Fire (type)

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

Statistical averages

Overall

Fully evolved

Battle properties

Generation I

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×	None		0×	None

Generation II-onwards

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×	None		0×	None

Characteristics

The Fire type has its pros and cons 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 glass cannon; a very destructive force yet at the same time being very fragile. The biggest flaw Fire-types have is that no Pokémon of the type had a Water resistant subtype leaving them all vulnerable to Water-type moves, with the exception of the legendary Pokémon Reshiram, which is a dual Dragon/Fire-type.

However, not only does Fire have five resistances, among them being a key resistance to the powerful Ice, but its also immune to the Burn condition making Pokémon of this type key physical sweepers. Also, most Fire types can at least learn SolarBeam to counter all three of the type's weaknesses.

Offensively, Fire is very powerful. 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. While Fire is resisted by only four types, two types are hindered by their own bad special defenses and relative scarcity therefore keeping their moves rather valuable. While Fire is not very effective against Rock and Dragon-types, many fire attacks can burn, therefore halving their attack. Fire types often have below average defense stats, but high speed, and attack stats, making them lethal damaging Pokémon. Fire is super effective against four types; only Ground and Fighting surpasses it. It ties with Ice and Rock, even though double weaknesses to Ice and Rock are slightly more common. However, Fire is the only type that can cause quintuple damage, due to the combination of a double weakness and the ability Dry Skin.

Quantity-wise, Fire-types are rare, with only 26 fully evolved Pokémon among the total amount of 48, of which there are six legendaries and five starter Pokémon. Technically, this means that only fifteen 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 Pokédex (which counted all ten Fire-type evolution families that were known at the time). When used in contests, Fire-type moves typically become Beauty moves, but some may be Tough or Smart moves.

Pokémon

There are 48 Fire-type Pokémon, making it the ninth most common type.

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 498 Pokabu 513 Baoppu 514 Baokkie 554 Darumakka 555 Hihidaruma* 631 Kuitaran

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 499 Chaoboo Fire Fighting 500 Enbuoh Fire Fighting 555 Hihidaruma Hihidaruma* Fire Psychic

Secondary Fire-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 228 Houndour Dark Fire 229 Houndoom Dark Fire 479 Rotom* Electric Fire 494 Victini Psychic Fire 607 Hitomoshi Ghost Fire 608 Ranpuraa Ghost Fire 609 Shandera Ghost Fire 636 Meraruba Bug Fire 637 Ulgamoth Bug Fire 643 Reshiram Dragon 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.
• 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.
• Torkoal and Kuitaran are the only non-legendary Fire-types not related by evolution to another Pokémon.
• All Fire-type Pokémon have yellow, orange, or red color somewhere on their body, (except for Hihidaruma in its Daruma Mode and Reshiram).
  • Reshiram is the only Fire-type that does not normally have such coloration on its body, although its tail and horns are able to light up with a red/orange firey glow.
• As of Generation IV, every Fire-type starter family has at least one member whose name begins with a C.
• Of all status moves, the second least common type among them is the Fire-type, tied with Fighting.
• Pokémon Diamond and Pearl have been criticized for the severe lack of Fire-types in the Sinnoh Pokédex (the Chimchar and Ponyta lines being the only ones), which became apparent when Flint's team only had two Fire-types (the final forms of those two lines). This was fixed in Platinum with the expansion of the Sinnoh Pokédex to include the Houndour, Magmar, and Eevee families.
• Vulpix and Ninetales are the only Fire-type Pokémon whose gender ratio makes males rarer than females.
• In the main Pokémon games since Generation III, the Fire type has been represented by the color orange. However, in most other Pokémon media, the Fire type has been associated with the color red, including the Pokémon Trading Card Game, Pokémon Stadium, and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. Ironically, one Generation III game is titled Pokémon FireRed, despite being represented by the color orange in the in-game universe. Also, many orange-colored Pokémon (especially Fire-types) are placed in the Red color category, as no orange category exists.
  • Also, the Cool attribute uses a similar shade of orange that represents the Fire type, despite being described as red in-text. Strangely, no Fire-type moves are Cool moves.
• Until Generation V, every Fire-type Pokémon was weak against Water, being the only type that had one weakness shared among all Pokémon of that type. Reshiram, due to being a Dragon-type as well, nullifies Fire's weakness, making it currently the only Fire-type not weak to Water.
• With 5 resistances, the Fire type has the second most resistances of all types, falling 6 short of the Steel-type's 11 resistances.
• The Magby and Hitomoshi evolutionary line are the only three-stage Fire-type line that are not starter Pokémon.
• So far, Generation III is the only generation not to have introduced at least one Fire-type legendary Pokémon.
• The version mascot of every primary version, with the exception of Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Diamond, is a Fire-type Pokémon.
  • Groudon, the version mascot of Ruby, however, can use a variety of Fire-type moves, probably due to its Drought ability, which has the same effect as Sunny Day, boosting the power of Fire-type moves.
• Fire is unique in that it is the only type able to deal more than double super effective damage. This is possible due to the Paras family's double weakness to fire paired with their ability, Dry Skin, which multiplies fire damage by 1.25, effectively making them take quintuple damage from Fire moves.
• Victini and the Hitomoshi line have the most weaknesses of any Fire-type Pokémon, being weak to five types.
• Generation V has introduced the most Fire-types of any generation with 15 introduced, not counting Hihidaruma's second form.
• Fire is currently the only starter type that has not been paired with the Normal type (disregarding Pikachu's Electric type).

In other languages

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