Poison-Heal
Summary
Poison Heal is a unique and highly beneficial ability in the Pokémon series that fundamentally alters a Pokémon's interaction with the condition of being poisoned. Instead of suffering damage from being poisoned or severely poisoned, a Pokémon equipped with the Poison Heal ability will instead regain health every turn. Here are the crucial aspects and intriguing details about this ability:
Effects:
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Healing Mechanism: A Pokémon possessing Poison Heal that gets poisoned (either simple poison or severe poison), will regain 1/8th of its maximum HP at the conclusion of each round instead of losing health. This makes Poison Heal an influential tool for self-sustain and gradual recovery.
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Substitute Synergy: Poison Heal excellently synergizes with moves such as Substitute, enabling the Pokémon to create a decoy at the expense of some HP. The health restored due to Poison Heal can counterbalance the HP loss from utilizing Substitute multiple times, facilitating strategic gameplay.
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Status Immunity: Additionally, a Poison Heal Pokémon's status cannot be changed to another condition like sleep or paralysis while it is poisoned. This attribute provides an additional level of protection, further enhancing the benefits of this ability.
Effects
- If this Pokémon is poisoned, it will heal for 1/8 of its maximum HP after each turn rather than taking damage. This includes bad poison.
Flavor Texts
- diamond-pearl: Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned.
- platinum: Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned.
- heartgold-soulsilver: Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned.
- black-white: Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned.
- black-2-white-2: Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned.
- x-y: Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned.
- omega-ruby-alpha-sapphire: Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned.
- sun-moon: Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned, instead of losing HP.
- ultra-sun-ultra-moon: Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned, instead of losing HP.
- lets-go-pikachu-lets-go-eevee: Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned instead of losing HP.
- sword-shield: Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned instead of losing HP.
- scarlet-violet: If poisoned, the Pokémon has its HP restored instead of taking damage.
Pokémon with the Poison-Heal ability
Shroomish
285 - Grass
Breloom
286 - Grass, Fighting
Gliscor
472 - Ground, Flying