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Poison! is an attack contact effect which provides a temporary moderate 
armour-piercing missile damage, 
armour-piercing weapon damage, 
base missile damage, 
base weapon damage, 
speed and 
vigour 
debuffs to an enemy unit when hit. It is the classic weakening attack effect in the Total War: Warhammer game series. Attacks imbued with Poison! are said to be poison attacks.
It can be devastating in missile units which can slow, fatigue and ultimately weaken incoming enemy units.
References to poison usually include poison and poison! with an exclamation mark (!). The effect is called poison! and the attack is imbued with the poison effect.
Effect[]
Poison!- Speed: -15%
- Armour-Piercing Missile Damage: -15%
- Base Missile Damage: -15%
- Base Weapon Damage: -15%
- Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage: -15%
- Duration: 10s
WH2[]
- Armour-piercing missile damage: -15%
- Armour-piercing weapon damage: -15%
- Base missile damage: -15%
- Base weapon damage: -15%
- Poison! (10 seconds)
- Speed: -15%
- Vigour: -18%
Units[]
- Dark Elves
- Any Dreadlord with the Poisonblade or Serpentheart Names of Power
- Death Hag
- Khainite Assassin
- Ravagers of Rakarth (Scourgerunner Chariots)
- Slaanesh's Harvesters (Doomfire Warlocks)
- Greenskins
- Skarsnik
- Night Goblin Warboss
- Night Goblins
- Night Goblins (Fanatics)
- Night Goblin Archers
- Night Goblin Archers (Fanatics)
- Forest Goblin Spider Riders
- Forest Goblin Spider Rider Archers
- Night Goblin Squig Hoppers
- Giant Spider (Mount)
- Catchweb Spidershrine (Mount)
- The Arachnarok Queen (Arachnarok Spider)
- Spider Hatchlings
- Da Swamp Fings (River Trolls)
- Feral Wyvern
- Lava Arachnarok Spider
- Lava Spider Rider Archers
- Armoured Squig Hoppers
- Lizardmen
- Oxyotl
- Skink Chief (ranged attacks)
- Skink Oracle
- Red Crested Skink Chief
- Amaxon Barbs
- Blessed Chameleon Skinks (ranged attacks)
- Blessed Skink Skirmishers (ranged attacks)
- Blessed Stegadon (ranged attacks)
- Chameleon Skinks
- Chameleon Stalkers
- Bastiladon (Ark of Sotek) (ranged attacks)
- Dread Saurian (ranged attacks)
- Feral Troglodon
- Stegadon
- Skink Skirmishers
- Skink Cohort (Javelins) (ranged attacks)
- Red Crested Skinks
- Terradon Riders
- Nurgle
- Tomb Kings
- High Queen Khalida (also gives poison attacks to her entire army)
- King Nekhesh's Scorpion Legion (Skeleton Spearmen)
- Necropolis Knights
- Necropolis Knights (Halberds)
- Venom Knights of Asaph
- Vampire Counts
- Crypt Ghouls
- Crypt Horrors
- All units in an army led by Helman Ghorst (WH1 & WH2 only)
- All Zombies, Skeleton Spearmen and Skeleton Warriors within armies of the Caravan of Blue Roses (WH3 only)
- The Konigstein Stalkers
Ancillaries[]
Followers[]
Items[]
- Blade of Corruption
- Blade of Nurglitch
- Cobra Mace of Mazdamundi
- Emerald Collar
- Everbleed
- Fang of Qu'aph
- Ouroborous
- Venom of the Firefly Frog
- Warlock-Augmented Weapon
Spells[]
- Pestilent Breath (Overcast)
- Stream of Corruption
- Xapati's Sanctum
Notes[]
- Poison! vigour reduction increase a unit's fatigue per tick. For example, a unit engaged in combat normally gets 19 fatigue/tick. When poisoned, it's now 22 fatigue/tick.
Trivia[]
- The Lizardmen, Greenskins and Nurgle have the most units with Poison available to them.
- In WHI and for a long time in WHII, this effect inflicted -20% to all stats affected (aside from vigour which has remained the same).
