#0849 · Galar · Generation 8

Toxtricity

Punk Pokémon · Electric/Poison-type

Toxtricity is a Electric/Poison-type Pokémon, the Punk Pokémon, number 849 (#0849) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 8 and comes from the Galar region. It is 1.6 m tall and weighs 40 kg.

Toxtricity, the Punk Pokémon, is an Electric and Poison type that plays its own chest like a guitar: Amped Form sounds like an electric guitar, Low Key Form like a bass. The Pokédex says its jolts easily top 15,000 volts.

How to pronounce Toxtricity

Toxtricity is pronounced toks-TRIS-ih-tee. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Toxtricity said out loud:

In Japanese it is ストリンダー (Strinder).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Toxtricity is a purple, lizard-like biped, 1.6 m tall and 40 kg, with spikes on its back and wrists and a crescent ring of six pale spikes round its waist. It gets its sound by clawing at organs on its chest, six on the slouching, yellow-trimmed Amped Form and four on the upright, light-blue Low Key Form, matching the strings of a guitar and a bass. As it plays it scatters toxic sweat.

Behaviour

Bulbapedia describes Amped Form as extremely confident and irritable, charging anyone who meets its eye, and Low Key Form as selfish and dismissive, taunting foes into fighting rather than attacking first. The Pokédex says many youths admire the lazy way Toxtricity starts fights and never loses its cool, whoever it is facing.

Habitat

The Pokédex gives no habitat; Serebii lists mountain and cave biomes in Paldea, where it lives in Alfornada Cavern. In Legends: Z-A it appears only in the Mega Dimension DLC's Hyperspace Lumiose.

Diet

Stagnant water, which it chugs to absorb the toxins in it, according to the Pokédex.

Powers

Its Ability Punk Rock boosts sound-based moves and halves damage from them; its other Ability is Plus (Amped) or Minus (Low Key), with Technician hidden. Its signature move is Overdrive, learnt at level 44, which Bulbapedia says no other Pokémon can learn. Gigantamax Toxtricity merges both forms, with a tail like a transmission tower, and slams down a giant guitar of electricity with G-Max Stun Shock, a move only it can use. Base Special Attack 114 makes it a strong special attacker.

Name origin

Toxtricity may combine 'toxic' or 'toxicity' with 'electricity'. The Japanese name Strinder (ストリンダー) may combine 'strings' with 'salamander'.

Design inspiration

Yusuke Kozaki designed Toxtricity, Toxel and the Gigantamax form. Bulbapedia notes it resembles agama lizards or newts, and appears to draw on punk rock guitarists, with a mohawk-like crest, torn trousers and spiked bracelets. The Gigantamax guitar slam may reference guitar smashing. These are fan readings.

Evolution notes

Evolves from Toxel at level 30, in whichever form its Nature decides.

In the games

Toxtricity's Amped Form appears in Max Raid Battles and its Low Key Form comes by evolving Toxel in Sword and Shield, where it debuted. In Scarlet and Violet it appears in 5-star Tera Raid Battles, and Roxie and Piers each pair with a Toxtricity in Pokémon Masters EX.

In the anime

Both forms debuted in 'Battling Turned Up to Eleven!' playing in the Maximizers band. In Horizons, Ryme's Low Key Form Toxtricity defeats Roy's Fuecoco in his Tera Training battle in 'Resonating Spirits in a Challenge to Ryme!', and Fuecoco finally beats it in the rematch in 'A New Song for Fuecoco'.

Fun facts

• In Pokémon Adventures, Casey's Toxtricity is a Low Key Form nicknamed Tera, and it can Gigantamax.
• Bulbapedia, citing the official Sword and Shield site, says Gigantamax Toxtricity holds as much as a million litres of poison.
• At level 52 Amped Form learns Shift Gear while Low Key Form learns Magnetic Flux.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Toxtricity (Pokémon) · Serebii: Toxtricity (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 75
• Attack: 98
• Defense: 70
• Sp. Atk: 114
• Sp. Def: 70
• Speed: 75

Toxtricity’s base stat total is 502. Its highest stat is Sp. Atk.

Type matchups

What is Toxtricity weak to?

Toxtricity takes extra damage from Ground (4×), Psychic (2×) moves.

It resists Electric (½×), Grass (½×), Fighting (½×), Poison (½×), Flying (½×), Bug (½×), Steel (½×), Fairy (½×).

Evolution

What does Toxtricity evolve from?

Toxtricity evolves from Toxel at level 30. Its Nature picks the form. Amped Form: Hardy, Brave, Adamant, Naughty, Docile, Impish, Lax, Hasty, Jolly, Naive, Rash, Sassy or Quirky. Low Key Form: any other Nature.

Toxtricity is the final stage of its evolution family.

The whole family: Toxel, Toxtricity.

Forms

• Gigantamax Amped Toxtricity (Gigantamax): Electric/Poison-type, base stat total 502 (HP 75, Attack 98, Defense 70, Sp. Atk 114, Sp. Def 70, Speed 75). Abilities: Punk Rock, Plus, Technician (hidden).
• Gigantamax Low Key Toxtricity (Gigantamax): Electric/Poison-type, base stat total 502 (HP 75, Attack 98, Defense 70, Sp. Atk 114, Sp. Def 70, Speed 75). Abilities: Punk Rock, Minus, Technician (hidden).
• Low Key Toxtricity (Forme): Electric/Poison-type, base stat total 502 (HP 75, Attack 98, Defense 70, Sp. Atk 114, Sp. Def 70, Speed 75). Abilities: Punk Rock, Minus, Technician (hidden).

Abilities

• Punk Rock: Boosts sound-based moves and halves damage from the same moves.
• Plus: Increases Special Attack to 1.5× when a friendly Pokémon has Plus or Minus.
• Technician (hidden ability): Strengthens moves of 60 base power or less to 1.5× their power.

Moves

Moves Toxtricity learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

“Evo” means Toxtricity learns the move the moment it evolves: Spark.

TM moves (56)

Toxtricity can learn 56 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Charm, Scary Face, Protect, Thunder Fang, Acid Spray, Thief, Trailblaze, Charge Beam, Facade, Poison Tail, Hex, Snarl, Swift, Stored Power, Fling, Venoshock, Endure, Volt Switch, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Brick Break, Fire Punch, Thunder Punch, Sleep Talk, Electro Ball, Drain Punch, Metronome, Thunder Wave, Poison Jab, Rest, Taunt, Toxic Spikes, Eerie Impulse, Gunk Shot, Substitute, Hyper Voice, Encore, Thunderbolt, Helping Hand, Electric Terrain, Wild Charge, Sludge Bomb, Giga Impact, Hyper Beam, Thunder, Tera Blast, Charge, Toxic, Uproar, Endeavor, Electroweb, Sludge Wave, Throat Chop, Metal Sound, Psychic Noise.

Egg moves (2), which Toxel can hatch knowing:Endeavor, Metal Sound.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Human-Like.
• Egg cycles: 25 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 3,200).
• Catch rate: 45 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
• Growth rate: Medium Slow (1,059,860 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 2 Sp. Atk effort values.
• Base experience yield: 176.

Pokédex entries

This short-tempered and aggressive Pokémon chugs stagnant water to absorb any toxins it might contain. (Shield)

When this Pokémon sounds as if it's strumming a guitar, it's actually clawing at the protrusions on its chest to generate electricity. (Sword)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Highest Sp. Atk among Electric types in Gen 8: 114.
• Taller than 77% of all Pokémon (1.6 m).
• Heavier than 61% of all Pokémon (40 kg).
• Base stat total 502, ranked #276 of 1,025.
• Its best stat is Sp. Atk, ranked #98 of 1,025.
• One of 2 Pokémon that are both Electric and Poison.
• One of 87 purple Pokémon.
• Number 40 of 96 Pokémon introduced in Generation 8 (Galar).
• Part of an evolution family of 2 Pokémon.
• Can learn 73 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 45: about 5.9% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Has 3 alternate forms.
• Appears in 2 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Toxtricity (Pokémon), Serebii: Toxtricity (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (toks-TRIS-ih-tee): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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