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Flare Blitz

Fire · Physical · 10 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Fire
Flare Blitz
TypeFire
CategoryPhysical
Base power120
Accuracy100%
PP15
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Incineroar 33.9% 91.2% Mega Blaziken 3.5% 89.3% Talonflame 3.5% 49.2% Arcanine-Hisui 1.2% 99.1% Mega Charizard X 0.79% 65.1% Arcanine 0.27% 76.5% Infernape 0.07% 14.2% Mega Emboar 0.05% 69.9% Tauros-Paldea-Blaze 0.04% 42.8% Flareon 0.02% 100%

What it does

Has a 10% chance to burn the target. If the target lost HP, the user takes recoil damage equal to 33% the HP lost by the target, rounded half up, but not less than 1 HP.

At 120 base power it is the 3rd strongest of the 42 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

10 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Flare Blitz. The one that matters most is Incineroar, which is on 33.9% of teams and carrys it on 91.2% 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, Will-O-Wisp, Overheat, Flamethrower, Sunny Day.

Who could and does not

26 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Flare Blitz at all, against the 10 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 Torkoal, Ceruledge, Chandelure, Volcarona, Typhlosion-Hisui and Armarouge — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Flare Blitz accounts for an expected 0.38 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 13th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 82% of that comes from Incineroar alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Fire (10) and Fighting (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.