Often the fire starter’s of a region is the most popular of the three choices and this has continued in Pokemon Sword and Shield. Whether it's due to the competitive use or just sheer appeal, the final evolution of the fire-type starter line, Cinderace is quite well known.
About Cinderace
| First appearance in anime | In the Journeys Series episode ‘Sword and Shield... The Legends Awaken!’ |
| First appearance in game | Sword and Shield |
| Region | Galar |
| Evolution | Scorbunny-->Raboot --> Cinderace |
| 1st Evo level | 16 |
| 2nd Evo level | 35 |
| Pokedex Entry | It juggles a pebble with its feet, turning it into a burning soccer ball. Its shots strike opponents hard and leave them scorched. It's skilled at both offense and defense, and it gets pumped up when cheered on. But if it starts showboating, it could put itself in a tough spot. |
Cinderace’s Base Stats
| HP | 80 |
| Attack | 116 |
| Defense | 75 |
| Sp. Attack | 65 |
| Ap. Defense | 75 |
| Speed | 119 |
Appearance of Cinderace
Cinderace has a very complex design. Its body shape is similar to a human's but with flairs of rabbit inspiration. Its feet are rabbit's feet and it has large areas of fluffy fur on its head just below its large ears. It has patterns of red and black fur along its body and legs giving the impression of it wearing clothes.
Behavior of Cinderace
Cinderace is a very leg-oriented Pokemon, like how other rabbit Pokemon focus on the strength and dexterity of their legs. Cinderace is often shown kicking a rock from foot to foot as if playing with it, but at a moment's notice the rock can be kicked forward and turned into a fiery projectile.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Cinderace is a pure fire type, meaning it’s strong against bug, steel, fire, grass, ice, and fairy moves, taking half damage from them. Though it’s weak against ground, rock, and water type moves and receives double damage from them.
Shiny Cinderace
Shiny Cinderace, like most shiny Pokemon, is very rare. But once you obtain a Shiny Cinderace, you will see the changes to its design. Shiny Cinderace has an orange head and leg fur instead of the normal red and the rest of its fur is a soft burned grey color, unlike the original’s white. Shiny Cinderace also inverts the colors of the black markings to white.
Cinderace Vmax
Vmax Cinderace is a Pokemon Card that is incredibly powerful. Vmax Cinderace is similar to the base game’s Gmax mechanics. Vmax Cinderace has incredibly high HP as well as a highly powerful max move, Mac Pyro Ball.
Gmax Cinderace
Gmax Cinderace is a massive, intimidating form of Cinderace. Gmax Cinderace does grow in size but not as much as other Gigantamaxed Pokemon. Instead, Gmax Cinderace stands atop a gargantuan flaming ball. Gmax Cinderace does also feature some design changes such as even longer ears flowing down its back.
Best Moveset for Cinderace
Offensive: Cinderace has very good speed and attack stats, making it good for full-on offensive strategies.
| Pyro Ball | Court Change/High Jump Kick |
| Sucker Punch | U-turn |
How to Catch Cinderace in Pokemon Go
Cinderace is not in Pokemon go yet but it can be assumed that like most second evolutions of Pokemon, Cinderace is only obtained by evolving its pre-evolutions. By catching enough Scorbunny and Raboot to obtain 100 Scorbunny candy you will probably be able to evolve Raboot into Cinderace.
Trivia
While Cinderace is clearly rabbit-inspired, it also takes inspiration from football.
Cinderace’s Hidden Ability could also be a reference to the position in football, libero.
FAQs
Q. Is Cinderace a boy or a girl?
Like most Pokemon, Cinderace has a chance to be either a boy or a girl. Cinderace has an 87.5% chance to be male, and a 12.5% chance to be female.
Q. Is Cinderace fire fighting?
While Cinderace can learn fighting-type moves and gives off the general feel of a fighting type, it is a pure fire type.
Q. How do I get Gigantamax Cinderace?
During Dynamax battles, Cinderace can be transformed and powered up into Gigantamax Cinderace.
Conclusion
Cinderace may not be Charizard but it's still popular and is a close match during competitive play. And with its ability to Gigantamax, it gets further mileage during tough battles.
