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 thaw out the user if it is frozen, and then inflict damage on the target. Flame Wheel also has a 10% chance of burning the target.

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 15PtHGSS 078 Rapidash Fire 15PtHGSS 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.

In the anime

Chimchar	Quilava	Typhlosion	Growlithe
The user cloaks itself in fire and charges at the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Arcanine	Arcanine runs at the opponent and its whole body becomes enveloped in flames. It then tackles the opponent.
Gary's Arcanine	Extreme Pokémon!		Debut
Typhlosion	Typhlosion runs towards the opponent and its body becomes surrounded in flames.
Jimmy's Typhlosion	The Legend of Thunder!		None
Mr. Moore's Typhlosion	Poetry Commotion!		None
Quilava	Quilava runs at the opponent and its body becomes engulfed in flames. It then tackles the opponent, or Quilava spins around in the air and its body becomes ingulfed in flames. It then rolls into the opponent.
Macey's Quilava	Love, Pokémon Style!		None
Clark's Quilava	Shocks and Bonds		None
Ryan's Quilava	The Champ Twins!		None
Chimchar	Chimchar's body becomes surrounded by flames and it summersaults in the air, spinning at the opponent and hitting it, or Chimchar releases fire out of its mouth while at the same time starts doing a summersault, and rolls into the opponent.
A Chimchar Dawn imagined	Following a Maiden's Voyage!		None
Ash's Chimchar	When Pokémon Worlds Collide!		None
Chimchar of Team Poképals	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness		None
Monferno	Flames blaze from its tail to engulf it in fire.
A Monferno Angie trained briefly	Camping it Up!		None
Ash's Monferno	Evolving Strategies!		None
Growlithe	Growlithe jumps into the air spitting fire, then starts to roll towards the opponent while it's engulfed in fire.
Officer Jenny's Growlithe	Beating the Hustle and Bustle!		None
Cyndaquil	Cyndaquil jumps into the air while the flame on its back ignites, Cyndaquil then start to roll towards it opponent while its engulfed in fire.
Dawn's Cyndaquil	Gone With the Windworks!		None

Trivia

• Rattata is the only Pokémon to learn Flame Wheel that does not gain STAB.
• Monferno and Infernape are the first, and only dual-type Pokémon to learn Flame Wheel.

In other languages

• Portuguese: Roda de Fogo
• Spanish: Rueda Fuego.
• Italian: Ruotafuoco.
• German: Flammenrad
• French: Roue de feu
• Danish Flamme Hjul
• Dutch: Vlamwiel
• Hindi: Aag ka paeeya

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