The Pokédexxy challenge: My favourite Fire type?

First off, I do apoligise to my fellow gamers and bloggers that I haven't posted lately, I've been so caught up in my studies I almost forgot that this blog existed. Now that that's out of the way, let's get to the subject matter.

Back in Gen I (Red and Blue) you could choose from three types for your first ever Pokémon, the Grass type Bulbasaur, the Fire type Charmander and the Water type Squirtle. Being a Fire type, Charmander took the world by storm, having one of the coolest final evolution's of all the starters. However, it was quickly found by the competitive scene that defensively, Fire types were awful, sporting three very common 2x weaknesses in Ground, Water and Rock types. Combine this with the fact that Fire types generally didn't have much power, they were rarely used in Gen I. However as time went on they became increasingly useful, being super effective to a total of four types, Grass, Bug, Ice and Steel types. They also started becoming better defensively, whilst still retaining their weaknesses, they now sport a total of 6 resistances in Fire, Grass, Ice, Bug, Steel and Fire. Most Fire types were also to become amazingly strong, with the most notorious non-legend powerhouses Darmanitan and Chandelure having a base 145 Atk and Sp. Atk respectively (145 Atk for Darmanitan, 145 Sp. Atk for Chandelure). So with all of this combined, which Fire type is my favourite? None other than the powerhouse Chandelure.

Based on a chandelier, being part ghost type and, apart from Atk, it has generally amazing stats all around. It has access to the strongest non-legendary Fire Blast in the game. However, that Ghost typing is a double edged sword as it gives Chandelure two new weaknesses in Ghost and Dark types. In saying this, it gains a resistance to Poison types, a boosted 4x resistance to Bug types and a complete immunity to Normal and Fighting types. It also has two amazing abilities in Flash Fire and Infiltrator. Flash Fire increases its Fire type moves power by 50% if the user gets hit by a Fire type move and Infiltrator ignores Substitute, Reflect, Light Screen and Safeguard completely. It also has one of the best shiny forms in the game (in my opinion) and has a big enough movepool to combat those that would stop it (it even gets Energy Ball). All of these reasons combined makes Chandelure my favourite Fire type Pokémon.