Charmeleon

No. 0005 · Gen 1

Charmeleon weakness and type

Hit CHARMELEON with Water, Ground and Rock for 2× damage.

Moves against Charmeleon

2×Super effective
½×Not very effective

In Pokémon GO: Water deals 1.6× instead of 2×. GO chart

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Abilities

  • BlazeNo change to type matchups
  • Solar PowerNo change to type matchups

Base stats

  • HP58
  • Attack64
  • Defense58
  • Sp. Atk80
  • Sp. Def65
  • Speed80
  • Total405

Best nature

ModestHits harder and drops Attack, which it won’t use.
TimidOutspeeds more opponents and drops Attack.

Worked out from base stats. Your team may need something else.

Defeating Charmeleon gives 1 Sp. Atk EV, 1 Speed EV.

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How Charmeleon evolves

CharmanderFire
All evolutions

What Charmeleon can hit with

The strongest attacking move it can learn in each type, across all games. Not every game has every move. Same-type moves get a 1.5× bonus.

TypeMoveKindPower
FightingFocus PunchPhysical150
NormalSkull BashPhysical130
FireOverheatsame typeSpecial130
DragonOutragePhysical120
SteelIron TailPhysical100
DarkCrunchPhysical80
GroundDigPhysical80
ElectricThunder PunchPhysical75
RockRock SlidePhysical75
GhostShadow ClawPhysical70
FlyingAerial AcePhysical60
BugFury CutterPhysical40

Type counters to Charmeleon

Regular Pokémon whose same-type moves hit it hard and who take little from its same-type moves. Picked from types and base stats only, not movesets.