What it does on the ladder
Flareon appears on 0.02% of Regulation M-B teams, which
is 265th of the 282 Pokémon with enough games to measure.
The move it almost always carries is Flare Blitz, on 100% of sets.
The item is usually White Herb at 57.9%.
The ability is split: Flash Fire on 87.9% and Guts on 12.1%.
Those are Smogon's published usage figures, not anything measured here, and they describe what
the ladder plays rather than what is strongest. The full set is in the panel above.
The Pokémon itself
Flareon is number 136 in the National Dex, a Kanto Pokémon, Fire
with a base stat total of 525 — 69th of the 234 Pokémon
legal in this regulation. Its best stat is Attack at 130, 18th
in the format; its weakest is Defense at 60, 219th.
It can have Flash Fire and Guts.
The Champions module tiers it UU.
It sits in a 2-stage line: Eevee → Flareon.
Not all of that line is legal in this regulation — Eevee is not.
What gets through
As Fire, 3 of the eighteen attacking types do extra damage to it. It
resists 6. The board above
has all of it. 5 other legal Pokémon share the same typing and the same board: Torkoal, Ninetales, Arcanine, Typhlosion, Simisear.
What threatens it
Smogon publishes no head-to-head checks-and-counters data for doubles formats, so this list is
computed, not measured: the most-played Regulation M-B Pokémon carrying a damaging
move of a type Flareon takes extra damage from.
- Garchomp — Earthquake (Ground, ×2), on 85.7% of its sets
- Basculegion — Aqua Jet (Water, ×2), on 96.6% of its sets
- Aerodactyl-Mega — Rock Slide (Rock, ×2), on 99.8% of its sets
- Blastoise-Mega — Water Spout (Water, ×2), on 96.4% of its sets
- Swampert-Mega — Wave Crash (Water, ×2), on 97.6% of its sets
- Venusaur — Earth Power (Ground, ×2), on 77% of its sets
Speed and weight
At level 50 with a boosting nature and full investment, Flareon reaches
128 Speed; left uninvested with a neutral nature it sits at
85. Invested, it outruns 5 of the 20
most-used Pokémon in the regulation when they are invested too — which is the comparison that
decides who moves first.
It weighs 25 kg, so Grass Knot and Low Kick hit it for 60 base
power. That is a real consideration in a format where both are common.
Its move pool
Flareon learns 98 moves in the Champions data.
53 of them do damage, across 12 of the eighteen
types, and 14 share a type with it and so get the same-type bonus.
Its hardest-hitting same-type move is Overheat at 130 base power, though the biggest number in the pool is Giga Impact at 150.
It also has priority: Quick Attack at +1.
That pool is what the team builder reads from when you seat it, and the
damage calculator will take it as the attacker with
the form already chosen.
