Btw, you guys could've also ignored the attack, and make Flareon a special sweeper instead. Seriously now. If you're that worried about it's 130 attack, then move on to the 95 Special Attack. I don't get why people obsess over it's attack, but whatever.
Because a pokemon who's featured stat is base 95 is not good. What I'm trying to show you is that Flareon desperately needs to be able to utiilize that base 130 attack stat, and it can't. That's why it has problems. Also, it's built somewhat bulky, but it's been cursed with it's typing; fire types can't wall anything. At all.
Defensive Flareon can still do fine, but it must have a bit of offense in it too. It can't last forever, so it'll make do with what it has.
Wrong.
There's a reason that no one cares about "Bulky Fire types": Stealth Rock and bulky water types.
And you people say that it's other evolutions perform better. But you do know that Vaporeon, a pokemon that's commonly known and used for wishing and stalling and whatnot has the same exact stats Flareon has. Just swap it's base Attack with it's special attack and voila.
Oh my.
Not only did you not thoroughly read our posts, you didn't even read up on your little "fact". Vaporeon and Flareon's base
HP and base attack are switched, which is quite different, and also sp. atk and sp. def are switched. Not only does Vaporeon laugh at Flareon's bulkyness, it has a far better movepool, allowing it to run support sets with acid armor and aqua ring, and ice beam for better coverage. It's not beat to death with SR, and can actually take down what it's designed to take down, unlike Flareon who makes OU's steel types laugh. Also, STAB water has better type coverage than STAB fire.
So like....what are their similarities, again? Oh right: Wish-Toxic and um.....oh their names have "eon" at the end. Yeah.
The same can be said for Glaceon.
Again, no. Their defenses are also switched. They're a closer match than Vaporeon is to Flareon, sure, but switching stats is not always good, especially when said pokemon can't utilize those stats effectively.
This denial thing is like.....omg....wow. Look, a LOT of people want to see Flareon get better; I really had hopes that HGSS would give it Flare Blitz or some other moves to help it out, but no such luck. You have to understand that even the best of the fire types get beat to death in competitive battling, and Flareon is far from the best.
Here's hoping you absorb some of this. :/
EDIT:
-sigh- I'm going to bed. I'm tired of all the drama on the internet. Of all things and of all places. I'm tired of Luck being stubborn and constantly hating one of my most liked Pokemon and making it sound pathetic when it clearly isn't. I'm tired of anyone else who does the same.
No shame, right? Because everything you say is right, right? Because if someone says differently, then thats a cause for internet drama, right? Because clearly, because you can't respect someone's personal likings, thats a cause to attempt to put what they like down, right?
WTF?
I don't know about Luck, but all I wanted to do is show you that Flareon is far from a fire type god. You got yourself worked up, not me.
