Flare Blitz
フレアドライブ Flare Drive
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Type  Fire
Category  Physical
PP  15 (max. 24)
Power  120
Accuracy  100%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
May affect anyone adjacent to the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation IV
Condition  Smart
Appeal  8 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Jam  0  
Condition  Smart
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Flare Blitz (Japanese: フレアドライブ Flare Drive) is a damage-dealing Fire-type move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Flare Blitz will thaw out the user if it is frozen, and then inflict damage on the target.

Flare Blitz will cause the user to receive recoil damage equal to ⅓ of the damage done to the target. This move has a 10% chance of burning the target.

Description

Games Description
The user cloaks itself in fire and charges at the foe. The user sustains serious damage, too.
The user cloaks itself in fire and charges at the target. The user sustains serious damage and may leave the target burned.


Learnset

By leveling up

# Pokémon Type Level
I II III IV V VI
006   Charizard Fire Flying 66 77 ''''
058   Growlithe Fire Fire 48 56 45 ''''
077   Ponyta Fire Fire 48 46 49 ''''
078   Rapidash Fire Fire 58 56 49 ''''
256   Combusken Fire Fighting 54 54 ''''
257   Blaziken Fire Fighting 66 66 ''''
391   Monferno Fire Fighting 49 56 ''''
392   Infernape Fire Fighting 57 68 ''''
494   Victini Psychic Fire   73 ''''
498   Tepig Fire Fire   43 ''''
499   Pignite Fire Fighting   52 ''''
500   Emboar Fire Fighting   62 ''''
554   Darumaka Fire Fire   33 ''''
555   Darmanitan Fire Fire   33 ''''
636   Larvesta Bug Fire   100 ''''
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.
A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method.
An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.


By breeding

# Pokémon Type Father
II III IV V VI
004   Charmander Fire Fire    
037   Vulpix Fire Fire                     
058   Growlithe Fire Fire                     
155   Cyndaquil Fire Fire                     
240   Magby Fire Fire      
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.
A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method.
An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.


By event

Generation IV

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with
0244   Entei Fire 13th Movie Event
GameStop Event
English Winter 2011
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB
from this move.


In the anime

 
Emboar
 
Darmanitan
 
Entei
 
Infernape
The user cloaks itself in fire and charges at the foe.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
  Infernape's body becomes surrounded by red-orange fire and it shoots at the opponent like a missile, slamming into it with great force. Sometimes as its charging at the opponent, the fire around it turns light blue. When the attack is over, red sparks surround Infernape's body as it takes recoil damage.
Flint's Infernape Flint Sparks the Fire! Debut
Ash's Infernape Working on a Right Move! None
  Entei charges at the opponent. As it does, it leaves behind a trail of orange fire. The fire then reaches Entei and circles around its body until completely covering Entei's body like a fiery aura. Entei then slams into the opponent with great force. As it runs, it leaves behind a trail of orange fire.
Entei (M13) Zoroark: Master of Illusions Game event-based specimen
  Emboar crosses its arms in front of its face and its body suddenly becomes engulfed in red flames. Emboar then puts its arms down and soars straight at the opponent like a missile. While flying towards the opponent, only its head can be seen, and its body becomes covered in spiraling red-yellow fire while it becomes surrounded in red-orange fire. Emboar then flies into the opponent, or Emboar's body becomes surrounded in light blue flames and it shoots like a missile at the opponent, slamming into it.
Tatsuki's Emboar White—Victini and Zekrom
Black—Victini and Reshiram
None
Shamus's Emboar Evolution by Fire! None
  Darmanitan's body becomes surrounded in light blue flames and it shoots like a missile at the opponent, slamming into it. As it fires itself at the opponent, a stream of light blue fire is left behind it.
Bianca's father's Red Flash Darmanitan Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader! None


In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga


In other generations

Trivia

In other languages

Language Title
Mandarin Chinese 爆炎電擊 Bàoyán Diànjí
  Dutch Vonkbliksem
  French Boutefeu
  German Flammenblitz
  Greek Πύρινη Φωτοβολίδα
  Indonesian Flare Blitz
  Italian Fuococarica
  Korean 플레어드라이브 Flare Drive
  Brazilian Portuguese Bombardeio de Chamas
Spanish   Latin America Bombardeo
  Spain Envite Ígneo



Variations of the move Double-Edge
  Double-EdgeVolt TackleFlare BlitzBrave BirdWood HammerWave Crash


  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.