Blast Burn (move)

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Blast Burn
ブラストバーン Blast Burn
Blast Burn.png
Type  Fire
Category  Special
PP  5 (max. 8)
Power  150
Accuracy  90%
Priority  0
Range
Opponent Opponent Opponent
Self Ally Ally
Normal: May affect anyone adjacent to the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation III
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥
Jam  4 ♥♥♥♥
Jams the others, and misses one turn of appeals.
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Blast Burn (Japanese: ブラストバーン Blast Burn) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Blast Burn inflicts damage and then forces the user to recharge during the next turn. Unless this attack misses, the user will always have to recharge.

Learnset

By move tutor

Various move tutors will teach Blast Burn to the fully evolved Template:Type2 starters if their happiness rating is sufficiently high:


# Pokémon Type Game
FRLG E XD DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2
006 Charizard Charizard Fire Flying
157 Typhlosion Typhlosion Fire Fire
257 Blaziken Blaziken Fire Fighting
392 Infernape Infernape Fire Fighting
500 Emboar Emboar Fire Fighting
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

Special move

Generation III

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with
0155 Cyndaquil Cyndaquil
Fire Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
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 manga

Pokémon Adventures


In other generations

Trivia

  • Smeargle is the only Pokémon that is not a Template:Type2 starter Pokémon able to learn Blast Burn, due to Sketch.
  • Mew, though repeatedly said on the Pokédex to be able to learn any move, is not able to learn Blast Burn because the tutors only want to teach it to Fire-type starter Pokémon.
  • Blast Burn is the only variant of Hyper Beam not to be used in the anime.
  • In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, the Pokémon's IQ must be over 3-3.5 to learn Blast Burn at Level 72.
  • Despite being called Blast Burn in numerous languages, it cannot inflict the Burn status ailment at all.
  • Despite being called the strongest Fire-type move, V-create has a base power of 180, 30 more than Blast Burn.
    • That said, Blast Burn was the strongest Fire-type move before Generation V.

In other languages

Language Title
Mandarin Chinese 爆炸燃燒 Bàozhà Ránshāo
The Netherlands Flag.png Dutch Vlamschot
France Flag.png French Rafale Feu
Germany Flag.png German Lohekanonade
Greece Flag.png Greek Πυρκαγιά
Italy Flag.png Italian Incendio
South Korea Flag.png Korean 블래스트번 Blast Burn
Portuguese Brazil Flag.png Brazil Explosão de Chamas
Portugal Flag.png Portugal Golpe de Fogo
Serbia Flag.png Serbian Spaljujuća Eksplozija
Spain Flag.png Spanish Anillo Ígneo



Variations of the move Hyper Beam
PhysicalIC HOME.png Giga ImpactRock Wrecker
SpecialIC HOME.png Hyper BeamBlast BurnHydro CannonFrenzy PlantRoar of Time


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