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Charizard (リザードン Lizardon in Japanese, Glurak in German, Dracaufeu in French and 리자몽 Rijamong in Korean) is a fictional character from the Pokémon
media franchise (a series of video games, anime, manga, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri). Charizard is notable as one of Ash Ketchum’s Pokémon, as well as one of the most desirable cards in the first set of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Charizard resembles a dragon with two horns on its head. Unlike its evolutionary predecessors Charmander and Charmeleon, Charizard has a pair of powerful wings, giving it the ability to fly at altitudes approaching 4,600 ft, supplementing the fiery breath it inherits from its earlier forms. Charizard’s breath is even hotter than Charmeleon’s though: at full blast (which turns its tail-fire white-hot) its blasts of fire can melt solid rock or 10,000 ton glaciers. Wild Charizard tend to focus on finding worthy challengers. Charizard have a strong sense of honor, relying on their claws and strength to hunt or ward off lesser foes and using their flaming breath only on opponents they see as equals. Nevertheless, Charizard have such powerful flames that accidental or careless use of their flame has been known to cause forest fires and other disasters.

Charizard’s name is a portmanteau of char and lizard. The Japanese name, Lizardon, is probably a combination of the word “lizard” and the Japanese word don.

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Charizard, as one of the first-generation Pokémon, has seen on-and-off use in player-vs.-player battles, usually taking advantage of its relatively high physical attack statistic and generous selection of available attacks rather than its Fire-type moves. It reached its period of greatest popularity between the release of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen and Pokémon Emerald.

A particular Charizard setup (known as “Bellyzard”) uses the move called “Belly Drum” to greatly increase its attack while lowering its health by 50%. Dropping the health to 50% or below activates the Bellyzard’s Salac Berry, which increases its speed. With high speed and high attack, it proceeds to defeat each opposing Pokémon in turn before the enemy can utilize any kind of counterattack, known as “sweeping” in competitive Pokémon parlance. A less effective, but still powerful, technique is to use Belly Drum, then Rest (learned via TM). In FireRed and LeafGreen, Charizard is also capable of learning Blast Burn, an extremely powerful attack that is essentially a Fire-type counterpart to Hyper Beam, from the Cape Brink move tutor. Like Hyper Beam, Blast Burn has a very high attack power, but requires skipping one turn of battle after its use. Only Charizard can learn this attack from the move tutor.

Charizard’s Fire/Flying type combo protects it from Ground-type attacks, one of the most commonly-exploited weaknesses of Fire, while augmenting some of Fire’s resistances. All Flying-types, including Charizard, are immune to Ground-type attacks, such as Earthquake. Its Flying type also makes Charizard doubly resistant to Bug and Grass attacks, and adds a resistance to Fighting-type attacks. These advantages come at a cost, however: because of the Flying type, Rock-type attacks will inflict a 4x damage on Charizard, it loses its resistance to Ice, and it has a weakness against Electric attacks.

Charizard can only be obtained in the games by evolving a Charmeleon, which in turn can only be obtained by evolving a Charmander. Therefore, the availability of Charmander (which are not found in the wild) dictates the availability of Charizard. Because of their toughness, rarity, and perennial popularity, Charmander/Charmeleon/Charizard are often bred in-game for trade to other players.

Charizard also appears in the N64 game Pokémon Snap, in the Volcano area. It has minor cameos in the Super Smash Bros. series; first in Super Smash Bros. as one of several Pokémon which may emerge from thrown Pokéballs, spewing fire left and right with Flamethrower; then reprising that role in Super Smash Bros. Melee while also appearing as a trophy.

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