5 has it
Elephant's Foot Closer5 your cats, next fight
Forbidden Famine (upgraded)5 inflicts
Butt Zombie4 inflicts
Death Wind4 inflicts
Death Wind (upgraded)4 inflicts

Stacks of Poison each source applies at once (the top 12); the largest when a source has several.

Where it comes from 139

Abilities 30

Items 24

Passives 8

Disorders 5

Mutations 9

Enemies and other units 33

Events 29

Elite modifiers 1

Elite Buff: Creepy basic attack inflicts · 1

Numbers are the stacks applied as written in the game files; "one at random" means it is one of several statuses the effect picks from.

Removing or blocking it

Removes all debuffs 59

Removes 1 stack of a random debuff 11

Removes all buffs and debuffs 10

Immune to it 18

More debuffs 50

Overview

Type: Debuff
Game ID: Poison

Raw game dataExactly as defined in data/keyword_tooltips.gon

tooltips{2}
- tooltip_stacksTakes {stacks} damage at the start of each of its turns. Incoming healing is less effective but cures 1 Poison.
- tooltip_stacklessTakes damage at the start of every turn. Incoming healing is less effective but cures 1 Poison.