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## Complete Guide: How to Build the Best Charizard Team

Building a competitive team around Charizard? This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know!


### Why Choose Charizard?

Charizard is a fantastic choice for competitive battling due to its versatile movepool and solid stats. Let's explore how to maximize its potential.

### Step 1: Choose Your Role

Charizard can fulfill several roles:

- **Sweeper**: Focus on Speed and Attack/Special Attack

- **Tank**: Invest in HP and defenses

- **Support**: Utility moves to help your team

### Step 2: EV Spread Optimization

For a sweeper build:

- 252 Speed / 252 Attack or Sp. Attack / 4 HP

For a bulky build:

- 252 HP / 252 Defense or Sp. Defense / 4 Attack

### Step 3: Building Team Synergy


Great teammates for Charizard:

1. **Dragonite** - Covers key weaknesses

2. **Gardevoir** - Provides additional offensive pressure

3. **Hazard setters** - Help secure KOs


### Step 4: Moveset Recommendations

**Offensive Set:**

- STAB Move 1

- STAB Move 2

- Coverage Move

- Setup/Utility Move

### Step 5: Handling Counters

Know your checks and counters. Always have backup plans for common threats in the metagame.

### Conclusion

With proper team building and practice, Charizard can be a devastating force in competitive battles!

What's your favorite Charizard set? Drop your builds in the comments below!

Finally, someone who gets it!

Couldn't agree more. You've hit the nail on the head here.

lol this is so relatable. Pokemon fans unite!

Great discussion topic! There's so much to unpack here.

Thanks for sharing this! Really helpful information.

I've been a Steel type specialist since Gen 4, and I can confirm this.

How long did this take you? I'm considering trying it myself.

This made my day. Thanks for posting!