Flash Fire (Ability)

Flash Fire (Japanese: もらいび Received Fire) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. All that have this Ability are Fire types.

Generation III
Flash Fire makes the Pokémon immune to moves and will activate when hit by one. When activated, the power of the Pokémon's Fire-type moves is increased by 50%. While subsequent hits by Fire-type moves will not provide further increases in power, the Pokémon remains immune to the moves.

Flash Fire will not activate if the Pokémon is from the Fire-type move.

Flash Fire will not work while the user is.

Generation IV
Instead of boosting Fire-type moves' power, Flash Fire now technically boosts the Pokémon's or  by 50% during damage calculation if a Fire-type move is being used, resulting in effectively the same effect.

Generation V onwards
Flash Fire is now functional even if the user is.

Outside of battle
Flash Fire has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Flash Fire

 * In the Generation V and VI games, has Flash Fire as its Hidden Ability, but it cannot be obtained by any legitimate means. Its Hidden Ability is replaced with  in Generation VII.

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In the Pocket Monsters Platinum: Aim to Be Battle King!!

 * In Clash! Yū vs. The Wandering Player, Yū's was revealed to have Flash Fire as its Ability but it wasn't shown to be activated. It was gained by his  through  and was later passed on to his.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

 * In, Platinum's Rapidash was revealed to have Flash Fire as his Ability.
 * 's is revealed to have Flash Fire as his Ability.
 * Blaine's is revealed to have Flash Fire as his Ability.
 * 's is revealed to have Flash Fire as its Ability.

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