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charizard
#006

Charizard

Flame Pokémon

FireFlying

Spits fire that is hot enough to melt boulders. Known to cause forest fires unintentionally.

Base Stats

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

Type Effectiveness

Evolution Chain

Moves

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

ou Usage: 0.4%
Swords Dance
Moves
Slash / Fire Blast / Counter / Fire Spin

Strategy Overview

Charizard is completely unviable in RBY OU, being outclassed by fellow Fire / Flying type Pokemon Moltres in almost every way. Moltres packs a higher Special stat and Agility, making it a more powerful threat better suited for the OU metagame. Charizard finds itself overwhelmed by common Water-types like Starmie, Slowbro, and Cloyster, and there's very little it can do in return. Additionally, while Swords Dance could make you assume it has some sort of niche, many better Swords Dance users exist such as Kingler, Kabutops, and Sandslash. The only benefits to using Charizard over Moltres are its base 100 Speed, Swords Dance, and Slash. +2 Hyper Beam or Earthquake can threaten most Pokemon, but it's difficult to use Swords Dance due to the omnipresence of Thunder Wave users like Alakazam and Starmie, and being paralyzed makes Charizard's fragility much more apparent. Its weaknesses to common attacking types leave it 2HKOed by Starmie, Slowbro, Zapdos, Jolteon, most Blizzards, and Gengar, as well as OHKOed by Rhydon and Golem. While Charizard is explosive after setting up, it just requires too much support and risk compared to its reward.

Most Used Moves

Counter
65.9%
Slash
26.5%

Most Used Items

Nothing
100.0%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc