Katie Shamory Problem. Charmander are climate sensitive. The fire on its tail would quickly go out if it expended any heat. And for non poke-nerds, No fire = death.
for all of you talking about how he should use charmander... first of all, that snow wall is not keeping them trap, is keeping them safe from the storm, andashis next to iitopatch up a hole in it. secondly, charmander is having a really hard time just by being outside of his pokeball, and keeping that flame alive in that weather: is the flame dies, so does charmander.actually, in the episode in wich ash met him, he almost died because he spent a few minutes under the rain. charmander barely has the power to keep himself warm.