Pokémon Fire type

This page has information about the Fire type in the Pokemon games. It applies to Diamond/Pearl/Platinum and previous games (the only exception being that the Dark and Steel types were not present in Red/Blue/Yellow).

Attack

Fire moves are super-effective against:

grass ice bug steel

Fire moves are not very effective against:

fire water rock dragon

Defense

These types are not very effective against Fire pokemon:

fire grass ice bug steel

These types are super-effective against Fire pokemon:

water ground rock

Dual-type attack strength

The chart to the right shows the strengths and weaknesses of the Fire type on every possible type combination. The bottom row shows its strength against single-type pokemon.

The numbers in the squares show the fraction of normal damage the move will do (i.e. ½ means 50% damage, while 4 means 400%).

For example, to find how good a Fire-type move is against a Grass/Poison Pokémon, find the square that cross-references those types. You will see that it is 200%.

normal
fire ½
water ½ ¼
electric ½ ½
grass 2 2
ice 2 2 4
fighting ½ ½ 2 2
poison ½ ½ 2 2
ground ½ ½ 2 2
flying ½ ½ 2 2
psychic ½ ½ 2 2
bug 2 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 2
rock ½ ¼ ¼ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½
ghost ½ ½ 2 2 2 ½
dragon ½ ¼ ¼ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ¼ ½
dark ½ ½ 2 2 2 ½ ½
steel 2 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 2
- ½ ½ 2 2 2 ½ ½ 2
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Pokemon

There are 33 pokemon having the Fire type. See detailed list »

Charmander
#004 • fire Charmeleon
#005 • fire Charizard
#006 • fire / flying Vulpix
#037 • fire Ninetales
#038 • fire Growlithe
#058 • fire Arcanine
#059 • fire Ponyta
#077 • fire Rapidash
#078 • fire Magmar
#126 • fire Flareon
#136 • fire Moltres
#146 • fire / flying Cyndaquil
#155 • fire Quilava
#156 • fire Typhlosion
#157 • fire Slugma
#218 • fire Magcargo
#219 • fire / rock Houndour
#228 • dark / fire Houndoom
#229 • dark / fire Magby
#240 • fire Entei
#244 • fire Ho-oh
#250 • fire / flying Torchic
#255 • fire Combusken
#256 • fire / fighting Blaziken
#257 • fire / fighting Numel
#322 • fire / ground Camerupt
#323 • fire / ground Torkoal
#324 • fire Chimchar
#390 • fire Monferno
#391 • fire / fighting Infernape
#392 • fire / fighting Magmortar
#467 • fire Heatran
#485 • fire / steel