Oops, I forgot about the hydro cannon downside. I also, know the other side if it was sunny, ability blaze was activated, and blastburn was used. However, I highly doubt that a fire pokemon can survive a decent surf. Water types rule and I'm surprised fire has the lead as of this post. Fire pokemon, usually, have the same basic concept, hit and die. It is hard for a fire type to maintain either a good defense or special defense stat if it is battling with the purpose of a higher atk or sp. atk stat. So then, if they do hit first and their foe survives, well then they perish. I'm just making a point, if fire types are so good, how come they usually have the same flaw filled tactic? I mean, blazikan and infernape are excellent examples in the speed + a higher atk stat= enemy KO. Water pokemon can survive those hits so clearly fire types have a flaw right there.