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Notable trainers that specialize in Fire-type Pokémon include Blaine of Cinnabar Island, Flannery of Lavaridge Town, and Flint of the Sinnoh Elite Four.
Statistical averages
Overall
Fully evolved
Battle properties
Generation I
Fire-type moves:
- Are super effective against: Bug, Grass, Ice
- Are not very effective against: Dragon, Fire, Rock, Water
- Have no effect against: None
Fire-type Pokémon:
Generation II-onwards
Fire-type moves:
Fire-type Pokémon:
Characteristics
Fire isn't the best type defensively. Ground, Rock, and Water moves are all very common, while most of the Fire-type's resistances are of little use. Fire-type Pokémon will not survive too long in battle; they must deal damage quickly in order to earn their slot on a team. This reflects the nature of fire being a very destructive force yet at the same time being very fragile.
Offensively, Fire is much more useful. The ability to deal super effective damage to Steel-type Pokémon is very useful for Pokémon that specialize in physical moves, as many Steel-type Pokémon typically have high Defense but a low Special Defense and would have little trouble with any physical moves thrown at them. Also Fire moves are generally powerful, with half of its damaging moves having 100 or more for power and 11 out of 16 having 80 or more.
Quantity-wise, Fire-types are rare, with only 17 fully evolved Pokémon among them, of which there are four legendaries and four starter Pokémon. So technically, only 9 Fire-type Pokémon are easily available. This makes sense as most forms of fire are extremely rare in nature. Fire-types are much rarer in colder regions than in warmer ones, as proven with Hoenn and Sinnoh's Pokédex listings, which have the most and the least Fire-types, respectively, if not counting the Johto Dex (which counted all ten Fire-type evolution families that were known at the time). Fire types often have below average defense stats, but high speed and attack stats, making them lethal damaging Pokémon.
When used in contests, Fire-type moves typically become Beauty-type, but some may be Tough- or Smart-type.
Pokémon
Pure Fire-type Pokémon
Half Fire-type Pokémon
Primary Fire-type Pokémon
Secondary Fire-type Pokémon
Moves
Damage-dealing moves
Non-damaging moves
Trivia
- Fifteen of the eighteen Fire-type moves are Beauty moves in Contests. The only three that aren't Beauty moves were newly introduced in Generation IV, meaning that in Generation III, all Fire-type moves were Beauty moves.
- There has yet to be a Fire-type with a secondary type that nullifies its Water weakness, while many other types have had secondaries that nullify their primary and most well-known weaknesses. Fire's other two weaknesses, Rock and Ground, have been nullified by a several Pokémon's secondary types—by the starter Pokémon Charizard, Blaziken, and Infernape for example.
- It is interesting to note that in the Hoenn region games, Fire-type moves could be used underwater and Fire-types like Charmander were able to battle underwater, even though its Pokédex entries point out that it will die if its flame goes out.
- The three types that Fire is weak to (Ground, Rock, and Water) all share a weakness to Template:Type2 attacks.
- Although the Fire-type is weak to Template:Type2 moves, most Fire-type Pokémon belong in the Ground egg group.
- Torkoal is the only non-legendary Fire-type not related by evolution to another Pokémon.
- All Fire-type Pokémon have yellow, orange, or red color somewhere on their body.
- Every generation so far has introduced a Fire-type whose name begins with a C.
- Every Fire-type starter family has at least one member whose name begins with a C.
In other languages
- Dutch: Vuur
- French: Feu
- German: Feuer
- Italian: Fuoco
- Japanese: ほのお (炎) honō
- Korean: 불꽃 bulkkot
- Spanish: Fuego
