That's a resistance to heat and magma, but pokemon's 'burn' is a standalone status effect that can still affect pokemon that otherwise resist fire, heat, and magma manipulation.
Gonna go into detail before the main comment since I'm the one who brought it up off-site and I quote myself here:
The reference image for burns on the anime section of Bulbapedia is a Swanna, a pokemon resistant to Fire attacks and the elemental manipulations related to it.
Resistance to /=/ immunity. You can still be burned despite resisting it. The burn page doesn't say water types can't be burned, only pokemon with abilities like water veil can't. Funnily enough, the moved that burned it was scald, and I've found that water burns are far far worse than standard burns due to higher heat density. So there's another reason why it got burned so easily despite it's typing.
Spike does this thing called countering with his own fire. Also, subsonic means he's closing the gap much faster. The range for his fire breath also means he doesn't have to run as far.
Unless I'm missing something, this will only reduce his movement speed. His attack and reaction speed are still the same to my knowledge (Might be wrong, but idk, so I won't assume the latter speeds are affected). As long as he still has the ability to react, he can still counter the majority of Charmanders attacks.
It's a puff of smoke. I'm positive Spike can either A: Incinerate it, or B: Blow it away with his fire breath because his fire breath has force, allowing for his fire breath to simply shove it out of the way.
Can we not be pedantic here? How exactly do you think the burn status effect inflicts damage? How exactly do you think fire and heat inflicts damage? Not commenting on Dragon Breath since Spike can yet again just counter when he sees it coming, and with Spike having the AP advantage, it's going to stop dead in its tracks.
Said while assuming Charmander is going to spam status effects just because Spike dodged or countered the damaging attacks literally a couple times. If the anime if being applied, I'll point out as far as I've seen thus far, that pokemon, whether wild or under ownership have often spammed the same attack or merely another damage-dealing attack. They don't always just go right for the status moves just because they happen to have them
Both the games and anime comment on type effectiveness being 50% or double depending on whether the pokemon resists or is weak to the attacks typing. So instead of 920 tons, Spike now hits with 460 tons, more than 64% of Charmander's stats. It's going to hurt like shit. Even getting punched by a guy half as powerful as you still hurts a fair bit, and Spike can spam over and over again for several, several seconds.
Iirc, isn't the standard location Central Park if not specified? Plenty of buildings to pin Charmander to in that case.
...yes, that's my point. Spike has a resistance, not an immunity or a status effect resistance, thus that's likely not enough. If pokemon who resist the same effects as Spike are still affected, then the status clearly has a unique aspect to it. Thus, it's reasonable to assume while Spike will take less damage from Inferno, the burn can still trigger.
And yet other times the immunity is brought back up and corrected. The anime trips up, a lot, but very clearly makes an attempt to adapt the game rules outside of a game mechanic setting.
Charmander will still have a variety of options, some Spike can't counter, and sone Spije won't correctly counter in time.
Movement speed reduction will massively hurt the range game if Spike can't keep up as well, and for combat it kinda does? Reactions aren't down, but the movements for doing attacks are slowed, so it hurts combat speed.
It's occasionally a cloud, occasionally a projectile, and capable of AOE. Even if Spike can remove it, doesn't stop the fact that Spike needs to act to even do that, meaning it's done it's job as a distraction, Spike needed to take time to see again.
Above I explained burns in the fictional pokemon world, the kind that are sometimes glowing red energy fields (anime not games), the kind that have stat reductions, and the kind that work on creatures who resist fire and heat.
They also just...will? They're a population and from user to user their move choice varies wildly, some clearly make use of status effects more often. Especially since they're composite profiles, pokemon tendancies are almost impossible to determine. They'll use whatever they can, and have been shown to adapt to situations where things aren't working.
Pokemon are high stamina fighters, so having an AP disadvantage like that means that it's still going to take a while. It's going to be a drag out.
It is, but they're starting in Central Park. Less terrain for pinning, Spike will need to get Charmander up against a random building with positioning and aim or out of the park entirely.
I mentioned above that Swanna was burned by scald, which causes worse burns than fire-based ones due to liquids carrying more heat density. I've also mentioned (In my edits to the reply that is) that Charmander can still burn themselves as infants because they aren't careful when playing with fire and not because they are too young. I'm not sure if you saw those edits since I don't see a response, so I brought them up.
All of them can be countered except for scary face I believe, but idk since you called it a projectile and need more information.
I'm aware, and long as it can counter Charmanders projectiles, it's all he needs.
For the first two, I think it depends on the pokemon using it. Weezing just lets it flow out of its mouth, but its whole shtick is gas. As for the bolded: How so? Like as a bomb that explodes it? A stream the spreads outward when it hits something? Maybe when Weezing does it from all holes on it's body? I don't know what the projectile would look like as aoe.
Depends, if it's launched as a projectile he might just try and match it.
He's fallen face-first into lava and was just fine. I doubt smoke will do much better as an irritant.
All I said was a couple of times. With Spike's speed and his range, he only needs literally a couple of seconds to bridge the gap, and that's assuming Charmander doesn't come in closer to hit him easier.
That's exactly the problem I was trying to point out. Based on what I know on how pokemon are treated: This is a random Charmander with perfect stats and knows every move it can possibly learn via level up. This isn't a Charmander whose personality and fighting style we're familiar with, so I don't know if it'll spam status moves in response to being countered a couple of times or not, and If I don't know I'm not going to assume.
It really depends on the pokemon. This should not be applied to a random Charmander without good reason.
He does not. Physical strength if Charmander decides to reduce his physical attack via growl sure, but Fire Breath is most definitely not physical. The disadvantage only applies in regards to hurting Charmander through fire.
It's the only move he can use at this range. What else do you expect him to do?
Stronger than Charmander, strong enough to cancel out the projectiles (And it doesn't matter if you don't think a 1.28x advantage is that much, it's at least good enough to stop the projectiles), fast enough to react to them even at closer ranges, can blow away the smokescreen even if it does provide Charmander a distraction. It seems like it will for the most part, emphasis on that last part.
Well, why wouldn't he? He's canonically responded to lasers by throwing fire back at them. Literally, the only decision for him to make is either dodge or use his own attack to cancel it out.
I meant to respond to this but it must've gotten deleted by mistake, and since you've already seen my reply, you're probably already making a new one. That taken into consideration, I think it would be best to make a new comment to catch your attention.
1. He still can damage him physically
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Define "stats later". Would Charmandner use any of its status moves within 4.2 seconds of the fight? Because that's how long it would take for Spike to get with his range and his speed assuming Charmander's range is 200 meters. Would Charmander try running up to Spike for cqc?
