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
- Primape
- Toxicroak
- Chesnaught
- Falinks
- Great Tusk
- G. Zapdos
- Mienshao
- Poliwrath
- Scrafty
Tropes related to Pokemon Close Combat
- 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 Tyrouge.
- Bridge City has Kangaskan, 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 represneting Gigantimax Alcremie, Bellibolt, Clodsire, Electrode, Gothia, Hoothoot, Lediba, 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 Primape and Failinks don't have any elemental powers like Blaziken or Poliwrath, but are certianly 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.
