| “ | Typhlosion obscures itself behind a shimmering heat haze that it creates using its intensely hot flames. This Pokémon creates blazing explosive blasts that burn everything to cinders. | „ |
| ~ Ruby/Sapphire Pokedex Entry |
Summary
Typhlosion is the final form of the fire starter Pokémon from Johto. It seems to be based off of the honey badger. It evolves from Cyndaquil starting at level 16, and then again from Quilava at level 36.
Powers and Stats
Tier: At most Low 7-B | 7-B | High 7-A
Keys: Cyndaquil | Quilava | Typhlosion
Name: Typhlosion
Origin: Pokémon
Gender: Varies (Species is 87.5% male, 12.5% female)
Age: Varies
Classification: Pokémon, Starter Pokémon, Third Stage Pokémon, Fire-type Pokémon
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Fire Manipulation, Statistics Amplification, Status Effect Inducement, Smokescreens, Metal Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Enhanced Senses, Healing, Can hide itself using heat shimmers, Can absorb fire to increase its strength, Homing Attack, Status Effect Inducement (Can induce burns), Martial Arts, Telekinesis, Telepathy and Illusion Negation (Via Foresight), Immunity to burns, Resistance to Bug, Fairy, Grass, Ice, and Steel-Type moves along with Fire Manipulation normally and Sleep Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, Limited Reactive Power Level (Blaze makes user much more powerful when it's close to being defeated)
Attack Potency: At most Small City level (should be comparable, though slightly inferior to Rhyhorn, who can shatter mountains. Can go to toe to toe with the likes of Piplup) | City level (Is comparable, if not superior to a mid-level Dragonair, who can obliterate a city. Should be far superior to the likes of Rhyhorn, who can shatter mountains and should be comparable to Pupitar) | Large Mountain level+ (Can learn Eruption and its other attacks should be of similar strength. Comparable to other starters)
Speed: Massively Hypersonic+ (Can dodge attacks from Magnemite and other Electric Pokémon) | Massively Hypersonic+ (Superior to before) | FTL (Can trade blows with Pokemon like Poliwrath and other fully evolved starters)
Lifting Strength: Class K (Can learn the HM Strength, and move boulders calculated of this strength) | Class K | Class M (Superior to Brock's Happiny)
Striking Strength: At most Small City level | City level | Large Mountain level+
Durability: At most Small City level | City level | Large Mountain level+
Stamina: Superhuman (The average pokemon is hardwired for battle and can go on fighting for lots of time despite being injured. Capable of spending a day on foot while fighting hordes of enemies in mystery dungeons with little to no breaks)
Range: Standard melee range, tens of kilometers with most attacks
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Below Average normally (Capable of coherent speech between other Pokémon, a degree of understanding of commands and social situations, and can solve minor puzzles, though still mostly driven by instinct), Above Average in battle as Cyndaquil and Quilava (Pokémon are hard-wired for battle and even in the wild can master many moves and fight the likes of Machop which train in all martial arts), Gifted in battle as Typhlosion (Should be superior to 1st and 2nd stage Pokémon and are able to consistently fight the likes of Machamp which have mastered all martial arts, as well as Alakazam)
Weaknesses: Water, Rock, and Ground-type moves. Using Burn Up removes its Fire-type which in turn removes its burn immunity, resistances, and ability to further use Burn Up. However, this also results in its type based weaknesses being removed. Double-Edge deals recoil damage
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Here are a list of all of its moves.
In addition to its moves, Typhlosion is known to have additional capabilities (as stated in the Pokedex):
-Can raise the temperature of the surrounding air drastically, creating heat shimmers strong enough to obscure it from an opponent (entries from Crystal, Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, D/P/Pt, B/W/B2/W2, and OR/AS)
-Heats its own body temperature high enough to cause anything that comes into contact with it to catch fire (entries from Gold, Leaf Green, Heart Gold, and X/Y)
-Can create explosions by rubbing its fur together (entries from Silver, Fire Red, and Soul Silver)
Notable Matchups
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive: