What Animal Is Typhlosion Based Off Of

Cyndaquil has never caught my interest.  I'm non sure why; mayhap I'chiliad just prejudiced against mammals (Cyndaquil is, believe it or not, the only mammalian starter Pokémon of the first three generations; the vast bulk were reptiles).  In principle, though, she's based on a fairly neat idea; take a spiny mammal like a hedgehog or echidna and gear up its spines on fire, because fire is awesome.  A lot of Burn Pokémon earn their identify in the ranks of their element purely by virtue of being able to exhale fire, so she's clearly off to a good start in the creativity stakes past integrating her element with her blueprint base of operations in a pleasing manner.  Personality-wise, although Cyndaquil herself is very shy and timid, her evolved forms, Quilava and Typhlosion, are stereotypical hot-headed Fire-types.  That'due south not especially bad; in that location'southward no point to Pokémon that defy the stereotypes without Pokémon who adjust to them, and if y'all demand to do something like that, the starters are the place to practise it.  If there's one place in the game where you desire Pokémon to be exactly what players await, this (arguably) is information technology.  On the other hand, Charizard did it so well that it becomes hard to expect Typhlosion to alive up to that standard.   I'm uncertain exactly what kind of animals Quilava and Typhlosion are based on; their colour scheme reminds me of badgers, but their general attitude makes me want to telephone call them wolverines.  Either way, we're looking at a feisty, tenacious brute that can be a terror when it'southward cornered, but as far as "burn 'em all, and let Arceus sort them out" goes, there's just no competition when you pit them against a burn down dragon.  Appropriately, those traits – stubbornness, defiance and the like – might have been meliorate ideas to emphasise, especially since they would also brand a more natural progression from Cyndaquil'due south timid nature.  Ane of Typhlosion's more than unique tactics is her fondness for obscuring herself and distorting her opponents' vision with heat haze.  This is ane of Game Freak's less clichéd ways of ramming downward our throats just how hot a Fire Pokémon tin go, but it feels like an intimidation tactic more than anything else, a way of avoiding fights, and not entirely consistent with the explosive rage that seems to be thought of equally Typhlosion'southward defining feature.  Again, I think Typhlosion would really have made more than sense and presented a more than interesting take on Fire every bit an element if she'd been a far less aggressive, more reactive Pokémon.

Since we're hither, allow's talk most Fire.  Fire traditionally has a wide range of symbolic associations that are consequent across many cultures; burn down is destructive, only too artistic because it provides the warmth that nurtures life; it symbolises passion – even today we talk well-nigh stiff emotions 'burning' inside united states – as well as invention, considering of its importance to the development of civilisation, and purity, because information technology burns away the impure.  With a few notable exceptions, Burn Pokémon are a lot less varied.  Fire (in stark contrast to Grass and H2o) is i of the more underrepresented elements in Pokémon, with fewer than fifty species (still a lot more than Ghost or Dragon, though), and almost of them tend to place a lot of weight on the destructive attribute of fire, both in their powers and their personalities, some of the most notable examples beingness Charizard, Typhlosion, Magmortar, Entei, Houndoom and Camerupt.  Burn down Pokémon as well tend to be very fast, though not all of them are, past whatsoever ways (Magcargo, for instance, is one of the slowest Pokémon in the game).  Pokémon that deviate from the idea of fire equally a swift-spreading strength of devastation are much fewer.  A few, similar Ninetales, Arcanine and Rapidash, really have piddling to practice with burn down in terms of their flavour; they only happen to breathe burn down on top of everything else they do.  Magcargo and Torkoal are weird and clever and creative and really deserved to be much more powerful than they are, but in any case they accept very specific associations with particular manifestations of the idea of fire, so they aren't really a part of this.  The only Pokémon I know of that really embrace different symbolic meanings of fire are Ho-oh, Volcarona, Victini, and Reshiram (Moltres arguably counts as well, for a story told by one of Blaine's gym trainers near how Blaine was rescued by a fiery bird, presumably Moltres, when he was lost on an icy mountain).  Ho-oh and Volcarona, as a phoenix and an avatar of the sun, respectively, wholeheartedly embody the concept of life-giving fire, while Reshiram and, to an extent, Victini seem to depict on burn down as a symbol of inspiration.  Notably, these are all legendary Pokémon (well, okay, Volcarona… arguably though Volcarona is thematically speaking a 'legendary' Pokémon in that she is a Pokémon of legend, and worshipped as solar deity).  The point I am by slow degrees trying to construct here is that Fire as an element does not automatically straightjacket you into creating a Pokémon dedicated to bravado things up.  A Burn Pokémon could easily be something that uses burn to keep others warm on cold winter nights, sear abroad mould to nurture plants, or obsess people past creating visions of beauty.  If I were constructing a history of the Pokémon earth, I'd even be tempted to brand a Fire-type the first Pokémon e'er to take a man partner… but now I'm getting besides tangential.  Permit's get back to Typhlosion.

Typhlosion'due south base stats are actually identical to Charizard's, and so she's basically fast and likes blowing things up.  Her big draw over other Burn-types in Gilded and Argent was her ability to larn Thunderpunch (which, think, was a special attack before Diamond and Pearl) to smite Water Pokémon.  She also learned Earthquake simply was held back somewhat by her lower physical assail stat.  She was a relatively simple point-and-shoot Pokémon, only by the standards of the time she was pretty skilful at it.  Cherry-red and Sapphire took Thunderpunch from her, but she got information technology dorsum in Emerald, and similar most Fire-types she was delighted by the introduction of Lavaridge Gym Leader Flannery's signature move, Overheat, a move more powerful and accurate than Fire Blast which came at the tiny, tiny toll of one-half of the user's special set on stat.  The third generation didn't alter her much, though.  Diamond and Pearl, on the other hand, shook things upwards considerably.  Thunderpunch was now a physical attack, which, combined with its relatively low ability, took it off Typhlosion's list of favourite moves.  In its place, forth with almost of the other Burn Pokémon in the game, she got Solarbeam, a very fun move for smacking around Water-types but ane to be used with caution considering of its reliance on fine weather.  Similar many of the older starters, she also gained Focus Blast; it may exist inaccurate but a stiff Fighting attack is zippo to sniff at, even if you already have a way to break Steel-types equally Typhlosion does.  Those aren't the large changes, though; the big change to Typhlosion in Diamond and Pearl was the add-on of Eruption to her list.  This highly sectional move deals damage based on the user's current health; an uninjured Pokémon with Eruption is capable of tremendous destruction.  The other Pokémon that get information technology are all either too slow to burn down off an Eruption without getting hitting first or physical attackers anyway, which gives Typhlosion a unique niche as the only truly competent user of this devastating attack.  This remains Typhlosion's main draw in Black and White, which have so far brought her little of interest.  Flash Fire, Typhlosion'due south Dream World ability, will make an crawly bonus one time information technology's bachelor; immunity to Burn down attacks is merely amusing when you already resist them anyway, only actually boosting your own Fire attacks when y'all blot them is, as Rapidash and Houndoom volition gladly attest, something else, especially for a Pokémon whose biggest draw is her power to make ane single massive Fire set on.

For reasons I've already discussed, Typhlosion doesn't practice much to dissuade me from my conventionalities that Gold and Silver had the 'worst' starters, only, like the rest of them, she's not really a bad Pokémon.  Like Meganium, she's one of those that prompt me to make exaggerated sighing noises and ramble at length nearly wasted potential.  I won't deny, though, that in that location is something quite satisfying near Cyndaquil's growth from a timid, trembling child into the intimidating walking explosion that is Typhlosion.  As a battler, I think Typhlosion really came into her ain when Diamond and Pearl gave her Eruption, considering that'southward what fabricated her unique and special; it's a shame, though, that this coincided with the advent of Stealth Rock, which makes information technology very hard to keep her uninjured.  If Typhlosion's your kind of driven pyromaniac, more ability to you – she can be tricky to employ, only those Eruptions are worth it.

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