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Flamethrower

Fire · Special · 25 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Fire
Flamethrower
TypeFire
CategorySpecial
Base power90
Accuracy100%
PP15
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Hydreigon 4.5% 3% Kommo-o 3.4% 19% Mega Scovillain 3.2% 10.5% Mega Dragonite 2.4% 20.4% Mega Camerupt 2.1% 3.9% Chandelure 1.6% 8.8% Mega Pyroar 1.6% 6.9% Volcarona 1.2% 18.2% Drampa 0.90% 14.5% Mega Eelektross 0.78% 55.6% Typhlosion-Hisui 0.73% 7.5% Zoroark-Hisui 0.68% 13.1% Clefable 0.67% 5.6% Mega Houndoom 0.23% 4.8% Mega Manectric 0.20% 21.6% Mega Altaria 0.13% 10.5% Salazzle 0.12% 37% Typhlosion 0.09% 11.4% Mega Audino 0.09% 9.9% Charizard 0.08% 9.4% Delphox 0.06% 1% Slowbro 0.05% 22.8% Goodra 0.04% 42.9% Castform 0.01% 12.6%

What it does

Has a 10% chance to burn the target.

At 90 base power it is the 19th strongest of the 40 damaging special moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

25 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Flamethrower. The one that matters most is Hydreigon, which is on 4.5% of teams and carrys it on 3% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Fire move it is super effective against Bug, Grass, Ice and Steel, resisted by Dragon, Fire, Rock and Water. 5 other Fire moves appear in this format: Heat Wave, Flare Blitz, Will-O-Wisp, Overheat, Sunny Day.

Who could and does not

67 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Flamethrower at all, against the 25 that actually bring it. The gap is the interesting number: it is the set of Pokémon that have the option and decline it. The most-played of those are Incineroar, Garchomp, Torkoal, Ceruledge, Talonflame and Aerodactyl — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Flamethrower accounts for an expected 0.03 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 98th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 4% of that comes from Hydreigon alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Fire (11), Dragon (6) and Normal (6).

Where these numbers come from

Usage is Smogon's published statistics for the Regulation M-B VGC ladder, and the description is the one shipped in the Pokémon Showdown data set. Both are regenerated on every build rather than written by hand, so this page follows the format instead of trailing it. Take any of it to the team builder or the damage calculator.