Flash Fire (Ability)

Flash Fire	もらいび
	Received Fire
Flavor text Generation III Powers up if hit by fire. Generation IV Powers up Fire-type moves if hit by a Fire move. Generation V Currently unknown Generation VI Currently unknown Generation VII Currently unknown Generation VIII Currently unknown Generation IX Currently unknown

Flash Fire (Japanese: もらいび Received Fire) is an ability introduced in Generation III. Eighteen Pokémon can have this ability, all of them of the Fire-type.

Effect

In battle

Flash Fire powers up Fire-type moves if hit by fire. This ability makes the user immune to Fire-type damage and when hit by a Fire-type move, Flash Fire will be activated. While subsequent hits by Fire-type moves will not provide a further increase in the damage of Fire-type attacks, it will still not take any damage. This ability is not activated by the burned status unless it is caused by a move which is Fire-type. Flash Fire is not active while the user is frozen.

Outside of battle

Flash Fire has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Flash Fire

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0037		Vulpix	Fire		Fire	Flash Fire	None	Drought
0038		Ninetales	Fire		Fire	Flash Fire	None	Drought
0058		Growlithe	Fire		Fire	Intimidate	Flash Fire	Righteous Heart
0059		Arcanine	Fire		Fire	Intimidate	Flash Fire	Righteous Heart
0077		Ponyta	Fire		Fire	Run Away	Flash Fire	Flame Body
0078		Rapidash	Fire		Fire	Run Away	Flash Fire	Flame Body
0136		Flareon	Fire		Fire	Flash Fire	None	Guts
0155		Cyndaquil	Fire		Fire	Blaze	None	Flash Fire
0156		Quilava	Fire		Fire	Blaze	None	Flash Fire
0157		Typhlosion	Fire		Fire	Blaze	None	Flash Fire
0228		Houndour	Dark	Fire	Early Bird	Flash Fire	Unnerve
0229		Houndoom	Dark	Fire	Early Bird	Flash Fire	Unnerve
0244		Entei	Fire		Fire	Pressure	None	Flash Fire
0485		Heatran	Fire	Steel	Flash Fire	None	Flame Body
0607	Hitomoshi	Hitomoshi	Ghost	Fire	Flash Fire	Flame Body	Shadow Tag
0608	Ranpuraa	Ranpuraa	Ghost	Fire	Flash Fire	Flame Body	Shadow Tag
0609	Shandera	Shandera	Ghost	Fire	Flash Fire	Flame Body	Shadow Tag
0631	Kuitaran	Kuitaran	Fire		Fire	Gluttony	Flash Fire	White Smoke
Please note that Abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

In the anime

The user's absorbs heat from any surrounding fire or lava, powering up its Fire-type attacks.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Heatran's body glows red and it absorbs the heat from any surrounding fire or lava, powering up its Fire-type attacks.
A wild Heatran	Pokémon Ranger: Heatran Rescue!		Debut

In other languages

• French: Torche
• German: Feuerfänger
• Greek: Λαμπερή Φωτιά
• Italian: Fuocardore
• Portuguese: Fogo Brilhante
• Spanish: Absor. fuego

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.