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Heatran, a Fire and Steel type Pokémon, official artwork

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Heatran: Weakness, Best Moveset & Builds

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Heatran is a bulky attacker, led by its Sp. Atk (130) and Defense (106), with a base stat total of 600. Competitively it is a staple of OverUsed, the main competitive singles tier. It currently appears on 3.2% of OU teams.

Build a team with Heatran

What is Heatran weak to?

How much damage Heatran takes from each attacking type.

4×Weak toGround
2×Weak toFightingWater
0.5×ResistsDragonFlyingNormalPsychic
0.25×ResistsBugFairyGrassIceSteel
0×Immune toPoison

With Flash Fire, Fire attacks do nothing instead of normal damage.

Heatran takes super-effective damage from Ground, Fighting, Water (Ground hit it for 4x damage). It resists Dragon, Flying, Normal, Psychic, Bug, Fairy, Grass, Ice, Steel and is immune to Poison. That is by type alone: with Flash Fire, Fire attacks do nothing instead of normal damage.

Best moveset for Heatran

The most-used moves on Heatran in OU (Smogon singles) this month (2026-07 usage statistics):

  • Earth PowerGround9025.2%
  • Stealth RockRock-21%
  • Magma StormFire10018.1%
  • TauntDark-13.1%
  • Will-O-WispFire-11.9%
  • Lava PlumeFire805.1%

Best nature for Heatran

Calm. It is the most common choice on ranked sets right now; the top spread is Calm with 252/0/4/0/212/40 EVs (42.6% of sets).

Abilities

  • Flash FireThis Pokemon's Fire attacks do 1.5x damage if hit by one Fire move; Fire immunity.
  • Flame Body30% chance a Pokemon making contact with this Pokemon will be burned.

Best counters for Heatran

Based on OU (Smogon singles) battle statistics, these Pokémon most reliably beat or force out Heatran:

Best teammates for Heatran

Pokémon most often paired with Heatran on successful OU (Smogon singles) teams. Start from one of these cores, then check your coverage in the team builder:

Full learnset (57 moves; tap to expand)
MoveTypePowerAcc.Category
Giga ImpactNormal15090%Physical
Hyper BeamNormal15090%Special
Steel BeamSteel14095%Special
OverheatFire13090%Special
Flare BlitzFire120100%Physical
Solar BeamGrass120100%Special
Fire BlastFire11085%Special
EarthquakeGround100100%Physical
Magma StormFire10075%Special
Stone EdgeRock10080%Physical
Heat WaveFire9590%Special
Earth PowerGround90100%Special
FlamethrowerFire90100%Special
Take DownNormal9085%Physical
Body SlamNormal85100%Physical
Dragon PulseDragon85100%Special
Body PressFighting80100%Physical
CrunchDark80100%Physical
Dark PulseDark80100%Special
DigGround80100%Physical
Flash CannonSteel80100%Special
Iron HeadSteel80100%Physical
Lava PlumeFire80100%Special
LungeBug80100%Physical
Power GemRock80100%Special
Tera BlastNormal80100%Special
Rock SlideRock7590%Physical
Stomping TantrumGround75100%Physical
Burning JealousyFire70100%Special
FacadeNormal70100%Physical
Scorching SandsGround70100%Special
Fire FangFire6595%Physical
Ancient PowerRock60100%Special
BulldozeGround60100%Physical
Rock TombRock6095%Physical
Flame ChargeFire50100%Physical
Metal ClawSteel5095%Physical
PounceBug50100%Physical
Fire SpinFire3585%Special
Rock BlastRock2590%Physical
Hard PressSteel?100%Physical
Heat CrashFire?100%Physical
Heavy SlamSteel?100%Physical
EndureNormal--Status
Iron DefenseSteel--Status
LeerNormal-100%Status
Metal SoundSteel-85%Status
ProtectNormal--Status
RestPsychic--Status
SandstormRock--Status
Scary FaceNormal-100%Status
Sleep TalkNormal--Status
Stealth RockRock--Status
SubstituteNormal--Status
Sunny DayFire--Status
TauntDark-100%Status
Will-O-WispFire-85%Status