Fire (type)

The Fire type (Japanese: ほのおタイプ Flame type) is one of the eighteen types. Notable s who specialize in Fire-type include Blaine of Cinnabar Island, Flannery of Lavaridge Town,  of the, Chili of Striaton City, Malva of the , and Trial Captain Kiawe of Paniola Town. Prior to changes in Generation IV, all damaging Fire-type moves were special, but they may now also be physical depending on the attack.

Generation I
Fire-type Pokémon cannot be ed by Fire-type moves.

Damaging Fire-type moves thaw frozen targets.

Generations II to V
In Generation II, Fire-type Pokémon cannot be ed by Fire-type moves. Starting in Generation III, Fire-type Pokémon cannot be burned.

Damaging Fire-type moves thaw frozen targets.

Generation VI onwards
Fire-type Pokémon cannot be burned.

Damaging Fire-type moves thaw frozen targets.

Defense
Very few Fire-type Pokémon have a secondary type that negates their weakness to attacks. On the other hand, most Fire types can learn to counter all three of the type's weaknesses.

The Fire type grants immunity to s and the sea of fire caused by and. It enables the use of, though Burn Up removes the user's Fire type.

Offense
During or extremely harsh sunlight, the power of Fire-type attacks is increased by 50%. The power of Fire-type attacks is decreased by 50% during, while all Fire-type moves will fail during heavy rain. When is in the effect, the power of Fire-type moves are decreased by 50%. When used under the effect of, Fire attacks will damage the user by 1/4 of its max HP instead of executing normally.

Because Fire is super effective against Grass and Bug, it combines well with attacks.

Contest properties
In s, Fire-type moves are typically moves.

Pokémon
As of Generation VII, there are 68 Fire-type Pokémon or 8.4% of all Pokémon (counting those that are Fire-type in at least one of their forms, including Primal Reversion and Alola Forms), making it the 7th most common type.

Interacting with the Fire type
A Pokémon with, , , , , or will become a Fire-type Pokémon if (respectively) it is hit with a Fire-type move, uses a Fire-type move, is sent out against a Fire-type opponent, if the weather is sunny, if it is holding a Fire Memory, or if it is holding a Flame Plate or Firium Z.

Fire-type Pokémon are also immune to becoming burned from the Abilities or.

Exclusive Abilities
Only Fire-type Pokémon can have these Abilities. This does not include signature Abilities.

In the TCG
Similar to the games, Fire-type Pokémon in the TCG are generally weak to TCG Water with no resistances. Fire-type Pokémon are strong against TCG Grass and TCG Metal Pokémon, whilst TCG Colorless Pokémon can resist this type.

Trivia

 * Generation V introduced the most Fire-type Pokémon of any generation, with, and Generation IV introduced the fewest, with five.
 * Generation V introduced the most Fire-type moves of any generation, with 11, and Generation VI introduced the fewest, with only.
 * Fire was the last type to receive a Pokémon with Water as the other type, only receiving one with in Generation VI.
 * In, there are only two evolutionary lines of Fire-type Pokémon in the Sinnoh Pokédex (the and  evolutionary lines). In , this was changed with the expansion of the Sinnoh Pokédex to include the  and  families, as well as.
 * In the core series Pokémon games since Generation III, the Fire type has been represented by the color orange. However, in most other Pokémon media, including the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the, and the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, the Fire type has been associated with the color red.
 * Also, the condition uses the same shade of orange in its status screen icon as the Fire type's icon does, despite being described as red in-text.
 * Similar to moves, all Fire-type moves were  moves in Generation III.
 * Generation III is the only generation so far not to have introduced a Fire-type move with the word "Fire" in its name.
 * The Fire type is able to deal the highest type-based multiplier. This is possible in harsh sunlight against a Bug/ or Ice/Steel-type Pokémon with that has been affected by . This would result in a 24× multiplier.
 * The effects of and  can further boost this to a 36× power multiplier.
 * It can also achieve the lowest non-zero type-based multiplier. This is possible in rain against a dual-type Pokémon whose both types resist Fire-type attacks, with or  while  is in effect. This would result in a 0.02065× multiplier.

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