How could a creature continue to exist as a species if its death

I thought the flame on its tail represented its life force. When it dies, the flame goes out - not the other way around. Also, even IF the flame being on defined its life, so what?

That abandoned Charmander seemed to at least think it needed to protect its tail flame from the rain lest it be snuffed.

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>>27257090
Water cannot put out the tail. Red's Charizard in Origin remained underwater for an extended period of time and the tail kept burning. Pic related

>>27257223
>anime
Well there you go, that's your problem.

>>27257268
FUCK YOU, MAN.

If we just go by the games then Spoink is barely alive.

>>27257283
>Games =/= Pokedex =/= Anime =/= Manga

Do you understand?

>>27257090
Lives in an incendiary environment where extinguishing sources are rare. After all, you don't see polar bears living naturally in the tropics, do you?

>>27257181
Just elaborating on this: This is correct. The fire does not define the life of the Charmander - the life defines the fire. If the Charmander is healthy, the flame burns brightly. If Charmander is sick or weak, the flame burns weakly.
It also reflects emotional state: if it is happy, the flame burns normally... if it is excited, the flame burns intensely. It doesn't go out in rain or in water.

All this info is from the Pokedex in the games which you can see here. The anime invented that 'if its flame goes out it dies' crap to tug at your heart strings for the duration of the episode where Charmander was introduced. They probably never refer to it again.

>>27257283
And?

>>27257307
>Games =\= Poked
lol k

>>27257181
this needs to be taught in elementary school so we don't have retards like OP.

>>27257090
How did humans survive when it takes us 16ish years to reach a point where we can physically be considered adults, compared to other animals which reach full physical maturity in a year or two?

>>27257351
They do. Charizard's tail even gets weak at one point, and Ash burns his hands raw trying to warm up Charizard.

Charmander is based on the Salamander, who are born and live in fire. Without fire, they cannot live. So no, the anime didn't make up shit.

>>27257223

The Charmander in question was also abused by its trainer and likely sickly and suffering malnutrition.

Also it had been abandoned, and I highly doubt Charmander are native to forests; we never see them in the wild but it seems like a desert pokemon or something.