Battle Notes (this one is meh): 1. Cal uses Fire types from the start of the game, and later picks up Fighting as well. Blaziken's a quintessential Pokémon of both, and was used both to match him and win with a "not very effective" type. Honchkrow doesn't have much of a name because it was more of a contingency than anything should Blaziken not be enough, and just happened to be in party at the time rather than corresponding to Cal's team. 2. Truth be told, I only remember about half of what this team was based on. Cal mellows out throughout the game, which was a justification for the field change, and I'd wanted to use a Ludicolo for a long time. 3. Around uploading I finally made the connection between the name and the field. He doesn't seem like the type to flaunt it, but who knows? Blaziken also returns in a sort of rematch from the first battle, this time successfully sweeping the whole team.