Poison!

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! (10s)
* Speed: -15%
* Armour-Piercing Missile Damage: -15%
* Base Missile Damage: -15%
* Base Weapon Damage: -15%
* Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage: -15%
==== WH2 ==== 
*Poison! (10 seconds)
*-15% Armour-Piercing Missile Damage
*-15% Base Missile Damage
*-15% Base Weapon Damage
*-15% Speed
*-15% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage
== Units ==
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Lords 	
Infantry 	
Missile Cavalry & Chariots	
Monsters & Beasts 	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Missile Infantry (ranged attacks) 	
Missile Cavalry & Chariots (ranged attacks)	
====== 	
======
Category	Unit
Infantry	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Lords 	
Lords (multiplayer only)	
Heroes 	
Infantry 	
Cavalry & Chariots 	
Monsters & Beasts 	
Missle Monsters & Beasts	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Lords 	
Heroes 	
Infantry 	
Cavalry & Chariots 	
Missile Cavalry & Chariots (ranged attacks)	
Monsters & Beasts 	
Extended Roster 	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Lords 	
Heroes 	
Infantry 	
Missile Infantry 	
Cavalry & Chariots 	
Missile Cavalry & Chariots 	
Monsters & Beasts 	
Extended Roster 	
Extended Roster (melee attacks)	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Missile Infantry	
Extended Roster 	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Lords 	
Heroes 	
Heroes (ranged attacks) 	
Infantry 	
Infantry (melee attacks) 	
Missile Infantry 	
Missile Infantry (ranged attacks) 	
Monsters & Beasts (ranged attacks) 	
Missile Monsters & Beasts 	
Missile Monsters & Beasts (ranged attacks)	
Extended Roster 	
Extended Roster (ranged attacks) 	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Monsters & Beasts (multiplayer only)	
Extended Roster 	
=== === 	
=== ===
Category 	Unit
Lords 	
Heroes 	
Infantry 	
Cavalry & Chariots 	
Missile Cavalry & Chariots	
Monsters & Beasts 	
Missile Monsters & Beasts 	
Extended Roster 	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Missile Infantry	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Lords (ranged attacks)	
Missile Infantry 	
Monsters & Beasts 	
=== === 	
=== ===
Category 	Unit
Infantry 	
Cavalry & Chariots	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Lords 	
Infantry 	
Constructs 	
Constructs (ranged attacks)	
Extended Roster 	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Monsters & Beasts	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Monsters & Beasts	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Lords 	
Infantry 	
Monsters & Beasts	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Lords 	
Heroes 	
Infantry 	
Cavaly & Chariots 	
Missile Cavaly & Chariots 	
Monsters & Beasts 	
Extended Roster 	
Extended Roster (Skirmish vs A.I. only)	
====== 	
======
Category 	Unit
Lords (ranged attacks) 	
Missile Infantry (ranged attacks) 	
Missile Cavalry & Chariots (ranged attacks)	
Monsters & Beasts 	
Extended Roster 	
== Abilities ==
* Alchemist's Elixir of Venom
* Dagger of Malice
* Enchanted Metallurgy: Poison
* Everbleed
* Master of Alchemy: Poison
* Pestilens Clanstone
* Slug-Skin
* Spider Banner
* Spurting Bile-Blood
* The Golden Blowpipe of P'Toohee (WH3 only)
* The Venom Staff
* Venom Wave
* Xapati's Sanctum
* Yewberry Infusion
== Spells ==
* Bless with Filth
* Pestilent Breath (Overcast)
* Stream of Corruption
== Items == 
*Aventurine Dagger
*Balesword
*Blade of Corruption
*Blade of Nurglitch
*Cobra Mace of Mazdamundi
*Corrosive Blade
*Emerald Collar
*Fang of Qu'aph
*Jellyfish in a Jar
*Ouroborous
*Serpent Fang
*The Venom Staff (WH2 only)
*Venom of the Firefly Frog
*Venom Sword
== Mounts ==
All characters when mounted on: 
*Brood Horror (Throt the Unclean, Warlord and Packmaster)
*Catchweb Spidershrine (Raknik Spiderclaw & Goblin Great Shaman)
*Giant Spider (Goblin Big Boss)
== Other ==
=== Ancillaries === 
* Alchemist
* Carnivorous Horticulturist
* Herbalist
* Pox Carrier
=== Attributes ===
* Units with the "Mark of Nurgle" attribute gain Poison!
=== Buildings ===
*Gnoblar Underbelly landmark gives poison attacks to all Gnoblar infantry factionwide for the faction that build it.
=== Daemonic Gifts ===
*Rotcleaver
*Plagueblade
*Blighted Bell
*Bilesword
=== Faction effects === 
*The ' faction effect grants Poison! for Zombies, Skeleton Spearmen and Skeleton Warriors units.
* Any Vassal of faction will gain Poison!
=== Mechanics ===
* The Poisonblade Name of Power can grant Poison! to any Dark Elf Lord or Master.
=== Traits ===
* Any lord defeating the Vampire Counts' legendary lord Helman Ghorst in battle will gain Poison!
* Burplesmirk Spewpit's trait gives his army Poison!
* Helman Ghorst's lord effect gives his army Poison! (WH1 & WH2 only).
* High Queen Khalida's lord effect gives her army Poison!
* Murder of Spites trait grants Poison! to the Lord or Hero with the trait ( ony)
== 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, Nurgle and Warriors of Chaos have the most units with Poison! available to them.
*In WH1 and for a time in WH2, this effect inflicted -20% to all stats affected (aside from vigour which has remained the same).
Category:Abilities
Category:Contact effects