Arcanine

Arcanine has 555 total base stats, with its best attacking stat on the physical side (110) and a Speed of 95. Its HP, Defense and Special Defense add up to 250, which makes it a balanced physical attacker.

Build a team with Arcanine

What Arcanine is weak to

Weak to: Water, Ground, Rock. Resists: Fire, Grass, Ice, Bug, Steel, Fairy. Immune to: none.

Base stats

Best teammates for Arcanine

Ranked by how much each Pokémon improves a two-Pokémon team with Arcanine: covering its weaknesses, adding attack types it lacks, and avoiding shared weaknesses.

1. Tinkaton FairySteel

   Resists rock, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, rock, dragon super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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2. Klefki SteelFairy

   Resists rock, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, rock, dragon super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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3. Mawile SteelFairy

   Resists rock, which your team is weak to. Hits fighting, rock, dragon super effectively, a gap in your coverage. Adds a shared weakness to ground.

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4. Primarina WaterFairy

   Resists water, which your team is weak to. Hits fire, fighting, ground super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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5. Azumarill WaterFairy

   Resists water, which your team is weak to. Hits fire, fighting, ground super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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6. Scizor BugSteel

   Hits psychic, rock, dark super effectively, a gap in your coverage.

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Counters to Arcanine

1. Rhyperior

   Ground and Rock STAB hits Arcanine super effectively and it resists everything Arcanine can hit it with by type.

2. Kabutops

   Rock and Water STAB hits Arcanine super effectively and it resists everything Arcanine can hit it with by type.

3. Drednaw

   Water and Rock STAB hits Arcanine super effectively and it resists everything Arcanine can hit it with by type.

4. Golem

   Rock and Ground STAB hits Arcanine super effectively and it resists everything Arcanine can hit it with by type.

5. Omastar

   Rock and Water STAB hits Arcanine super effectively and it resists everything Arcanine can hit it with by type.

6. Swampert

   Water and Ground STAB hits Arcanine super effectively and it resists everything Arcanine can hit it with by type.

Where you can use Arcanine

Arcanine is in the regional Pokédex of 6 games we cover: