Fire type
Pokémon.
The aggressive STAB option — high offense, weather-dependent.
Fire stats
What defines the Fire type
Fire is the prototypical offensive type. Almost every Fire Pokémon hits hard from the special side (Charizard, Volcarona, Heatran, Chandelure, Houndoom) and Fire-type moves rarely have low base power. Defensively the type is mediocre — Fire-types take neutral damage from most attackers and have only three resistances (Fire, Grass, Ice, plus Bug and Steel and Fairy added across gens). Sun teams revolve around Fire: under Sunny Day or Drought, Fire moves deal 1.5× damage, while Solar Beam stops needing its charge turn. The Solar Power ability on Charizard turns him into a Choice Specs-equivalent without the lock-in. The biggest historical Fire threat is the Volcarona / Heatran / Charizard core: hazard control + setup + nuke.
Best Fire-type Pokémon
Top 12 by Base Stat Total across all generations
Ho Oh
Reshiram
Heatran
Victini
Volcanion
Gouging Fire
Moltres
Entei
Blacephalon
Iron Moth
Chi Yu
Arcanine
Fire offensive analysis
Fire hits Grass, Ice, Bug, and Steel super-effective — that's a 4-type spread including Steel, the best defensive type in the game. Fire/Ground (Heatran's offensive twin with Earth Power), Fire/Fighting (Blaziken's Flare Blitz + Close Combat), and Fire/Dragon (Reshiram's Fusion Flare) are unkillable offensive cores. Choice Specs Fire Blast hits 405% effective damage on a sun team (1.5× STAB × 1.5× sun × 1.5× Specs = 3.375×).
What Fire attacks hit super-effective
What resists Fire attacks
Strongest Fire moves
Top 12 attacking moves by base power (Gen 9)
| Move | Cat | BP | Acc | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blast Burn | special | 150 | 90 | The target is razed by a fiery explosion. The user can't move on the next turn. |
| Overheat | special | 130 | 90 | The user attacks the target with all its might. The recoil from this move harshl… |
| Armor Cannon | special | 120 | 100 | The user shoots its own armor out as blazing projectiles. This also lowers the u… |
| Flare Blitz | physical | 120 | 100 | The user cloaks itself in fire and charges the target to inflict damage. This al… |
| Fire Blast | special | 110 | 85 | The target is attacked with an intense blast of all- consuming fire. This may al… |
| Inferno | special | 100 | 50 | The user attacks by engulfing the target in an intense fire. This leaves the tar… |
| Heat Wave | special | 95 | 90 | The user attacks by exhaling hot breath on opposing Pok�mon. This may also leave… |
| Bitter Blade | physical | 90 | 100 | The user focuses its bitter feelings toward the world of the living into a slash… |
| Flamethrower | special | 90 | 100 | The target is scorched with an intense blast of fire. This may also leave the ta… |
| Fiery Dance | special | 80 | 100 | Cloaked in flames, the user attacks the target by dancing and flapping its wings… |
| Fire Pledge | special | 80 | 100 | A column of fire hits the target. When used with its grass counterpart, this mov… |
| Lava Plume | special | 80 | 100 | The user torches everything around it in an inferno of scarlet flames. This may … |
Fire defensive analysis
Fire takes 2× from Water, Ground, and Rock — three of the most common offensive types in the game. Stealth Rock especially punishes mono-Fire types like Volcarona and Charizard for 50% on switch-in (4× weak). Heavy-Duty Boots is mandatory equipment for any Fire-type wanting to enter the battle more than once. The flip side: Fire is immune to burn (the most-used physical-attacker-debuff status in the meta) and resists 5 types when you count Fairy and Steel.
Fire's weaknesses, resistances, and immunities
Weak to (2×)
Resists (½×)
Best Fire dual-type combos
Fire / Flying
Examples: Charizard, Talonflame, Moltres
Gale Wings priority on Charizard / immunity to Ground / can run Acrobatics
Fire / Steel
Examples: Heatran
9 resistances + Steel STAB on Iron Head; Earth Power for coverage
Fire / Ghost
Examples: Skeledirge, Chandelure
Norm/Fighting immunity + Ghost STAB pierces walls
Fire / Dragon
Examples: Reshiram, Charizard X Mega
Dragon STAB hits the Dragons that resist Fire
Fire type history & meta shifts
Fire didn't change much across generations — it gained Steel weakness in Gen 2 (just a typing addition, not a chart change), then Fairy resistance in Gen 6. The biggest meta-shift was Drought + Solar Power Charizard in Gen 5 (DPP through BW), which became one of the strongest offensive cores in the game's history. Sun got nerfed in Gen 6 (weather no longer permanent) but Walking Wake in Gen 9 brought it back via Hydro Steam.
Vibe in one line
Aggressive, weather-dependent, the offensive starter type.