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Overview
- Blaziken and Mega Blaziken are great options for a fast, offensive Pokemon in the 1v1 metagame.
- A great offensive Fire/Fighting typing allows for Blaziken to beat many common bulky Steel-types like Mega Metagross, Mega Mawile, and Magearna.
- Blaziken has great mixed attacking stats as well as a strong mixed movepool including Blast Burn, Flare Blitz, High Jump Kick, and Stone Edge.
- Blaziken and Mega Blaziken can outpace a large portion of the metagame thanks to its ability speed boost, however it must use either Protect or Endure to ensure it sets up safely.
[Blaziken]
Blaziken @ Life Orb / Firium Z
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Blast Burn
- High Jump Kick
- Protect / Endure
- Stone Edge / HP Ice
Set Comments
Moves
- Blast Burn is Blaziken’s main attack allowing it to defeat nearly any Steel-type besides Heatran and Magnezone and most neutral Pokemon like Tapu Koko
- High Jump Kick is Blaziken’s secondary STAB move allowing it to beat Heatran, Rock-types, and Dark-types like Rhyperior and Tyranitar.
- Protect prevents all damage done to Blaziken to let it safely get a speed boost.
- Endure also allows Blaziken to safely get a speed boost and capitalizes on recharge moves from Porygon-Z or Greninja, but also can leave Blaziken susceptible to priority moves.
- Stone Edge allows Blaziken to beat Mega Charizard Y.
- Hidden Power Ice allows Blaziken to beat Landorus-T and Garchomp.
Set Details
- 252 Speed and a Hasty Nature guarantees the most speed for Blaziken to outspeed as many threats as possible including Base 90 speed Pokemon that aren’t using a speed boosting nature
- 252 Special Attack powers up Blaziken’s Blast Burn to make it as strong as possible.
- 4 Attack gives Blaziken a small boost to his physical moves like High Jump Kick and Stone Edge
- Life Orb is the preferred item on this set as it boosts all moves 1.3x, allowing Blaziken to secure more OHKOs.
- Firium Z makes Blast Burn into a 200 BP move without a recharge turn allowing Blaziken to break walls.
- Speed Boost is the obvious ability of choice to help Blaziken reach high speeds.
Usage Tips
- Blaziken excels at taking out Steel-types and should be used to discourage the opponent from using them.
- However, make sure to avoid sending in Blaziken on Sturdy pokemon like Donphan and Mimikyu as it has no real way of OHKOing them.
- Against faster oponents Blaziken should almost always use Protect or Endure turn 1, so it can outpace them turn 2.
- Against slower opponents, without a scarf, Blaziken should usually just attack to not give them a turn to set up.
- Blaziken’s best move is Blast Burn, or Inferno Overdrive if using Firium Z, and should be used unless either the opponent resists Fire, is weak to Fighting, or is doubly weak to the coverage move.
- When facing Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z, it’s best to try and get double protect as it is unlikely that Blaziken will outspeed them after only 1 turn.
- Against Dragon Dance, Quiver Dance, or Substitute users like Mega Charizard X, Volcarona, and Landorus-T, it can be better to use an attacking move on their predicted set-up move, but not use Blast Burn as they could potentially take advantage of the recharge turn if they survive.
Team Options
- Mega Gyarados, Kyurem-B, and Mega Venusaur can defeat Sturdy Pokemon that cause issues for Blaziken. Similarly the first two appreciate Blaziken’s ability to deal with Steel-types.
- Slow Pokemon like Magearna can appreciate Blaziken’s ability to speed control and scare off faster Pokemon: conversely Blaziken appreciates Magearna’s ability to beat Tapu Lele and Mega Slowbro.
- Grass-types and Electric-types like Kartana and Tapu Koko can help beat Water-types Pokemon like Mega Gyarados and Mega Blastoise.
[Mega Blaziken]
Blaziken-Mega @ Blazikenite
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Flare Blitz
- High Jump Kick
- Stone Edge
- Protect / Endure
Set Comments
Moves
- High Jump Kick is Blaziken's strongest STAB attack that can break many Dark-, Normal-, and Ice-types like Tyranitar, Porygon-Z, and Kyurem-B
- Flare Blitz is Blaziken's second strongest STAB but is also very useful against popular Steel-types that who's secondary typing resists Fighting moves like Mega Mawile, Magearna, and Mega Metagross
- Stone Edge is used against Mega Charizard Y
- Protect allows for Mega Blaziken to get to a high speed without taking any damage.
- Endure also allows Blaziken to safely get a speed boost and capitalizes on recharge moves from
Greninja, but also can leave Blaziken susceptible to priority moves.
Set Details
- 252 Speed and a Jolly nature lets Blaziken outspeed almost the entirety of the metagame after one speed boost.
- 252 Attack gives Mega Blaziken as high of an attack stat as possible.
Usage Tips
- Blaziken excels at taking out Steel-types and should be used to discourage the opponent from using them.
- However, make sure to avoid sending in Blaziken on Sturdy pokemon like Donphan and Mimikyu as it has no real way of OHKOing them.
- Against faster oponents Blaziken should almost always use Protect or Endure turn 1, so it can outpace them turn 2.
- Against slower opponents, it's better to just attack first rather than wait.
- Mega Blaziken's strongest move is High Jump Kick and should be used unless the opponent resists Fighting, is weak to Fire, or is doubly weak to Rock.
- Against Dragon Dance, Quiver Dance, or Substitute users like Mega Charizard X, Volcarona, and Tapu Koko, and Mega Pinsir, it can be better to use an attacking move on their predicted set-up move.
Team Options
- Pokemon that beat Sturdy Pokemon like Mega Gyarados, Mega Blastoise, and Kyurem-B and can appreciate Mega Blaziken beating Steel-types that could cause these Pokemon difficulties
- Magearna can be useful at beating Pokemon like Tapu Lele and Mega Gyarados which also appreciates the speed control Blaziken provides.
- Sturdy Pokemon like Crustle, Donphan, and Golem also can help beat Mega Charizard X, which Mega Blaziken has difficulty beating
Strategy Comments
Other Options
- A SubReversal set can be used to take advantage of Blaziken's high speed but leaves Blaziken without a coverage move
- Wil-o-Wisp is good against slower physical Pokemon to weaken them and can be used with Firium Z to give a +1 Attack boost.
- Thunder Punch is a good option to use against Mega Gyarados who don't anticipate it.
Checks and Counters
Sturdy Pokemon: Because Blaziken can't OHKO them thanks to Sturdy, Pokemon like Crustle, Donphan, and Golem are easily able to beat it.
Tapu Lele and Mew: Thanks to Psychium-Z and Mewnium Z, Tapu Lele and Mew can easily OHKO Blaziken, even past Protect
Choice Scarf users: Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z and Kyurem-B will be faster than standard Blaziken even after one speed boost. However, Mega Blaziken will be faster than these two, but an even faster Scarf user like Greninja will still be faster.
Mixed Defensive Walls: Pokemon like Mega Venusaur and Mega Slowbro can withstand Blaziken's moveset with ease and simply wear it out.
- Blaziken and Mega Blaziken are great options for a fast, offensive Pokemon in the 1v1 metagame.
- A great offensive Fire/Fighting typing allows for Blaziken to beat many common bulky Steel-types like Mega Metagross, Mega Mawile, and Magearna.
- Blaziken has great mixed attacking stats as well as a strong mixed movepool including Blast Burn, Flare Blitz, High Jump Kick, and Stone Edge.
- Blaziken and Mega Blaziken can outpace a large portion of the metagame thanks to its ability speed boost, however it must use either Protect or Endure to ensure it sets up safely.
[Blaziken]
Blaziken @ Life Orb / Firium Z
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Blast Burn
- High Jump Kick
- Protect / Endure
- Stone Edge / HP Ice
Set Comments
Moves
- Blast Burn is Blaziken’s main attack allowing it to defeat nearly any Steel-type besides Heatran and Magnezone and most neutral Pokemon like Tapu Koko
- High Jump Kick is Blaziken’s secondary STAB move allowing it to beat Heatran, Rock-types, and Dark-types like Rhyperior and Tyranitar.
- Protect prevents all damage done to Blaziken to let it safely get a speed boost.
- Endure also allows Blaziken to safely get a speed boost and capitalizes on recharge moves from Porygon-Z or Greninja, but also can leave Blaziken susceptible to priority moves.
- Stone Edge allows Blaziken to beat Mega Charizard Y.
- Hidden Power Ice allows Blaziken to beat Landorus-T and Garchomp.
Set Details
- 252 Speed and a Hasty Nature guarantees the most speed for Blaziken to outspeed as many threats as possible including Base 90 speed Pokemon that aren’t using a speed boosting nature
- 252 Special Attack powers up Blaziken’s Blast Burn to make it as strong as possible.
- 4 Attack gives Blaziken a small boost to his physical moves like High Jump Kick and Stone Edge
- Life Orb is the preferred item on this set as it boosts all moves 1.3x, allowing Blaziken to secure more OHKOs.
- Firium Z makes Blast Burn into a 200 BP move without a recharge turn allowing Blaziken to break walls.
- Speed Boost is the obvious ability of choice to help Blaziken reach high speeds.
Usage Tips
- Blaziken excels at taking out Steel-types and should be used to discourage the opponent from using them.
- However, make sure to avoid sending in Blaziken on Sturdy pokemon like Donphan and Mimikyu as it has no real way of OHKOing them.
- Against faster oponents Blaziken should almost always use Protect or Endure turn 1, so it can outpace them turn 2.
- Against slower opponents, without a scarf, Blaziken should usually just attack to not give them a turn to set up.
- Blaziken’s best move is Blast Burn, or Inferno Overdrive if using Firium Z, and should be used unless either the opponent resists Fire, is weak to Fighting, or is doubly weak to the coverage move.
- When facing Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z, it’s best to try and get double protect as it is unlikely that Blaziken will outspeed them after only 1 turn.
- Against Dragon Dance, Quiver Dance, or Substitute users like Mega Charizard X, Volcarona, and Landorus-T, it can be better to use an attacking move on their predicted set-up move, but not use Blast Burn as they could potentially take advantage of the recharge turn if they survive.
Team Options
- Mega Gyarados, Kyurem-B, and Mega Venusaur can defeat Sturdy Pokemon that cause issues for Blaziken. Similarly the first two appreciate Blaziken’s ability to deal with Steel-types.
- Slow Pokemon like Magearna can appreciate Blaziken’s ability to speed control and scare off faster Pokemon: conversely Blaziken appreciates Magearna’s ability to beat Tapu Lele and Mega Slowbro.
- Grass-types and Electric-types like Kartana and Tapu Koko can help beat Water-types Pokemon like Mega Gyarados and Mega Blastoise.
[Mega Blaziken]
Blaziken-Mega @ Blazikenite
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Flare Blitz
- High Jump Kick
- Stone Edge
- Protect / Endure
Set Comments
Moves
- High Jump Kick is Blaziken's strongest STAB attack that can break many Dark-, Normal-, and Ice-types like Tyranitar, Porygon-Z, and Kyurem-B
- Flare Blitz is Blaziken's second strongest STAB but is also very useful against popular Steel-types that who's secondary typing resists Fighting moves like Mega Mawile, Magearna, and Mega Metagross
- Stone Edge is used against Mega Charizard Y
- Protect allows for Mega Blaziken to get to a high speed without taking any damage.
- Endure also allows Blaziken to safely get a speed boost and capitalizes on recharge moves from
Greninja, but also can leave Blaziken susceptible to priority moves.
Set Details
- 252 Speed and a Jolly nature lets Blaziken outspeed almost the entirety of the metagame after one speed boost.
- 252 Attack gives Mega Blaziken as high of an attack stat as possible.
Usage Tips
- Blaziken excels at taking out Steel-types and should be used to discourage the opponent from using them.
- However, make sure to avoid sending in Blaziken on Sturdy pokemon like Donphan and Mimikyu as it has no real way of OHKOing them.
- Against faster oponents Blaziken should almost always use Protect or Endure turn 1, so it can outpace them turn 2.
- Against slower opponents, it's better to just attack first rather than wait.
- Mega Blaziken's strongest move is High Jump Kick and should be used unless the opponent resists Fighting, is weak to Fire, or is doubly weak to Rock.
- Against Dragon Dance, Quiver Dance, or Substitute users like Mega Charizard X, Volcarona, and Tapu Koko, and Mega Pinsir, it can be better to use an attacking move on their predicted set-up move.
Team Options
- Pokemon that beat Sturdy Pokemon like Mega Gyarados, Mega Blastoise, and Kyurem-B and can appreciate Mega Blaziken beating Steel-types that could cause these Pokemon difficulties
- Magearna can be useful at beating Pokemon like Tapu Lele and Mega Gyarados which also appreciates the speed control Blaziken provides.
- Sturdy Pokemon like Crustle, Donphan, and Golem also can help beat Mega Charizard X, which Mega Blaziken has difficulty beating
Strategy Comments
Other Options
- A SubReversal set can be used to take advantage of Blaziken's high speed but leaves Blaziken without a coverage move
- Wil-o-Wisp is good against slower physical Pokemon to weaken them and can be used with Firium Z to give a +1 Attack boost.
- Thunder Punch is a good option to use against Mega Gyarados who don't anticipate it.
Checks and Counters
Sturdy Pokemon: Because Blaziken can't OHKO them thanks to Sturdy, Pokemon like Crustle, Donphan, and Golem are easily able to beat it.
Tapu Lele and Mew: Thanks to Psychium-Z and Mewnium Z, Tapu Lele and Mew can easily OHKO Blaziken, even past Protect
Choice Scarf users: Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z and Kyurem-B will be faster than standard Blaziken even after one speed boost. However, Mega Blaziken will be faster than these two, but an even faster Scarf user like Greninja will still be faster.
Mixed Defensive Walls: Pokemon like Mega Venusaur and Mega Slowbro can withstand Blaziken's moveset with ease and simply wear it out.
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