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flareon
#136

Flareon

Flame Pokémon

Fire

When it catches prey or finds berries, it breathes fire on them until they’re well done, and then it gobbles them up.

Base Stats

HP 65
Attack 130
Defense 60
Sp. Atk 95
Sp. Def 110
Speed 65
Total 525

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Flash Fire Guts (Hidden)

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Flame Pokémon
Height 0.9 m
Weight 25.0 kg
Base Exp 184
Growth Rate Medium
Capture Rate 45
Base Happiness 70
Gender 87.5% ♂ / 12.5% ♀
Habitat Urban
Egg Groups Ground

Sprites

flareon Front Front
flareon Back Back
flareon Front Shiny Front Shiny
flareon Back Shiny Back Shiny
flareon Official Art Official Art
flareon Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

pu Usage: 1.5%
Wallbreaker
Item
Choice Band
Nature
Adamant
EVs
Atk 252
Def 4
Spe 252

Strategy Overview

Flareon might look good to use based on its excellent Attack and good Special Defense stats. However, its horrid Speed and shallow movepool make it hard to use. Furthermore, it has no defensive utility outside of Flash Fire due to its bad defensive typing, vulnerability to hazards, and inability to switch into unresisted attacks. Flareon is one of the few Fire-types in the tier, as well as one of the fewer physical Fire-types, which gives it a small niche; however, it struggles to be a good wallbreaker due to its low Speed stat and the recoil from Flare Blitz. It is outclassed by other wallbreakers like Combusken, Stoutland, and Dodrio due to their better Speed stats and movepools.

Most Used Moves

Facade
38.1%
Toxic
29.5%
Protect
28.6%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
31.3%
Toxic Orb
24.7%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc