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charizard
#006

Charizard

Flame Pokémon

FireFlying

When this Pokémon expels a blast of superhot fire, the red flame at the tip of its tail burns more intensely.

Base Stats

HP 78
Attack 84
Defense 78
Sp. Atk 109
Sp. Def 85
Speed 100
Total 534

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Forms

Evolution Chain

Moves

Locations

Details

Category Flame Pokémon
Height 1.7 m
Weight 90.5 kg
Base Exp 240
Growth Rate Medium Slow
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat Mountain
Egg Groups Monster ,Dragon

Sprites

charizard Front Front
charizard Back Back
charizard Front Shiny Front Shiny
charizard Back Shiny Back Shiny
charizard Official Art Official Art
charizard Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Z-Hold Hands
Item
Normalium Z
Nature
Timid
EVs
HP 32
SpA 228
SpD 32
Spe 216

Strategy Overview

Charizard is a decent setup sweeper with Z-Hold Hands that can clean a lot of weakened teams. Its good offensive typing and coverage can make it hard to stop defensively and allow it to circumvent some common Fire-type checks like Incineroar and Rhydon, and its good Speed and defensive typing allow it to outspeed most common Choice Scarf users besides Delphox and Heliolisk at +1 as well as tank common forms of priority such as Sneasel's Ice Shard and Comfey's Draining Kiss and set up against Pokemon like Sceptile and Steelix. However, due to its major Stealth Rock weakness, need to be the team's Z-Move user and to be paired with Pokemon that can wear down its checks, and failure to defensively check Pokemon that Fire-types should, such as Comfey and Mega Glalie, Charizard requires heavy support and cannot be fit onto teams easily. Because it can only set up once throughout the game and wants to preserve health, it tends to have a limited presence early-game and also faces competition from other setup sweepers like Vivillon and Comfey that can circumvent their checks better, require less of a commitment in teambuilding, and have a greater early-game-presence.

Most Used Moves

Air Slash
65.5%
Roost
45.8%

Most Used Items

Firium Z
25.2%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc