Fire (type)

Template:ElementalTypes The Fire type (Japanese: ほのおタイプ Flame type) is one of the seventeen elemental types. Notable Trainers that specialize in Fire-type Pokémon include Blaine of Cinnabar Island, Flannery of Lavaridge Town, Flint of the Sinnoh Elite Four, and Chili of Striaton City. Prior to Generation IV, where moves are designated physical or special based on the move itself rather than its type, all Fire-type moves were special.

Statistical averages

Overall

Fully evolved

Battle properties

Generation I

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×	None		0×	None

Generation II-onwards

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×	None		0×	None

Characteristics

Defense

The Fire-type has its pros and cons defensively. Ground, Rock, and Water moves are all very common, while most of the Fire-type's resistances are of little use. Most 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 glass cannon; a very destructive force yet at the same time being very fragile. The biggest flaw Fire-types have is that no Pokémon of the type had a Water resistant subtype leaving them all vulnerable to Water-type moves, with the exception of the legendary Pokémon Reshiram, which is a dual Dragon/Fire-type.

However, not only does Fire have five resistances, among them being a key resistance to the powerful Ice, but it's also immune to burns, making Pokémon of this type key physical sweepers. Also, most Fire-types can at least learn SolarBeam to counter all three of the type's weaknesses.

Offensively

Offensively, Fire is very powerful. The ability to deal super effective damage to Steel-type Pokémon is very useful for Pokémon that specialize in special 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-type moves are generally powerful, with around half of its damaging moves having 100 or more for power and 17 out of 27 having 80 or more. While Fire is resisted by four types, two types are hindered by their own bad special defenses and relative scarcity therefore keeping their moves rather valuable. While Fire-types often have below average defensive stats, they often have high speed and attack stats, making them great offensive Pokémon. Fire is super effective against four types, tying it with Ice and Rock. However, double weaknesses to Ice and Rock are slightly more common, and Ground and Fighting hit even more types super-effectively. Despite this, Fire is unique in that it is the only type that can cause quintuple damage, due to the combination of a double weakness and the ability Dry Skin. Many Fire-types can now learn Grass attacks, which can make double resistances to Fire useless (in this case, Water/Rock types, who are doubly weak to Grass).

Quantity

Quantity-wise, Fire-types are rare, with only 26 fully-evolved Pokémon among the total amount of 48, of which there are six legendaries and five starter Pokémon. Technically, this means that only fifteen 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 Pokédex (which counted all ten Fire-type evolution families that were known at the time). When used in contests, Fire-type moves typically become Beauty moves, but some may be Tough or Smart moves.

Pokémon

As of Generation V, there are 48 Fire-type Pokémon or 7.40% of all Pokémon, making it the ninth most common elemental type.

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 351 Castform* 390 Chimchar 467 Magmortar 498 Tepig 513 Pansear 514 Simisear 554 Darumaka 555 Darmanitan* 631 Heatmor

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 499 Pignite Fire Fighting 500 Emboar Fire Fighting 555 Darmanitan* Fire Psychic

Secondary Fire-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 228 Houndour Dark Fire 229 Houndoom Dark Fire 479 Rotom* Electric Fire 494 Victini Psychic Fire 607 Litwick Ghost Fire 608 Lampent Ghost Fire 609 Chandelure Ghost Fire 636 Larvesta Bug Fire 637 Volcarona Bug Fire 643 Reshiram Dragon Fire

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Non-damaging moves

Trivia

• In Generation III, all fifteen Fire-type moves were Beauty moves.
• In the Hoenn region games, Fire-type moves could be used underwater, with no damage reduction unlike in the rain, and Fire-types like Charmander were 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.
• As of Generation IV, every Fire-type starter family has at least one member whose English name begins with a C.
• Pokémon Diamond and Pearl have been criticized for the relative lack of Fire-type Pokémon in the Sinnoh Pokédex (the Chimchar and Ponyta lines being the only ones), which became apparent when Flint's team only had two Fire-types (the final forms of those two lines). This was changed in Platinum with the expansion of the Sinnoh Pokédex to include the Houndour, Magmar, and Eevee families.
• In the main Pokémon games since Generation III, the Fire type has been represented by the color orange. However, in most other Pokémon media, the Fire type has been associated with the color red, including the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the Pokémon Stadium series, and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.
  • Also, the Cool attribute uses a similar shade of orange to the one that represents the Fire type, despite being described as red in-text. However, no Fire-type moves are Cool moves.
• So far, Generation III is the only generation not to have introduced at least one Fire-type legendary Pokémon.
• Fire is unique in that it is the only type able to deal more than double super effective damage. This is possible due to the Paras family's double weakness to fire paired with their ability, Dry Skin, which multiplies fire damage by 1.25, effectively making them take quintuple damage from Fire moves.
• Generation V has introduced the most Fire-type Pokémon of any generation, with 15 introduced.

In other languages

Language Title Japanese ほのお (炎) Honō Mandarin Chinese 炎 Yán 火燄 / 火焰 Huǒyàn Czech Ohnivý Dutch Vuur Finnish Tuli French Canada Feu Europe Feu German Feuer Greek Πυρός Hebrew אש Aesh Italian Fuoco Korean 불꽃 Bulkkot Norwegian Ild Polish Ognisty Brazilian Portuguese Fogo Russian Огненный Ognennyi Spanish Fuego