This hug-able floof has been wronged since gen 2 at least, but how can we make him better? The way i see it, he could be 1 of these 3: A sort of bulky physical attacker, a mixed attacker, or a physical sweeper. I feel like the 1st one is closest to game freaks intent and to help with this i think flame body would be a better ability. This way if the opponent doesn't want to deal with it's SpDef they'll have to status it or risk a burn. Alternatively, Fur coat is an option, but wouldn't mix particularly well with the fire theme, but then again Espeon gets synchronize, so who really cares. The other two would require some stat swaps and better moves, the latter this good boi needs regardless. He doesn't have to be OU he just needs to be U... sed.