Ash's Gliscor

Ash's Gliscor was the 45th pokemon Ash caught and his 45th overall. It was caught in Sinnoh.

## **Personality:**

Gliscor is quite the character and one of the most emotional Pokemon Ash owns. He also has the tendency to crash land on top of Ash due to his inability to glide properly or would land on him for comfort. Gliscor saw a noticeable confidence boost when he evolved as he learned to overcome most of his fears,especially his fear of facing other Pokemon. Despite his evolution,he still kept most of his personality. He still remains loyal to him and is more than willing to try to prove to be strong for his trainer and himself.

## **History:**

### **Diamond and Pearl:**

Ash caught Gliscor as a Gligar in **Riding the Winds of Change**,as it along with many other Gligar and a Gliscor,had become trapped in a city after being blown there by a violent windstorm. Gliscor's attempts at using sonar to navigate out of the city were blocked by the tall buildings and only served to attract more Gligar and the Pokemon soon formed a pack. The pack survived by picking fruit from trees and stealing food from humans. After Ash and his friends helped the pack,Gligar decided to travel with Ash,allowing him to capture it. In **The Bells are Singing**,Gligar was practicing gliding with Ash,but it made a wrong turn and accidentally crashed into a boulder. Shortly afterwards,it started being really clingy to Ash,making him recall it. Later,Gligar was used against Dawn's Buneary to show Francesca how Pokemon battles work. In **Chim - Charred**,after a brief talk and recap,Ash and Paul decide to have a battle,and Gligar volunteers to be Ash's first Pokemon. However,Gligar's sheer determination came to a screeching halt when Paul sends out *his* first Pokemon: the Gliscor leader from Gligar's former pack. Initially intimidated,Gligar pulled itself together and went in for an X-Scissor,but Gliscor put the breaks on Gligar with a Knock Off. Gligar recoverd and used Sand Attack,but Gliscor, unaffected,flew up and prepared a Guillotine attack. Gligar attempted to counter Gliscor with Steel Wing,but Gliscor's attack prevailed and defeated Gligar. Initially sad,Gligar becomes elated after being congratulated for effort by Ash and the rest of his Pokémon. In **Fighting Fear with Fear**,Ash decided to start training Gligar,but this was troublesome as Gligar,despite being eager to impress Ash,had developed a fear of battling following its loss to Gliscor. However,when Gligar and Ash were kidnapped by Team Rocket,Gligar showed it was determined to conquer its fears by perfecting X-Scissor. Later,in order to save Ash from a fall,it used the Razor Fang Ash received from Gary to evolve into Gliscor. It appears to have kept its personality traits even after evolution,as it still cries when scolded by Ash and also winks and sticks its tongue out.

Since evolving,Gliscor started to be used in more battles. In **Aiding the Enemy**,Gliscor was used as a sparring partner by Torterra to help illustrate how Grotle could deal with his reduced speed. In **Barry's Busting Out All Over**,Gliscor battled Barry's Roserade and after a long exchange of Poison Jab and X-Scissor attacks,the battle ended in a draw. In **A Breed Stampede**,Gliscor learned Fire Fang after being hit by an Ice Shard from Piloswine,and is revealed to have learned Screech some time off-screen. Its first Gym Battle was against Byron in **Dealing With Defensive Types**. In **Sliding Into Seventh**,it was Ash's third Pokemon in his Gym Battle against Candice,where it went up against her Snover. In **Pedal to the Mettle**,Gliscor battled Paul's Torterra in Ash's full battle against Paul. In **Uncrushing Defeat**,Gliscor,along with the rest of Ash's Sinnoh team,was under the care of Nurse Joy in the Lake Acuity Pokemon Center,suffering bodily repercussions from the rough Full Battle loss against Paul. Later,it helped rescue Pikachu from Team Rocket by obscuring their escape with Sand Attack,before blasting them off with X-Scissor. In **Mastering Current Events**,Gliscor had an Air Battle with the Air Battle Master,McCann and his Scizor. However,Gliscor was at a complete disadvantage; it could not make turns and kept crashing into rocks,and it was unable to land any attacks on or dodge any attacks from Scizor,so it lost badly. After training to read the wind with Ash the following night,they challenged McCann and Scizor to a rematch to assess how much Gliscor had improved. Gliscor did much better this time,being able to read the wind and therefore stop crashing into rocks,and it also managed to dodge some of Scizor's attacks and land its own. It even learned Giga Impact,but despite this vast improvement,Gliscor lost again. However,McCann revealed that he had become interested in training Gliscor due to how good of an Air Battler it was able to become in just one night,so Ash decided to leave Gliscor with him for further training.

### **Pokemon Journeys:**

Gliscor reunited with Ash alongside the other pokemon when Ash and Goh were visiting Oak's lab. He helped train Sirfetch'd for the Master Eight Tournament.

## **Moveset:**

* Sand Attack
* Screech
* Steel Wing
* X-Scissor
* Fire Fang
* Giga Impact
* Stone Edge
* Guillotine
* Swords Dance
* Poison Tail