{"id":261208,"date":"2023-11-17T04:06:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=315618"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:38:54","slug":"the-pokemon-banned-after-17-years-a-creature-can-no-longer-be-able-to-fight-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-pokemon-banned-after-17-years-a-creature-can-no-longer-be-able-to-fight-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forbidden Pok\u00e9mon: after 17 years, a creature will never be able to battle again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, there are over a thousand <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/netflix-and-pokemon-join-forces-to-make-the-most-adorable-series-that-ever-existed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pok\u00e9mon<\/a>, and <strong>only a few are in the select club of being unable to play in the competitive scene<\/strong>. Mewtwo, Deoxys, Blaziken, Aegislash, Dragonite, Mega Gengar, or, of course, Arceus, are just some of the creatures that, in a competitive match, would break the game too much in their favor. Today, another Pok\u00e9mon joins this group, and if you&#8217;re a casual fan, it&#8217;s very possible that you&#8217;ve never even heard of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I don&#8217;t choose you<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re talking about Gliscor, a Ground\/Flying type <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/the-far-fetched-reason-why-pokemon-was-banned-in-saudi-arabia-and-other-countries-in-2001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> that was introduced in Diamond\/Pearl, back in 2006. It&#8217;s the evolution of Gligar, which itself requires patience to obtain: it must level up at night while holding a Razor Fang. For 17 years, it&#8217;s been used in battles, but <strong>some players have complained that its hidden ability tilted fights unfairly in its favor<\/strong>. Is this true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes and no. But mostly, yes. You see: in one-on-one battles (though most <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/nintendo-doesnt-want-you-to-play-that-super-smash-bros-tournament-and-has-imposed-draconian-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">competitive<\/a> battles are two-on-two), Gliscor often seals the deal. This wasn&#8217;t the case until Generation 5, when Hidden Abilities were introduced. Follow along, it gets a bit complex: <strong>this creature has the ability Poison Heal, meaning whenever it&#8217;s poisoned, it automatically heals itself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1-664x374.jpg 664w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1-238x134.jpg 238w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1-436x246.jpg 436w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1-304x170.jpg 304w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/gliscor-1-768x433-1.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The issue arises when you equip Gliscor with a Toxic Orb &#8211; usually used to poison a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/a-pokemon-go-player-finds-the-hardest-creature-to-catch-and-loses-it-catastrophically\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> and gradually reduce its health. However, with Gliscor, the opposite happens; <strong>it heals a sixth of its health after each turn<\/strong>. Essentially, it can use Toxic on its opponent and wait for them to faint while steadily recovering from incoming attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This ban leads to more problems. Some argue that the Pok\u00e9mon that should have been banned is Gholdengo, which when paired with Gliscor creates an almost unbeatable team. But that&#8217;s not all: <strong>creatures like Landorus-Therian, without the threat of Gliscor, can regain dominance in the competitive scene<\/strong>, creating another issue for the organization. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/pokemon-saddest-moments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Ash Ketchum<\/a> never dealt with these kinds of situations, did he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been used in battles for 17 years, but some players have complained that its hidden ability tilted fights in their favor and were unfair. It&#8217;s true?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":261211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[5572,1343,3871],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-261208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionpokemon-scarlet-and-violet","tag-pokemon","tag-videojuegos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316380,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261208\/revisions\/316380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261208"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=261208"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=261208"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=261208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}