Blast Burn (move)

Blast Burn ブラストバーン Blast Burn

Battles Type  Fire Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  150 Accuracy  90% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by Mirror Move Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation III Move Tutor in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Move Tutor in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Move Tutor in Pokémon Platinum Move Tutor in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Move Tutor in Pokémon Black and White

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jams the others, and misses one turn of appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Blast Burn (Japanese: ブラストバーン Blast Burn) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Blast Burn inflicts damage and then forces the user to recharge during the next turn. Unless this attack misses, the user will always have to recharge.

Learnset

By move tutor

Various move tutors will teach Blast Burn to the fully evolved Template:Type2 starters if their happiness rating is sufficiently high:

• In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, an elderly woman on Cape Brink will teach Blast Burn to Charizard only.
• In Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, an elderly man appears on Route 228 in the Battle Zone, and will teach the move to all four fully evolved Template:Type2 starters.
• In HeartGold and SoulSilver, the Move Tutor for Blast Burn can be found in the Move Deleter/Move relearner's house in Blackthorn City.
• In Black and White, the Move Tutor that can teach Blast Burn appears in a house on Route 13, and will teach it to all five fully evolved Template:Type2 starters.

#	Pokémon		Type		Game
					FRLG	E	XD	DP	Pt	HGSS	BW	B2W2
006		Charizard	Fire	Flying				✔			✔	✔	✔	✔
157		Typhlosion	Fire		Fire							✔	✔	✔	✔
257		Blaziken	Fire	Fighting							✔	✔	✔	✔
392		Infernape	Fire	Fighting							✔	✔	✔	✔
500		Emboar	Fire	Fighting										✔
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

Special move

Generation III

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0155 Cyndaquil Fire Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Charizard File:Exbo Toro Blast Burn.png Typhlosion and Blaziken
The user releases a powerful flame from its mouth at the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	The flame at the end of Charizard's tail grows to a massive size and it releases a poweful and massive stream of fire from its mouth at the opponent.
Blue's Charizard	Legend - Grass and Fire		Debut
	Blaziken releases a powerful and massive stream of fire from its mouth at the opponent, or Blaziken holds out its arms and releases a powerful stream of fire from the fire around its wrists at the opponent.
Sapphire's Toro	The Final Battle III		None
	Typhlosion hunches over and releases a powerful stream of fire from the flames on its back at the opponent.
Gold's Exbo	The Final Battle VIII		None

Trivia

• Smeargle is the only Pokémon that is not a Template:Type2 starter Pokémon able to learn Blast Burn, due to Sketch.
• Mew, though repeatedly said on the Pokédex to be able to learn any move, is not able to learn Blast Burn because the tutors only want to teach it to Fire-type starter Pokémon.
• Blast Burn is the only variant of Hyper Beam not to be used in the anime.
• In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, the Pokémon's IQ must be over 3-3.5 to learn Blast Burn at Level 72.
• Despite being called Blast Burn in numerous languages, it cannot inflict the Burn status ailment at all.
• Despite being called the strongest Fire-type move, V-create has a base power of 180, 30 more than Blast Burn.
  • That said, Blast Burn was the strongest Fire-type move before Generation V.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 爆炸燃燒 Bàozhà Ránshāo Dutch Vlamschot French Rafale Feu German Lohekanonade Greek Πυρκαγιά Italian Incendio Korean 블래스트번 Blast Burn Portuguese Brazil Explosão de Chamas Portugal Golpe de Fogo Serbian Spaljujuća Eksplozija Spanish Anillo Ígneo

Variations of the move Hyper Beam
Giga Impact • Rock Wrecker Hyper Beam • Blast Burn • Hydro Cannon • Frenzy Plant • Roar of Time

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