Fire Fang or Fire Blast for Flareon?

Question

I want to use Flareon in HG/SS. Flareon is a physical attacker obviously, but I would like to know if it would be better to teach Flareon a strong special Fire type move (such as Fire Blast) instead of using a weaker physical Fire type move in the form of Fire Fang (which is the only physical Fire type move it gets in HG/SS)? Can anyone help me do the calculations?

Comments

What do you plan to do with the Flareon? Are you completing the storyline (e.g. in-game trainers), playing against other people, or something else?
If you'd like precise calculations, then you may want to add Flareon's stats and level to the question.

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Definitely Fire Fang. In a playthrough, you're supposed to have moves with higher pp and 95%-100% accuracy.

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@Fizz I'm just going to use Flareon in a normal playthrough of the game :-).

Answer 1

Ok, So, I'm assuming you have 31 IVs in both stats. I'm going to do the calculations on a boufallant, because it has equal defense and special defense.

For the first calculation, I'm going to use 252 in HP and 252 Defense + a defense increasing nature, and I will be using 252 atk EVs and an adamant nature on flareon, while using fire fang.

252+ Atk Flareon Fire Fang vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Bouffalant: 87-103 (22 - 26.1%) -- 7.5% chance to 4HKO

Now, here are the same calcs, however, flareon is running 252 Special attack EVs and a modest nature, and Boufallant is running a Special Defense increasing nature and 252 Special Defense EVs instead of 252 Defense EVs.

252+ SpA Flareon Fire Blast vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Bouffalant: 118-141 (29.9 - 35.7%) -- 35.1% chance to 3HKO

So, I actually got that fire blast is more powerful on flareon than fire fang, which is interesting, but not surprising when you look at the difference between their base powers.

Hope I helped :)

EDIT: I thought about AUG's comment. If accuracy is a problem you find yourself in, go with fire power, but based off of my calculations, fire blast does more because it's just a nuke.

Comments

The OP didn't mention it's IVs and Boufallant didn't exist before Gen 5.

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ONE. I said I was ASSUMING that fact. TWO: These are calculations that are testing the damage output of the moves. The 'mon I used doesn't matter. At all.

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Thanks man! I really appreciate your help :-) !

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@Apesening If this answers your question, click the green check mark in the answer's top right corner.
@Japanese characters Fire blast still does more damage if you assume its base power is 102 because of its lower accuracy.

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Hmmm true yeah. Thanks :). Btw just call me tpb lol