Poison Heal (Ability)

Poison Heal	ポイズンヒール
	Poison Heal
Flavor text Generation III Currently unknown Generation IV Restores HP if the Pokémon is poisoned. Generation V Currently unknown Generation VI Currently unknown Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Poison Heal (Japanese: ポイズンヒール Poison Heal) is an ability introduced in Generation IV. Three Pokémon have this ability.

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 of its turns instead of taking damage.

Outside of battle

Poison Heal has no effect outside of battle. Poison will still have its normal effect on the user outside of battle. From Generation V onwards, poison will no longer hurt the user with the ability poison heal outside of battle.

Pokémon with Poison Heal

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0285		Shroomish	Grass		Grass	Effect Spore	Poison Heal	Quick Feet
0286		Breloom	Grass	Fighting	Effect Spore	Poison Heal	Technician
0472		Gliscor	Ground	Flying	Hyper Cutter	Sand Veil	Poison Heal
Please note that Abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

In other languages

• Spanish: Antídoto (named like the poison-healing item)
• Italian: Velencura

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.