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Pokémon (Gloom) › Stage 1 : Evolves from Oddish and into Vileplume, Bellossom, Vileplume-GX, or Vileplume ex
{@} → Space Out
Remove 2 damage counters from Gloom. Gloom is now Asleep.
{P}{C} → Stinky Nectar : 30
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused and Poisoned.
illus. Ken Sugimori · LV.24
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Richard Rich
To date, the only time Gloom has been printed as a poison type (delta Species doesn’t count cuz at that time purple cards were only Psychic or Ghost).
Ambassador
There’s nothing stopping any of the Gen 1–3 Grass-type Gloom as having been meant to represent the Poison type!
Twylis
Particularly the Unseen Forces and Expedition Glooms — they’re even weak to Psychic.
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That’s a good point about the {P} weaknesses!
I just checked the evo line of Vileplume’s gen 1 counterpart, Victreebel. Every single Weepinbell and Victreebel card, ever, has a {R} weakness. BUT one random Bellsprout, AQ #68, is randomly weak to {P}.
I have no idea why that is! That Bellsprout comes from the same exact Japanese set, Wind From the Sea; very random that it doesn’t have any “poison-type” evolutions.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bellsprout_(Aquapolis_68)#Card_text
Twylis
Wind from the Sea also appears to have the only Lightning-weak Scyther. Since the set has two Bellsprouts and two Scythers, they probably gave them different weaknesses to differentiate them. Didn’t do it with Horsea though; two of those and they’re both Lightning-weak.