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Charizard リザードン Rizaadon #006
Artwork from FR/LG
Type Fire Flying Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Flame Pokémon
Ability Blaze Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,059,860
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #006 Johto #231 Hoenn #208 Sinnoh — Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 0'0" Imperial 0.0 m Metric 0'0"/0.0 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 0.0 lbs. Imperial 0.0 kg Metric 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Unknown	Catch rate 45 (5.9%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Monster and Dragon groups 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 209 Battle Exp.: 2091*
External links {{Links/{{{generation}}}|pokefordex=charizard|ndex=006|name=Charizard }}

Charizard (Japanese: リザードン Rizaadon, German: Glurak, French: Dracaufeu) is a Fire/Flying-type Pokémon.

Charmeleon comes with the Ability Blaze, which increases the power of Fire-type attacks by 50% once the Pokémon has less than one-third of its maximum HP.

Charizard evolves from Charmeleon starting at Level 32.

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Red and Blue

Spits fire that is hot enough to melt boulders. Known to cause forest fires unintentionally.

Pokémon Yellow

When expelling a blast of super hot fire, the red flame at the tip of its tail burns more intensely.

Pokémon Stadium

Its fiery breath reaches incredible temperatures. It can quickly melt glaciers weighing 10,000 tons.

Pokémon Gold / Pokémon Stadium 2

If Charizard becomes furious, the flame at the tip of its tail flares up in a whitish-blue color.

Pokémon Silver

Breathing intense, hot flames, it can melt almost anything. Its breath inflicts terrible pain on enemies.

Pokémon Crystal

It uses its wings to fly high. The temperature of its fire increases as it gains experience in battle.

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

Charizard flies around the sky in search of powerful opponents. It breathes fire of such great heat that it melts anything. However, it never turns its fiery breath on any opponent weaker than itself.

Pokémon Emerald

A Charizard flies about in search of strong opponents. It breathes intense flames that can melt any material. However, it will never torch a weaker foe.

Pokémon FireRed

Its wings can carry this Pokémon close to an altitude of 4,600 feet. It blows out fire at very high temperatures.

Pokémon LeafGreen

It spits fire that is hot enough to melt boulders. It may cause forest fires by blowing flames.

Name origin

Charizard's name is a combination of the words char, to burn, and lizard. Lizardon, on the other hand, is a corruption of lizard.

Charizard resembles the European dragon, which had many forms in the legends that described it. Although it is a Fire-type Pokémon, it can learn Dragon-type attacks.

Base stats

Type effectiveness

RBY

Later versions

In the anime

Ash Ketchum has a Charizard that he obtained as a Charmander in Charmander the Stray Pokémon. It evolved into Charmeleon in March of the Exeggutor Squad and quickly evolved again into Charizard in Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon. From the time of its becoming Charmeleon to the Orange Islands episode Charizard Chills, Charizard refused to obey Ash. After Charizard Chills, however, it became one of Ash's strongest Pokémon, perhaps even stronger than Pikachu.

When James was in the Pokémon League Entrance Exam, he used a Charizard that he eventually tried to steal in EP056.

In EP134, Ash left his Charizard in the Charicific Valley with Lisa.

A Charizard was used by Team Rocket in EP248 in an elaborate plan to capture Pikachu. It was up against Ash's Totodile.

Learnset

Charizard is capable of learning the following moves (from its evolution onwards):
NOTE: Moves in bold are damage moves to which STAB apply.

By leveling up

By TM/HM

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