Fire Punch
Pokémon Champions
10% chance to burn the target.
- Power
- 75
- Accuracy
- 100%
- Hit chance
- PP
- 16 Scarlet & Violet: 15
- Cooldown
- Wind-up
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
- On Showdown
- 0.1% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Fire Punch changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 15 → 16 Buffed
- Gen IV
Became Physical (the physical/special split)
Numbers: PokéAPI’s changelog. Descriptions: Pokémon Showdown’s for each generation, PokéAPI’s notes where Showdown’s don’t differ. Champions: Pokémon Showdown.
See it in the games
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How it works in Champions
Has a 10% chance to burn the target.
“The target is attacked with a fiery punch. This may also leave the target with a burn.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Fire Punch, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
4
- Tough Claws×1.3
- Poison Touch30% to poison
- Iron Fist×1.2
Punching Glove×1.1, no contact- Sheer Force×1.3, loses the effect
- Serene Gracedoubles the chance
Blocks or weakens it
3
- Fluffytakes ½
- Aura Guardtakes ½
- Shield Dustblocks the effect
Covert Cloakblocks the effect
Punishes the user
12
- Rough Skintakes ⅛ back
- Iron Barbstakes ⅛ back
Rocky Helmettakes ⅙ back- Static30% paralysis
- Flame Body30% burn
- Poison Point30% poison
- Effect Spore30% poison, paralysis or sleep
- Cute Charm30% infatuation
- Gooey−1 Speed
- Tangling Hair−1 Speed
- Mummyreplaces its ability
- Lingering Aromareplaces its ability
- Wandering Spiritswaps abilities
- Perish Bodya 3-turn faint countdown for both
- Aftermathtakes ¼ if it knocks the holder out
- Pickpocketsteals its item
Sticky Barbcan stick to it
Changes how it works
4
- Long Reachno contact
Protective Padsno contact effects- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect
- Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Who runs Fire Punch on Showdown
Tyranitar6.0% of its sets
Mega Tyranitar1.4% of its sets
Conkeldurr24.1% of its sets
Rhyperior4.5% of its sets
Smogon · Showdown Champions VGC · Sep 2026: Smogon’s usage stats from Pokémon Showdown, not the in-game ladder.
On the ladder today
Ranked Doubles Pokémon with Fire Punch among their most used moves.
Who learns Fire Punch
70 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
Show all 70 in Champions
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