(Competive Strategy #1) Poison Heal (Ability)

                                                          

Hey readers! I'm back with a new post! Okay, I know so of my experienced competitive battlers probably know what I'm going to be talking about, anyways though, let's cover the Poison Heal ability!

The Poison Heal ability was introduced in Generation 3 alongside the Pokemon Shroomish and Breloom, which at the time was their signature ability. But a few generations, it was also given to Gliscor.

The ability allows the Pokemon to heal 1/8 of your max HP every turn, when that Pokemon is poisoned, instead of taking poison damage.

This ability is huge in the competitive community because it makes for a great staller Pokemon. Staller Pokemon essentially, are Pokemon who's job is to stall while slowly taking out the other teams Pokemon. A good example of this is none other than Poison Heal Gliscor.

                              Strategy

The Poison Heal Gliscor for this example will know these 4 moves:

Toxic                     

Knock Off

Roost

Swords Dance

Okay, now that we have the moves, let's go on with the strategy. It's typing is by far the best stalling type Ground/Flying. This gives it only one weakness, Ice. Now, this Gliscor should be holding the Toxic Orb. If you need a Toxic Orb, you can find them in the Battle Maison shop for 16BP which is super-easy to get, in Pokemon X/Y. Alternatively, if you want one in ORAS (Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire), you can find one in the Battle Resort, for the same price as the one in X/Y. Now the reason we need a Toxic Orb, is because we want to purposely poison Gliscor to activate the Poison Heal ability. Once it is activated, your kind of invincible.

The move Roost will heal you in case your opponent is close to knocking Gliscor out. Toxic is an awesome move to poison your opponent. Don't worry, your opponent's Pokemon most likely doesn't have the Poison Heal ability considering the only Pokemon that can have this ability are Breloom (Hidden Ability) and Gliscor (Hidden Ability) so when they're poisoned, they'll slowly wear down, not to mention that poison damage is increased they longer the Pokemon is poisoned. The next move is Knock Off, because if you want to wear down your opponent, you have to have a move to do that. Knock Off is an all around great move to use, it deals pretty decent damage, and it also knocks off any item the opponent is holding, it's a win-win! Now the last move is Swords Dance, and this is really cool, because it drastically raises the Attack stat of a Pokemon. So that will help increase the power of Knock Off, and since most of the attacks your opponent will hit you with won't do much, you have tons of opportunities to use this move. 

And that pretty much wraps it up, I really hope you readers can benefit from this post! Thanks for reading, and comment what you want me to cover in the next post!