I wanted a defensive pokemon because they are no true defensive fire pokemon.Even with a stealth rock weakness(you can't assume stealth rock being out anyway) the grass side has enough tools aka leech seed,recovery moves,and sleep moves to be successful in a defensive role.My vision is a defensive minded poke that only got true offensive capabilities when you used in conjunction with sunny day and combine with life orb and chlorophyll otherwise it would be in a sub,wisp,seeder/stalling type role.
I voted balance because it is closer to my defense fire poke dream and can still do of somethings i want to see.Here why i am against offense
1.I don't know if it hurts my cause or helps it but every fire except torkoal and marcargo are offense minded.A good defensive poke for fire would be a change and unique.Offensive pokemon stats would be concreted on speed and special attack,attack and ignore defenses making it another fragile fire type when typing fire/grass does not have to be fragile.Somebody said that fire/grass is awesome offensive type and would be waste on defensive poke but fire/ground and fire/dark equally great offense combos which are waste because they can't take a hit.
2.This on the assumption that it will get chlorophyll(which is not lock victory) but it seems like a good guess with people hint they like the option (of course an awesome drawing could win the art contest and change around thinking completely).This poke could easy jump over the top in to something broken.Think about tools it is getting sunnyday+fire blast+life orb/charcoal+and maybe speed boost from chlorophyll.The speed boost is the part worries me because it will get pretty good speed from us which means a little investment speed to out speed everything and could dedicate most efforts on its offense but of course all this based on something that may never happen.
This is what probably needs to be said
If it get chlorophyll ,no stat up moves and it is as only fast as the fastest effective chlorophyll user which is Shiftry(80 speed).