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Pokémon types & type chart

Type quick-list About Pokémon types
NORMAL FIRE WATER ELECTRIC All Pokémon creatures and their moves are assigned certain types. Each type has
GRASS ICE FIGHTING POISON several strengths and weaknesses in both attack and defense. In battle, you should
use Pokémon and moves that have a type advantage over your opponent; doing so will
GROUND FLYING PSYCHIC BUG
cause much more damage than normal.
ROCK GHOST DRAGON DARK
A single-type advantage (for instance a Water attack against a Ground-type Pokémon)
STEEL FAIRY
will net you double normal damage. The advantages also ‘stack up’, so a double-type
advantage (for instance a Water attack against a Ground/Rock-type Pokémon) will net
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effective!’ in-game after the attack.
› Dual type charts
› Previous type charts Conversely, a single- and double-type disadvantage will afflict half and a quarter
normal damage respectively. Here you will see the message ‘It's not very effective...’ in-
› Unused type combinations
game.

Another advantage you can gain is Same Type Attack Bonus (STAB). As the name
implies, this increases the power of the move if the attacking Pokémon has the same
type as the move used (for example a Fire-type Pokémon using a Fire-type move). In
this case the damage is 1.5 times normal. Again this is added to any other advantages,
so a Water-type Pokémon using a Water-type move against a Ground/Rock-type
Pokémon will bag you six times (2×2×1.5) normal damage!

Type chart
The full type chart here displays the strengths and weaknesses of each type. Look down the left hand side for the attacking type,
then move across to see how effective it is against each Pokémon type.

Note: this chart is for games from 2013 onwards - Pokémon X/Y, OR/AS, Pokémon GO and Sun/Moon. Type charts for older games have some minor
differences - see below.

Chart key
0 No effect (0%)

½ Not very effective (50%)

Normal (100%)

2 Super-effective (200%)

Downloads
You can download the type chart as an image to print out and keep handy as you are playing and battling!

Gen 6+ type chart image

DEFENSE →
ATTACK NOR FIR WAT ELE GRA ICE FIG POI GRO FLY PSY BUG ROC GHO DRA DAR STE FAI

NORMAL ½ 0 ½

FIRE ½ ½ 2 2 2 ½ ½ 2

WATER 2 ½ ½ 2 2 ½

ELECTRIC 2 ½ ½ 0 2 ½

GRASS ½ 2 ½ ½ 2 ½ ½ 2 ½ ½

ICE ½ ½ 2 ½ 2 2 2 ½

FIGHTING 2 2 ½ ½ ½ ½ 2 0 2 2 ½

POISON 2 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 2

GROUND 2 2 ½ 2 0 ½ 2 2

FLYING ½ 2 2 2 ½ ½

PSYCHIC 2 2 ½ 0 ½

BUG ½ 2 ½ ½ ½ 2 ½ 2 ½ ½

ROCK 2 2 ½ ½ 2 2 ½

GHOST 0 2 2 ½

DRAGON 2 ½ 0

DARK ½ 2 2 ½ ½

STEEL ½ ½ ½ 2 2 ½ 2

FAIRY ½ 2 ½ 2 2 ½

Type chart changes

The majority of the type chart has remained the same over the years, but there have been a few changes. In Generation 2, Dark and
Steel types were added, while in Generation 6 (Pokémon X and Pokémon Y) the Fairy type was added. Below are the differences
compared to the current type chart. The charts can be seen on the Old Type Charts page.

Generation 2-5
There was no Fairy type.
Ghost and Dark type moves were not very effective against Steel type Pokémon. From Generation 6 they do neutral damage.

Generation 1
There were no Dark or Steel types.
Ghost-type moves had no effect on Psychic Pokémon. (Note that this only affected Lick as Confuse Ray and Night Shade
affected all Pokémon equally.)
This was supposedly a mistake in the programming: several game guides stated that Ghost was super-effective on Psychic, and an in-game trainer
at Saffron City says that ‘Psychic Pokémon fear only ghosts and bugs!’ It was corrected in Generation 2 when Ghost became super-effective against
Psychic.
Bug was super-effective on Poison and vice-versa. This was changed so that Bug is now not very effective against Poison, and
Poison now does regular damage against Bug.
Ice type moves were neutral against Fire type Pokémon. Now they are not very effective.

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