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title: "Fire Type Weaknesses: Water, Ground and Rock (Full Chart) | pokee.si"
url: "https://pokee.si/articles/fire-type-weaknesses"
description: "Fire types are weak to Water, Ground and Rock, 2× each. See what Fire resists, every dual-type combo, the 4× cases and the Abilities that block Fire."
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# Fire Type Weaknesses: Water, Ground and Rock (Full Chart)

Fire types are weak to Water, Ground and Rock moves, which do 2× damage to a pure Fire Pokémon. Fire is not weak to Ice or Fighting. It resists Fire, Grass, Ice, Bug, Steel and Fairy.

Our counts are species from the pokee.si Pokédex: 81 Fire species, 36 of them pure Fire.

## What pure Fire resists

A pure Fire Pokémon takes half damage from Fire, Grass, Ice, Bug, Steel and Fairy moves. It has no immunities. Water, Ground and Rock do 2×, and everything else does normal damage.

In Generation I only, Fire types took normal damage from Ice moves. After that Ice has always been resisted. From Generation III, Fire types also cannot be burned at all.

Fire was the last type to get a Fire/Water Pokémon: Volcanion in Generation VI. Weather matters too. Harsh sunlight makes Fire moves 50% stronger and rain makes them 50% weaker, so rain is bad news for a Fire type twice over.

## How the second type changes it

A second type is multiplied with Fire's matchups. Shared weaknesses become 4×, and a partner that resists Water, Ground or Rock cancels the weakness out. The three damage columns show Water, Ground and Rock in that order.

| Second type | Weak to | Water / Ground / Rock damage | Species | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Normal/Fire](https://pokee.si/types/normal-fire) | Water, Fighting, Ground, Rock | 2× / 2× / 2× | 2 | [Litleo](https://pokee.si/pokemon/litleo) |
| [Fire/Water](https://pokee.si/types/fire-water) | Electric, Ground, Rock | 1× / 2× / 2× | 1 | [Volcanion](https://pokee.si/pokemon/volcanion) |
| [Fire/Electric](https://pokee.si/types/fire-electric) | Ground (4×), Water, Rock | 2× / 4× / 2× | 0 | [Heat Rotom](https://pokee.si/pokemon/rotom?form=rotom-heat) (form) |
| [Fire/Grass](https://pokee.si/types/fire-grass) | Poison, Flying, Rock | 1× / 1× / 2× | 1 | [Scovillain](https://pokee.si/pokemon/scovillain) |
| [Fire/Ice](https://pokee.si/types/fire-ice) | Rock (4×), Water, Fighting, Ground | 2× / 2× / 4× | 0 | [Zen Galarian Darmanitan](https://pokee.si/pokemon/darmanitan?form=darmanitan-galar-zen) (form) |
| [Fire/Fighting](https://pokee.si/types/fire-fighting) | Water, Ground, Flying, Psychic | 2× / 2× / 1× | 6 | [Combusken](https://pokee.si/pokemon/combusken) |
| [Fire/Poison](https://pokee.si/types/fire-poison) | Ground (4×), Water, Psychic, Rock | 2× / 4× / 2× | 3 | [Salandit](https://pokee.si/pokemon/salandit) |
| [Fire/Ground](https://pokee.si/types/fire-ground) | Water (4×), Ground | 4× / 2× / 1× | 2 | [Numel](https://pokee.si/pokemon/numel) |
| [Fire/Flying](https://pokee.si/types/fire-flying) | Rock (4×), Water, Electric | 2× / 0× / 4× | 6 | [Charizard](https://pokee.si/pokemon/charizard) |
| [Fire/Psychic](https://pokee.si/types/fire-psychic) | Water, Ground, Rock, Ghost, Dark | 2× / 2× / 2× | 3 | [Victini](https://pokee.si/pokemon/victini) |
| [Fire/Bug](https://pokee.si/types/fire-bug) | Rock (4×), Water, Flying | 2× / 1× / 4× | 4 | [Larvesta](https://pokee.si/pokemon/larvesta) |
| [Fire/Rock](https://pokee.si/types/fire-rock) | Water (4×), Ground (4×), Fighting, Rock | 4× / 4× / 2× | 3 | [Magcargo](https://pokee.si/pokemon/magcargo) |
| [Fire/Ghost](https://pokee.si/types/fire-ghost) | Water, Ground, Rock, Ghost, Dark | 2× / 2× / 2× | 6 | [Litwick](https://pokee.si/pokemon/litwick) |
| [Fire/Dragon](https://pokee.si/types/fire-dragon) | Ground, Rock, Dragon | 1× / 2× / 2× | 3 | [Reshiram](https://pokee.si/pokemon/reshiram) |
| [Fire/Dark](https://pokee.si/types/fire-dark) | Water, Fighting, Ground, Rock | 2× / 2× / 2× | 4 | [Houndour](https://pokee.si/pokemon/houndour) |
| [Fire/Steel](https://pokee.si/types/fire-steel) | Ground (4×), Water, Fighting | 2× / 4× / 1× | 1 | [Heatran](https://pokee.si/pokemon/heatran) |
| Fire/Fairy | Water, Poison, Ground, Rock | 2× / 2× / 2× | 0 | none |

Fire/Rock is the worst pairing, 4× weak to both Water and Ground. Fire/Flying takes 4× from Rock, as Charizard does, but its Flying half makes it immune to Ground. Fire/Grass, Fire/Dragon and Fire/Water each cancel at least one of the three. A "(form)" label means no species has that pair, but a form does. The multiplying is shown in [dual-type weaknesses explained](https://pokee.si/articles/dual-type-weaknesses-explained).

## Fire types with a 4× weakness

Of the 81 Fire species, 19 take 4× from at least one type.

| 4× weak to | Count | Fire Pokémon |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Rock](https://pokee.si/types/rock) | 10 | [Charizard](https://pokee.si/pokemon/charizard), [Moltres](https://pokee.si/pokemon/moltres), [Ho-Oh](https://pokee.si/pokemon/ho-oh), [Larvesta](https://pokee.si/pokemon/larvesta), [Volcarona](https://pokee.si/pokemon/volcarona), [Fletchinder](https://pokee.si/pokemon/fletchinder), [Talonflame](https://pokee.si/pokemon/talonflame), [Oricorio](https://pokee.si/pokemon/oricorio), [Sizzlipede](https://pokee.si/pokemon/sizzlipede), [Centiskorch](https://pokee.si/pokemon/centiskorch) |
| [Water](https://pokee.si/types/water) | 5 | [Magcargo](https://pokee.si/pokemon/magcargo), [Numel](https://pokee.si/pokemon/numel), [Camerupt](https://pokee.si/pokemon/camerupt), [Carkol](https://pokee.si/pokemon/carkol), [Coalossal](https://pokee.si/pokemon/coalossal) |
| [Ground](https://pokee.si/types/ground) | 7 | [Magcargo](https://pokee.si/pokemon/magcargo), [Heatran](https://pokee.si/pokemon/heatran), [Salandit](https://pokee.si/pokemon/salandit), [Salazzle](https://pokee.si/pokemon/salazzle), [Carkol](https://pokee.si/pokemon/carkol), [Coalossal](https://pokee.si/pokemon/coalossal), [Iron Moth](https://pokee.si/pokemon/iron-moth) |

Magcargo, Carkol and Coalossal appear twice because they are 4× weak to two types. For every 4× weakness across the game, see [Pokémon with 4× weaknesses](https://pokee.si/articles/pokemon-with-4x-weaknesses).

## Which Fire types escape each weakness

- Water: 5 Fire species are not weak to it, through Fire/Dragon, Fire/Water and Fire/Grass.
- Ground: 11 are not weak to it, through Fire/Flying, Fire/Bug and Fire/Grass.
- Rock: 9 are not weak to it, through Fire/Fighting, Fire/Ground and Fire/Steel.

## Abilities that block a weakness

| Weakness | Ability that blocks it | Fire species that can have it | Examples |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Water](https://pokee.si/types/water) | [Water Absorb](https://pokee.si/abilities/water-absorb) | 1 | [Volcanion](https://pokee.si/pokemon/volcanion) |

Almost no Fire type can shrug off its own weaknesses. Abilities do matter the other way round, though, for any Pokémon that gets hit by Fire. [Flash Fire](https://pokee.si/abilities/flash-fire) makes a Pokémon immune to Fire moves, and once hit its own Fire moves do 50% more damage. [Well-Baked Body](https://pokee.si/abilities/well-baked-body) also gives immunity to Fire moves. [Thick Fat](https://pokee.si/abilities/thick-fat), [Heatproof](https://pokee.si/abilities/heatproof) and [Water Bubble](https://pokee.si/abilities/water-bubble) halve Fire damage. [Fluffy](https://pokee.si/abilities/fluffy) is the trap: it halves contact moves but doubles damage from Fire moves.

## The best moves against Fire types

These are moves many Pokémon learn, based on the learner counts in our data.

| Super effective type | Moves many Pokémon learn (power) |
| --- | --- |
| [Water](https://pokee.si/types/water) | [Surf](https://pokee.si/moves/surf) (90), [Water Pulse](https://pokee.si/moves/water-pulse) (60), [Hydro Pump](https://pokee.si/moves/hydro-pump) (110), [Liquidation](https://pokee.si/moves/liquidation) (85) |
| [Ground](https://pokee.si/types/ground) | [Dig](https://pokee.si/moves/dig) (80), [Bulldoze](https://pokee.si/moves/bulldoze) (60), [Earthquake](https://pokee.si/moves/earthquake) (100), [Stomping Tantrum](https://pokee.si/moves/stomping-tantrum) (75) |
| [Rock](https://pokee.si/types/rock) | [Rock Tomb](https://pokee.si/moves/rock-tomb) (60), [Rock Slide](https://pokee.si/moves/rock-slide) (75), [Stone Edge](https://pokee.si/moves/stone-edge) (100), [Ancient Power](https://pokee.si/moves/ancient-power) (60) |

Rock does 4× to the Fire/Flying types (Charizard, Talonflame, Moltres, Ho-Oh), while Earthquake does nothing to them.

## What Fire is good against

Fire moves are super effective on Bug, Grass, Ice and Steel. They are not very effective on Fire, Water, Rock and Dragon, and no type is immune to them.

## The strongest Fire types

By base stat total, Ho-Oh (Fire/Flying) and Reshiram (Dragon/Fire) lead at 680. Heatran, Victini and Volcanion follow at 600, then Gouging Fire at 590. The most common Fire typings are pure Fire (36 species), then Fire/Flying, Fire/Fighting and Fire/Ghost (6 each). Fire starters are covered in [starter Pokémon by type](https://pokee.si/articles/starter-pokemon-by-type), and [Charizard vs Blastoise](https://pokee.si/vs/charizard-vs-blastoise), [Vaporeon vs Flareon](https://pokee.si/vs/vaporeon-vs-flareon) and [Entei vs Suicune](https://pokee.si/vs/entei-vs-suicune) compare Fire against Water directly.

## Practise the chart

The [types lesson](https://pokee.si/lessons/types-101) covers the basics. [Type Clash](https://pokee.si/games/type-clash) and [Type Master](https://pokee.si/games/type-master) test how fast you can call a matchup, and the [types quiz pack](https://pokee.si/quizzes/types) has more questions. A printable type chart PDF is on the [printables page](https://pokee.si/printables), and the [Fire type page](https://pokee.si/types/fire) lists every Fire Pokémon.

## Questions people ask

### What are Fire types weak to?

Water, Ground and Rock. Each does 2× damage to a pure Fire type. Fire is not weak to Ice or Fighting, and it resists Ice, Grass, Bug, Steel, Fairy and Fire.

### Is Fire weak to Ice?

No. Fire resists Ice moves. In Generation I only, Fire types took normal damage from Ice, but every game since has had them resist it.

### What does Fire resist?

Fire, Grass, Ice, Bug, Steel and Fairy. A pure Fire type takes half damage from each of those, and has no full immunities.

### Can Fire types be burned?

No. From Generation III, Fire types cannot be burned at all.

### Which Fire Pokémon have a 4× weakness?

In our data 19 Fire species do. 10 are 4× weak to Rock, 7 to Ground and 5 to Water, depending on their second type.

## Sources

- [Bulbapedia: Fire (type)](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Fire_(type))
- [Bulbapedia: Flash Fire (Ability)](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Flash_Fire_(Ability))
- [Bulbapedia: Type](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Type)

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