Arcanine
I have one with FF/FB and one with FF/FT, the latter of which is now a legacy moveset (Arcanine seems to have fallen victim to the metagame change once again with only one STAB moveset remaining!) But how do Fire Blast and Flamethrower compare now? FB is a 1-bar, 140 move and FT is 2-bar, 70 each so it adds up to the same. Has anyone had chance to use them both in battle? Is it just a straight choice dependent on playing style or is one clearly stronger?
Also, is there a better fire mon currently available?
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They are however both weaker than Flareon with Fire Spin/Overheat, which is now the new king of fire-attackers.
In my view, it is really questionable game design to make absolute superior fire-, water-, lightning- and psychic-attackers super common. These eevolutions alone render all good (but not best) pkm of these types (arcanine, charizard, poliwrath, slowbro, blastoise, magneton, raichu, electrobuzz, alakazam and many more) completely useless. I cannot understand the game designers here.
This is an absolute unnecessairy fault imo. There should be an advantage to get seldom pokemons, not only filling pokedex.
I notice Charizard can also know Fire Spin & Overheat. But Flareon is still better? I don't like that...
Flareon has more ATT, so it hits stronger than charizard.
On defense (not really their best use) Charizard has double weekness to rock, exploitable by golem.
I summarize: Charizard is way harder to get than flareon, and slightly worse.
In the actual games, you would only be able to evolve one of the three Eeveelutions and you needed to obtain a gem for it which was a one-of-a-kind. The eeveelutions were just as strong, but you could only get hold of one.
I really wish they would have done something of the same in PoGo. It's sad to see how many high-tiered pokemons are rendered obsolete by the massive amount of eeveelutions. IMO it was better when Flareon was just a strong fire mon with a suboptimal moveset, and Vaporeon and Jolteon should have been the same. A good alternative, but not a prime choice.
