Daily poll. Burn or poison?

[Fairy Tale~]

Which do you think is more effective in competitive play Burn or Poison?

 

[Sonata]

Poison, if you block a pokemon from being switched out and then poison it all you have to do is sit back and relax for the couple of turns it takes for the damage to increase enough to kill it.

 

[donavannj]

Poison by far. It ain't even close. Burn damage requires flipping between turns, while Poison does not.

 

[eeveeandmew]

i find that it depends. if you are fighting a physical attacker or steel type, use burn for best results. Otherwise, use poison/ toxic.

 

[Profen]

Poison, thx to Virbank City Gym. Stuff like Crobat also make poison a huge threat. Also with the addition of the Dragalge. It also prevents the defending pokemon from retreating if they are poisoned.

 

[Fairy Tale~]

Poison is the winner!
Request to be locked.

 

[Sandslash Fan]

I voted Burn for this.

Poison is okay, but I think people are confusing it with the Poison status that the move Toxic inflicts (which is different since the damage per-turn increases).

Burn actually reduces damage your Pokemon will take from Physical attacks. The net gain you get in survivability is far better than letting something tick down to fainted and continuing to take full-damage hits.

Sorry, this was a TCG question *blush*