Flare Blitz (move)

Flare Blitz フレアドライブ Flare Drive

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Battles Type  Fire Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  120 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Makes 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 Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

Availability Introduced  Generation IV Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  8 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Flare Blitz (Japanese: フレアドライブ Flare Drive) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Flare Blitz inflicts damage, and the user receives recoil damage equal to 1/3 of the damage done to the target. This move has a 10% chance of burning the target.

Learnset

Generation IV

#   Pokémon Type Level 0006 Charizard Fire Flying 66 0058 Growlithe Fire 48 0077 Ponyta Fire 48 0077 Ponyta Fire 46 0078 Rapidash Fire 58 0078 Rapidash Fire 56 0256 Combusken Fire Fighting 54 0257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 66 0391 Monferno Fire Fighting 49 0392 Infernape Fire Fighting 57 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0004 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Charmander
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Charizard |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0037 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Vulpix
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Growlithe
Ponyta, Rapidash
Combusken, Blaziken
Monferno, Infernape |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0058 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Growlithe
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Growlithe
Ponyta, Rapidash
Combusken, Blaziken
Monferno, Infernape |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0155 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cyndaquil
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Growlithe
Ponyta, Rapidash
Combusken, Blaziken
Monferno, Infernape |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0240 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Magby
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Monferno, Infernape

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Trivia

• Chimchar and Torchic are the only Template:Type2 starter Pokémon that cannot learn Flare Blitz, though their evolutions can.
• Typhlosion is the only fully evolved Template:Type2 starter Pokémon to not learn Flare Blitz by level up.

In other languages

• Dutch: Vlamblitz
• German: Flammenblitz
• French: Boutefeu
• Spanish: Envite Ígneo
• Italian: Fuococarica

Variations of the move Double-Edge
Double-Edge • Volt Tackle • Flare Blitz • Brave Bird • Wood Hammer • Wave Crash

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