>>21129390This article from Smogon sums it up perfectly:
http://www.smogon.com/smog/issue33/giftsIf a Pokémon's movepool is a dance, then Flareon is the quiet kid standing in the corner sipping his virgin gin and tonic, and not doing anything. It's not that Flareon doesn't WANT to dance; he's certainly got the stuff to strut. 130 of the stuff to be exact. But it's a well-established fact that Flareon just never had the moves to strut his stuff. It's like a six-foot-tall guy who was built to breakdance, but only ever learned ballet. It just never matched up.
Even with the great tempo change in Generation IV, which saw many big dancers with lots of stuff starting to jive away (because suddenly the beat matched their jive stick with the nonsensical dancing metaphor here, people!), Flareon never caught any attention whatsoever. He just never got off that wall. Always was he just standing there, nibbling the lemon that came with his virgin gin and tonic, and waiting for the ice to melt. But then, all of a sudden, the song changed. After song after song of watching everyone else dancing away, Flareon put down his drink, strode confidently into the center of the dance floor, and HE USED THE MOVE.
But no one was watching Flareon, because his big brother Entei (who was usually equally as quiet and awkward as his sibling, but was prone to strutting the move when shiny (read: when drunk)) had spontaneously learned how to do a standing triple somersault and was doing so while yelling "HAHA SCREW YOU FLAREON, SCREW YOU!"
