Competitive Battling Strategies

(Competitive 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!

(Pokemon Of The Day #2) Scolipede

National №	545
Type	BUG POISON
Species	Megapede Pokémon
Height	8′2″ (2.49m)
Weight	442 lbs (200.5 kg)
Abilities	Poison Point Swarm Speed Boost (hidden ability)
Local №	051 (Black/White) 045 (Black 2/White 2) 122 (X/Y)
Japanese	Pendora

                             Overview

HP:	60
Attack:	100
Defense:	89
Sp. Atk:	55
Sp. Def:	69
Speed:	112

Scolipede is an overall great Pokemon to use in competitive play. It has great Attack, with an outstanding Speed. You'd think a giant centipede would move a little slower! It's Defense and Sp. Def aren't really that great, and it's HP is something to brag about either, but there are multiple ways to work around these issues. Besides these down sides, Scolipede is a great a asset to the team.

                            Weaknesses

NOR	FIR	WAT	ELE	GRA	ICE	FIG	POI	GRO
	2			¼		¼	½

FLY	PSY	BUG	ROC	GHO	DRA	DAR	STE	FAI
2	2	½	2					½

                                         Move-Pool

Lv.	Move	Type	Cat.	Power	Acc.
1	Defense Curl	NORMAL		—	—
1	Poison Sting	POISON		15	100
1	Rollout	ROCK		30	90
1	Screech	NORMAL		—	85
1	Megahorn	BUG		120	85
5	Poison Sting	POISON		15	100
8	Screech	NORMAL		—	85
12	Pursuit	DARK		40	100
15	Protect	NORMAL		—	—
19	Poison Tail	POISON		50	100
23	Bug Bite	BUG		60	100
28	Venoshock	POISON		65	100
30	Baton Pass	NORMAL		—	—
33	Agility	PSYCHIC		—	—
39	Steamroller	BUG		65	100
44	Toxic	POISON		—	90
47	Venom Drench	POISON		—	100
50	Rock Climb	NORMAL		90	85
55	Double-Edge	NORMAL		120	100
65	Megahorn	BUG		120	85

                                    Suggested Move Set

Mega Horn
Poison Jab
Earthquake
Pursuit

X-Scissor is a good STAB/Coverage move, learned by TM. Poison Jab is just an awesome STAB move learned via TM. Earthquake is a great Coverage move for one of Scolipede's weaknesses learned via TM. Pursuit is great because it takes advantage of Scolipede's Speed to deal massive damage!

(Pokemon Of The Day#1) Abomasnow

National №	460
Type	GRASS ICE
Species	Frost Tree Pokémon
Height	7′3″ (2.21m)
Weight	298.7 lbs (135.5 kg)
Abilities	Snow Warning Soundproof (hidden ability)
Local №	143 (Diamond/Pearl) 143 (Platinum) 089 (X/Y)
Japanese	Yukino'o

Hey readers! The first I'm going to make on the topic of competitive battling is going to be on Abomasnow. Before I begin, just a disclaimer. I am not going to base my strategies on the REAL (Pokemon Video Game Competition) or VGC. I made this for you to try on your friends, the competitions really limit how much fun you can have. So without further ado, let's begin!  

                                                         Overview 

                                                                            

HP:	90
Attack:	92
Defense:	75
Sp. Atk:	92
Sp. Def:	85
Speed:	60

Abomasnow is a Grass/ Ice type Pokemon. So as you can see from the stats, Abomasnow seems to be an actually pretty good mixed attacker, with decent HP and Defense, and really low speed. Alot of people don't really use Abomasnow at all in battle because of it's 4X weakness to FIRE. It also hurts Abomasnow that it doesn't have enough Defense to help it out when it gets hit by a Fire type move. Abomasnow also has poor Speed, so it can't out-speed very much Pokemon out there. But Abomasnow has an awesome move-pool, and you have a variety of attacks to choose from, making it an awesome offensive Pokemon, that can take down any Defensive opponents with ease.

                                                         Weaknesses

NOR	FIR	WAT	ELE	GRA	ICE	FIG	POI	GRO
	4	½	½	½		2	2	½

FLY	PSY	BUG	ROC	GHO	DRA	DAR	STE	FAI
2		2	2				2

                                                          Move-Pool

                                                                              

Lv.	Move	Type	Cat.	Power	Acc.
1	Ice Punch	ICE		75	100
1	Leer	NORMAL		—	100
1	Powder Snow	ICE		40	100
1	Razor Leaf	GRASS		55	95
1	Icy Wind	ICE		55	95
5	Razor Leaf	GRASS		55	95
9	Icy Wind	ICE		55	95
13	Grass Whistle	GRASS		—	55
17	Swagger	NORMAL		—	85
21	Mist	ICE		—	—
26	Ice Shard	ICE		40	100
31	Ingrain	GRASS		—	—
36	Wood Hammer	GRASS		120	100
47	Blizzard	ICE		110	70
58	Sheer Cold	ICE		—	—

                                                 Suggested Move Set

Move 1	Blizzard
Move 2	Giga Drain
Move 3	Earthquake
Move 4	Ice Shard

Let me explain why this would be such a great move set to use for Abomasnow. Blizzard is the strongest move that Abomasnow that can learn, so that in itself is a good reason for Abomasnow to know it. Giga Drain is good one to know because it restores the health that Abomasnow will lose rather quickly, and it's super effective against one of Abomasnow's weaknesses, Ground. It's also a good STAB move as well. Earthquake will be used to take out it's #1 weakness, Fire. Ice Shard is just a good STAB/Coverage move.                    

Thanks for reading! I know I didn't cover Mega Abomasnow, and it's because I felt Mega Abomasnow wouldn't get all the recognition it should get, so I'll be covering that in a new post! Thanks again for reading!