Flamethrower
かえんほうしゃ Blaze Emission

Battles

Type	Fire
Category	Special
PP	15 (max. 24)
Power	95
Accuracy	100%
Priority	0
Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range

Opponent	Opponent	Opponent
Self	Ally	Ally
Unknown

Availability

Introduced	[[Generation {{{gen}}}]]
Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests

Condition	Beauty
Appeal	4 ♥♥♥♥
Jam	0
A highly appealing move.

Super Contests

Condition	Beauty
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs first in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars

Condition	Beauty
Appeal	0
Jamming	0

On Smogon's Movedex:
- Generation IX

Flamethrower (Japanese: かえんほうしゃ Blaze Emission) is a very damaging Fire-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Flamethrower does damage and has a 9.8% chance of burning the opponent.

Flamethrower can't burn an opponent that has a Substitute or already has a major status ailment.

Generation II and on

Same as Generation I, but with a 10% chance of burn instead.

In the anime

Houndoom using Flamethrower.PNG

Harrison's Houndoom using Flamethrower.
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Ash's Cyndaquil using Flamethrower.
Chimchar Flamethrower.jpg

Ash's Chimchar using Flamethrower.

Pokémon

Houndoom. A yellow-red-orange flame spirals out from its mouth.

User by Harrison's Houndoom in Playing with Fire!

Solrock. The fire is created in the middle of its top rock. It creates orange circles around the flame.

Used by a wild Solrock in Take the Lombre Home! in a dream of Jessie, James and Meowth, however the dub version says it was Ember.

Cyndaquil. A red-orange flame spirals out of its mouth.

Used by Ash's Cyndaquil from ??? to ???

Chimchar. A red-yellow flame is released out of its mouth.

Used by Ash's Chimchar from ??? to ???.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

File:Charizard flamethrower.jpg

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Flamethrower is Charizard's standard Special move.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

Charmander at Lv.38
Charmeleon at Lv.42
Charizard at Lv.46
Vulpix at Lv.35
Growlithe at Lv.50
Magmar at Lv.55
Flareon at Lv.54 (R/G/B)
Flareon at Lv.52 (Yel.)

Generation II

By leveling up

Charmander at Lv.31
Charmeleon at Lv.34
Charizard at Lv.34
Vulpix at Lv.31
Growlithe at Lv.50
Magmar at Lv.41
Flareon at Lv.52
Moltres at Lv.49
Cyndaquil at Lv.46
Quilava at Lv.54
Typhlosion at Lv.60
Slugma at Lv.36
Magcargo at Lv.36
Houndour at Lv.35
Houndoom at Lv.41
Magby at Lv.37
Entei at Lv.51

By move tutor

In Pokémon Crystal

Generation III

By leveling up

Charmander at Lv.31
Charmeleon at Lv.34
Charizard at Lv.34
Vulpix at Lv.29
Growlithe at Lv.49
Magmar at Lv.41
Flareon at Lv.52
Moltres at Lv.49
Cyndaquil at Lv.46
Quilava at Lv.54
Typhlosion at Lv.60
Slugma at Lv.36
Magcargo at Lv.36
Houndour at Lv.43
Houndoom at Lv.51
Magby at Lv.37
Entei at Lv.51
Torchic at Lv.43
Numel at Lv.41
Torkoal at Lv.30

By TM35

Generation IV

By leveling up

Charmander at Lv.34
Charmeleon at Lv.39
Charizard at Lv.42
Vulpix at Lv.24
Growlithe at Lv.34
Magmar at Lv.41
Moltres at Lv.36
Cyndaquil at Lv.37
Quilava at Lv.42
Typhlosion at Lv.42
Slugma at Lv.53
Magcargo at Lv.61
Houndour at Lv.43
Houndoom at Lv.48
Magby at Lv.37
Entei at Lv.36
Torchic at Lv.43
Numel at Lv.45
Torkoal at Lv.28
Chimchar at Lv.41
Skuntank at Lv.34
Magmortar at Lv.43

By TM35

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Long-range attack that fires in a straight line. May cause a burn.

In other languages

French: Lance-flamme, German: Flammenwurf, Italian: Lanciafiamme, Spanish: Lanzallamas Template:Project MoveDex notice

Variations of the move Flamethrower

Flamethrower • Ice Beam • Thunderbolt

Generation III TMs
01 • 02 • 03 • 04 • 05 • 06 • 07 • 08 • 09 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 • 50
Generation III HMs
01 • 02 • 03 • 04 • 05 • 06 • 07 • 08^RSE

Generation IV TMs
01 • 02 • 03 • 04 • 05 • 06 • 07 • 08 • 09 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 47 • 48 • 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 • 53 • 54 • 55 • 56 • 57 • 58 • 59 • 60 • 61 • 62 • 63 • 64 • 65 • 66 • 67 • 68 • 69 70 • 71 • 72 • 73 • 74 • 75 • 76 • 77 • 78 • 79 • 80 • 81 • 82 • 83 • 84 • 85 • 86 • 87 • 88 • 89 • 90 • 91 • 92
Generation IV HMs
01 • 02 • 03 • 04 • 05 (DPPt • HGSS) • 06 • 07 • 08

Flamethrower (move)

Contents

Effect

Generation I

Generation II and on

In the anime

Pokémon

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

Generation II

By leveling up

By move tutor

In Pokémon Crystal

Generation III

By leveling up

By TM35

Generation IV

By leveling up

By TM35

In other games

In other languages