Fighting (type)

The Fighting-type (Japanese: かくとうタイプ Kakutō type) is one of the seventeen elemental types. Notable trainers that specialize in the Fighting-type include Bruno of the Indigo Plateau Elite Four, Chuck of Cianwood City, Brawly of Dewford Town, and Maylene of Veilstone City. The Fighting Dojo of Saffron City is also home to several trainers of Fighting-type Pokémon, although it is not an official gym.

Statistical averages

Battle properties

Fighting-type moves:

• Are super effective against: Dark, Ice, Normal, Rock, Steel
• Are not very effective against: Bug, Flying, Poison, Psychic
• Have no effect against: Ghost

Fighting-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Bug, Dark, Rock
• Are weak to: Flying, Psychic
• Have immunity to: None

Note: Although Fighting-type attacks normally have no effect on Ghost-type Pokémon, the moves Foresight and Odor Sleuth, as well as the ability Scrappy, allow both Normal-type and Fighting-type moves to affect Ghost-type Pokémon.

Characteristics

The Fighting-type is often considered a key type in the game (together with Ice and Ground) as of the fourth generation. In the past, the type was not as effective thanks to the power of the Psychic-types, but now their useful resistances and vast type coverage allow many Fighting-types to sweep freely.

Defensively, the Fighting-type is rather strong. While many Fighting-types have below average defenses, resistances to Dark and Rock are key. In addition, Psychic and Flying are not very common offensive types.

Offensively, the Fighting-type is very powerful. It hits 5 different types for Super Effective damage, more than any other type in the game, and tied with the Ground-type. It deals super effective damage to Rock and Steel, types which generally have high Defense, and is the only type super effective against Normal. It is also one of the two types super effective against Dark. This is slightly balanced out by the fact that Ghosts are immune to Fighting attacks without the aide of Foresight/Odor Sleuth or the Scrappy ability. For a while there were very few powerful Fighting-type moves, but with the introduction of Close Combat, most teams must prepare at least one counter to powerful Fighting-type hitters, such as Heracross, in order to stand a chance at victory.

In total, there are 25 Pokémon with the Fighting-type.

Pokémon

Pure Fighting-type Pokémon

#		Name
056		Mankey
057		Primeape
066		Machop
067		Machoke
068		Machamp
106		Hitmonlee
107		Hitmonchan
236		Tyrogue
237		Hitmontop
296		Makuhita
297		Hariyama
447		Riolu

Half Fighting-type Pokémon

Primary Fighting-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
307		Meditite	Fighting	Psychic
308		Medicham	Fighting	Psychic
448		Lucario	Fighting	Steel

Secondary Fighting-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
062		Poliwrath	Water	Fighting
214		Heracross	Bug	Fighting
256		Combusken	Fire	Fighting
257		Blaziken	Fire	Fighting
286		Breloom	Grass	Fighting
391		Monferno	Fire	Fighting
392		Infernape	Fire	Fighting
453		Croagunk	Poison	Fighting
454		Toxicroak	Poison	Fighting
475		Gallade	Psychic	Fighting

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Arm Thrust			15	100%	20	One foe	Hits two to five times in a row.
Aura Sphere			90	—%	20	One foe	Never misses.
Brick Break			75	100%	15	One foe	Breaks any barrier such as Light Screen and Reflect.
Close Combat			120	100%	5	One foe	Lowers the user's the Defense and Special Defense.
Counter			Varies	100%	20	One foe	Returns Physical attack damage for double.
Cross Chop			100	80%	5	One foe	Has a high critical hit ratio.
Double Kick			30	100%	30	One foe	Hits twice.
Drain Punch			60	100%	5	One foe	The user's HP is restored by half the damage taken by the target.
DynamicPunch			100	50%	5	One foe	Confuses the target.
Focus Blast			120	70%	5	One foe	Has a 10% chance to lower target's Special Defense.
Focus Punch			150	100%	20	One foe	It will fail if the user is hit before it is used.
Force Palm			60	100%	10	One foe	Has a 30% chance of Paralyzing the opponent.
Hammer Arm			100	90%	10	One foe	Lowers the user's Speed.
Hi Jump Kick			100	90%	20	One foe	If it misses, the user is hurt instead.
Jump Kick			85	95%	25	One foe	If it misses, the user is hurt instead.
Karate Chop*			50	100%	25	One foe	Has a high critical hit ratio.
Low Kick			Varies*	100%	20	One foe	Inflicts greater damage on heavier foes.*
Mach Punch			40	100%	30	One foe	Always attacks first.
Revenge			60	100%	10	One foe	Inflicts double the damage if the user has been hurt by the foe in the same turn.
Reversal			Varies	100%	15	One foe	More powerful the less HP the user has.
Rock Smash			40 *	100%	15	One foe	In battle: Has a 50% chance of lowering the target's Defense. Outside of battle: Can smash cracked boulders.
Rolling Kick			60	85%	15	One foe	Has a 30% chance of causing the opponent to flinch.
Seismic Toss			—	100%	20	One foe	Inflicts damage equal to the user's level.
Sky Uppercut			85	90%	15	One foe	Capable of hitting opponents while they are using Fly.
Submission			80	80%	25	One foe	User receives 25% recoil damage.
Superpower			120	100%	5	One foe	Lowers the user's the Attack and Defense.
Triple Kick			10	90%	10	One foe	Hits three times. Gains power with each hit.
Vacuum Wave			40	100%	30	One foe	Always attacks first.
Vital Throw			70	—%	10	One foe	The user attacks last. In return, this move is guaranteed not to miss.
Wake-Up Slap			60	100%	10	One foe	Doubles in power when the target is asleep, but then awakens that target.

Non-damaging moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Bulk Up			—	—%	20	User	Raises user's Attack and Defense.
Detect			—	—%	5	User	User evades all attacks. Chance of failing rises if it is used in succession.

Trivia

• If it weren't for the addition of Aura Sphere, Focus Blast and Vacuum Wave in Generation IV, Fighting-type moves would be all Physical.
• With the exception of Arceus holding a Fist Plate, there has yet to be a Fighting-type legendary Pokémon. Lucario was once classed as legendary before its true, non-legendary status was confirmed, however.
• As another thing, with the introdution of Lucario in Generation IV, there wern't many Fighting-type Pokémon that could have a generally high Special Attack stat.
• The Fighting-type is as of Generation IV the only type that has not been paired with Flying.
• All of the legendary golems, including Regigigas, are weak to Fighting moves.
• In Generation I only, Karate Chop was a Normal-type move.
• No Fighting-type attacks can hit both foes in a double battle.
• Along with the Ground-type, Fighting-type moves weaken the most Pokémon types, with five.
• Fighting is the only type to have two variations of Quick Attack (those two being Mach Punch and Vacuum Wave).

In other languages

• French: Combat
• German: Kampf
• Italian: Lotta
• Spanish: Lucha
• Korean: 격투 gyeoktu
• Hebrew: לוחם lochem
• Chinese: 格闘 gé dòu
• Czech: Bojový