Poison Heal (Ability)

Poison Heal	ポイズンヒール
	Poison Heal
Flavor text Generation IV Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned. Generation V Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned. Generation VI Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned. Generation VII Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned, instead of losing HP. Generation VIII Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned instead of losing HP. Generation IX If poisoned, the Pokémon has its HP restored instead of taking damage.

Poison Heal (Japanese: ポイズンヒール Poison Heal) is an Ability introduced in Generation IV. Prior to Generation V and in Generation IX, it is the signature Ability of Shroomish and Breloom.

Effect

In battle

If the Pokémon is poisoned or badly poisoned, it will gain 1/8 of its maximum HP at the end of each turn instead of taking damage.

When a Pokémon with Poison Heal is badly poisoned, this has no effect on the Pokémon's HP recovery. However, the bad poison counter still increases each turn even if the Pokémon has Poison Heal; as such, if Gastro Acid is used on the Pokémon with Poison Heal after being badly poisoned for five turns, it will incur poison damage starting at 5/16 (instead of 1/16).

If a poisoned Pokémon with Poison Heal is affected by Heal Block, it will be neither healed nor damaged by the poison.

Outside of battle

Poison Heal has no effect outside of battle, so in Generation IV, poison will still hurt a Pokémon outside of battle even if it has this Ability.

Pokémon with Poison Heal

#	Pokémon	Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
	Shroomish	Grass		Grass	Effect Spore	Poison Heal	Quick Feet
	Breloom	Grass	Fighting	Effect Spore	Poison Heal	Technician
	Gliscor	Ground	Flying	Hyper Cutter	Sand Veil	Poison Heal
Please note that this is only 100% accurate to Generation IX games. For Generation III games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation IV or later and Hidden Abilities. For Generation IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities. For Generation V games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VI or later. For Generation VI games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VII or later. For Generation VII games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation VIII or later. For Generation VIII games, ignore Abilities introduced in Generation IX or later.

In other games

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon

When the Pokémon is poisoned or badly poisoned, the Pokémon recovers HP rather than taking damage.

In Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, a Pokémon with this Ability recovers 0.5% of their maximum HP each turn, and an additional 6 HP every 10 turns, when poisoned or badly poisoned.

Description

Games Description MDTDS Enables the Pokémon to recover HP when poisoned rather than taking damage. BSL ひざしがつよい てんきだと わるいじょうたいに ならないどくを うけても ダメージをうけずに ＨＰが かいふくする MDGtI Unavailable SMD The Pokémon takes no damage when it's poisoned or badly poisoned. It also naturally recovers more easily than usual! MDRTDX The Pokémon absorbs the damage it would usually take from being Poisoned or Badly Poisoned, instead restoring its own HP.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 毒療 Duhklìuh Mandarin 毒療 / 毒疗 Dúliáo French Soin Poison German GiftheilungIX+ AufheberIV–VIII Italian Velencura Korean 포이즌힐 Poison Heal Spanish Antídoto

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