>>56128394Given the bit about Ponyta accepting a rider and not burning them shown in an OG episode seems entirely too specific for Shudo to come up with (he didn't understand the IP, just what he needed to push at kids, as he was told) and Game Freak wrote a 'Dex entry for Ponyta saying "if you've been accepted by Ponyta, its mane is mysteriously no longer hot to the touch", it's from their own pen (as that ep was about 26 years ago). Given we see lava pokémon being handled and Game Freak themselves writing it in canon (the 'Dex is the only absolute canon in the series, TPC follow it, not it follows TPC), it's hard to assume only Ponyta can control their elemental outputs - there are disaster-level creatures all around the regions, world and universe, but no catastrophe-level incidents on the daily the only explanation is these specific 'dex entries are recordings taken at a specific moment (eg, right before erupting with Lava Plume, for example, when its fire energy is at its maximum potential) and not indicative of the creature's lifestyle as a whole.