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gliscor
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Gliscor

Fang Scorpion Pokémon

GroundFlying

It observes prey while hanging inverted from branches. When the chance presents itself, it swoops!

Base Stats

HP 75
Attack 95
Defense 125
Sp. Atk 45
Sp. Def 75
Speed 95
Total 510

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Fang Scorpion Pokémon
Height 2.0 m
Weight 42.5 kg
Base Exp 179
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 30
Base Happiness 70
Gender 50% ♂ / 50% ♀
Habitat
Egg Groups Bug

Sprites

gliscor Front Front
gliscor Back Back
gliscor Front Shiny Front Shiny
gliscor Back Shiny Back Shiny
gliscor Official Art Official Art
gliscor Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

monotype Usage: 3.1%
Defog (Flying)
Item
Toxic Orb
Ability
Poison Heal
Nature
Jolly
EVs
HP 244
Def 20
SpD 124
Spe 120
Stallbreaker (Ground)
Item
Toxic Orb
Ability
Poison Heal
Nature
Jolly
EVs
HP 244
Def 32
SpD 120
Spe 112

Strategy Overview

Flying

Gliscor is a fantastic wall thanks to its great natural bulk, access to reliable recovery, and ability to act as a status absorber thanks to Poison Heal. This allows it to act as a blanket check to tons of threats to Flying teams such as Latios, by being able to switch into its Draco Meteor, and Zeraora, which it walls. Its Ground typing provides Flying teams with an immunity to Electric-type coverage and a neutrality to Stealth Rock, which allows Gliscor to become an excellent Defogger for the type. With access to Taunt, Gliscor can act as a stallbreaker by preventing walls such as Chansey from recovering health and slowly wearing them down with Earthquake while also being able to prevent Pokemon such as Hippowdon from setting up Stealth Rock. However, while Gliscor brings all these amazing attributes to the team, it stacks the type's natural weakness to Ice-type coverage and can be taken advantage by faster setup sweepers such as Mega Latias.

Ground

Gliscor's good bulk and movepool let it serve as an effective stallbreaker and defensive pivot on Ground teams. Poison Heal is a great defensive ability that allows Gliscor to avoid harmful status such as burns and heals 1/8 of its health every turn after it has been poisoned by a Toxic Orb. These traits allow it to switch into passive walls like Mantine and Celesteela and threaten them with Taunt. Gliscor is also one of the best users of Knock Off on Ground teams, helping remove items like Eviolite to make certain Pokemon like Chansey easier to break past. While Gliscor's secondary Flying typing grants it a useful neutrality to Grass-type attacks, it also burdens it with a 4x weakness to Ice-type moves, letting Pokemon that have Ice-type coverage such as Porygon-Z and Kyurem-B easily force it out. In addition, Gliscor's only decent bulk means powerful wallbreakers like Mega Gallade and Hydreigon can punch through it with little issue.

Most Used Moves

Roost
67.2%
Knock Off
48.8%
Taunt
45.5%
Protect
26.5%
Defog
26.2%

Most Used Items

Toxic Orb
99.7%
Icium Z
0.2%
Nothing
0.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc