Overheat

Overheat

(オーバーヒート Overheat)

Generation:	III

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	140
Accuracy:	90
PP:	5
Affects:
Secondary Effect:
Priority:
Contact:	No

Affected by

Magic Coat:	No
Magic Bounce:
Bright Powder:	No
Protect/Detect:	Yes
Snatch:	No
Mirror Move:
King's Rock:	Yes

Contest Data

Contests (RSE)

Type:
Appeal:	6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Jam:	0

Super Contests (DPPt)

Type:
Appeal:	2 ♥♥

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

Overheat is a damaging Fire-type move introduced in Generation III.

Description

Effect

The user fires tremendous infernos at the opponent, inflicting solemn amounts of damage. However, it harshly lowers the user's special attack stat.

This attack pairs well with the White Herb, allowing one more full-power Overheat.

Learnset

By leveling up

Pokémon		Type	Level
			V	VI	VII
	Victini	psychic/fire	97	97	97
	Darumaka	fire	42	42	42
	Darmanitan	fire	54	54	54
	Litwick	ghost/fire	61	61	61
	Lampent	ghost/fire	69	69	69
	Litleo	fire/normal		50	50
	Pyroar	fire/normal		57	57
	Volcanion	fire/water		65	65
	Turtonator	fire/dragon			49
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

Trivia

Even though it was first introduced in Generation lll, the first Pokémon to learn it by level up were introduced in Generation V.

Gallery

Main games

• Overheat depicted in X, Y, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

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Main series

• Overheat being used by Flannery's Torkoal
• Overheat being used by Ash's Torkoal
• Overheat being used by Ash's Charizard
• Overheat being used by May's Combusken
• Overheat being used by May's Blaziken
• Overheat being used by a wild Entei
• Overheat being used by Flint's Infernape
• Overheat being used by a wild Rotom
• Overheat being used by a wild Pyroar
• Overheat being used by a wild Volcanion

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Pokémon Adventures

• Overheat being used by Crystal's Rapidash
• Overheat being used by Tucker's Charizard
• Overheat being used by Pearl's Infernape
• Overheat being used by Diamond's Rotom

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Other manga series

• Overheat being used by Mitsumi's Infernape (In Diamond and Pearl Adventure!)
• Overheat being used by Enta's Vulpix (In Battle Frontier)

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