User blog comment:Dracosaurian/Discussion of the Week: Poison/@comment-5043481-20131209105730

I think poison is a status done well. It does not have the rage factor of paralysis inflicted by vespoids and bnhabras, but is still very threatening. The idea of a super poison introduced in unite which does twice the damage was cool. It's a shame we can't use this super poison on weapons though.

One reason I like poison is that monsters that inflict it have different durations and potencys. For example, a wroggi has weak poison, which can be ignored. However, a high or G rank Gigginox or enraged gypceros has poison that will kill you if you don't use an antidote. With para or sleep, it has no variability, so a vespoid will para you for the same time as a gendrome.