Overheat (move)

Overheat オーバーヒート Overheat

The user attacks the foe at full power. The attack's recoil sharply reduces the user's Sp. Atk stat.

Battles Type  Fire Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  140 Accuracy  90% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation III TM50 in Generation III TM50 in Generation IV

Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jam  0 After this move, the user is more easily startled.

Super Contests Category  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.

Overheat on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Overheat on Eevee's Movedex

Overheat (Japanese: オーバーヒート Overheat) is a damage-dealing Fire-type move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Overheat deals damage, and lowers the user's Special Attack by two stages afterward.

Learnset

Generation III

By TM50

#   Pokémon Type 004 Charmander Fire 005 Charmeleon Fire 006 Charizard Fire Flying 037 Vulpix Fire 038 Ninetales Fire 056 Mankey Fighting 057 Primeape Fighting 058 Growlithe Fire 059 Arcanine Fire 077 Ponyta Fire 078 Rapidash Fire 136 Flareon Fire 146 Moltres Fire Flying 151 Mew Psychic 155 Cyndaquil Fire 156 Quilava Fire 157 Typhlosion Fire 209 Snubbull Normal 210 Granbull Normal 218 Slugma Fire 219 Magcargo Fire Rock 228 Houndour Dark Fire 229 Houndoom Dark Fire 250 Ho-Oh Fire Flying 255 Torchic Fire 256 Combusken Fire Fighting 257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 294 Loudred Normal 295 Exploud Normal 322 Numel Fire Ground 323 Camerupt Fire Ground 324 Torkoal Fire 338 Solrock Rock Psychic 383 Groudon Ground 384 Rayquaza Dragon Flying Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By TM50

#   Pokémon Type 004 Charmander Fire 005 Charmeleon Fire 006 Charizard Fire Flying 037 Vulpix Fire 038 Ninetales Fire 056 Mankey Fighting 057 Primeape Fighting 058 Growlithe Fire 059 Arcanine Fire 077 Ponyta Fire 078 Rapidash Fire 126 Magmar Fire 136 Flareon Fire 146 Moltres Fire Flying 151 Mew Psychic 155 Cyndaquil Fire 156 Quilava Fire 157 Typhlosion Fire 209 Snubbull Normal 210 Granbull Normal 218 Slugma Fire 219 Magcargo Fire Rock 228 Houndour Dark Fire 229 Houndoom Dark Fire 240 Magby Fire 244 Entei Fire 250 Ho-Oh Fire Flying 255 Torchic Fire 256 Combusken Fire Fighting 257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 294 Loudred Normal 295 Exploud Normal 310 Manectric Electric 322 Numel Fire Ground 323 Camerupt Fire Ground 324 Torkoal Fire 338 Solrock Rock Psychic 383 Groudon Ground 384 Rayquaza Dragon Flying 390 Chimchar Fire 391 Monferno Fire Fighting 392 Infernape Fire Fighting 467 Magmortar Fire 483 Dialga Steel Dragon 485 Heatran Fire Steel 493 Arceus Ice Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Special move

#   Pokémon Type Obtained in 479 Rotom Heat Rotom Electric Ghost Pokémon Platinum Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

Rotom	Ash's Torkoal	May's Blaziken	Magcargo
The user glows red and then releases an extremely powerful blast of orange-yellow fire. As the attack is used successively, it becomes less powerful.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Torkoal	Torkoal opens its mouth and its mouth glows white. Then it fires a white flame that has a red-orange flame spirialing around it at the opponent. The blast is most powerful when first used, and becomes weaker when used repeatedly. Sometimes when using the attack, the red spots on its shell light up.
Flannery's Torkoal	Going, Going, Yawn		Debut
Ash's Torkoal	All Torkoal, No Play		None
Charizard	Charizard's body glows red and becomes hot. It then releases an extremely powerful blast of orange-yellow fire from its mouth. As the attack is used successively, it becomes less powerful.
Ash's Charizard	The Symbol Life		None
Magcargo	The inside of Magcargo's shell glows red. It then releases an extremely powerful blast of orange-yellow fire. As the attack is used successively, it becomes less powerful.
Magcargo	Another One Gabites the Dust!		None
Combusken	Combusken glows red and then releases an extremely powerful blast of orange-yellow fire. As the attack is used successively, it becomes less powerful.
May's Combusken	Channeling the Battle Zone!		None
Blaziken	Blaziken glows red and then releases an extremely powerful blast of orange-yellow fire. As the attack is used successively, it becomes less powerful.
May's Blaziken	Once More with Reeling!		None
Rotom	Rotom opens itself and releases an extremely powerful blast of orange-yellow fire. As the attack is used successively, it becomes less powerful.
Rotom	Get Your Rotom Running!		Rotom does not glow and opens itself to utilize the move.

In other languages

• Dutch: Oververhitting
• French: Surchauffe
• German: Hitzekoller
• Italian: Vampata
• Spanish: Sofoco
  • Latin american Dub: Supercalor
• Portuguese (animé only): Superaquecimento

Variations on the move Overheat
	Overheat | Psycho Boost | Draco Meteor | Leaf Storm

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