Flash Fire (Ability)

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Flash Fire (Japanese: もらいび Received Fire) is an Ability introduced in Generation III.
==Effect==
===In battle===
====Generation III====
Flash Fire makes the Pokémon immune to moves and will activate when hit by one. When activated, the power of the Pokémon's Fire-type moves is increased by 50%. While subsequent hits by Fire-type moves will not provide further increases in power, the Pokémon remains immune to the moves.
Flash Fire will not activate if the Pokémon is from the Fire-type move.
Flash Fire will not work while the user is .
Flash Fire's boost is not passed with .
====Generation IV====
Instead of boosting Fire-type moves' power, Flash Fire now technically boosts the Pokémon's or by 50% during damage calculation if a Fire-type move is being used, resulting in effectively the same effect. 
Flash Fire can be activated by .
====Generation V onwards====
Flash Fire is now functional even if the user is . The Pokémon will not be thawed out, however.
===Outside of battle===
====Generation VIII====
In , if a Pokémon with Flash Fire is in the first place in the party (even if fainted), there is a 51% chance the game will force an encounter with a Pokémon, if one is possible. In , the chance is 50%.
====Generation IX====
In , this Ability has no effect outside of battle, with its former field function effectively being replaced by .
==Pokémon with Flash Fire==
===Pokémon that formerly had Flash Fire===
* In the Generation V and games, has Flash Fire as its Hidden Ability, but it cannot be obtained by any legitimate means. Its Hidden Ability is replaced with in Generation VII.
* In Pokémon Legends: Arceus's internal code, 's Hidden Ability is Flash Fire instead of .
===Pokéstar Studios opponents with Flash Fire===
==In other games==
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In Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky, Flash Fire will neutralize moves and increase user's Flash Fire value by 1 for the rest of the floor; this effect can be stacked twice. If the user performs a Fire-type move, their Special Attack is temporarily increased by that amount of stages (but cannot increase past +10).
===Description===
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==In animation==
===Pokémon animated series===
==In the manga==
===Pocket Monsters Platinum: Aim to Be Battle King!!===
* In Clash! Yū vs. The Wandering Player, Yū's was revealed to have Flash Fire as its Ability but it wasn't shown to be activated. It was gained by his through and was later passed on to his .
===Pokémon Adventures===
* In , Platinum's Rapidash was revealed to have Flash Fire as his Ability.
* 's was revealed to have Flash Fire as his Ability in the PokéSPedia data-book.
* Blaine's , 's , and Charon's were revealed to have Flash Fire as their Ability.
* 's , Vee, is revealed to have Flash Fire as his Ability when transformed into a .
===Pokémon Battle Frontier===
==Trivia==
* Out of the Abilities that negate damage and provide a stat boost when hit by a certain type of attack, Flash Fire is the only one that does not provide stackable boosts or extra benefits with subsequent hits.
* is the only non- Pokémon to have access to Flash Fire.
==In other languages==
Category:Abilities that alter damage taken
Category:Stat increasing Abilities
Category:Type-enhancing Abilities
Category:Ignorable Abilities
Category:Abilities that affect appearance of wild Pokémon
Category:Abilities that affect appearance of wild Pokémon of specific types
Category:Abilities with field effects
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