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#1020 · Paldea · Generation 9 · paradox

# Gouging Fire

Paradox Pokémon · Fire/Dragon-type

![Gouging Fire official artwork](https://pokee.si/img/art/1020.webp)

Gouging Fire is a [Fire](https://pokee.si/types/fire)/[Dragon](https://pokee.si/types/dragon)-type Pokémon, the Paradox Pokémon, number 1020 (#1020) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 9 and comes from the [Paldea](https://pokee.si/guide/regions/paldea) region. It is 3.5 m tall and weighs 590 kg.

Gouging Fire is a Fire and Dragon Paradox Pokémon known from a short video of it rampaging and shooting up columns of flame. A paranormal magazine once called a Pokémon like it an Entei regenerated from a fossil, and the Pokédex leaves the question open.

## How to pronounce Gouging Fire

Gouging Fire is pronounced **GOW-jing FIRE**. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Gouging Fire said out loud:

[Listen](https://pokee.si/audio/names/1020.mp3)

In Japanese it is ウガツホムラ (Ugatsuhomura).

Hear every other name on the [Pokémon pronunciation guide](https://pokee.si/pronounce).

## Lore

### Biology

Gouging Fire is 3.5 m tall and weighs 590 kg, a lion-like beast with a ceratopsian skull for a headpiece. Brown fur covers its body, green spike lines mark each hind leg, five grey spikes run along its back and a long grey cloud of smoke trails like a tail. Its headpiece is crowned with gold and yellow horns and a red face plate.

### Behaviour

The Pokédex says there are scant reports of anyone seeing it. Bulbapedia, quoting an in-game rumour told by Perrin, says it is rumoured to make magma erupt from the ground just by roaring. Very little else is known about how it lives.

### Habitat

Canon gives no natural habitat. In The Indigo Disk it is found in Area Zero once you start Perrin's questline, and it is a Scarlet exclusive: Violet players must trade for it. It is number 236 in the Blueberry Pokédex.

### Powers

Its Ability Protosynthesis raises its highest stat in harsh sunlight or when it holds Booster Energy. Its signature move Burning Bulwark guards it with intensely hot fur and burns any attacker that touches it; only Gouging Fire learns it. It also uses Dragon Claw, Flare Blitz, Raging Fury and Outrage. With 121 base Defense, 115 Attack and 105 HP it is a bulky physical attacker.

### Name origin

Gouging Fire is literal: a fire that gouges. The Japanese name is Ugatsuhomura (ウガツホムラ), which can be read as ugatsu homura, 'piercing flame'.

### Design inspiration

Bulbapedia says Gouging Fire is based on Entei, designed by Muneo Saitō, with a head crest that resembles ceratopsian dinosaurs such as Styracosaurus and Sinoceratops. Bulbapedia also floats the Deccan Traps, a huge volcanic formation that began forming in the Cretaceous, as a link between Entei's volcano theme and dinosaurs. These are fan readings.

### In the games

Gouging Fire is one of the Paradox Pokémon added to Scarlet and Violet by The Indigo Disk. Bulbapedia lists it as unobtainable in Legends: Z-A.

### In the anime

Lucius's Gouging Fire debuted in Pokémon Horizons in 'The Pillar of Fire' as one of the Six Heroes, the Pokémon of the Ancient Adventurer. Once mistaken for an Entei, it Terastallized into a Rock type in 'Battle for the Six Heroes!'.

### Fun facts

- Before it was revealed, the Scarlet Book in Scarlet featured a sketch of an imaginary Pokémon like it, an amalgam of the Legendary beasts.
- It is the heaviest Paradox Pokémon, and Bulbapedia notes no other Pokémon has a weight in kilograms that equals its base stat total of 590.
- Burning Bulwark is a status move, which Bulbapedia says is true of no other Paradox Pokémon's signature move.

Sources: [Bulbapedia: Gouging Fire (Pokémon)](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Gouging_Fire_(Pok%C3%A9mon)) · [Serebii: Gouging Fire (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)](https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-sv/gougingfire/)

## Base stats

- HP: **105**
- Attack: **115**
- Defense: **121**
- Sp. Atk: **65**
- Sp. Def: **93**
- Speed: **91**

Gouging Fire’s base stat total is **590**. Its highest stat is Defense.

## Type matchups

### What is Gouging Fire weak to?

Gouging Fire takes extra damage from [Ground](https://pokee.si/types/ground) (2×), [Rock](https://pokee.si/types/rock) (2×), [Dragon](https://pokee.si/types/dragon) (2×) moves.

It resists [Fire](https://pokee.si/types/fire) (¼×), [Grass](https://pokee.si/types/grass) (¼×), [Electric](https://pokee.si/types/electric) (½×), [Bug](https://pokee.si/types/bug) (½×), [Steel](https://pokee.si/types/steel) (½×).

## Evolution

Gouging Fire does not evolve, and it does not evolve from any other Pokémon.

## Abilities

- [Protosynthesis](https://pokee.si/abilities/protosynthesis): Raises highest stat in harsh sunlight, or if holding Booster Energy.

## Moves

### Moves Gouging Fire learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

| Level | Move | Type | Category | Power |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Stomp](https://pokee.si/moves/stomp) | Normal | Physical | 65 |
| 1 | [Leer](https://pokee.si/moves/leer) | Normal | Status | — |
| 1 | [Incinerate](https://pokee.si/moves/incinerate) | Fire | Special | 60 |
| 1 | [Sunny Day](https://pokee.si/moves/sunny-day) | Fire | Status | — |
| 7 | [Fire Fang](https://pokee.si/moves/fire-fang) | Fire | Physical | 65 |
| 14 | [Howl](https://pokee.si/moves/howl) | Normal | Status | — |
| 21 | [Bite](https://pokee.si/moves/bite) | Dark | Physical | 60 |
| 28 | [Dragon Claw](https://pokee.si/moves/dragon-claw) | Dragon | Physical | 80 |
| 35 | [Crush Claw](https://pokee.si/moves/crush-claw) | Normal | Physical | 75 |
| 42 | [Morning Sun](https://pokee.si/moves/morning-sun) | Normal | Status | — |
| 49 | [Burning Bulwark](https://pokee.si/moves/burning-bulwark) | Fire | Status | 0 |
| 56 | [Dragon Rush](https://pokee.si/moves/dragon-rush) | Dragon | Physical | 100 |
| 63 | [Fire Blast](https://pokee.si/moves/fire-blast) | Fire | Special | 110 |
| 70 | [Lava Plume](https://pokee.si/moves/lava-plume) | Fire | Special | 80 |
| 77 | [Outrage](https://pokee.si/moves/outrage) | Dragon | Physical | 120 |
| 84 | [Flare Blitz](https://pokee.si/moves/flare-blitz) | Fire | Physical | 120 |
| 91 | [Raging Fury](https://pokee.si/moves/raging-fury) | Fire | Physical | 120 |

### TM moves (47)

Gouging Fire can learn 47 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: [Take Down](https://pokee.si/moves/take-down), [Scary Face](https://pokee.si/moves/scary-face), [Protect](https://pokee.si/moves/protect), [Fire Fang](https://pokee.si/moves/fire-fang), [Thunder Fang](https://pokee.si/moves/thunder-fang), [Fire Spin](https://pokee.si/moves/fire-spin), [Facade](https://pokee.si/moves/facade), [Bulldoze](https://pokee.si/moves/bulldoze), [Snarl](https://pokee.si/moves/snarl), [Flame Charge](https://pokee.si/moves/flame-charge), [Dragon Tail](https://pokee.si/moves/dragon-tail), [Endure](https://pokee.si/moves/endure), [Sunny Day](https://pokee.si/moves/sunny-day), [Smart Strike](https://pokee.si/moves/smart-strike), [Psychic Fangs](https://pokee.si/moves/psychic-fangs), [Body Slam](https://pokee.si/moves/body-slam), [Sleep Talk](https://pokee.si/moves/sleep-talk), [Dragon Claw](https://pokee.si/moves/dragon-claw), [Stomping Tantrum](https://pokee.si/moves/stomping-tantrum), [Rest](https://pokee.si/moves/rest), [Iron Head](https://pokee.si/moves/iron-head), [Dragon Dance](https://pokee.si/moves/dragon-dance), [Substitute](https://pokee.si/moves/substitute), [Crunch](https://pokee.si/moves/crunch), [Dragon Pulse](https://pokee.si/moves/dragon-pulse), [Heat Wave](https://pokee.si/moves/heat-wave), [Flamethrower](https://pokee.si/moves/flamethrower), [Reversal](https://pokee.si/moves/reversal), [Fire Blast](https://pokee.si/moves/fire-blast), [Earthquake](https://pokee.si/moves/earthquake), [Stone Edge](https://pokee.si/moves/stone-edge), [Giga Impact](https://pokee.si/moves/giga-impact), [Outrage](https://pokee.si/moves/outrage), [Overheat](https://pokee.si/moves/overheat), [Hyper Beam](https://pokee.si/moves/hyper-beam), [Flare Blitz](https://pokee.si/moves/flare-blitz), [Draco Meteor](https://pokee.si/moves/draco-meteor), [Tera Blast](https://pokee.si/moves/tera-blast), [Roar](https://pokee.si/moves/roar), [Heat Crash](https://pokee.si/moves/heat-crash), [Weather Ball](https://pokee.si/moves/weather-ball), [Scale Shot](https://pokee.si/moves/scale-shot), [Double-Edge](https://pokee.si/moves/double-edge), [Temper Flare](https://pokee.si/moves/temper-flare), [Scorching Sands](https://pokee.si/moves/scorching-sands), [Breaking Swipe](https://pokee.si/moves/breaking-swipe), [Dragon Cheer](https://pokee.si/moves/dragon-cheer).

Egg moves (3):[Ancient Power](https://pokee.si/moves/ancient-power), [Double Kick](https://pokee.si/moves/double-kick), [Noble Roar](https://pokee.si/moves/noble-roar).

## Breeding & training

- Gender: genderless.
- Egg groups: Undiscovered.
- Egg cycles: 50 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 6,400).
- Catch rate: 10 out of 255.
- Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 0.
- Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
- Defeating it gives 3 Defense effort values.
- Base experience yield: 295.

## Pokédex entries

It resembles an eerie Pokémon once shown in a paranormal magazine. That Pokémon was said to be an Entei regenerated from a fossil. *(Violet)*

There are scant few reports of this creature being sighted. One short video shows it rampaging and spouting pillars of flame. *(Scarlet)*

## Names around the world

- **Japanese**: ウガツホムラ
- **Romaji**: Ugatsuhomura
- **French**: Feu-Perçant
- **German**: Keilflamme
- **Spanish**: Flamariete
- **Italian**: Vampeaguzze
- **Korean**: 꿰뚫는화염
- **Chinese (Simplified)**: 破空焰
- **Chinese (Traditional)**: 破空焰

## Trivia

- Heaviest Fire type: 590 kg.
- Heaviest Fire type in Gen 9: 590 kg.
- Tallest Fire type in Gen 9: 3.5 m.
- Highest HP among Fire types in Gen 9: 105.
- Highest Defense among Fire types in Gen 9: 121.
- Highest base stat total among Fire types in Gen 9: 590.
- Heaviest Dragon type in Gen 9: 590 kg.
- Taller than 97% of all Pokémon (3.5 m).
- Heavier than 99% of all Pokémon (590 kg).
- Base stat total 590, ranked #61 of 1,025.
- Its best stat is Defense, ranked #61 of 1,025.
- One of 3 Pokémon that are both Fire and Dragon.
- One of 147 brown Pokémon.
- Number 115 of 120 Pokémon introduced in Generation 9 (Paldea).
- Can learn 61 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
- Catch rate 10: about 1.3% 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](https://pokeapi.co) open game data.
- Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from [Bulbapedia: Gouging Fire (Pokémon)](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Gouging_Fire_(Pok%C3%A9mon)), [Serebii: Gouging Fire (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)](https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-sv/gougingfire/).
- Pronunciation (GOW-jing FIRE): 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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