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magmar5
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posted 02-19-2001 12:56 PM $Profile for magmar5$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email magmar5$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

well, if you have a SmealGle with SacredFire, couldn't he breed it onto another pokemon?

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posted 02-19-2001 02:14 PM $Profile for Psybro$ $Email Psybro$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

No.

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magmar5
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posted 02-19-2001 04:42 PM $Profile for magmar5$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email magmar5$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

um, reason?

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posted 02-19-2001 04:58 PM $Profile for Psybro$ $Email Psybro$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Because no Pokémon can learn Sacred Fire through breeding, regardless of which Pokémon the move is on.

See here.

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<edit>sorry, psybro, posted at the same time</edit>

ho-oh starts with it.
smeargle can sketch anything (but good luck sketching sacred fire).

no one learns it by level.
no one learns it through breeding.
it is not a tm in g/s.
it does not exist in r/b/y.
none of this changes in crystal.

that's all the reasons i can think of.

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posted 02-19-2001 05:37 PM $Profile for NickWhiz1$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email NickWhiz1$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Oh well....I guess we'll all have to settle with Flamethrower/Fire Blast. Sacred Fire's only real selling point is the 50% chance to BRN. Let's look at the averages...

Flamethrower: 95 power, 99.6% accuracy, 94.6 average
Sacred Fire: 100 power, 94.5% accuracy, 94.5 average
Fire Blast: 120 power, 84.4% accuracy, 101.3 average

O_O. According to this, over a large amount of trials (100, 200, etc...), Flamethrower and Sacred Fire, on average, will do practically the same damage O_O!!! (not factoring in BRN damage). Indeed.

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posted 02-21-2001 08:47 AM $Profile for Psybro$ $Email Psybro$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

I see burning as a hindrance, really.
That 50% burn chance might look tasty, but you're sure as Hell gonna be pissed off it prevents you from paralyzing or sleeping the opponent.

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posted 02-21-2001 09:13 AM $Profile for Gloomboy$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Bah,look at the stats:

Flamethrower's PP: 15
Sacred Fire's PP: 5

You'll do,overall,thrice the damage by using all your PP with Flamethrower than SF.

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posted 02-21-2001 12:42 PM $Profile for Crimzonite$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Needless to say, IMHO, Flamethrower is probably more practical. There's a five point difference between it's base damage and Sacred Fire (not including STAB). And Ho-oh's Special Attack stat would probably deal out a lot of damage with any Fire attack at and above Flamethrower's base damage. And of course, there's the difference in PP.

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Thom Burr
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posted 02-21-2001 03:08 PM $Profile for Thom Burr$ $Email Thom Burr$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Sacred Fire still looks pretty good to me. Burned pokemon get their Attack stat slashed--I think I read it was cut in half. Between the ongoing burn damage and the lowered attack stat, I'd say Ho-Oh can more than hold its own with Sacred Fire...

I might even worry about it, except that I always keep a Tyranitar on my team.

Tyranitar uses Rock Slide! It's super effective! Ho-Oh faints!

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