What's good against fire Pokemon?

Updated: Sep 12, 2020

Battling against fire Pokemon is always a surprise! They tend to rank toward the top in special attack and above average in speed which allows them to fire off powerful attacks, often before you're able to move.

Be sure to heal any burns that may occur, especially if your Pokemon relies on its attack stat — burn will cut your Pokemon's attack in half!

Fire type Pokemon are weak to:

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

These types resist fire type attacks:

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

Great Pokemon to use against fire types:

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

Swampert (water / ground)
Omastar (water / rock)
Kabutops (water / rock)
Dreadnaw (water / rock)
Rhydon (rock / ground)
Kingdra (water / dragon)
Tyrantrum (rock / dragon)

Read more: The ULTIMATE Pokemon Type Weakness Guide

Good attacks to use against fire type Pokemon:

Earthquake (ground)
Earth power (ground)
High horsepower (ground)
Stone edge (rock)
Rock slide (rock)
Power gem (rock)
Surf (water)
Waterfall (water)
Hydro pump (water)

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