Fighting (type)

Fighting Pokemon are strong and muscle-bound, often based on martial artists. Fighting moves are super-effective against five other types (as is Ground), making them very good offensively. Most Fighting-type moves are in the Physical category, for obvious reasons.

Attack pros & cons

Fighting moves are super-effective against:

Fighting moves are not very effective against:

Fighting moves have no effect on:

Defense pros & cons

These types are not very effective against Fighting pokemon:

These types are super-effective against Fighting pokemon:

Dual-type attack pros & cons

The chart below shows the strength of the Fighting type against every type combination. The numbers in the squares show the fraction damage the move will do (i.e. ½ means 50% damage and not very effective, while 4 means 400% - super-effective).

For example, look where the Grass and Poison types intersect to see how good a Fighting-type move would be against a pokemon like Venusaur. You will see that it is 50%.

nor fir wat ele gra ice fig poi gro fly psy bug roc gho dra dar ste
Fire 2
Water 2
Electric 2
Grass 2
Ice 4 2 2 2 2
Fighting 2 2
Poison ½ ½ ½ ½ ½
Ground 2 2 ½
Flying ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ¼ ½
Psychic ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ¼ ½ ¼
Bug ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ¼ ½ ¼ ¼
Rock 4 2 2 2 2 4 2 2
Ghost 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dragon 2 2 ½ ½ ½ ½ 2 0
Dark 4 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 4 0 2
Steel 4 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 4 0 2 4

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Notable Fighting-type trainers


Fighting Pokemon

There are currently 41 Fighting-type pokemon.
See also:

Mankey
#056 / Fighting
Primeape
#057 / Fighting
Poliwrath
#062 / Water · Fighting
Machop
#066 / Fighting
Machoke
#067 / Fighting
Machamp
#068 / Fighting
Hitmonlee
#106 / Fighting
Hitmonchan
#107 / Fighting
Heracross
#214 / Bug · Fighting
Tyrogue
#236 / Fighting
Hitmontop
#237 / Fighting
Combusken
#256 / Fire · Fighting
Blaziken
#257 / Fire · Fighting
Breloom
#286 / Grass · Fighting
Makuhita
#296 / Fighting
Hariyama
#297 / Fighting
Meditite
#307 / Fighting · Psychic
Medicham
#308 / Fighting · Psychic
Monferno
#391 / Fire · Fighting
Infernape
#392 / Fire · Fighting
Riolu
#447 / Fighting
Lucario
#448 / Fighting · Steel
Croagunk
#453 / Poison · Fighting
Toxicroak
#454 / Poison · Fighting
Gallade
#475 / Psychic · Fighting
Pignite
#499 / Fire · Fighting
Emboar
#500 / Fire · Fighting
Timburr
#532 / Fighting
Gurdurr
#533 / Fighting
Conkeldurr
#534 / Fighting
Throh
#538 / Fighting
Sawk
#539 / Fighting
Scraggy
#559 / Dark · Fighting
Scrafty
#560 / Dark · Fighting
Mienfoo
#619 / Fighting
Mienshao
#620 / Fighting
Cobalion
#638 / Steel · Fighting
Terrakion
#639 / Rock · Fighting
Virizion
#640 / Grass · Fighting
Keldeo
#647 / Water · Fighting
Meloetta
Pirouette
#648 / Normal · Fighting

 

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