Blast Burn (move)

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Blast Burn
ブラストバーン Blast Burn
Blast Burn.png
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Type  Fire
Category  Special
PP  5 (max. 8)
Power  150
Accuracy  90%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
May affect anyone adjacent to the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥
Jam  4 ♥♥♥♥
Jams the others, and misses one turn of appeals.
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Blast Burn (Japanese: ブラストバーン Blast Burn) is a damage-dealing Fire-type move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Blast Burn inflicts damage and then forces the user to recharge during the next turn. Unless this attack misses, the user will always have to recharge.

Description

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Games Description
RSE Powerful, but leaves the user immobile the next turn.
FRLG The foe is hit with a huge explosion. The user can’t move on the next turn.
DPPtHGSS The foe is razed by a fiery explosion. The user must rest on the next turn, however.
BW The target is razed by a fiery explosion. The user must rest on the next turn, however.


Learnset

By Move Tutor

Various Move Tutors will teach Blast Burn to the fully evolved Fire-type starters if their friendship rating is maximized:


# Pokémon Type Game
FRLG E XD DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2
006 Charizard Charizard Fire Flying
157 Typhlosion Typhlosion Fire Fire
257 Blaziken Blaziken Fire Fighting
392 Infernape Infernape Fire Fighting
500 Emboar Emboar Fire Fighting
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

Special move

Generation III

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with
0155 Cyndaquil Cyndaquil
Fire Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
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 event

Generation V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with
0004 004 Charmander Fire Sticker Promotional Kanto Starter Eggs
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 manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga


In other generations

Trivia

  • Smeargle is the only Pokémon that is not a Fire-type starter Pokémon able to learn Blast Burn, due to Sketch.
  • Mew, though repeatedly said on the Pokédex to be able to learn any move, is not able to learn Blast Burn because the tutors only want to teach it to Fire-type starter Pokémon.
  • Blast Burn is the only variant of Hyper Beam not to be used in the anime.
  • In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, the Pokémon's IQ must be over 3-3.5 to learn Blast Burn at Level 72.
  • Despite being called Blast Burn in numerous languages, it cannot inflict the Burn status ailment at all.
  • Despite being called the strongest Fire-type move, V-create has a base power of 180, 30 more than Blast Burn.
    • That said, Blast Burn was the strongest Fire-type move before Generation V.
  • Blast Burn and its variations are tied with Quick Attack and its variations with the largest number of variations to a single move.

In other languages

Language Title
Mandarin Chinese 爆炸燃燒 Bàozhà Ránshāo
The Netherlands Flag.png Dutch Vlamschot
France Flag.png French Rafale Feu
Germany Flag.png German Lohekanonade
Greece Flag.png Greek Πυρκαγιά
Italy Flag.png Italian Incendio
South Korea Flag.png Korean 블래스트번 Blast Burn
Portuguese Brazil Flag.png Brazil Explosão de Chamas
Portugal Flag.png Portugal Golpe de Fogo
Serbia Flag.png Serbian Spaljujuća Eksplozija
Spain Flag.png Spanish Anillo Ígneo



Variations of the move Hyper Beam
PhysicalIC HOME.png Giga ImpactRock Wrecker
SpecialIC HOME.png Hyper BeamBlast BurnHydro CannonFrenzy PlantRoar of Time


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