[DISCUSSION] All Our Favorite Fire Pokémon!

[PerchPond]

My favorite Fire-type is Rapidash - the Fire Horse Pokémon.

I think the simplicity of its design is what makes it beautiful. It's just a fire horse. I've been handling horses for roughly 15 years, which makes horse-related designs naturally appealing to me. I like how its blazing mane and tail sways as it gallops. It's such a serene, yet fiery, visage to behold. It made an appearance in the latest episode of the Sun and Moon anime, which made me really happy.

It breaks my heart that Rapidash was rather bad in-game before the physical/special split that happened in generation 4. Fire Blast and moves like Take Down fall short rather quickly. Luckily, it later got quite the amount of strong physical moves like Flare Blitz, Wild Charge, Poison Jab, Mega Horn and so on.

Its subpar base-stats makes Rapidash dwell in the lower ladders, but it's still an okay wallbreaker with good coverage.

The last time I used Rapidash was for the post-game in ORAS, as a Flame Body-mon and as a stable (heeheee) companion while breeding, EV-traing or whatever I was doing back then.

Cheers