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Heat Wave

Fire · Special · 24 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Fire
Heat Wave
TypeFire
CategorySpecial
Base power95
Accuracy90%
PP10
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Mega Charizard Y 26.5% 99.9% Mega Delphox 12.8% 99.6% Mega Dragonite 4.9% 78.6% Torkoal 4.8% 51.8% Hydreigon 1.9% 19.5% Mega Blaziken 1.7% 5.8% Mega Camerupt 1.4% 90.6% Mega Pyroar 1.2% 99.8% Chandelure 1.2% 93.3% Volcarona 1.00% 40.6% Armarouge 0.81% 25.8% Typhlosion-Hisui 0.57% 84.9% Ninetales 0.56% 88.2% Mega Altaria 0.40% 8.2% Mega Drampa 0.27% 11.5% Arcanine 0.20% 27.1% Mega Houndoom 0.17% 94.1% Mega Pidgeot 0.10% 85.7% Skeledirge 0.05% 6.4% Salazzle 0.04% 26.1% Infernape 0.04% 22.9% Toucannon 0.03% 1.8% Typhlosion 0.03% 48.6% Charizard 0.02% 92.4%

What it does

Has a 10% chance to burn the target.

At 95 base power it is the 10th 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 Heat Wave. The one that matters most is Mega Charizard Y, which is on 26.5% of teams and carrys it on 99.9% 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: Flare Blitz, Overheat, Will-O-Wisp, Flamethrower, Sunny Day.

Who could and does not

33 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Heat Wave 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, Arcanine-Hisui, Aerodactyl, Ceruledge, Talonflame and Staraptor — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Heat Wave accounts for an expected 0.52 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 7th most-brought of the 121 moves this format runs. 51% of that comes from Mega Charizard Y alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Fire (18), Flying (5) and Dragon (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 Charizard Y seated — Mega Charizard Y brings Heat Wave 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.