Sheer Force Life Orb at Life

Sheer Force Life Orb. This pokemon's attacks with secondary effects have 1.3x power; The second effect (despite being intentional or not) is that when using said secondary effect move while holding the life orb, the life orb won't drain away the user's health but still give the user the 30% boost in base power.

The life orb damages its holder. The key point of braviary is to maximum the damage from your moves with sheer force and the life orb boosting braviary's strong attack stat on all these physical moves. Whirlwind allows braviary to prevent trick room from being set up, even against opponents with mental herb, but the loss of protect really hurts braviary, with his relatively low speed and weaknesses to rock slide and discharge.

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Since nidoking has sheer force as an ability, the life orb recoil is ignored but the item still provides a damage boost. This is how its supposed to work. However, this assumes you use a move that activates sheer force obviously. However, when sheer force negates life orb's recoil, ie.