Fire (type)

The Fire-type (Japanese: ほのおタイプ Honō 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, and Flint of the Sinnoh Elite Four.

Statistical averages

Battle properties

Generation I

Fire-type moves:

• Are super effective against: Bug, Grass, Ice
• Are not very effective against: Dragon, Fire, Rock, Water
• Have no effect against: None

Fire-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Bug, Fire, Grass
• Are weak to: Ground, Rock, Water
• Have immunity to: None

Generation II-onwards

Fire-type moves:

• Are super effective against: Bug, Grass, Ice, Steel
• Are not very effective against: Dragon, Fire, Rock, Water
• Have no effect against: None

Fire-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Bug, Fire, Grass, Ice, Steel
• Are weak to: Ground, Rock, Water
• Have immunity to: None

Characteristics

Fire is a very poor type defensively. Ground, Rock, and Water moves are all very common, while most of the Fire-type's resistances are of little use. Fire-type Pokémon will not survive very 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 very destructive force yet at the same time being very fragile.

Offensively, Fire is much more useful. The ability to deal super effective damage to Steel-type Pokémon is very useful for Pokémon that specialize in physical 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 moves are generally powerful, with half of its damaging moves having 100 or more for power and 11 out of 16 having 80 or more.

Quantity-wise Fire-types are rare, with only 17 fully evolved Pokémon among them, of which there are four legendaries and four starter Pokémon. So technically, only 9 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 dex (which counted all ten Fire-type evolution families that were known at the time).

Pokémon

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
390		Chimchar
467		Magmortar

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

Secondary Fire-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
228		Houndour	Dark	Fire
229		Houndoom	Dark	Fire

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Blast Burn			150	90%	5	One foe	The user must rest on the next turn.
Blaze Kick			85	90%	10	One foe	Has a high critical hit ratio. Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Ember			40	100%	25	One foe	Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Eruption			150	100%	5	Both foes	The less HP the user has, the weaker this move's power.
Fire Blast			120	85%	5	One foe	Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Fire Fang			65	95%	15	One foe	Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent and cause flinching.
Fire Punch			75	100%	15	One foe	Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Fire Spin			15	70%	15	One foe	Attacks for two to five turns.
Flame Wheel			60	100%	25	One foe	Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Flamethrower			95	100%	15	One foe	Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Flare Blitz			120	100%	15	One foe	User takes 25% recoil damage.
Heat Wave			100	90%	10	Both foes	Has a 10% chance of burning the opponent.
Lava Plume			80	100%	15	Everyone else	Has a 30% chance of burning the opponent.
Magma Storm			120	70%	5	One foe	Attacks for two to five turns.
Overheat			140	90%	5	One foe	Lowers user's Special Attack by two stages.
Sacred Fire			100	95%	5	One foe	Has a 50% chance of burning the opponent.

Non-damaging moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Sunny Day			—	—	5	All	Causes sunlight to intensify for five turns.
Will-O-Wisp			—	75%	15	One foe	Inflicts a burn.

Trivia

• Fifteen of the eighteen Fire-type moves are Beauty moves in Contests. The only three that aren't Beauty moves were newly introduced in Generation IV, meaning that in Generation III, all Fire-type moves were Beauty moves.
• There has yet to be a Fire-type with a secondary type that nullifies its Water weakness, while many other types have had secondaries that nullify their primary and most well-known weaknesses. Fire's other two weaknesses, Rock and Ground, have been nullified by a several Pokémon's secondary types— by the starter Pokémon Charizard, Blaziken, and Infernape nonetheless.
• All Fire-types are either resistant or immune to Fire-type moves, with the exception of Heatran (and even then, its ability, Flash Fire, makes it immune).
• It is interesting to note that in the Hoenn region games, Fire-type moves could be used underwater, as well as Fire-types like Charmander being able to battle underwater, when it is said that Charmander dies if its flame goes out.
• The three types that Fire is weak to (Ground, Rock, and Water) all share a weakness to Grass attacks.

In other languages

• French: Feu
• German: Feuer
• Italian: Fuoco
• Spanish: Fuego
• Korean: 불꽃 bulkkot
• Portuquese: Fogo
• Hebrew: אש esh