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Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Notable trainers that specialize in Fire-type Pokémon include Blaine of Cinnabar Island, Flannery of Lavaridge Town, and Flint of the Sinnoh Elite Four.

Statistical averages

Overall

Fully evolved

Battle properties

Generation I

Fire-type moves:

• Are super effective against: Bug, Grass, Ice
• Are not very effective against: Dragon, Fire, Rock, Water
• Have no effect against: None

Fire-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Bug, Fire, Grass
• Are weak to: Ground, Rock, Water
• Have immunity to: None

Generation II-onwards

Fire-type moves:

• Are super effective against: Bug, Grass, Ice, Steel
• Are not very effective against: Dragon, Fire, Rock, Water
• Have no effect against: None

Fire-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Bug, Fire, Grass, Ice, Steel
• Are weak to: Ground, Rock, Water
• Have immunity to: None

Characteristics

Fire isn't the best type defensively. Ground, Rock, and Water moves are all very common, while most of the Fire-type's resistances are of little use. Fire-type Pokémon will not survive too long in battle; they must deal damage quickly in order to earn their slot on a team. This reflects the nature of fire being a very destructive force yet at the same time being very fragile.

Offensively, Fire is much more useful. The ability to deal super effective damage to Steel-type Pokémon is very useful for Pokémon that specialize in physical moves, as many Steel-type Pokémon typically have high Defense but a low Special Defense and would have little trouble with any physical moves thrown at them. Also Fire moves are generally powerful, with half of its damaging moves having 100 or more for power and 11 out of 16 having 80 or more.

Quantity-wise, Fire-types are rare, with only 17 fully evolved Pokémon among them, of which there are four legendaries and four starter Pokémon. So technically, only 9 Fire-type Pokémon are easily available. This makes sense as most forms of fire are extremely rare in nature. Fire-types are much rarer in colder regions than in warmer ones, as proven with Hoenn and Sinnoh's Pokédex listings, which have the most and the least Fire-types, respectively, if not counting the Johto Dex (which counted all ten Fire-type evolution families that were known at the time). Fire types often have below average defense stats, but high speed and attack stats, making them lethal damaging Pokémon.

When used in contests, Fire-type moves typically become Beauty-type, but some may be Tough- or Smart-type.

Pokémon

Pure Fire-type Pokémon

# Name 004 Charmander 005 Charmeleon 037 Vulpix 038 Ninetales 058 Growlithe 059 Arcanine 077 Ponyta 078 Rapidash 126 Magmar 136 Flareon 155 Cyndaquil 156 Quilava 157 Typhlosion 218 Slugma 240 Magby 244 Entei 255 Torchic 324 Torkoal 390 Chimchar 467 Magmortar

Half Fire-type Pokémon

Primary Fire-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 006 Charizard Fire Flying 146 Moltres Fire Flying 219 Magcargo Fire Rock 250 Ho-Oh Fire Flying 256 Combusken Fire Fighting 257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 322 Numel Fire Ground 323 Camerupt Fire Ground 391 Monferno Fire Fighting 392 Infernape Fire Fighting 485 Heatran Fire Steel

Secondary Fire-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 228 Houndour Dark Fire 229 Houndoom Dark Fire

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Non-damaging moves

Trivia

• Fifteen of the eighteen Fire-type moves are Beauty moves in Contests. The only three that aren't Beauty moves were newly introduced in Generation IV, meaning that in Generation III, all Fire-type moves were Beauty moves.
• There has yet to be a Fire-type with a secondary type that nullifies its Water weakness, while many other types have had secondaries that nullify their primary and most well-known weaknesses. Fire's other two weaknesses, Rock and Ground, have been nullified by a several Pokémon's secondary types—by the starter Pokémon Charizard, Blaziken, and Infernape for example.
• It is interesting to note that in the Hoenn region games, Fire-type moves could be used underwater and Fire-types like Charmander were able to battle underwater, even though its Pokédex entries point out that it will die if its flame goes out.
• The three types that Fire is weak to (Ground, Rock, and Water) all share a weakness to Template:Type2 attacks.
• Although the Fire-type is weak to Template:Type2 moves, most Fire-type Pokémon belong in the Ground egg group.
• Torkoal is the only non-legendary Fire-type not related by evolution to another Pokémon.
• All Fire-type Pokémon have yellow, orange, or red color somewhere on their body.
• Every generation so far has introduced a Fire-type whose name begins with a C.
  • Every Fire-type starter family has at least one member whose name begins with a C.

In other languages

• Dutch: Vuur
• French: Feu
• German: Feuer
• Italian: Fuoco
• Japanese: ほのお (炎) honō
• Korean: 불꽃 bulkkot
• Spanish: Fuego