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