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Flamethrower

Fire · Special · 24 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Fire
Flamethrower
TypeFire
CategorySpecial
Base power90
Accuracy100%
PP15
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Mega Dragonite 4.9% 4.8% Mega Scovillain 4.9% 14.5% Kommo-o 4.3% 6% Hydreigon 1.9% 4.2% Mega Camerupt 1.4% 4.4% Mega Pyroar 1.2% 2.3% Chandelure 1.2% 8.1% Clefable 1.1% 8.2% Volcarona 1.00% 8.9% Zoroark-Hisui 0.81% 11.8% Drampa 0.65% 4.5% Typhlosion-Hisui 0.57% 2.9% Slowking-Galar 0.45% 3.4% Mega Altaria 0.40% 8.6% Mega Eelektross 0.40% 61.8% Goodra-Hisui 0.20% 37.6% Arcanine 0.20% 4.8% Mega Houndoom 0.17% 10% Mega Audino 0.16% 9.3% Noivern 0.10% 9.2% Mega Manectric 0.09% 11.8% Goodra 0.05% 29.9% Salazzle 0.04% 6.3% Typhlosion 0.03% 16.2%

What it does

Has a 10% chance to burn the target.

At 90 base power it is the 20th strongest of the 39 damaging special moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

24 of the 277 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Flamethrower. The one that matters most is Mega Dragonite, which is on 4.9% of teams and carrys it on 4.8% 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, Overheat, Will-O-Wisp, Sunny Day.

Who could and does not

67 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Flamethrower at all, against the 24 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, Arcanine-Hisui, Torkoal, Tyranitar 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 0.02 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 105th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 10% of that comes from Mega Dragonite alone, so it is spread across the field rather than propped up by one Pokémon. Its carriers are mostly Fire (10), Dragon (8) and Normal (4).

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.

Where this goes next

Build

Open the builder with Mega Dragonite seated — Mega Dragonite brings Flamethrower to more teams than any of the other 23 Pokémon that carry it.

More

All 121 moves the format runs, ordered by how many copies an average team carries.