If I need a Fire-type in Ruby/Sapphire, who should I choose?

Question

The rest of my team is Sceptile, Manectric/Magneton, Sharpedo/Crawdawnt and Swellow. Now I want a Fire-type!!!

Comments

Starmie seems like the better option for a water type imo because of water, dark and psychic being special in this gen and crawdawnt and Sharpedo are more physical

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my bad, this is for oras, i wonder how i got my question muddled up

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wait, my tag says oras!!!

Answer 1

Camerupt.

The amount of Fire types is limited in Ruby and Sapphire, but Numel can be caught fairly early at Route 112. Because in-game is mainly focused on power and offense, I think that Camerupt will do well as its Attack and Special Attack are decent.
It also provides a nice Electric immunity, which your team will benefit from because both Swellow and Sharpedo are weak to it.

Comments

And to find out someone else answers. -.-

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I was going to post this...

Answer 2

Why not Ninetails?
Can be caught at Mt.Pyre.
Good moveset:
-Will-O-Wisp
-Toxic
-Overheat/Flamethrower
-Confuse Ray
Main aim here is to inflict status on the opponent and switch out to last and inflict status on everything. This set also helps out with Steven (champion).

Comments

Ninetales is good, it's just that you get it late in the game as a vulpix