Question

Typhlosion was introduced as the fully evolved fire starter of the Johto region. He's a fast pokemon and hits hard with special attacks. He's one of the few pokemon able to learn the move Eruption, and can pull it off with heavy damage thanks to his speed. However, his stealth rock weakness, shallow special movepool, and lower physical attack paired with a pretty good physical movepool hold him back a bit. He's generally used as a special sweeper, and makes for a powerful sweeper when used carefully.

Abilities: Blaze, Flash Fire (DW)

Typhlosion Learnset

Comments

I read your thing on meta, DT. I love your moveset. But back on subject, I'm just sad. Actually, sad hardly defines it.

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Typhlosion (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Eruption
- SolarBeam
- Lava Plume
- Hidden Power [Rock]

Answer 1

Here are some good movesets
Earthquake(if you have an attack nature, if not, don't use this)
Thunderpunch(for water weakness, if he has good attack)
Flamethrower(good STAB move with acc., power, and pp.)
Hidden Power(If he has a grass type hidden power, this would cover all 3 of his weaknesses)

Sunny Day(for solarbeam)
Solarbeam(covers all 3 of typhlosions weaknesses)
Flamethrower(strong STAB)
Brick Break(strong accurate.)

Eruption(though might not be as good as flamethrower in most cases, STAB)
Shadow Claw(strong accurate, good against many types)
Hidden Power(grass type)or solarbeam and sunny day
Flamethrower(when you ar low in health.)

Comments

you can replace birck break with focus blast, i know its less accurate, but it ahs great power and you wont need to invest EVS in attack

Answer 2

This is the set I use in OU battles.

Suggested Item: Choice Specs; Choice Scarf
Suggested ability: blaze
- Eruption
- Extrasensory
- Hidden power [ice]
- Fire Blast

Eruption is to be used when at full power to get in some nice levels of damage. Fire blast is good when his health is low and blaze activates. Extrasensory covers a few fighting types like Infernape, and hidden power gives him a chance to break through a few dragons. The scarf will catch several people off guard and give him the shot he needs, or you can go with the specs and get some pretty strong hits.

Comments

I have a Cyndaquil Named DT , This will be his moveset.

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Which Pokemon can you breed with to get extrasensory on typhlosion? Also, is hidden power affected by sunny day or rain dance? My typhlosion has a pretty powerful hidden power water.

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Vulpix or Nuzleaf is the easiest way to go. They can both learn Extrasensory through level up. There are a few that can learn it through breeding, but that's just extra work. Smeargle could sketch it and breed to. Keep in mind that he can only get Extrasensory in Heart Gold or Soul Silver.  Hidden power is affected by the weather if I remember.

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This is indeed the best set, Modest Nature, 252 Sp Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP EV spread, Flamethrower and not Fire Blast. I also prefer using HP Fighting over HP Ice. This way I can deal with the ever common Heatran.

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Thanks DT.

Answer 3

I made this set to catch people off guard, since Eruption or flamethrower is very predictable on Typhlosion.
Physical Typhlosion set:
Item: Liechi Berry or Choice Band

Endure-Saves that last bit of health. Works well with the berry.

Reversal-While a trite strategy, it's an unexpected one on Typhlosion.

Fire Punch-STAB; gets power from Blaze, so it can do quite a bit of damage.

Earthquake/Rock slide-This is mainly for type coverage, so you can put in whatever you wish.

This set is mainly for NU or UU use.

Answer 4

Mixed suicide Typhlosion.

Item:Choice Band/Liechi Berry/Salac Berry/Choice Scarg

Flare Blitz:STAB, the recoil helps activate his Blaze ability.

Wild Bolt:-Covers Water weakness;

Reversal:-Works great with Recoil.

Hidden power [grass]-Covers all weaknesses in one move.

This set can work nicely in double battles if you have a pokemon use support moves like heal pulse.

Answer 5

Another set I thought of:

Item: Power herb

Eruption-STAB, great power.

Solarbeam-Cover his weaknesses with one move.

Earthquake-covers several types of pokemon.

Hidden power [Ice]-While he can't cover water and rock types this way (he can with Solarbeam), he can take on dragon types now. It also deals with some flying type threats like Aerodactyl.

Answer 6

Physical Sweeper:

Typhlosion
Item: expert Belt
Ability: Blaze
Evs: 252 Atk, 252 Spd, 4 HP

• Wild Charge
• Howl
• Flare Blitz
• Earthquake

This set is obviously outdone by pretty much any physical sweeper, but I tried this out a few times, and it works wonders. Most people switch into something like Chansey to sponge the expected fire blast or eruption, so this gives you a free shot to use howl and boost up his attack. He's got a pretty shallow special movepool (why the hell can't he learn earth power?) but his physical movepool is pretty nice. You could also use the move reversal, allowing him to cover even more pokemon, and work well with the recoil damage you get from wild charge and flare blitz. Though seldom seen, you could also use a focus sash+ covet to make a burglar Typhlosion.

Answer 7

Typhlosion (M) @ Heat Rock

Moves

• Sunny Day
• Solar Beam
• Flamethrower/Fire Blast
• Focus Blast/Will-o-wisp/Extrasensory/Whatever you want

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Heat Rock will make Sunny Day more useful,making it last 8 turns,making the Fire type move more powerful and give access to 1 turn Solar beam which is very useful for coverage and power.Focus Blast is coverage and will-o-wisp is for status and attack-defense cut,or you may use any other good move like Extrasensory,etc.

Answer 8

I must admit, this definetily is not the best moveset for Typhlosion, but my Big brother who hasn't played pokemon since Gold and Silver was messing around on my computer today, and he found Pokemon Online, He made Ev's and a moveset, which was fun to watch, and then I put in the Item for him. So in fewer words, this set actually has a little bit of centimental value :]

Typhlosion (M) @ Life Orb

Trait: Blaze

EVs: 132 HP / 84 Atk / 56 Def / 160 SAtk / 20 SDef / 56 Spd

Lonely Nature (+Atk, -Def)

• Overheat
• Earthquake
• ThunderPunch
• Extrasensory

Answer 9

Suggested ability: Blaze

Eruption-STAB; high power. At full power, this is essentially a blast burn that doesn't require charging. When his health starts to fall, the next move comes into play.

Flamethrower/Fire Blast/Overheat-Flamethrower is the most reliable of the three; overheat is the strongest, but cuts his special attack. Fire blast has the lowest accuracy, but has no other major drawbacks. Go with flamethrower if you want to be safe, but keep in mind that Typhlosion doesn't have time for being safe in most cases.

Hidden power [ice]/[grass]-Grass is there to cover all of his weaknesses at once. ice doesn't offer as much coverage, but gives him the power to tame dragons. Grass is more useful in the lower tiers he typically battles in.

Focus Punch-While this is a special set, Typhlosion can utilize this pretty well, especially if you're gonna risk running him in an upper tier. A Chansey or blissey would be a perfect choice to wall him out, and if you predict that, this focus punch can easily do away with it. An unsuspecting Tyranitar would fall to his 4X weakness. In the tiers we established here, it's pretty useful for taking out a few threats, like the special walling Umbreon.

Answer 10

Typhlosion (M) @ Life Orb

Role: Rainy Sweeper

Trait: Blaze

EVs: 226 Atk / 30 SAtk / 252 Spd

Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)

• Extrasensory
• Earthquake
• Hidden Power [Water]
• ThunderPunch

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A Mixed set for the Rain.

Extrasensory gives great coverage for this monster, working nice. Thunder Punch gives some physical coverage and takes out some threatening water types. HP Water gets a boost in the rain, and can do a good bit of damage. While Earthquake is amazing coverage great for anything with a reasonable attack stat.

Comments

How do you get the picture to flash like that?

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Anyone looking at the typhlosion should do so while listening to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukPB9nVVWog

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I agree with Dt.
That was an amazing experience

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Awesome! That was awesome!

Answer 11

I don't think anyone has posted this one yet....

TYPLHOSION --@-- POWER HERB
ability --- BLAZE
evs -- 252 SP ATK, 252 SPEED, 4 HP
TIMID nature

FLAMETHROWER or FIRE BLAST --- STAB, accuracy or power your choice
SOLARBEAM -- coverage operates with the power herb
HP ICE -- more coverage! =D
EXTRASENSORY or COVET -- coverage or getting whatever item your opponent has after you lose yours. i personally prefer having that extra coverage here, but support is always nice.

Answer 12

Double/Triple battle

Typhlosion (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Eruption
- Extrasensory
- SolarBeam
- Hidden Power [Rock]

Well, here is my double/triple battle set, posted after recovering from the seizure induced by J98's Typhlosion.

Do yourself a favor and use this guy in the Sun with Lava Plume team support. Everything besides Eruption (which kills everything in the universe) is coverage.

Answer 13

nature brave +atk -spd trait quick tempered
flare blitz (fire)
flame wheel (fire)
gyro ball (steel)
bulldoze (ground)