What if blaziken's special attack and speed switched?

Feb. 11, 2019

before generation 5, blaziken didn’t have speed boost and due to being slow, wasn’t used over infernape. If blaziken had his speed and special attack switched, How much better would he be prior to getting speed boost?

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Blaziken would indeed be way faster, potentially fast enough to be viable in Generation 3 and 4. Unfortunately, losing most of its Special Attack would mean a complete loss of its viability as a mixed attacker. On top of this, Infernate would still largely outclass it for being stronger and having a much better movepool, even if Infernape outclasses it. It could be a potential counterpart to Infernape in Gen 4 OU due to its higher speed, and perhaps it might have been viable in Gen 5 OU, though that wouldn’t last for long thanks to Speed Boost.