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Heatran's body is built for climbing. It has a +16 racial bonus on Climb checks and may take 10 even when rushed or threatened. Heatran is fond of climbing up walls, then leaping off to pounce on a foe with its [[Vicious Pounce (3.5e Skill Trick)|Vicious Pounce]] skill trick. In enclosed spaces such as the interior of a volcano (Heatran's favorite battleground), it tends to jump all over the room like a ninja on crack, firing off [[#Magma Storm|Magma Storms]], [[#Earth Power|Earth Powers]], and [[#AncientPower|AncientPowers]] to soften up its enemies from afar. Once it's managed to entangle most of its foes, it will proceed to repeatedly jump on top of them, hitting them with bites, slams, and [[#Lava Plume|Lava Plumes]]. While not nearly as fast as Voltran, Heatran is a ''lot'' faster than it looks, and will eagerly vex its foes and try to goad them into making a mistake.
'''{{Anchor|Flash Fire}} {{Su}}:''' Whenever Heatran is hit by an effect that would normally deal Fire damage to Heatran, that damage is negated, and unless the effect originated from Heatran itself, it becomes even more powerful, empowering any fire effects it unleashes in the next round. If the effect continues over multiple rounds, it remains Empowered for each round. Even if Flash Fire is suppressed (such as by an ''antimagic field''), Heatran is still immune to fire. Only an ability that bypasses immunity to fire, like [[Reshiram (3.5e Monster)|Reshiram's]] [[Reshiram (3.5e Monster)#Turboblaze|Turboblaze]], can fully defeat Flash Fire and damage Heatran with fire attacks.
'''{{Anchor|Soul of Volcanoes}} {{Ex}}:''' Heatran is the essence of life in volcanoes, an otherwise inanimate aspect of geography. Thus, it can tap into the latent incarnum of the land. Heatran has an essentia pool containing 2 points of essentia plus 1 point for every 3 HD that it has. Its 30 HD grants it 12 essentia and the ability to invest up to 4 essentia in any given essentia receptacle. Heatran may invest essentia in its fire anti-resistance to improve said anti-resistance by 4 points per invested essentia point.
