Charizard's Contest History

Who is Charizard
Pikachu may be the face of the series, but Charizard is the face of the badass part of the series. Between the three original starters Charizard was widely agreed to look the coolest. Other things that made the fire type popular was that when the TCG was created Charizard's card was known to be the rarest and most looked for card in the entire game. Charizard was also one of Pokemon Trainer Red's Pokemon that he used in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Where Charizard makes his biggest splash was in the anime.

Due to Ash's Charmander orignally belonging to a different trainer when it evolved to a Charmeleon it became disobedient of Ash's orders. It soon evolved into a Charizard not to save Ash from Aerodactyl, but to challenge it to a battle. Everytime Ash would send it out to battle Charizard would either fly off and relax or use a flamethrower attack on Ash to the enjoyment of the viewers. Charizard would only battle against opponents it would deem worthy of challenging such as Blaine's Magmar. This of course caused Ash to lose several battles including his elimination in the Indigo League. Charizard continued to ignore Ash during the Orange Islands until the episode where it was frozen by an ice beam in a battle and Ash nursed him back to health. Now listening to him Charizard soon became Ash's powerhouse further increaing his popularity with fans. In an episode that caused massive public outcry Ash left Charizard to train in the Charicific Valley. However unlike most Pokemon that Ash has left to train Charizard sometimes returns to Ash when he's about to have an important fight. This has caused some of the best fights in the series against opponents such as Claire's Dragonair, Gary's Blastoise and Nolan's Articuno.

"Charizard, use Seismic Toss!" - Ash Ketchum

Contest History
Win-Loss Record: 4-1

Winter 2010 Contest - Heart Division - 7 Seed
 * Heart Round 1 --- Defeated (10) Duke Nukem, 36281 [64.25%] - 20184 [35.75%]
 * Heart Round 2 --- Defeated (2) Kratos, 44776 [54.49%] - 37392 [45.51%]
 * Heart Semifinal --- Defeated (3) L-Block, 49456 [60.64%] - 32097 [39.36%]
 * Heart Final --- Defeated (4) Bowser, 45711 [54.73%] - 37813 [45.27%]
 * Contest Quarterfinal --- Lost to (1) Mario, 35896 [46.41%] - 41452 [54.59%]
 * Extrapolated Strength --- 14th Place [32.89%]

After failing to reach the 2008 contest despite getting a lot of support from the board Charizard easily won the Nomination Rally Tournament and was thus able to make the contest. Charizard was the cause of much debate during the pre-contest. It was widely agreed that Charizard would win over Duke, but after that we had people placing him anywhere from losing in the second round to winning the division. It only took until the first round to figure that Charizard was worthy of his Nomination Rally position and pairing it with Kratos' embarassing himself in his match it seemed that Charizard was likely going to reach the fourth round. In the division final Charizard was against Bowser who earlier walked all over Sora, the opinion of the board was that Bowser should win, but Charizard has a chance due to the release of Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver on match day. Charizard was able to use the hype from that game to defeat Bowser worse than Kratos and was even able to put a respectable finish on Mario. With his run this contest Charizard should make the bracket again, but he may struggle to get a decent seed due to Pokemon having such a large nomination split.