My Top 5 Fire Type Pokemon

[Meowstic Royalty]

HEYYO. The Shiny Emboar, back again for another top five. Last week, fire beat grass by two votes.

Currently, I'm sure you can all guess who is number one on this list, but that won't stop me.

I sure feel sorry for Blaziken. It was the original fire fighting starter...



...then me and Infernape waltzed in and hogged all the glory.

Anyway, let's begin.

5. Infernape



Ah, Infernape. Stuff the haters, Infernape is a powerhouse. It is classed under "Glass Cannons" where it lands powerful hits but falls to pieces if it gets hit itself, meaning you need a Focus Sash to survive any sort of powerful move. But other than it's frail defense stats, Infernape is flat out awesomeness. Design? Karate monkey with flames as a hairdo. So much win. Movepool? Learns moves from tons of different types, including Posychic, Dark, Poison and Grass. Huge speed stat? Check. Not much will outmatch this thing for speed, as Infernape is the fastest Non-Legendary fire type. Oh, and that Infernape vs Electivire battle in the anime? Pure epicness.

4: Chandelure



It is a chandelier that sucks out and burns the soul of anything that comes near. That is creepy and freakishly awesome at the same time. Chandelure is one of those Pokémon that I love for so many reasons. A) It is the proud Pokémon in posession of one of the subway bosses. B) It has an epic shiny C) It has stupidly high Special Attack. You do NOT want to get hit by a fire blast or any form of special attack off this guy.

3: Houndoom



So much awesome in just one fire dog from the depths of hell. Houndoom is just pure win. It is not only the only Dark/Fire type, but it also has great abilities, trustworthy stats, a great design and a pretty beast movepool. This thing looks like the devil's dog, just more evil. I have a shiny one in Black that currently has a kill count of 1739, and counting. Face my Houndoom in battle, and you may as well give up and share your Pokemon the pain.

2: Arcanine



MORE FIRE DOGS. Arcanine looks like it should be a police dog or something. Then again, it is in the anime under the ownership of Officer Jenny, so I guess it already is. Arcanine looks awesome and is awesome. Arcanine has a great movepool, nice stats, a great design and shiny and is just an all round star of the battlefield. Nothing stands in Arcanine's way, but there is something keeping it from being first...

1: Emboar (I mean, duh).



Hey look, its me!

Honestly, I don't understand why more people don't choose Tepig. Despite it's rather abismal speed, this Pokémon is purely designed for bulk and some pretty beast moves. Fun bit of trivia, Emboar is the only fire type that can learn a damaging water type move, that being Scald. Emboar has a great design (Fire beard, how can you not like that?), an epic shiny, a stupidly large movepool, great attack stats and some serious reliability in battle. Pure power and destruction whilst being able to take a few his as well? Emboar's your man.

Well that just about wraps things up for this week. Post your personal top five down below and vote for what type you want to see next time, either Grass or Electric.

Emboar out.

[SirBlaziken]

1. MegaBlaziken
2. Blaziken
Everything else: who cares


Last: Derpape


There is no poll!

[Meowstic Royalty]

Right, I can't believe I never actually bothered asking this, why do you hate on Infernape so much?

[quack98]

I agree with Arcanine, and I would agree with Tepig, but the others I'm not keen on

[NTN]

I noticed that the Pokémon on this list are all fully evolved. If I were to say mine, Cyndaquil and Vulpix would definitely be on there.

[Meowstic Royalty]

I noticed that the Pokémon on this list are all fully evolved. If I were to say mine, Cyndaquil and Vulpix would definitely be on there.

Yeah, basically every Pokemon on these lists will be. I'm not really a big fan of the cute stuff being the basic stages of the evolution line, I just look for something with a great design and huge capability in battles.

[NTN]

Ah. Well then, about your list, I definitely agree with Chandelure.

[SirBlaziken]

1. A clone of Blaziken
2. Is completely inferior to blaziken
3. Is a complete abomination
4. Is only OU, compared to blaziken's uber
5. It's ugly

That's only a few reasons why I hate infernape.

Read Richard and Blaziken's articles on both of them, and that's just the beginning of why blaziken is always better.

[quack98]

1. A clone of Blaziken
its completely different, only shares a typing
2. Is completely inferior to blaziken
Not true, it's a common OU lead. It's not a sweeper as such, and is superior to Blaziken in its role.
3. Is a complete abomination
Thats opinion
4. Is only OU, compared to blaziken's uber
By smogon, smogon aren't anything official, and there tiers aren't nitendos
5. It's ugly
is this not just 3?

Comments are bold

[Meowstic Royalty]

1. A clone of Blaziken
2. Is completely inferior to blaziken
3. Is a complete abomination
4. Is only OU, compared to blaziken's uber
5. It's ugly

That's only a few reasons why I hate infernape.

Read Richard and Blaziken's articles on both of them, and that's just the beginning of why blaziken is always better.

1. It isn't a clone just because its the same type as blaziken and came a gen after. If Drapion a Clone of Skuntank? No. Is Staraptor a clone of Pidgeot? No.
2. Inferior. Before speed boost was introduced, Blaziken was almost pointless. Pretend we're still on gen four. Infernape would Earthquake that thing before it could say 'KFB'.
3. Abomination: And a chicken with fire coming out of its hands and a deformed face isn't?
4. OU. True fact, but of course Blaziken is only there due to Speed Boost. And ubers isn't neccasarily a good thing, as it can't be used in normal battles in the metagame. However Infernape is a fast, physical sweeper that doesn't have to wait for Speed  boost to kick in before it reaches high speed.
5. Looks ugly. ITS A FREAKING MONKEY WITH FIRE AS HAIR. THAT looks pretty beast, but a fire handed chicken with a deformed face area isn't, frankly,

[NTN]

He only started showing his hate toward Infernape after SI2000 challenged him.

[Meowstic Royalty]

Why, Draghost? Did Infernape a sweep and he went into a hissy fit?

[SirBlaziken]

Well, I could rant about embore. And no, I've hated him for a long time.

[Meowstic Royalty]

Newsflash for ShinyBlaziken. A pig and a monkey aren't clones of a chicken.

[SirBlaziken]

Ignoring the previous comment here's the rest of my list:

3. Ninetales
4. Typhlosion
5. Chandelure