Inferno (move)

Inferno れんごく Purgatory

Battles Type  Fire Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  100 Accuracy  50% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

Availability Introduced  Generation V Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Inferno (Japanese: れんごく Purgatory) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation V.

Effect

Inferno deals damage and will always burn the target if it hits.

Learnset

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0004 Charmander Fire 46 0005 Charmeleon Fire 54 0006 Charizard Fire Flying 62 0037 Vulpix Fire 44 0077 Ponyta Fire 33 0078 Rapidash Fire 33 0155 Cyndaquil Fire 46 0156 Quilava Fire 53 0157 Typhlosion Fire 56 0228 Houndour Dark Fire 56 0229 Houndoom Dark Fire 65 0324 Torkoal Fire 60 0494 Victini Psychic Fire 57 0607 Litwick Ghost Fire 38 0608 Lampent Ghost Fire 38 0631 Heatmor Fire 61 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0218 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Slugma
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Litwick, Lampent

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

In the anime

Lampent Litwick
The user attacks by engulfing the target in an intense fire.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Lampent releaseses a vortex of blue fire from its head at the opponent.
A wild Lampent	BW029		Debut
	Lampent releaseses a vortex of blue fire from its flame at the opponent.
Four wild Litwick	BW029		None

Trivia

• No Pokémon introduced in Generation IV can learn this move.

In other languages

• French: Feu d'Enfer
• German: Inferno
• Italian: Marchiatura
• Spanish: Infierno

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