An interesting subject I came upon: Which is better: Blaine's Arcanine or Blaine's Charizard. Here's my answer:
    First, Blaine's Charizard is much quicker than Blaine's Arcanine.
Roaring Flames makes more use of Blaine. Flame Jet, which is 2 Fire Energy
for a chance of 40 damage to any of your opponent's Poke'mon, is just speed.
Charizard has Fighting Resistance, Blaine's Arcanine doesn't, giving it a
huge advantage. Their retreat cost is the same, but Blaine's Arcanine would
have less problem retreating because of blaine, but so would Blaine's
Charizard( I will be mentioning their names a lot, so I'll just call then
BA, for Blaine's Arcanine and BC, for Blaine's Charizard. Blaine's Charizard
has more HP.
Now, to decide which one will do better in battles. BC against Scyther: BC
would win. Here's how: When you get Blaine's Charizard, Blaine's Charmander,
attach an Energy, next turn, Pokemon Breeder into BC, use Blaine, Flame Jet
for a Chance of 40. Next turn, attach another Blaine, use Roaring Flames for
60 damage! You could attach an DCE to BC, retreat, then use Energy Retrieval
to get back the DCE. But, then again, Rocket's Zapdos can KO Blaine's Charizard with Electroburn and a PlusPower. Blaine's Arcanine can be KO'ed by a Blastiose very easily.
    BA now. Always, if possible, use Heat Tackle with Defender so that the self
damage won't pile up. Blaine's Growlithe, use Stoke, next turn, evole to BA,
attach a DCE, attach a Defender to BA then use Heat Tackle. No self damage.
    Next turn, attach Blaine to BA, use Firestorm. There is now 1 R Energy
and a DCE attached to BC. Use Blaine and use Firestorm again, or attach
Defender, use Heat Tackle. Rinse and repeat. Use Cinnabar Gym because to
pull of such a combination, you don't need Water Poke'mon bothering you.
    Now to decide which one is better. The better one is...........is Blaine's
Charizard!!!( IMHO, anyway). More HP. Quicker, more powerful attcks(somehow). Makes more use
of Blaine. No self damage. No discarding Energy cards. This is definitely
the best Charizard. My detailed analysis proves that Blaine's Charizard is
better than Blaine's Arcanine. Blaine's Arcanine is power. Power is very
slow.
Blaine's Charizard is pure speed. Its attacks could be stronger than
Blaine's Arcanine's, and in most situations, speed is better.
Boy, that was long.
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- UltraMaster64.