Only one Fighting-Type to rule them all.
"Choose your Pokemon!''
Pokemon: Close Combat is a fan-made Pokemon Fighting Game that's free to download. In this game, players pick a Fighting-Type Pokemon and battle it out against each other. It developed by BattleCapacity was released in February 2023 and is still being updated to this day, with new characters.The developer has a YouTube
and Twitter/X, and there's also a community Discord here.
The base playable roster has:
- Bewear
- Blaziken
- Heracross
- Primeape
- Toxicroak
- Chesnaught
- Falinks
- Great Tusk
- G. Zapdos
- Mienshao
- Poliwrath
- Scrafty
Also see Battle CAPacity, an earlier fighting fangame made by the same creator, featuring fan-made Pokemon from the Create-a-Pokémon Project.
This show provides examples of:
- The Cameo: Several Pokemon who don't make a playable appearance make cameos in the stage background.
- Ruins has Gogoat, Golurk, Mothim, and Wooloo.
- Levelup Cave has Morelull and Tyrogue.
- Bridge City has Kangaskhan, Koffing, Rampardos, Revavroom, and Varoom.
- Ziggurat has Koraidon.
- Dust Town has Dugtrio, Ludicolo, Mandibuzz, Scraggy, Silicobra, and Vullaby.
- Flamigo also appears as a prop.
- While Play Room does not have Pokemon, it has toys representing Gigantamax Alcremie, Bellibolt, Clodsire, Electrode, Gothita, Hoothoot, Ledyba, Lopunny, Lotad, Magnezone, Munna, Pikachu, Galarian Ponyta, Psyduck, Rhydon, Snorlax, Stufful, and Swanna.
- Machop appears on the title screen.
- Hitmonchan and Urshifu appear on the Solo Menu Screen.
- Badass Normal: Characters like Primeape and Falinks don't have any elemental powers like Blaziken or Poliwrath, but are certainly capable on holding their own.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only character that is confirmed to be female is Heracross, as seen with her horn.
- SNK Boss: Gorochu is the secret Final Boss of The Path, where you have to go through every round without getting a game over.
