What makes Blaziken so good?

Blaziken, Blaziken has a type advantage and also has an ability that increases its speed. It outspeeds Sceptile, and also has hard hitting fire type moves that do stab and super effective, if it doesn't one shot, it will two shot the Sceptile.
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Why is Blaziken so good?

Mega Blaziken's great ability in Speed Boost makes it faster every turn, eventually letting it outspeed the entire metagame and making it a pretty good sweeper. This also makes it difficult to revenge kill, since it is usually faster than everything after one Speed boost.
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Is Blaziken one of the best Pokémon?

Even without its Mega Evolution available in the more modern Pokémon games, Blaziken is still one of, if not the best, starters competitively.
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What is Blaziken known for?

In battle, Blaziken blows out intense flames from its wrists and attacks foes courageously. The stronger the foe, the more intensely this Pokémon's wrists burn. Blaziken has incredibly strong legs—it can easily clear a 30-story building in one leap. This Pokémon's blazing punches leave its foes scorched and blackened.
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Is Blaziken good competitively?

Blaziken is one of the best non-shadow/mega Fire Types in the game currently. With Blast Burn, it tops the DPS charts, though its TDO isn't the best. And even with Blaze Kick, it still has a great offensive presence that can't be ignored.
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Is Blaziken better than Charizard?

Charizard has more balanced stats by comparison while being faster (excluding Blaziken's Speed Boost). This means that Blaziken hits harder, especially in the physical side.
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Is Blaziken better than arcanine?

No, Arcanine is much bigger and more powerful. Which is faster sceptile or blaziken? According to Bulbapedia, Sceptile is faster with 120 base speed in its standard form compared to Blaziken's measly 80 in its standard form. Mega Evolved, Sceptile has 145 base speed while Blaziken has 100.
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Why was Blaziken banned?

Even with its 4 MSS, Blaziken is versatile and really tough to check after a single SD. For those reasons, it was deemed too much.
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Why is Blaziken better than Infernape?

All Blaziken has to do is use Protect for one turn and it's faster than Infernape. Combine that with Blaziken's higher offenses, and you've got a Pokemon that's just plain better than Infernape.
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Who beats Blaziken?

Some of the best counters for flying-type 7-Star Blaziken Tera raids include Miraidon, Bellibolt, and Iron Hands.
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Is Garchomp better than Blaziken?

Garchomp is safer/ easier to use, but Blaziken is a better sweeper in my opinion, due to having a comparable Attack stat to Garchomp, but having a near unbeatable Speed stat after just one Speed Boost, which can easily be achieved using Protect and because his STAB types are better.
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Who wins Blaziken or Charizard?

(This answer is for Single Battle, but honestly, Blaziken is probably better in all formats.) First, the stats. Both have a Base Speed of 100, so neither is outpacing the other. MBlaziken has a significant Attack edge, but MCharizardX has the ability Tough Claws to boost its power.
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Who is Blaziken weak to?

Weaknesses
  • Water.
  • Ground.
  • Flying.
  • Psychic.
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What is Blaziken best against?

The best Pokemon Go Blaziken counters are Mega Rayquaza, Shadow Rayquaza, Shadow Mewtwo, Primal Kyogre, Primal Groudon & Mega Alakazam. Login to see your custom results!
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How powerful is Blaziken?

Blaziken has incredibly strong legs—it can easily clear a 30-story building in one leap. This Pokémon's blazing punches leave its foes scorched and blackened. In battle, Blaziken blows out intense flames from its wrists and attacks foes courageously. The stronger the foe, the more intensely this Pokémon's wrists burn.
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Who is stronger Blaziken or sceptile?

Blaziken beats Sceptile, Sceptile beats Swampert, and Swampert beats Blaziken. The only exception is when Z-moves are used, in which case Blaziken takes down Swampert as well. Meaning that in that scenario, Blaziken is the clear winner.
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Is Blaziken the best fire starter?

With DW abilities, Blaziken is by far the best one, followed by Infernape. Infernape takes the crown otherwise, with Blaziken being second. Third place is a bit mixed. On its own, I think Charizard deserves it, especially with its DW ability.
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Who is faster Blaziken or Charizard?

Both are offensive Pokemon, but Blaziken has better attack stats (on both sides of the spectrum) while Charizard has better speed. Of course, their Dream World abilities offset this by giving Charizard a power boost in the sunlight (via Solar Power) and Blaziken a speed boost with the aptly named...
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Is Blaziken overrated?

It has great typing and can utilize a number of different HM moves, just so long as it isn't left with the bad ones. Sceptile is great too. Blaziken is just wildly popular, though, and overrated because of it.
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Why did Charizard lost to Blaziken?

Blaziken's Flamethrower countered Charizard's Dragon Rage attack and the two were left dazed. Though both Pokémon were able to get back up, Charizard's attempt to use Flamethrower again caused him to go down and ultimately faint, giving Harrison the win and eliminating Ash from the tournament.
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Why is Ash Greninja banned?

While Ash Hat Pikachu is basically a normal Pikachu with a unique Z-Move. Pikachu still can't compete with most VGC-level Pokémon, so it's allowed, while Greninja, who can compete with VGC-level with its normal abilities, is banned because Battle Bond gives it too big an advantage.
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How rare is Blaziken?

Blaziken V - 020/198 - Ultra Rare.
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Who is the strongest fire-type?

14 Strongest Fire-Type Pokémon, Ranked
  • 8 Typhlosion.
  • 7 Arcanine.
  • 6 Infernape.
  • 5 Blaziken.
  • 4 Cinderace.
  • 3 Entei.
  • 2 Moltres.
  • 1 Primal Groudon.
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Is Blaziken the fastest Pokemon?

Blaziken is the final form of the starter in the third generation of games and has a rather lame speed base stat of 80. In many other generations, that number would be fortunate to land in the top 3 of fastest Fire-types, but Blaziken is a champion of circumstance.
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