#0936 · Paldea · Generation 9

Armarouge

Fire Warrior Pokémon · Fire/Psychic-type

Armarouge is a Fire/Psychic-type Pokémon, the Fire Warrior Pokémon, number 936 (#0936) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 9 and comes from the Paldea region. It is 1.5 m tall and weighs 85 kg.

Armarouge is the Fire Warrior Pokémon, a Fire and Psychic type in armour that once belonged to a distinguished warrior. It is fiercely loyal to its Trainer, yet keeps wandering off to train its psychic power alone.

How to pronounce Armarouge

Armarouge is pronounced AR-muh-roozh. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Armarouge said out loud:

In Japanese it is グレンアルマ (Gurenarma).

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Armarouge is a humanoid Pokémon, 1.5 m (4'11") tall and 85 kg (187.4 lbs), with a black body, red legs and mitt-like red hands. Its red head has sharp yellow ears and a flame on top like the plume of a knight's helmet, and a black mask with three holes covers its face. It wears aged yellow-and-red armour, with large yellow pauldrons floating above its shoulders. The Pokédex says psychic and fire energy have toughened that armour.

Behaviour

The Pokédex calls Armarouge incredibly loyal, and Bulbapedia adds that it believes in fighting fair and takes on any foe head-on. Even so, the Legends: Z-A Pokédex says it keeps slipping away from its Trainer to train alone and build up its psychic energy.

Habitat

Neither the Pokédex nor Bulbapedia gives a habitat. In Scarlet and Violet you can get one by evolving Charcadet, and it appears in 5-star and 6-star Tera Raid Battles.

Powers

Its armour lets it fire blazing projectiles: it joins its pauldrons into a cannon for Armor Cannon, which lowers its own Defense and Special Defense afterwards and, Bulbapedia says, is a move only Armarouge is known to learn. Its Abilities are Flash Fire and, hidden, Weak Armor, which trades Defense for Speed when a physical move hits it. It also uses Psyshock, Mystical Fire, Calm Mind and Flamethrower. With a base Special Attack of 125 and Defense of 100 it is a sturdy special attacker.

Name origin

Armarouge may combine arma or armadura (weapon, armour in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian) with rouge, French for red. The Japanese name is Gurenarma (グレンアルマ), which may pair guren (crimson) with the same arma roots.

Design inspiration

Armarouge's design could draw on medieval tales of European knights and chivalry. Bulbapedia floats the legend of Wilfred the Hairy, a Spanish knight famous for his golden armour, as a source for its red markings. These are fan readings.

Evolution notes

Charcadet evolves into Armarouge when an Auspicious Armor is used on it, which uses the armour up.

In the games

Armarouge is a Charcadet evolution introduced in Scarlet and Violet. In Legends: Z-A that happens in the Mega Dimension DLC.

In the anime

Liko's Armarouge debuted in 'Operation Infiltration!', when her Charcadet evolved wearing the Auspicious Armor from 'Mochi Mayhem!'. It made its first Terastallization, into the Fire type, in 'The Training Royale!'.

Fun facts

• The official Scarlet and Violet website misspelled its name as 'Armorouge' in the section about Armor Cannon, and had corrected it by 13 September 2022.
• Its base stats mirror Ceruledge's: the HP and Speed values trade places, and so do Attack with Special Attack and Defense with Special Defense.
• Its base friendship of 20 is shared only by Nymble and Ceruledge, the lowest non-zero value of any Pokémon.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Armarouge (Pokémon) · Serebii: Armarouge (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 85
• Attack: 60
• Defense: 100
• Sp. Atk: 125
• Sp. Def: 80
• Speed: 75

Armarouge’s base stat total is 525. Its highest stat is Sp. Atk.

Type matchups

What is Armarouge weak to?

Armarouge takes extra damage from Water (2×), Ground (2×), Rock (2×), Ghost (2×), Dark (2×) moves.

It resists Fire (½×), Grass (½×), Ice (½×), Fighting (½×), Psychic (½×), Steel (½×), Fairy (½×).

Evolution

What does Armarouge evolve from?

Armarouge evolves from Charcadet (Auspicious Armor).

Armarouge is the final stage of its evolution family.

The whole family: Charcadet, Armarouge, Ceruledge.

• Charcadet evolves into Ceruledge (Malicious Armor).

Abilities

• Flash Fire: Protects against Fire moves. Once one has been blocked, the Pokémon's own Fire moves inflict 1.5× damage until it leaves battle.
• Weak Armor (hidden ability): Raises Speed and lowers Defense by one stage each upon being hit by a physical move.

Moves

Moves Armarouge learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

“Evo” means Armarouge learns the move the moment it evolves: Psyshock.

TM moves (48)

Armarouge can learn 48 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Protect, Acid Spray, Psybeam, Confuse Ray, Fire Spin, Facade, Flame Charge, Stored Power, Night Shade, Fling, Endure, Sunny Day, Psyshock, Sleep Talk, Reflect, Light Screen, Rest, Taunt, Flash Cannon, Dark Pulse, Substitute, Iron Defense, Will-O-Wisp, Trick, Aura Sphere, Shadow Ball, Dragon Pulse, Heat Wave, Energy Ball, Psychic, Flamethrower, Calm Mind, Helping Hand, Psychic Terrain, Fire Blast, Overheat, Focus Blast, Trick Room, Flare Blitz, Solar Beam, Tera Blast, Spite, Weather Ball, Psych Up, Scorching Sands, Expanding Force, Meteor Beam.

Egg moves (3), which Charcadet can hatch knowing:Destiny Bond, Disable, Spite.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Human-Like.
• Egg cycles: 35 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 4,480).
• Catch rate: 25 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 20.
• Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 2 Sp. Atk effort values.
• Base experience yield: 263.

Pokédex entries

This Pokémon clads itself in armor that has been fortified by psychic and fire energy, and it shoots blazing fireballs. (Violet)

Armarouge evolved through the use of a set of armor that belonged to a distinguished warrior. This Pokémon is incredibly loyal. (Scarlet)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Highest Defense among Psychic types in Gen 9: 100, shared with 1 other.
• Taller than 72% of all Pokémon (1.5 m).
• Heavier than 79% of all Pokémon (85 kg).
• Base stat total 525, ranked #189 of 1,025.
• Its best stat is Sp. Atk, ranked #52 of 1,025.
• One of 3 Pokémon that are both Fire and Psychic.
• One of 97 red Pokémon.
• Number 31 of 120 Pokémon introduced in Generation 9 (Paldea).
• Part of an evolution family of 3 Pokémon.
• Can learn 60 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 25: about 3.3% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 2 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Armarouge (Pokémon), Serebii: Armarouge (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (AR-muh-roozh): no English source says it out loud, so it is our best guess from the parts of the name.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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