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Blaze
- Boosts power of Fire moves 50% when at 1/3 HP or less.
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Statistics
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Min- |
Min |
Max |
Max+ |
| HP |
78
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- |
297 |
360 |
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| Atk |
84
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183 |
204 |
267 |
293 |
| Def |
78
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172 |
192 |
255 |
280 |
| SpA |
109
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228 |
254 |
317 |
348 |
| SpD |
85
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185 |
206 |
269 |
295 |
| Spe |
100
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212 |
236 |
299 |
328 |
Typhlosion hits quite hard in the beginning, but if you really want power, Substitute until your HP is at 25% or lower. Both Blaze and Petaya Berry will activate, and together with STAB and Sunny Day, Flamethrower will rip through anything. I recommend to use this and not Fire Blast, because nothing is worse than missing when you're about to sweep. Save this for the end of the match, when their counters to Typhlosion have been weakened enough to finish them off with Blaze Petaya Sunny Day STAB Flamethrower. Hidden Power Grass helps with Quagsire in UU (if Typhlosion is allowed there) and Swampert in OU, but ThunderPunch will hit Tentacruel in UU and Gyarados in OU a lot harder, and other Waters slightly harder. After a Sunny Day and Blaze, however, your secondary move has to be 4x effective and they have to resist Flamethrower for Flamethrower to be weaker than ThunderPunch or Hidden Power Grass. ThunderPunch will also let you do at least some damage to Ninetales, Arcanine, Houndoom, and Rapidash.
Use this set if you're good at predicting and want to use Typhlosion against standard teams. If Gyarados shows up, you need to weaken it a tad before you can finish it off with ThunderPunch. Same for Swampert with Hidden Power Grass or Salamence with Hidden Power Ice. If you predict your opponent switches to Regice, Blissey or Snorlax, use Focus Punch. Hard to use, but good rewards. If you use Hidden Power Ice, raise your Speed EVs by 4. Substitute is useful to ease up prediction and block status.
Other Options
Typhlosion is inferior to Blaziken at Reversal, with no STAB and lower Attack. Quick Attack is a filler for UU, every UU team needs at least one Quick Attacker, but seriously, if you want a good one use Fearow or Gligar. Counter can work against random Earthquakes. Typhlosion's Earthquake can hurt other Fire-types and Tentacruel. Overheat works as a last ditch effort to hit something, but you'll have to switch right back out after using it if you plan on hitting anything else hard.
EVs
For set #1, you will probably want HP divisible by 4, so your Petaya activates at 25% exactly (after 3 Substitutes). The listed EVs for the first set give 310 Speed, which is faster than Jolly Kangaskhan and Modest Electabuzz in UU, as well as beating Adamant Salamence and Modest Zapdos in OU. The, rest, obviously, goes in Special Attack. Sets with Focus Punch need a little over 200 Attack to hurt Special walls enough. Counter sets need some Defense, Reversal sets need max Attack.
Opinion
Hard to switch in and to use, but has high Speed and hits surprisingly hard with Petaya, Blaze, and STAB factored in. Can work in standard play, I recommend set #2 for that. It has exactly the same stats as Charizard, who can do a few more things than Typhlosion though. Typhlosion's main advantage is ThunderPunch and the lack of a weakness to Thunderbolt.
Counters
OU counters: Milotic, Suicune, Vaporeon, and Swampert (if it doesn't have Hidden Power Grass) can take Fire hits easily, and hit Typhlosion back with STAB Surf. Swampert has the option of using Earthquake instead, to hit Typhlosion harder under Sunny Day. Gyarados can block Typhlosion and use Earthquake to nail it, unless Typhlosion is carrying ThunderPunch. Salamence and Flygon resist Flamethrower and have high enough Attack to Earthquake Typhlosion into oblivion, but must be wary of the rare Hidden Power Ice. Snorlax and Blissey wall pure special sets, but take 50-60% from Focus Punch.
UU counters: Tentacruel can some in any time and Swords Dance up with its native resistance to Flamethrower (Hidden Power Grass is also neutral thanks to the Poison typing), but even with its high Special Defense, ThunderPunch is a 3HKO. Quagsire can use STAB Surf or Earthquake if Typhlosion doesn't have Hidden Power Grass, and Mantine can abuse the massive Special Defense and STAB Surf to take on Typhlosion if it doesn't have ThunderPunch. Grumpig can abuse Thick Fat and Calm Mind up in your face before you can Substitute down to your Petaya and Blaze boost, as well, or Trick you into holding a Choice Band (or both).