>>43044343Depeds on is you can 1HKO the thing you ant to use Fire attack on. If you're boosting with Nast Plot or something you probably have enough power so Flamethrower is sufficient. If you aren't boosting (because your pokemon doesn't have Nasty Plot or Calm Mind or you don't have room for such a move on your set, Calm Mind Chandelure and Nasty Plot Houndoom can usually get away with Flamethrower, for instance) and need a 1HKO or 2HKO (such as I you are using Mega Garchomp and want to be able to inflict heavy damage on Celesteela) you'd want Fire Blast. Mega Garchomp doesn't do quite enough damage to Celesteela with Flamethrower, you see.
>252+ SpA Garchomp-Mega Fire Blast vs. 248 HP / 232+ SpD Celesteela: 180-214 (45.3 - 53.9%) -- 2% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery>252+ SpA Garchomp-Mega Flamethrower vs. 248 HP / 232+ SpD Celesteela: 148-176 (37.2 - 44.3%) -- 100% chance to 3HKO after Leftovers recoverySo, you can lose to Celesteela 15% of the time because you missed with Fire Blast, or lose 100% of the time because Flamethrower didn't do enough damage and you got Leech Seeded + Protect + Heavy Slammed to death because Celesteela only needs one opening to get that shit going and blow out your Mega Garchomp. This is just an example, though. There are many others. sometimes you can get away with Flamethrower, sometimes you need that extra power.
>>43049575If you don't like Accuracy play a different game.
