Astignite

**Astignite (Japanese: ファマイン / Famine)** is a dual-type Fire/Steel Pokémon, and is one of the original Fakemon created for Pokémon Altair, Sirius, Vega, Procyon, and Deneb.

It evolves from Infiris at level 32. It is the final form of Peyero.

## Overview

Debuting all the way back in Altair and Sirius, the red bomber, Astignite, is the defensive one of the bunch out of the three OG starters. Fire/Steel is a solid type defensively, resisting more than half of the types in the game. Five of which are 4x resists to Grass, Bug, Ice, Steel, and most significantly, Fairy. Toxic, Burn, and Sand immunities are valuable for Astignite, allowing it to not be passively worn down as much as most Pokemon. Rapid Spin, while not as good without the Generation 8 buff, is still handy in removing Spikes and even Leech Seed and Wrap clones in PvP. On top of that, it has good Speed by wall standards, tieing with Serplant and Drizzlob. It even naturally outruns Eviolite Skarmory.

As for new features, it gained Hard Knock, which is a pretty cool move it can do with Barrier or Iron Defense. Since Hard Knock uses the user's Defense stat, with Barrier or Iron Defense, Hard Knock becomes very strong while making its Defense even more difficult to break through reliably on top of Will-o-Wisp crippling Physical Attackers. The downside is that it has imperfect accuracy, but unlike Body Press, nothing is immune to Rock.

Like the Signet starters, Astignite also gained a signature move: Blitz Cannon. Blitz Cannon is an interesting move in its arsenal. It changes its Ability, either Blaze or Clear Body, to Mega Launcher. At a first glance, it does not seem useful, as the only other Pulse move it can utilize is Light Pulse via breeding. Mega Launcher only boosts Water Pulse, Dark Pulse, Aura Sphere, Dragon Pulse, Heal Pulse, Terrain Pulse, and Origin Pulse in official games. Out of all the new moves added from Altair and Sirius to Procyon and Deneb, there are 2 more moves that get the Mega Launcher boost: Hypnopulse and Light Pulse.

However, Blitz Cannon, despite the lack of the word pulse in its Japanese Kana, actually gets the boost. Because of this, Blitz Cannon actually outdamages Flash Cannon by a significant margin. In addition, Blitz Cannon gets the Mega Launcher boost as soon as it used Blitz Cannon on the first use. While Magnet Force and Geo Impact have much higher base power than a Mega Launcher Blitz Cannon, they have drawbacks, like poor accuracy and giving the opponent +2 Special Attack respectively. Blitz Cannon does great damage without any debilitating drawbacks. In addition, Mega Launcher Light Pulse gives it much needed coverage for opposing Dragon and Fighting types, as most of them could threaten Astignite. Out of the OG Starter signature moves, it is middle of the road. It's not as good as Mega Cyclone's guarantee Critical Hits, but it is not as situational and difficult to setup as Soul Blight.

All in all, Astignite is a great Pokemon to use when Fairy and Steel are one of the best types to use, despite having all of its old problems being common weaknesses to Ground, Water, and Fighting and having no reliable recovery. While it did lose some tools in the game shift, such as Spikes, Swords Dance, Nasty Plot, and even Rest in some form of recovery, the new moves it gained as well as a good matchup against the 2 best types outweigh the nerfs.

Sidenote: At the time of writing, Correncid and Syleafid are not available in the 2018 version. Only Astignite.

## Base Stats

 * Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and a hindering nature, if applicable.
* Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and a helpful nature, if applicable.

## Moves

### By TM/HM

Procyon

Deneb
Procyon

### By a Prior Evolution

 * **Bold** indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Astignite
* *Italic* indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Astignite

## Trivia

### Design Origin

Astignite's design is likely based on robots and knights, while maintaining the cyclopian theme of its evolutionary line. Its futuristic appearance may draw inspiration from various Robot Masters of the Mega Man franchise.

### Name Origin

Astignite's English name is a combination of *astigmatism*, *ignite* and *knight*.

Its Japanese name is likely a combination of *fire* and *mine*.