Why does everyone keep saying that infernape is outclassed by blaziken?? If anything, it's the other way round! Sure, blaziken got speed boost but as stated previously by many others it takes time for blaziken to get set up. Infernape can come in and start tearing up the metagame as soon as he gets in. Also, blaziken lacks the ability to damage ground and water types, which infernape can do very well (grass knot). Blaziken also has no means of boosting his special attack, whereas infernape can boost his attack or special attack 2 stages in 1 turn! Also, infernape gets priority attacks from both sides of the spectrum (blaziken does get vacuum wave, but he doesn't get mach punch) Finally, infernape has stealth rock, which blaziken does not have access too. Blaziken did get a few cool new toys to play with in black/white, but when it comes to overall usefulness infernape's got him beat.
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