What it does on the ladder
Gliscor appears on 0.10% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 194th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Tailwind, on 66.3% of sets.
The item is usually Life Orb at 20.4%.
The ability is split: Hyper Cutter on 71.6%, Sand Veil on 18.6% and Poison Heal on 9.8%.
Those are Smogon's published usage figures, not anything measured here, and they describe what
the ladder plays rather than what is strongest. The full set is in the panel above.
The Pokémon itself
Gliscor is number 472 in the National Dex, a Sinnoh Pokémon, Ground and Flying
with a base stat total of 510 — 98th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Defense at 125, 20th
in the format; its weakest is Sp. Atk at 45, 221st.
It can have Hyper Cutter, Sand Veil and Poison Heal.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Gligar → Gliscor.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Gligar is not.
What gets through
As Ground and Flying, 2 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it, and Ice lands for quadruple. It
resists 3 and is immune to 2. The board above
has all of it. No other legal Pokémon has this typing.
What threatens it
Smogon publishes no head-to-head checks-and-counters data for doubles formats, so this list is
computed, not measured: the most-played Regulation M-B Pokémon carrying a damaging
move of a type Gliscor takes extra damage from.
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×2), on 96.6% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Ice Fang (Ice, ×4), on 60.6% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Water Spout (Water, ×2), on 96.4% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Wave Crash (Water, ×2), on 97.6% of its sets
- Milotic — Scald (Water, ×2), on 52.5% of its sets
- Ninetales-Alola — Blizzard (Ice, ×4), on 96.6% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Gliscor reaches
161 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
115. Invested, it outruns 12 of the 20
most-used Pokémon in the regulation when they are invested too — which is the comparison that
decides who moves first.
It weighs 42.5 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 60 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Gliscor learns 108 moves in the Champions data.
71 of them do damage, across 16 of the eighteen
types, and 12 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Sky Attack at 140 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Feint at +2 and Quick Attack at +1.
That pool is what the team builder reads from when you seat it, and the
damage calculator will take it as the attacker with
the form already chosen.
