In Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, there are many viable candidates for trainers looking to add fire types to their team. There are great new fire-type Pokemon introduced in the Paldea region, like Armarouge, Ceruledge, and Skeledirge, among others. There are a lot of different types that fire-types can fill, but they typically are focused on being offensively viable. Whether it be physical or special attackers, fire-types will most often be focused on dealing damage to their opponents Pokemon.
Before the official release of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, there was datamining done from a ROM of the games, and the miners provided lots of early information. Among the information leaked was a list of Pokemon that will be able to be transferred into the Paldean region through Pokemon Home. These include old mons like Greninja, Chesnaught, and Delphox and new pocket monsters from recent games like Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Among the Hisuian Pokemon available for transferring is the Hisuian regional form of Typhlosion. When Hisuian Typhlosion becomes available to be transferred, it will likely be one of the best fire types in the game.
Hisuian Typhlosion Is a Strong Special Attacker
Hisuian Typhlosion is the regional form of Typhlosion when Quilava evolves in the Hisui region. It has a few key differences from the Johtonian form, like it gaining a second type, Ghost, which gives it another type to get STAB attacks from. It also gains more Ghost-type attacks like Shadow Ball, Hex, Shadow Claw, and its signature move Infernal Parade. This additional typing makes Hisuian Typhlosion a more diverse attacker than Johtonian Typhlosion simply by giving it a wider move pool to choose from and a new type that can hit Psychic-types and other Ghost-type Pokemon for super effective damage.
Infernal Parade is a potentially useful move within Hisuian Typhlosion arsenal. It may look unimpressive on paper with only having 60 base power, but when looking at the secondary effects of the move, it becomes clear why it may have some viability in competitive move sets. The move has two secondary effects; one is that it has a 30% chance of burning an opponent, and the other is that the move does double the amount of damage when the target is inflicted with a status condition. In doubles formats it is relatively easy to get a status condition on opponents with moves like Spore, Toxic, or Will-O-Wisp, and with the status condition boost and STAB, Hisuian Typhlosion could deal 180 base damage with Infernal Parade.
If players also ran Choice Specs, an item that restricts users to only using the first move they choose but also boosts the user's Special Attacks by 50%, they could find success. Hisuian Typhlosion already has a great Special Attack, so it will mainly run Special Attacking sets. Infernal Parade would go up from 60 base power to 90 base power, and then with the same boosts of status condition boost and STAB it would deal 240 base damage. That's enough to one-shot a lot of Pokemon like Gholdengho, Ceruledge, Armarouge and deal a good amount of damage to the likes of Toxapex and Skeledirge.
In the Ninth Generation, Hisuian Typhlosion is also getting access to Eruption, a Fire-type move than deals a whopping 150 base power. It hits everyone on the field which could be rough in doubles formats, but if paired with a Pokemon like Dachsbun that is immune to fire type attacks, it could boost some allies while using it. With Eruption, Typhlosion will be able to one-shot even more Pokemon, especially if trainers were to Terastalize into a Fire or Ghost type. When Pokemon are able to be transferred, Hisuian Typhlosion is likely to get many trainers interested in using it.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are available now on Nintendo Switch.
