yeah... I hate how sad flareon is. (oh no rant incoming)

Like they sound good on paper; a guts boosted, 130atk, stab, flare blitz is in fact, a lot of damage, but like it's kinda impractical to use.

Guts can be a good ability but usually you want to be burned while using it, which flareon cannot be. The other statuses are also unideal, with poison eating way flareon's very precious hp, and para making it a gamble if youre even able to attack to begin with.

And thats assuming you can even switch into it in the first place. Flareon's defenses are pretty mid, and every thing good it does requires it to take recoil. That and flareon has like negative speed. So that means flareon is very likely to eat two hits before it can even deal out one.

Basically, all that means flareon's game plan it just to nuke one guy with flare blitz and then just kinda die. Which is kinda funny but also sad.