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Fire (type)

Revision as of 01:59, 4 January 2009 by Aura-Knight (talk | contribs) (Notable among Fire types, one of the rarest. Comparably, there are none for Ghost and Dragon, although Ice has Delibird.)

Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Notable trainers that specialize in Fire-type Pokémon include Blaine of Cinnabar Island, Flannery of Lavaridge Town, and Flint of the Sinnoh Elite Four.

Statistical averages

Overall

Stat
HP: 64
Attack: 81
Defense: 64
Sp.Atk: 86
Sp.Def: 72
Speed: 72
Total: 0


Fully evolved

Stat
HP: 79.24
Attack: 97.82
Defense: 82.00
Sp.Atk: 102.82
Sp.Def: 88.29
Speed: 79.29
Total: 0


Battle properties

Generation I

Fire-type moves:

  • Are super effective against: Bug, Grass, Ice
  • Are not very effective against: Dragon, Fire, Rock, Water
  • Have no effect against: None

Fire-type Pokémon:

Generation II-onwards

Fire-type moves:

Fire-type Pokémon:

Characteristics

Fire isn't the best type defensively. Ground, Rock, and Water moves are all very common, while most of the Fire-type's resistances are of little use. Fire-type Pokémon will not survive too long in battle; they must deal damage quickly in order to earn their slot on a team. This reflects the nature of fire being a very destructive force yet at the same time being very fragile.

Offensively, Fire is much more useful. The ability to deal super effective damage to Steel-type Pokémon is very useful for Pokémon that specialize in physical moves, as many Steel-type Pokémon typically have high Defense but a low Special Defense and would have little trouble with any physical moves thrown at them. Also Fire moves are generally powerful, with half of its damaging moves having 100 or more for power and 11 out of 16 having 80 or more.

Quantity-wise Fire-types are rare, with only 17 fully evolved Pokémon among them, of which there are four legendaries and four starter Pokémon. So technically, only 9 Fire-type Pokémon are easily available. This makes sense as most forms of fire are extremely rare in nature. Fire-types are much rarer in colder regions than in warmer ones, as proven with Hoenn and Sinnoh's Pokédex listings, which have the most and the least Fire-types, respectively, if not counting the Johto dex (which counted all ten Fire-type evolution families that were known at the time).

Pokémon

Pure Fire-type Pokémon

# Name
004   Charmander
005   Charmeleon
037   Vulpix
038   Ninetales
058   Growlithe
059   Arcanine
077   Ponyta
078   Rapidash
126   Magmar
136   Flareon
155   Cyndaquil
156   Quilava
157   Typhlosion
218   Slugma
240   Magby
244   Entei
255   Torchic
324   Torkoal
390   Chimchar
467   Magmortar

Half Fire-type Pokémon

Primary Fire-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2
006   Charizard Fire Flying
146   Moltres Fire Flying
219   Magcargo Fire Rock
250   Ho-Oh Fire Flying
256   Combusken Fire Fighting
257   Blaziken Fire Fighting
322   Numel Fire Ground
323   Camerupt Fire Ground
391   Monferno Fire Fighting
392   Infernape Fire Fighting
485   Heatran Fire Steel

Secondary Fire-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2
228   Houndour Dark Fire
229   Houndoom Dark Fire

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name Category Contest Power Accuracy PP Target Notes
Blast Burn   Beauty 150 90% 5 One foe The user must rest on the next turn.
Blaze Kick   Beauty 85 90% 10 One foe Has a high critical hit ratio. Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Ember   Beauty 40 100% 25 One foe Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Eruption   Beauty 150 100% 5 Both foes The less HP the user has, the weaker this move's power.
Fire Blast   Beauty 120 85% 5 One foe Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Fire Fang   Beauty 65 95% 15 One foe Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent and cause flinching.
Fire Punch   Beauty 75 100% 15 One foe Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Fire Spin   Beauty 15 70% 15 One foe Attacks for two to five turns.
Flame Wheel   Beauty 60 100% 25 One foe Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Flamethrower   Beauty 95 100% 15 One foe Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Flare Blitz   Smart 120 100% 15 One foe User takes 1/3 recoil damage.
Heat Wave   Beauty 100 90% 10 Both foes Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Lava Plume   Tough 80 100% 15 Everyone else Has a 30% chance of burning the opponent.
Magma Storm   Tough 120 70% 5 One foe Attacks for two to five turns.
Overheat   Beauty 140 90% 5 One foe Lowers user's Special Attack by two stages.
Sacred Fire   Beauty 100 95% 5 One foe Has a 50% chance of burning the opponent.

Non-damaging moves

Name Category Contest Power Accuracy PP Target Notes
Sunny Day   Beauty — — 5 All Causes sunlight to intensify for five turns.
Will-O-Wisp   Beauty — 75% 15 One foe Inflicts a burn.

Trivia

  • Fifteen of the eighteen Fire-type moves are Beauty moves in Contests. The only three that aren't Beauty moves were newly introduced in Generation IV, meaning that in Generation III, all Fire-type moves were Beauty moves.
  • There has yet to be a Fire-type with a secondary type that nullifies its Water weakness, while many other types have had secondaries that nullify their primary and most well-known weaknesses. Fire's other two weaknesses, Rock and Ground, have been nullified by a several Pokémon's secondary types— by the starter Pokémon Charizard, Blaziken, and Infernape nonetheless.
  • It is interesting to note that in the Hoenn region games, Fire-type moves could be used underwater, as well as Fire types like Charmander being able to battle underwater, even though its Pokédex entries point out that it will die if its flame goes out.
  • The three types that Fire is weak to (Ground, Rock, and Water) all share a weakness to Template:Type2 attacks.
  • Although the Fire-type is weak to Template:Type2 moves, most Fire-type Pokémon belong in the Ground egg group.
  • Torkoal is the only non-Legendary Fire-type not to be related by evolution to another Pokémon.

In other languages

  • French: Feu
  • German: Feuer
  • Italian: Fuoco
  • Japanese: ほのお (炎) honō
  • Korean: 불꽃 bulkkot
  • Spanish: Fuego
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