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Flame Wheel (Japanese: かえんぐるま Flame Wheel) is a damage-dealing Fire-type move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Flame Wheel will thaw out the user if it is frozen, and then inflict damage on the target. Flame Wheel also has a 10% chance of burning the target.

Flame Wheel can be used as the second move of a Pokémon Contest combination, with the user gaining 4 bonus appeal points if Sunny Day was used in the previous turn.

Generation VIII

Pokémon Legends: Arceus

Description

Learnset

By leveling up

By breeding

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

Flame Wheel deals damage, and may leave the target with a burn.

Pokémon Conquest

Stars: ★★★ Power: 32 Accuracy: 100%

Effect: Has a 10% chance to burn the target. Can thaw out user if frozen.

Users:

Grid assumes the user is in the square marked by > facing to the right.
Orange squares indicate spaces that are hit.
Red squares indicate the knockback on hit Pokémon.
A blue square indicates the user's position after performing the move.

Pokémon GO

Updates

• July 30, 2016
  • Power: 35 → 40
• February 16, 2017
  • Power: 40 → 60
  • Energy cost: 25 → 50
  • Duration: 4.6 → 2.7 seconds
  • Damage window: 2.7 - 3.2 → 2.1 - 2.4 seconds

Pokémon Rumble Rush

Pokémon Masters EX

• Description prior to Version 2.10.0 (from June 28, 2021): Unfreezes the user. Has a very small chance of leaving the target burned.

Description

In the anime

Typhlosion Infernape Quilava Centiskorch
The user cloaks itself in fire and charges at the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Arcanine runs at the opponent and its whole body becomes enveloped in flames. It then tackles the opponent.
Gary's Arcanine	Extreme Pokémon!		Debut
	Typhlosion runs towards the opponent and its body becomes surrounded in flames. It then tackles the opponent.
Jimmy's Typhlosion	The Legend of Thunder!		None
Mr. Moore's Typhlosion	Poetry Commotion!		None
	Quilava runs at the opponent and its body becomes engulfed in flames. It then tackles the opponent; or, Quilava spins around in the air and its body becomes engulfed in flames. It then rolls into the opponent.
Macy's Quilava	Love, Pokémon Style		None
Clark's Quilava	Shocks and Bonds		None
Ryan's Quilava	The Champ Twins!		None
Dawn's Quilava	Goodbye, Junior Cup - Hello Adventure!		None
	Chimchar's body becomes surrounded by flames and it somersaults in the air, spinning at the opponent and hitting it; or, Chimchar releases fire out of its mouth while at the same time starts doing a somersault, and rolls into the opponent.
A Chimchar Dawn imagined	Following a Maiden's Voyage!		None
Ash's Chimchar	When Pokémon Worlds Collide!		None
	Monferno's body becomes surrounded by fire and it starts to somersault. Monferno then rolls into the opponent; or, Monferno releases a red-orange flame out of its mouth while somersaulting, rolling into the opponent.
A Monferno Angie used briefly	Camping it Up!		None
Ash's Monferno	Evolving Strategies!		None
	Growlithe jumps into the air and releases a red-orange flame from its mouth while somersaulting, rolling into the opponent.
Officer Jenny's Growlithe	Beating the Hustle and Bustle!		None
	Cyndaquil ignites the flames on its back and somersaults in the air, rolling into the opponent.
Dawn's Cyndaquil	Gone With the Windworks!		None
Ash's Cyndaquil	An Old Family Blend!		None
	Infernape jumps into the air and somersaults. The flame on its head then extends and covers its entire body. Infernape then rolls into the opponent.
Ash's Infernape	Flint Sparks the Fire!		None
Narissa's Ditto 2 in the form of Infernape	Dealing With a Fierce Double Ditto Drama!		Used via Transform
	Centiskorch bends its body backward until its head connects with its rear. Its body then becomes covered in red-orange flames and it rolls into the opponent.
Kabu's Centiskorch	Kabu's Battle Training!		None

In the manga

Movie adaptations

Pokémon Adventures

• Platinum's Ponyta was revealed to know Flame Wheel on the official website, but he was never shown using the move.

Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys

Pocket Monsters Platinum: Aim to Be Battle King!!

Infernape
The user attacks with fire from its body.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Infernape hits the opponent with a stream of fire thrown at them.
Yū Shirogane's Infernape	PBK1		Debut

In other generations

Core series games

Side series games

Spin-off series games

Trivia

• Prior to Generation IX, the Korean name of this move was mistranslated as the Japanese word くるま means both "wheel" and "car".

In other languages

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