Overheat (move)

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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}}}
Target
Foe Foe
Self Ally
May affect anyone but the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
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 (Japanese: オーバーヒート Overheat) is a damage-dealing Fire-type move introduced in Generation III.

Contents

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 ???
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
Charizard Charizard glows red and then releases an extremely powerful blast of orange-yellow fire. 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! The inside of its shell glows.
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
Torkoal The inside of Torkoal'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.
Flannery's Torkoal Going, Going, Yawn! The inside of its shell glows.
Ash's Torkoal All Torkoal, No Play! The inside of its shell glows.
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
Special Overheat | Psycho Boost | Draco Meteor | Leaf Storm
Generation III TMs
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25
26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50
Generation III HMs
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08
Generation IV TMs
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25
26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50
51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75
76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92
Generation IV HMs
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08


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