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Until the end of your next turn, if an attack damages the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance), that attack does 20 more damage to the Defending Pokémon.
{G}{C} → Poison Bite : 10
If this attack damages the Defending Pokémon, the Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned and you remove a number of damage counters from Golbat equal to half that damage (rounded up to the nearest 10). If Golbat has fewer damage counters than that, remove all of them. Either way, the Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.
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It can drink more than 10 ounces of blood at once. If it has too much, it gets heavy and flies clumsily.
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The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned… twice.
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WOTC reworded the text of Poison Bite between Neo 1 Ariados and Neo 3 Golbat, but the JP text is the same between both cards;
相手にダメージを与えたら、その半分(切り上げ)のダメージカウンターを、自分からとりのぞく。その後、相手を「どく」状態にする。
The EN text of Ariados means it only inflicts Poison if the attack successfully does damage, and the EN Golbat’s rewording suggests that translation was wrong, and Poison should be inflicted either way. It doesn’t look like an errata was ever issued for Neo 1 Ariados, but obviously, one of these cards is translated incorrectly. (In this case.. I’m not sure. My hunch is that Ariados was right and Poison is conditional on doing damage?)