Typhlosion or Charizard?

I’m choosing a Fire - type starter Pokemon to put in my team. I can’t choose whether to pick Charizard or Typhlosion. Please put a good moveset next to your suggestion.

Thanks! - Sandybunting

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Well from a Stat point of view there is nothing different, since these two starters have the distinction of having the EXACT SAME BASE STATS. xDIn comparison to movesets Typhlosion is one of the small group of Pokemon who get access to Eruption and coming off a base 109 SpA, it’s going to hit pretty hard.Typhlosion’s sole Fire Typing gives it less weaknesses than Charizard’s Fire/Flying. In Moveset Terms, Charizard ia lot more versatile with STAB Air Slash and moves like Dragon Pulse and Fire Blast to back it up.In an ingame strategy, I’d pick Charizard, just because more moves = more super effective = more yay xD. And Charizard is just pure aweosme ;o

In a competitive standard Typhlosion and Charizard aren’t too different in my opinion. Typhlosion’s awesome eruption gives it an effective niche. Especially something like Choice Specs Typhlosion in Sun. Everything dies. However in the same token, Charizard’s ability Solar Power evens up the odds since it increases SpA by 50% (A choice specs boost) at the cost of some health each round, and roost gives it extra longetivty. However its Stealth Rock weakness leaves a little to be desired. So in a competitive scene I’d say just choose which one suits your team more, since most of Typhlosion’s power comes from Eruption, if you have a reliable way of healing go him, but if using Charizard a rapid spinner is basically mandatory to get it’s full effect.

Also forgot to say this but Charizard can run an effective Physical attacking set with access to moves like Swords Dance, Acrobatics, Earthquake and Flare Blitz

Typhlosion @ Choice SpecsAbility: Flash FireEVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 SpeTimid Nature-Eruption-Fire Blast-Focus Blast-HP GrassIn this set. Eruption. Choice Specs. Enough said. :P

Charizard @ Heat RockAbility: Solar PowerEVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 SpeTimid Nature-Sunny Day-Fire Blast-SolarBeam-RoostSunny day boosts Charizard’s offensive prowess and Heat Rock increases the durationAlternatively if you run Charizard in OU with Ninetales Drought (this is a dumb thing to do and don’t do it since Charizard is outclassed) you can run a full attackign set of Air Slash or Roost /Solar Beam/ Fire Blast/Focus Blast or something like that

I will choose Charizard over Typhlosion, why? Here’s the answer:

Typhlosion and Charizard both got the same EV with total of 534.Typhlosion is Fire-type while Charizard is Fire and Flying-type.Typhlosion’s move is mostly Fire-type and Normal-type with a hint of Fighting-type while Charizard is Fire and Dragon-type with hint of Flying-type.Typhlosion had 3 weakness: Water, Ground and RockCharizard had 3 weakness: Water, Rock and Electric (but had immunity against Ground)Typhlosion had 4 super-effective while Charizard had 5 super-effective.

Here’s the move I suggest if you choose Charizard:

Charizard @ LeftoverAbility: BlazeNature: ModestFlamethrower (With a high Sp. Atk it’s become powerful and you got STAB too)Fly (Same as Flamethrower)Air Slash (It’s good too and the reason is like Fly) or Fire Blast (it’s as good as Flamethrower)Blast Burn (It’s the ultimate move and got high damage, but you can’t move in the next turn)

Hope this information help you.:D