with gliscor now able to get s.rock with DW, will defensive gliscor come back?
Defensive Gliscor never left lol It has been in the top ten consistently for as long as I have known.
I have been playing with Gliscor a lot recently and I have found the best set is actually the classic Britscor set with Poison Heal over Sand Veil. It still can beat conkeldurr (lacking Ice Punch) and it can still break stall. To those who say that without Ice Fang Gliscor can not touch Skarmory, how does Skarmory touch Gliscor? It can't and it will be PP stalled out of Brave Birds :) I always find the problem with TauntSD Gliscor that chip attacks, such as Brave Bird, would take its toll on it since Poison Heal wouldn't heal fast enough. This is mitigated by Roost now. The classic:
Gliscor (F) @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EVs: 252 HP / 176 Def / 80 Spd
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Taunt
- Earthquake
- Toxic
- Roost
Taunt is the crux of Britscor, making stuff it very easy to break stall and prevent set up of any kind. STAB EQ is always nice and lets you chip at stuff without recovery (also prevents Taunt bait). If you got a defensive wall, use Toxic to break it down turn by turn. Toxic is pretty much this sets main form of damage, but it Toxic stalls very well. Roost means that Gliscor can laugh at chip damage and aids in Toxic stalling.
Of course since this is gen 5 we have to give a modern twist to Britscor. Poison Heal aids in that Toxic stalling even more, but more importantly gives you a status immunity. The EV's and nature means you can still wall stuff, such as Conkeldurr and Toxicroack. The speed EV's mean you can speed creep other Gliscor and Sp. Def Jirachi to kill with EQ or Taunt so it doesn't undo any damage you have done while retaining the extra defensive point. If you want more speed, take 8 EV's out of HP so you retain that defense point.