Pokemon Rants

Best Movesets for Every Starter Part 1 (Fire starters)

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Ash

Me and Ash will be stating and explaining the best move sets for starters competitively. Also by the way we're not the best at competitive Pokémon and this is our opinion so if the move sets that are on here are bad or you apparently know something better, remember this is our OPINION and everyone has different strategies for competitive Pokémon. Anyways let's start the list.

Charizard
Belly drum- Charizard's attack stat isn't it's highest but bulky dream can make it can stronger than its special making it a hard hitter(just remember it loses half of its health when it uses this move)
Flame charge- The increase is speed is nice allowing you to outspeed a lot of Pokémon and STAB
Outrage- Combined with the high attack power from belly drum you could sweep someone's team since outrage is extremely powerful
Earthquake- Good coverage against Charizard's bad rock weakness and electric weakness

Typhlosion
Sunny day- It can give a boost to fire moves and Typhlosion doesn't have that good defense so it helps with water moves
Eruption- Powerful STAB fire move
Earthquake- Coverage against rock types
Thunderpunch- Coverage against water types

Blaziken
Blaze Kick- Good STAB fire move
High Jump Kick- Strong STAB fighting move
Brave Bird- Coverage
Thunderpunch- Coverage against water types and flying types

Infernape

1. Flare Blitz

Flare Blitz is a good STAB move that suits Infernape's high attack stat. With 120 base power, it's good for dealing with any Pokemon except water, dragon, fire, or rock-types, and the 10 percent chance to burn makes it all the more dangerous. Just watch out for recoil damage.

2. Close Combat

Close Combat is another strong physical STAB move. It works well against everything except bug, fairy, flying, psychic, ghost, and poison-types. However, it should be noted that Infernape does suffer a decrease in defense and special defense, so spamming this move isn't a good idea.

3. Thunder Punch

As with Blaziken, Thunder Punch offers great coverage against water and flying-types. Infernape is faster than most water-type Pokemon, so Thunder Punch combined with its high speed and attack stat should be enough to deal quite a bit of damage. While there are several fast flying-types, on average they don't have very high defense, so they wouldn't stand much of a chance against Thunder Punch.

4. U-Turn

U-Turn is a good move to use against psychic-types or if Infernape is in a situation where he could get knocked out soon. It's a fairly powerful move, so you'll be able to do a nice bit of bonus damage before letting Infernape rest.

Emboar

1. Hammer Arm

Once again, Emboar has an amazingly good attack stat, so that combined with the STAB from Hammer Arm will spell certain doom for your opponents.

2. Iron Tail

Being a steel-type move, Iron Tail works well against fairy and rock-types, one of which Emboar goes even with and the other to which it has a disadvantage. Fairy-types tend to have less than stellar defensive stats, so one hit from an Iron Tail should be enough to do the job. Although rock-types typically have good defense, with 100 base power, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

3. Flare Blitz

Again, it's a good STAB move that suits Emboar's high attack stat.

4. Thunder Punch

Once again, Thunder Punch will provide coverage against flying and water-types.

Shi-oops, I mean Delphox

1. Mystical Fire

It be a good STAB move.

2. Psychic

Psychic is a good STAB move as well, and with base 90 power combined with Delphox's high special attack, it should be enough to knock out almost any opponent.

3. Signal Beam

Signal Beam is a bug-type move that works well to counter Delphox's dark-type weakness.

4. Calm Mind

Delphox already has fantastic special attack and special defense, so setting this up is sure to be a devastating blow to almost anyone you face. Just send Delphox out, set up a Calm Mind, and prepare to wreck your opponents with Psychic and Mystical Fire.

Incineroar

1. Flare Blitz

I'm getting really tired of repeating myself, but once again, Flare Blitz is a good STAB move. Just watch out for the recoil, as usual.

2. Cross Chop

While not STAB, Cross Chop is still a good fighting-type attack. It has a high chance to critical hit, and unlike other strong fighting moves such as Close Combat, Incineroar won't suffer a stat drop as an added side effect.

3: Earthquake

Again covers it's rock weakness and good for steel and electric types

4: Darkest Lariat

A pretty good STAB dark move which will do great against strong psychic types like Alakazam(assuming they aren't using mega Alakazam) and ghost types.