Fighting-typePokémonare known for their high attack stat and strong physical moves. While fighting types are typically underrepresented in high-tiered competitive play, their good pool of strong, physical attack moves makes them prime for carrying your team throughPokemon Scarlet & Violet.
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There are a wide variety of good Fighting types with great move pools this time around, making it better than ever to focus on Fighting types for your team than ever before. Even so, it’s important to know what Fighting types, in particular, to be looking for. Here are the best Fighting types available in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet.
Updated by Madeline Virtue on 26-06-2025: Pokemon Scarlet and Violet shows no signs of waning in popularity, and knowing what the best Fighting-type Pokemon are can help players build a strong team. This list was updated to include five additional entries.
15Crabominable
Ice and Fighting is an interesting type combo that matches well with Crabominable’s theme. While it doesn’t have the strongest defense coverage, it has a surprisingly deep move pool with Poison and Psychic-Type moves making an appearance.
Like many Fighting-Types, Crabominable’s highest base stats are its Attack and HP, but with its various weaknesses, it doesn’t always hold its own on all-out offense. However, with moves like Snowscape and Ice Spinner it can be a good option in double battles.
14Passimian
The mono Fighting-Type Passimian made its debut in the Sun and Moon games and has returned to the main Pokédex of Paldea after appearing in Sword and Shield’s DLC. It has a high Attack stat, as well as good HP and reasonable Speed. Its Hidden Ability, Defiant, is where it shines in competitive play.
While its natural move pool is made up of Normal and Fighting-Type attacks, it has a wide range of TMs it can learn from to diversify both its offensive and support capabilities.
New in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Flamigo’s unusual Flying/Fighting typing makes for some interesting setups. It does have a respectable 115 Attack and 90 Speed, but just okay HP and outright bad Defense make it hard to use well.
With its focus being on physical attacks, it has plenty of great Fighting and Flying-type moves to take advantage of, but none of the ones it learns are any good until Brave Bird at level 54. Flamigo can learn plenty of great Flying and Fighting-type moves, but the new TM system means you will have to do plenty of grinding in order to get it there.
A fast, physical attacker, Pawmot is Scarlet and Violet’s “Pikaclone” and it is both adorable and a surprisingly good ally. With its Fighting secondary typing, it’s a rare Electric-Type with a high physical Attack stat.
Pawmot is also one of only two Pokémon that can learn and use the move Revival Blessing, which can revive a fallen ally with half of its HP restored. This is most useful in competitive play where you can’t use traditional healing items, and it would be overpowered, to say the least, if it wasn’t one use only.
11Heracross
The gen II Bug/Fighting-type staple makes a return in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, although this time it has much more competition for its spot. Its formerly spectacular 125 Attack is hardly in a class of its own, and the new version of Volcarona steals its typing specialty. Its move set has fallen behind as well.
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If you’ve been latching on to Heracross since being impossible to find in the generation II titles, you can still do well with it in Paldea, but it’s hard to recommend it over any others ahead of it on this list.
With Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Tauros got not one, but three regional variants, all with the Fighting-type. Two of these forms, or breeds as they’re referred to with this Pokémon, are version exclusive, while the base form can be found regardless of which version of the game you’re playing.
Which type of Tauros you’ll want on your team will depend on what offensive and defensive coverage you want, and the sort of team you are building. Regardless, all Paldean forms of Tauros are fast and strong.
9Quaquaval
One of the final starter Pokémon evolutions, Quaquaval is a well-rounded Water/Fighting-type with just average Health, defenses, and Speed, with a focus on physical attacks. For a starter evolution, its stats are nothing to write home about, and most of its learned moves are Flying-type for some reason. It does learn Close Combat, but so does just about everything on this list. None of its Water attacks are anything to write home about either.
Quaquaval has legitimate argument to being the best-designed of the new starter trio evolutions, but it might also be the most disappointing in battle as well.
Were it not for its extreme weakness to Flying-Type attacks as a Grass and Fighting-Type, Breloom would be a lot more viable in competitive play. Its Attack base stat is ridiculously high among Pokémon of a similar base stat total, and its Hidden Ability, Technician, powers up its lower power attacks.
Combining moves such as Swords Dance and Bullet Seed, and a held item like Loaded Die, Breloom can make a surprise sweeper. With moves like Spore that it can learn before evolving, it can even stall the opposing team while it sets up.
The gen IV favorite is back, and it has the same tricks as usual – a frail yet elite mixed attacker with great Speed. Still a Fighting/Steel type, Lucario maintains its 3 weaknesses and 9 resistances. Lucario has its usual great setup moves with Calm Mind and Swords Dance, which distances it from other Fighting types in Paldea.
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Its big upside to others on this list is most of these moves are learned before level 50, meaning you can get up and running with Lucario far faster than other Fighting types here.
6Annihilape
Possibly the coolest new evolution of a pre-existing Pokémon in Scarlet and Violet, Primeape gains a new evolution with a Ghost subtype of all things. All of its stats see a boost with HP being the most notable at a +45. It learns both Cross Chop and Close Combat fairly early, both before level 40, but that’s just about it for its learned moves.
It doesn’t learn a single Ghost-type move natively, and the only decent physical Ghost attack it can learn through TM is Shadow Claw. If you were a huge Primeape fan, you should be plenty sated, but sadly Annihilape falls just a step or two short of being incredible.
