Fighting (type)

Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Notable Pokémon Trainers that specialize in Fighting-type Pokémon are Bruno of the Indigo Plateau Elite Four, Chuck of Cianwood City, Brawly of Dewford Town, Maylene of Veilstone City, and Renbu of the Isshu Elite Four. The Fighting Dojo of Saffron City is also home to several Trainers of Fighting-type Pokémon, although it is no longer an official Gym.

Statistical averages

Overall

Stat
HP: 67
Attack: 93
Defense: 64
Sp.Atk: 51
Sp.Def: 70
Speed: 64
Total: 0

Fully evolved

Stat
HP: 74.40
Attack: 109.33
Defense: 72.53
Sp.Atk: 65.33
Sp.Def: 83.73
Speed: 78.73
Total: 0

Battle properties

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×			0×	None

Note: Although Fighting-type attacks normally have no effect on Template:Type2 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

As of Generation IV, the Fighting type, along with Ice and Ground, is often considered a key offensive type in the game. In the past, the type was not as effective thanks to the power of the Template:Type2s, but now their useful resistances and vast type coverage allow many Fighting-types to sweep freely.

Defensively, the Fighting type has cons and pros. Fighting-type Pokémon have key resistances to Dark and Rock, but their weaknesses are to the common Flying and Psychic types. They also usually fall to Psychic moves in one turn, due to a low Special Defense. However, several Fighting Pokémon (Like Lucario, Gallade, Zuruzukin and Cobalon) have a subtype that rids them of the Psychic weakness. Also, resistance to Bug can sometimes assist Fighting types (Though Bug has that same resistance to Fighting).

Offensively, the Fighting type is very powerful. It hits five different types with super-effective damage, more than any other type except for the Template:Type2, with which it ties. 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 super-effective against Ice, a key offensive but low defensive type. 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 aid of Foresight/Odor Sleuth or the Scrappy ability. In the first three generations, there were very few powerful Fighting-type moves, but this has changed with the introduction of Close Combat and increased availability of moves such as Superpower. It should be noted that the offensive combination Fighting/Ghost is resisted by no Pokémon, as only the theoretical typing of Normal/Ghost will be able to resist it. The Fighting type also pairs up well with the Dark type offensively as only three Pokémon currently resist a Fighting/Dark combination.

When used in contests, Fighting-type moves typically become Cool or Tough, but can also be of two other Contest categories. No Fighting-type moves are of the Cute category.

Pokémon

As of Generation V, there are 40 Pokémon with the Fighting type.

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 532 Dokkora 533 Dotekkotsu 534 Roobushin 538 Nageki 539 Dageki 619 Kojofu 620 Kojondo

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 499 Chaoboo Fire Fighting 500 Enbuoh Fire Fighting 559 Zuruggu Dark Fighting 560 Zuruzukin Dark Fighting 638 Cobalon Steel Fighting 639 Terrakion Rock Fighting 640 Virizion Grass Fighting 647 Keldeo Water Fighting 648 Meloetta Meloetta* Normal Fighting

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name Category Contest Power Accuracy PP Target Notes Arm Thrust Physical Tough 15 100% 20 One target Hits two to five times in a row. Aura Sphere Special Beauty 90 —% 20 One target Never misses. Brick Break Physical Cool 75 100% 15 One target Breaks any barrier such as Light Screen and Reflect. Close Combat Physical Smart 120 100% 5 One target Lowers the user's Defense and Special Defense. Counter Physical Tough Varies 100% 20 One target Returns Physical attack damage for double. Cross Chop Physical Cool 100 80% 5 One target Has a high critical hit ratio. Double Kick Physical Tough 30 100% 30 One target Hits twice. Drain Punch Physical Beauty 75 100% 10 One target The user's HP is restored by half the damage taken by the target. DynamicPunch Physical Cool 100 50% 5 One target Confuses the target. Focus Blast Special Cool 120 70% 5 One target Has a 10% chance to lower target's Special Defense. Focus Punch Physical Tough 150 100% 20 One target It will fail if the user is hit before it is used. Force Palm Physical Cool 60 100% 10 One target Has a 30% chance of paralyzing the opponent. Hammer Arm Physical Cool 100 90% 10 One target Lowers the user's Speed. Hi Jump Kick Physical Cool 130 90% 10 One target If it misses, the user is hurt instead. Jump Kick Physical Cool 100 95% 10 One target If it misses, the user is hurt instead. Karate Chop* Physical Tough 50 100% 25 One target Has a high critical hit ratio. Low Kick Physical Tough Varies 100% 20 One target Inflicts greater damage on heavier foes.* Mach Punch Physical Cool 40 100% 30 One target Always attacks first. Revenge Physical Tough 60 100% 10 One target Inflicts double the damage if the user has been hurt by the foe in the same turn. Reversal Physical Cool Varies 100% 15 One target More powerful the less HP the user has. Rock Smash Physical Tough 40 100% 15 One target In battle: Has a 50% chance to lower the target's Defense. Outside of battle: Can smash cracked boulders. Rolling Kick Physical Cool 60 85% 15 One target Has a 30% chance of causing the opponent to flinch. Seismic Toss Physical Tough Varies 100% 20 One target Inflicts damage equal to the user's level. Sky Uppercut Physical Cool 85 90% 15 One target Capable of hitting opponents while they are using Fly. Submission Physical Cool 80 80% 25 One target User receives 25% recoil damage. Superpower Physical Tough 120 100% 5 One target Lowers the user's Attack and Defense. Triple Kick Physical Beauty 10 90% 10 One target Hits three times. Gains power with each hit. Vacuum Wave Special Smart 40 100% 30 One target Always attacks first. Vital Throw Physical Cool 70 —% 10 One target The user attacks last. In return, this move is guaranteed not to miss. Wake-Up Slap Physical Smart 60 100% 10 One target 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 Status Beauty — —% 20 User Raises user's Attack and Defense. Detect Status Cool — —% 5 User User evades all attacks. Chance of failing rises if it is used in succession.

Trivia

• As of Generation V, the Fighting type is the only type that has not been paired with the Template:Type2.
  • It is also one of two types that don't have any unique Pokémon type combinations as of Generation V, the other Psychic (if not including Meloetta's Step Forme).
• All of the legendary golems, including Regigigas, are weak to Fighting moves.
• No Fighting-type move can hit both foes in a double battle.
• Along with the Ground-type, Fighting-type moves are super effective against the most Pokémon types: five.
• Fighting is the only type to have two variations of Quick Attack: Mach Punch and Vacuum Wave.
  • It is also the only type to have a special variation of Quick Attack.
• As of Generation II, the Fighting type (along with Bug) are one of only two pairs of different types to share the same interaction against each other (Bug resists Fighting and vice versa). The other pair is Normal and Ghost (Normal is immune to Ghost and vice versa).
• There has been one Elite Four member or Gym Leader specializing in Fighting-type Pokémon in every generation.
• Color representations for the Fighting type have generally been inconsistent in various Pokémon media. While the Fighting-type has been associated with the color red in the main Pokémon games since Generation III, it is associated with the color orange in Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, and with the color brown in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
• Fighting is the only formerly all Physical type not to have any of it's moves changed into Special moves. All of its Special moves were introduced after the Physical/Special split was retooled.
• So far, Generation I and Generation V are the only generations lacking a Fighting type gym (Although the Saffron Dojo in Kanto does specialize in the Fighting type and was formerly a gym).
  • They are also the generations to introduce a Fighting type Elite Four, as Bruno retained his status as an Elite Four member for Generation II.
• Fighting is the most common secondary type for evolutions of starter Pokémon, with three starter lines being paired with it, all of the Template:Type2.
• Generation V is the first Generation to contain Fighting-type Legendaries.
• Lucario is the only non-legendary Fighting-type Pokémon whose Special Attack stat is superior to its Attack stat.
• Generation V introduced the most Fighting-types, with 15 introduced, not including Meloetta's Step Forme.

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