What's good against fighting Pokemon?

Updated: Sep 12, 2020

Battling against fighting Pokemon can be difficult because fighting is a great offensive type, but a lot of types also resist or are immune to their hard-hitting moves!

Fighting type Pokemon tend to be faster than average and generally sport the highest attack stats of all types, so they can move first and cause a lot of damage.

Fighting type Pokemon are weak to:

Use attacks of these types to deal double damage against fighting types. It's super effective!

Ghost type is immune to fighting type attacks

Use a ghost type Pokemon to take zero damage from an opponent's fighting type attacks.

These types resist fighting type attacks:

Use Pokemon of these types to take half damage from an opponent's fighting type attacks. It's not very effective.

Great Pokemon to use against fighting types:

These Pokemon learn super effective attacks or have useful resistances (or both!)

Gardevoir (psychic / fairy)
Galarian Rapidash (psychic / fairy)
Togekiss (fairy / flying)
Lunala (psychic / ghost)
Crobat (flying / poison)
Scyther (flying / bug)

Read more: The ULTIMATE Pokemon Type Weakness Guide

Good attacks to use against fighting type Pokemon:

Dazzling gleam (fairy)
Moonblast (fairy)
Play rough (fairy)
Air slash (flying)
Acrobatics (flying)
Brave bird (flying)
Psychic (psychic)
Psybeam (psychic)
Zen headbutt (psychic)

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