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Meet Darmanitan, the Pokémon built to spam Flare Blitz and everything Flareon wanted to be. And now let us analyze why can't Flareon spam Flare Blitz succesfully like Darmanitan.
>HP
Darmanita's HP is pretty high. 105 HP allows Darmanitan to soak up several Flare Blitzes before going down. Flareon has a meager base 65 HP. Which means, if by some miracle Flareon survives the oponnent's onslaught he'll just kill himself.
>Attack
Darmanitan has 140 Attack Flareon has 130. Both stats are very high so no complaints.
>Speed
Darmanitan sits at base 95 speed, that while not sanic fast is enough to outpace most Pokémon and make him a good candidate for a Scarf set. Flare Blitz users can't afford to take damage, othwise they'd die in no time. And that's Flareon comes in with that shitastic base 65 speed. Which of course means almost everything can outspeed him and destroy him. It's also too low for a viable Scarf set.
>Ability
Darmanitan gets Sheer Force. And while Flare Blitz won't be burning anything, Darmanitan gets mroe ang for his buck. A great ability overall. Flareon gets Guts which gives him a attack boost when statused. Now the only two status that can be used while interrupting the Pokémon performance are burn and poison. Flareon is immune to burn, so he has to rely on Toxic Orb which does exponencial damage and that will kill him in 4 turns (assuming he even survives that long) or he has to hope to nail some toxic spikes for it to work.
tl;dr Flareon is still pathetic
