Real-time Pokémon battles, not turns

A Pokémon fighting game with action combat

Pokémon Fight is a free 3D Pokémon fan game with action combat instead of turn-based menus. You steer your Pokémon from a third-person camera: move with WASD, attack with the left mouse button, use its four moves with keys 1–4, dodge with Shift and guard with the right mouse button. Each move has a cooldown and costs SP, and one Pokémon battles on each side at a time. You can fight the game’s trainers in Story Mode or Battle Mode, or battle a friend online.

A Pokémon game where you control the Pokémon

Yes. In Pokémon Fight, a free fan-made 3D Pokémon game that runs in your browser, you steer your Pokémon in third person during battles: move with WASD, aim with the mouse, attack with left click, dodge with Shift, guard with the right mouse button, and use moves on cooldowns instead of taking turns. Outside battles you explore as the trainer and can ride, surf and fly on your Pokémon. It is an unofficial fan project and needs a Google sign-in.

Battle controls

Cooldowns, SP and timing

There are no turns to wait for. Every move has its own cooldown and an SP cost; the SP bar refills over time and with each basic hit that lands. Basic attacks cost nothing, and each species strikes at its own pace, faster for quick, light Pokémon and slower for heavy ones.

Damage follows the main series: the 18-type chart, same-type bonus, critical hits and stat changes all apply. A dodge is a short hop with a moment of invulnerability. Your first switch is available at once, then each side waits 60 seconds of fighting before switching again; a replacement after a faint is always allowed.

Beam clashes

When both Pokémon fire beam moves at each other, such as Flamethrower against Water Gun, the beams meet and lock. The meeting point drifts toward the weaker beam, and holding the left mouse button pushes yours at the cost of SP. Drive it into the foe and your move lands at full strength; if nobody wins within five seconds, both beams burst.

Speed, size and flight

How fast a Pokémon runs, turns and dodges follows its Speed stat, with its size and build making a smaller difference, so a Jolteon outpaces a Snorlax. Water types move better in water. Flying Pokémon take off with F, climb while you hold Space and sink with Ctrl or X. Stages matter as well: metal plates power up Electric and Steel moves, and water conducts electricity.

Where to battle

Battle Mode is separate from the journey: you don’t need to play Story Mode first, and it never changes your Story save. To explore and catch your own team instead, see the monster-catching guide.

• Story Mode: wild Pokémon, trainers on the routes, the eight Kanto Gyms, the Elite Four and the Champion, then the Orange League.
• Battle Mode against AI trainers: choose an opponent from the game’s trainers and Gym Leaders, build a team of up to six from all 152 at any level from 1 to 100, choose their moves and held items, pick a stage and set the trainer’s strategy to Easy, Normal or Hard. Trainers have their own playstyles, switch by the same rules and use a limited supply of items.
• Multiplayer: Battle Mode’s Human Trainer option makes an invite link for a friend. You draft teams in alternating 30-second turns, everyone fights at level 50 with no items, and the game keeps your wins, losses and draws, overall and against each friend.