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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet SV - Fighting Type Pokemon

Fighting Type Pokemon are strong against Normal, Ice, Rock, Dark, and Steel Type Pokemon. Learn what are the best Fighting Type Pokemon you can get your hands on in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (SV)!

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List of Fighting Type Pokemon Best Fighting Type Pokemon

Best Fighting-type Pokemon for Tera Raids

Best Fighting-type Pokemon for Tera Raids
Koraidon Koraidon Iron Hands Iron Hands Iron Valiant Iron Valiant

Koraidon

Koraidon Koraidon

Tera Raid Build

Fighting Icon Dragon Icon
Tera Type Nature
Fighting Icon Adamant
( Atk, Sp.Atk)
EV Spread
HP:
252
Atk:
252
Def:
4
Ability Moveset
Orichalcum Pulse Collision Course
Drain Punch
Screech
Fire Fang
Held Item
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet SV - Black Belt ImageBlack Belt

Koraidon is one of the best physical attackers to use in Tera Raid Battles. Its main and signature move Collision Course hits 30% stronger if the target is weak against Fighting-type moves which can be powered-up further when it is Terastallized with a Fighting Tera Type.

Koraidon Best Tera Raid Build

Iron Hands

Iron Hands Iron Hands

Tera Raid Build

Electric Icon Fighting Icon
Tera Type Nature
Fighting Icon Adamant
( Atk, Sp.Atk)
EV Spread
HP:
76
Atk:
252
Sp.Def:
172
Ability Moveset
Quark Drive Belly Drum
Close Combat
Thunder Punch
Drain Punch
Held Item
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet SV - Booster Energy ImageBooster Energy

Iron Hands is another formidable Tera Raid attacker who relies on maximizing its Attack stat with Belly Drum and Booster Energy.

It can then use Drain Punch to recover lost health when using Belly Drum or unleash huge damage with Close Combat.

Iron Hands Best Tera Raid Build

Iron Valiant

Iron Valiant Iron Valiant

Tera Raid Build

Fighting Icon Fairy Icon
Tera Type Nature
Fighting Icon Adamant
( Atk, Sp.Atk)
EV Spread
HP:
252
Atk:
252
Sp.Def:
4
Ability Moveset
Quark Drive Drain Punch
Spirit Break
Liquidation
Swords Dance
Held Item
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet SV - Booster Energy ImageBooster Energy

Iron Valiant can act as a physical attacker in Tera Raids. It can boost its Attack stat with Quark Drive and Booster Energy by 30% upon activation.

You can bolster Iron Valiant even more with Swords Dance before attacking with one of its moves or heal lost health with a powered-up Drain Punch.

Iron Valiant Best Tera Raid Build

Best Fighting-type Pokemon for Competitive Ranked Battle

Best Fighting-type Pokemon for Ranked Battles
Iron Valiant Iron Valiant Great Tusk Great Tusk Lucario Lucario

Iron Valiant

Iron Valiant Iron Valiant
Best Build for Ranked Battle
Nature Jolly ( Spe, Sp.Atk)
EV Spread Atk 252 / Sp.Def 4 / Spe 252
Final Stat Values HP 149 / Atk 182 / Def 110 / Sp.Def 81 / Spe 184
Ability Quark Drive
Tera Type
Pokemon Electric Type Icon or Pokemon Ghost Type Icon
Held Item
Moveset Close Combat
Thunder Punch
Shadow Sneak
Swords Dance

Iron Valiant can get a 50% Speed boost from Booster Energy activating Quark Drive, allowing it to be a fast physical attacker. Its main STAB move for this build is Close Combat, which can deal significant damage to your opponents before they can even move.

Iron Valiant Movesets and Best Builds

Great Tusk

Great Tusk Great Tusk
Best Build for Ranked Battle
Nature Jolly ( Spe, Sp.Atk)
EV Spread Atk 252 / Sp.Def 4 / Spe 252
Final Stat Values HP 190 / Atk 183 / Def 151 / Sp.Def 74 / Spe 152 (228 with Choice Scarf)
Ability Protosynthesis
Tera Type Pokemon Ground Type Icon
Held Item
Moveset Headlong Rush
Close Combat
Knock Off
Play Rough

Choice Scarf allows Great Tusk to be a speedy physical attacker despite its seemingly slow appearance. It can use Close Combat as one of its main STAB moves.

Great Tusk Movesets and Best Builds

Lucario

Lucario Lucario
Best Build for Ranked Battle
Nature Jolly ( Spe, Sp.Atk)
EV Spread HP 252 / Def 4 / Spe 252
Final Stat Values HP 145 / Atk 162 / Def 91 / Sp.Def 90 / Spe 156
Ability Inner Focus
Tera Type Pokemon Normal Type Icon
Held Item
Moveset Close Combat
Bullet Punch
Extreme Speed
Earthquake

This build revolves around using Extreme Speed to hit your opponents with a high damage priority move, but also highlights a STAB Close Combat that allows Lucario to go up against several Pokemon which are commonly used in the metagame.

Lucario Movesets and Best Builds

Best Fighting-type Pokemon for Story Playthrough

Best Fighting-type Pokemon for the Story
Lucario Lucario Breloom Breloom Pawmot Pawmot

Lucario

Lucario Lucario
Best Build for the Story
Nature Adamant ( Atk, Sp.Atk)
EV Spread Atk 252 / Spe 252
Ability Inner Focus
Tera Type Pokemon Fighting Type Icon
Held Item
Moveset Extreme Speed
Close Combat
Dragon Pulse
Swords Dance

This moveset and build focuses on building Lucario's Attack stat, allowing it to deal OHKOs to enemies with ease. This is achieved by setting its Nature to Adamant, giving it the Muscle Band item, and teaching it the move Swords Dance.

Lucario Learnset, How to Get, and Evolution

Breloom

Breloom Breloom
Best Build for the Story
Nature Adamant ( Atk, Sp.Atk)
EV Spread Atk 252 / Spe 252
Ability Poison Heal
Tera Type Pokemon Fighting Type Icon
Held Item
Moveset Drain Punch
Leech Seed
Bullet Seed
Spore

This moveset allows you to take on various types by using a physical-focused Breloom with a Jolly Nature. Drain Punch will be your primary Attack, which is made easier by putting them to sleep with Spore. Leech Seed is for team support as it provides a healing option, even after Breloom switches out.

Do note that Breloom can only know Spore if it learns the move while it is still its pre-evolution Shroomish, which learns it at Lv. 40. Make sure to let Shroomish reach Lv. 40 so it can learn Spore before you evolve it into Breloom!

Breloom Learnset, How to Get, and Evolution

Pawmot

Pawmot Pawmot
Best Build for the Story
Nature Adamant ( Atk, Sp.Atk)
EV Spread Atk 252 / Spe 252
Ability Volt Absorb
Tera Type Pokemon Fighting Type Icon
Held Item
Moveset Bulk Up
Brick Break
Thunder Punch
Close Combat

Pawmot can be a viable Fighting-type attacker during the story. Pawmot can use Brick Break and Close Combat to damage its opponents, and can further boost the power of these moves with Bulk Up or Terastallize into a Fighting Tera Type.

Pawmot Learnset, How to Get, and Evolution

Best Pokemon to Terastallize to Fighting

Best Pokemon to Terastallize to Fighting
Armarouge Armarouge Ceruledge Ceruledge Greedent Greedent

Armarouge

Armarouge Armarouge
Best Build for Ranked Battle
Nature Modest ( Sp.Atk, Atk)
EV Spread HP 244 / Def 148 / Sp.Atk 116
Final Stat Values HP 191 / Def 139 / Sp.Atk 136 / Sp.Def 100 / Spe 95
Ability Flash Fire
Tera Type Pokemon Fighting Type Icon
Held Item
Moveset Armor Cannon
Aura Sphere
Dark Pulse
Trick Room

Armarouge's low speed make it a great Trick Room setter, with its natural physical bulk letting it survive a super effective hit to activate Weakness Policy.

For this build, its main weapon after Terastallizing into a Fighting-type will be Aura Sphere.

Armarouge Movesets and Best Builds

Ceruledge

Ceruledge Ceruledge
Best Build for Ranked Battle
Nature Adamant ( Atk, Sp.Atk)
EV Spread HP 196 / Atk 252 / Def 4 / Sp.Def 4 / Spe 52
Final Stat Values HP 175 / Atk 19 / Def 101 / Sp.Def 121 / Spe 112
Ability Flash Fire
Tera Type Pokemon Fighting Type Icon
Held Item
Moveset Bitter Blade
Shadow Claw
Shadow Sneak
Close Combat

This build takes advantage of Ceruledge great natural bulk while still dealing as much damage as possible with STAB Bitter Blade and Shadow Claw.

We're using Fighting Tera type to remove Ceruledge's Ground and Rock-type weaknesses, while also powering up its Close Combat. Flash Fire is the preferred Ability for this build to protect it from Will-O-Wisp after Terastallizing into a Fighting-type.

Ceruledge Movesets and Best Builds

Greedent

Greedent Greedent
Best Build for Ranked Battle
Nature Impish ( Def, Sp.Atk)
EV Spread HP 252 / Def 252 / Sp.Def 4
Final Stat Values HP 227 / Atk 115 / Def 161 / Sp.Def 96 / Spe 25
Ability Cheek Pouch
Tera Type Pokemon Fighting Type Icon
Held Item
Moveset Stuff Cheeks
Body Press
Super Fang
Thief

This build revolves around Cheek Pouch, Stuff Cheeks, and Apicot Berry to raise Greedent's Special Defense stat. Body Press is its main attacking move and gets STAB once it Terastallizes into a Fighting-type.

Greedent Movesets and Best Builds

Best Tera Type for Fighting-type Pokemon

Fighting Tera Type

FIghting-type Pokemon can benefit from additional damaghe boost when they Terastallize into a Fighting-type. This will also remove any other weaknesses from their secondary typing if they have any.

Ground Tera Type

Terastallizing a Fighting-type Pokemon into a Ground-type will remove all of its previous weaknesses, allowing it to stand against common Flying-type attackers.

Although Ground-type moves will not hit Flying-type Pokemon, moves like Earthquake will still hit hard on other types while you are Terastallized, especially if your Pokemon has high Attack stat.

You can change your Pokemon's Tera Type to Ground with Ground Tera Shards.

Flying Tera Type

Fighting-type Pokemon are vulnerable to Flying-type moves, which is why giving them a Flying Tera Type can help them face these Pokemon after Terastallizing.

This neutralizes any Flying-type moves instead of being super-effective. It also removes Fighting-type's other weaknesses, which are Psychic or Fairy.

Best Pokemon to Terastallize

Best Fighting Type Pokemon By Base Stat

Best Fighting Type Pokemon by Base Stats

Key
H - HP
A - Attack
B - Defense
C - Special Attack
D - Special Defense
S - Speed
Pokémon H A B C D S Total
Zamazenta (Crowned Shield) ImageZamazenta (Crowned Shield) 92 120 140 80 140 128 720
Zamazenta (Hero of Many Battles) ImageZamazenta (Hero of Many Battles) 92 120 115 80 115 138 670
Koraidon ImageKoraidon 100 135 115 85 100 135 670
Kommo-o ImageKommo-o 75 110 125 100 105 85 600
Meloetta (Pirouette Forme) ImageMeloetta (Pirouette Forme) 100 128 90 77 77 128 600
Iron Valiant ImageIron Valiant 74 130 90 120 60 116 590
Keldeo ImageKeldeo 91 72 90 129 90 108 580
Galarian Zapdos ImageGalarian Zapdos 90 125 90 85 90 100 580
Great Tusk ImageGreat Tusk 115 131 131 53 53 87 570
Slither Wing ImageSlither Wing 85 135 79 85 105 81 570
Iron Hands ImageIron Hands 154 140 108 50 68 50 570
Okidogi ImageOkidogi 88 128 115 58 86 80 555
Urshifu Single-Strike Style ImageUrshifu Single-Strike Style 100 130 100 63 60 97 550
Urshifu Rapid-Strike Style ImageUrshifu Rapid-Strike Style 100 130 100 63 60 97 550
Annihilape ImageAnnihilape 110 115 80 50 90 90 535
Infernape ImageInfernape 76 104 71 104 71 108 534
Hisuian Decidueye ImageHisuian Decidueye 88 112 80 95 95 60 530
Blaziken ImageBlaziken 80 120 70 110 70 80 530
Chesnaught ImageChesnaught 88 107 122 74 75 64 530
Quaquaval ImageQuaquaval 85 120 80 85 75 85 530
Emboar ImageEmboar 110 123 65 100 65 65 528
Lucario ImageLucario 70 110 70 115 70 90 525
Gallade ImageGallade 68 125 65 65 115 80 518
Mienshao ImageMienshao 65 125 60 95 60 105 510
Sneasler ImageSneasler 80 130 60 40 80 120 510
Poliwrath ImagePoliwrath 90 95 95 70 90 70 510
Heracross ImageHeracross 80 125 75 40 95 85 510
Conkeldurr ImageConkeldurr 105 140 95 55 65 45 505
Hawlucha ImageHawlucha 78 92 75 74 63 118 500
Flamigo ImageFlamigo 82 115 74 75 64 90 500
Passimian ImagePassimian 100 120 90 40 60 80 490
Pawmot ImagePawmot 70 115 70 70 60 105 490
Toxicroak ImageToxicroak 83 106 65 86 65 85 490
Paldean Tauros (Fighting Form) ImagePaldean Tauros (Fighting Form) 75 110 105 30 70 100 490
Paldean Tauros (Fighting/Water Form) ImagePaldean Tauros (Fighting/Water Form) 75 110 105 30 70 100 490
Paldean Tauros (Fighting/Fire Form) ImagePaldean Tauros (Fighting/Fire Form) 75 110 105 30 70 100 490
Scrafty ImageScrafty 65 90 115 45 115 58 488
Hisuian Lilligant ImageHisuian Lilligant 70 105 75 50 75 105 480
Crabominable ImageCrabominable 97 132 77 62 67 43 478
Hariyama ImageHariyama 144 120 60 40 60 50 474
Falinks ImageFalinks 65 100 100 70 60 75 470
Breloom ImageBreloom 60 130 80 60 60 70 460
Hitmontop ImageHitmontop 50 95 95 35 110 70 455
Hitmonlee ImageHitmonlee 50 120 53 35 110 87 455
Hitmonchan ImageHitmonchan 50 105 79 35 110 76 455
Medicham ImageMedicham 60 60 75 60 75 80 410

This is a list of fully-evolved Fighting-type Pokemon by total base stats. For a full comparison of all Pokemon including unevolved forms, try our List of Pokemon by Base Stats.

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