Some Fighting-type Pokémon are represented by looking like fighters ( Machamp looks like a bodybuilder and Crabrawler looks like a French-wrestler) while other are represented by being based on a certain type of fighting style ( Hitmontop is based on capoeira fighting and Gallade is based on sword-fighting). Most Fighting-type Pokémon have a human-like body shape because they represent practitioners of various martial arts, which tend to be real-world humans. In particular, every Fighting-type attack introduced before Generation IV remained a physical attack, with special Fighting attacks only being introduced from Generation IV onwards. It could be said that they're the opposite to Psychic-type Pokémon because while Pokémon of that type depend primarily on special attacks, Pokémon of the Fighting type depend mostly on physical attacks.

Pokémon of this type are specialists in melee attacks, such as punches and kicks. The Fighting type (かくとうタイプ, Kakutou taipu) is one of the eighteen Pokémon elemental types.

Fighting type weakness