Flame Wheel (move)

Flame Wheel かえんぐるま Flame Wheel

The user cloaks itself in fire and charges at the foe. It may also leave the target with a burn.

Battles Type  Fire Category  Physical PP  25 (max. 40) Power  60 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation II Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0  ???

Super Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Allows performance of the same move twice in a row.

Flame Wheel on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Flame Wheel on Eevee's Movedex

Flame Wheel (Japanese: かえんぐるま Flame Wheel) is a damage-dealing Fire-type move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Flame Wheel will, if the user is frozen, heal its condition, and then inflict damage on the target. It is one of only two moves to do so, the other being Sacred Fire. Flame Wheel also has a 10% chance of burning the target.

In the anime

Ryan's Quilava using Flame Wheel.

Jimmy's Typhlosion using Flame Wheel.

Ash's Chimchar using Flame Wheel.

Pokémon

Arcanine. Its back blazes, and fire envelops its entire body.

• Used by Gary's Arcanine in Extreme Pokemon! Debut

Typhlosion. Its back blazes, and fire envelops its entire body.

• Used by Jimmy's Typhlosion in The Legend of Thunder!.

Quilava. Quilava starts running at its opponent at a high speed. The flames on its head and tail then start to blaze and Quilava starts to roll. Quilava is then engulfed in flames.

• Used by Ryan's Quilava in The Champ Twins!.

Chimchar. It shoots flames from its mouth as it somersaults towards the foe or Chimchar blazes while running and then rolls at its opponent.

• Used by a Chimchar imagined by Dawn in Following a Maiden's Voyage!.
• Used by Ash's Chimchar from When Pokémon Worlds Collide! to present.
• Used by Chimchar in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky.

Monferno. Flames blaze from its tail to engulf it in fire.

• Used by Angie's temporary Monferno in Camping It Up!

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
058		Growlithe	Fire		34
155		Cyndaquil	Fire		27
156		Quilava	Fire		31
157		Typhlosion	Fire		31
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 breeding

#		Pokémon	Type		Father
019		Rattata	Normal		Growlithe, Arcanine Cyndaquil, Quilava, Typhlosion
077		Ponyta	Fire		Growlithe, Arcanine Cyndaquil, Quilava, Typhlosion
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move. *Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding.

Generation III

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
058		Growlithe	Fire		31
155		Cyndaquil	Fire		27
156		Quilava	Fire		31
157		Typhlosion	Fire		31
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 breeding

#		Pokémon	Type		Father
019		Rattata	Normal		Growlithe, Arcanine Cyndaquil, Quilava, Typhlosion
077		Ponyta	Fire		Growlithe, Arcanine Cyndaquil, Quilava, Typhlosion
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move. *Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
058		Growlithe	Fire		20
077		Ponyta	Fire		15Pt
078		Rapidash	Fire		15Pt
155		Cyndaquil	Fire		19
156		Quilava	Fire		20
157		Typhlosion	Fire		20
390		Chimchar	Fire		17
391		Monferno	Fire	Fighting	19
392		Infernape	Fire	Fighting	21
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 breeding

#		Pokémon	Type		Father
019		Rattata	Normal		Growlithe, Arcanine Cyndaquil, Quilava, Typhlosion Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape
077		Ponyta	Fire		Growlithe, Arcanine Cyndaquil, Quilava, Typhlosion Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move. *Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding.

Trivia

• Rattata is the only normal Pokémon to learn Flame Wheel any way. In fact Rattata is the only non-fire type Pokémon to learn Flame Wheel.
• Monferno and Infernape are the first, and only dual-type Pokémon to learn Flame Wheel.

In other languages

• Spanish: Rueda Fuego.
• Italian: Ruotafuoco.
• German: Flammenrad
• French: Roue de feu
• Dutch: Vlamwiel
• Hindi: Agni Chakar

This move article is part of Project MoveDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each move.