Blaze (Ability)

Blaze	もうか
	Raging Flames
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Blaze (Japanese: もうか Raging Flames) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Thirteen Pokémon have this ability; each one of them is a member of the evolution family of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, or Isshu's Template:Type2 starter Pokémon.

Effect

In battle

When a Pokémon with Blaze uses a Template:Type2 move, the power will increase by 1.5x if the user has less than or equal to 33% of its maximum HP remaining.

Outside of battle

Blaze has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Blaze will deal double the damage if the Pokémon using it is below 25% of its HP.

Pokémon with Blaze

Single ability

#	Pokémon		Type
004		Charmander	Fire		Poison
005		Charmeleon	Fire		Poison
006		Charizard	Fire	Flying
155		Cyndaquil	Fire		Poison
156		Quilava	Fire		Poison
157		Typhlosion	Fire		Poison
255		Torchic	Fire		Poison
256		Combusken	Fire	Fighting
257		Blaziken	Fire	Fighting
390		Chimchar	Fire		Poison
391		Monferno	Fire	Fighting
392		Infernape	Fire	Fighting
497		Pokabu	Fire		Poison
498		Chaobu	Fire	Fighting

Dual ability

No Pokémon have Blaze as one of their two abilities.

In the anime

• Blaziken Blaze.png

  Blaziken using Blaze

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  Chimchar

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  Monferno

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  Infernape

Blaziken. Blaziken's body becomes surrounded by a fiery aura.

• Activated by May's Blaziken in Once More with Reeling! Debut

Chimchar Chimchar's body becomes surrounded by fire, or the flame on Chimchar's backside grows larger and its fire attacks become more powerful.

• Activated by Ash's Chimchar in Shapes of Things to Come!, Glory Blaze!, Tears for Fears!, and Chim-Charred!.

Monferno Monferno's eyes glow red and the flame on its tail grows to a massive size, powering up Monferno's Fire-type attacks.

• Activated by Ash's Monferno in Fighting Ire with Fire!.

Infernape Infernape's eyes glow red, its flame on its head grows larger, and its fire attacks become more powerful.

• Activated by Ash's Infernape in The Eighth Wonder of the Sinnoh World! and DP188.

In other languages

• Chinese: 猛火 Fierce Flames
• Dutch: Vlamgloed
• French: Brasier
• German: Großbrand
• Hindi: Jwala
• Italian: Aiutofuoco
• Korean: 맹화 menghwa
• Portuguese: Chama
• Spanish: Mar Llamas (Llamarada in the Latin American dub)

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.