Charizard

About Charizard

Charizard (Japanese: Lizardon) is a dual-type Fire/Flying Pokémon. As a Fire-type starter, Charizard has the ability to learn Blast Burn. Because of the wings it has grown upon evolution, Charizard can fly and can use many other Flying-type abilities. As its pre-evolutions could, it can use Fire-type moves. It also has access to Dragon-type moves, such as Dragon Claw and DragonBreath. Since Charizard is a fully evolved Pokémon, it can use Hyper Beam and Giga Impact.

Evolution

It evolves from Charmeleon at level 36. It is the final form of Charmander.

How Charizard's Name Came To Be

Charizard resembles the European dragon, certainly one of many forms told and rendered in legends. Charizard's prominence as a dragon without being of the Dragon-type is further reinforced in the video game Pokémon Ranger, where one makes a cameo as one of four prominently featured patron elemental dragon Pokémon. The other three Pokémon sharing this distinguishing trait are legitimate Dragon-type Pokémon; Salamence, Kingdra, and Flygon. The patronage of these four dragons is inspired from the four classical elements; Air, Water, Earth, and Fire, with Charizard being the representative of Fire. It shares some evolutionary traits with Charmeleon in its distinctive horns; also a distinct trait in some dragons. Charizard's name is a portmanteau of the words char, to burn, and lizard. Lizardon, on the other hand, is a combination of lizard and don, which is a suffix meaning tooth that is commonly used in dinosaur names.