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!!Dark-Type / Evil-Type (あくタイプ ''aku taipu'')
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One of two types introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''. In the original Japanese, they are known as the ''Aku'' type, which translates into "Evil" or "Scum", though how true of a descriptor that is varies on the Pokémon. Regardless, they usually have a very intimidating or even a brutal presence or are based on doom, trickery, crime, destruction, and below-the-belt fighting tactics.

They are largely a group of pragmatists, both [[CombatPragmatist tactically]] and otherwise. They can be found almost everywhere, as they are not united by an element of nature, but by the consistent traits of pragmatism and brutality. They are immune to Psychics and will wreck Ghost-types, but are weak against Fighting-types, Bug-types, and Fairy-types. As of Generation VII, they're immune to an opponent's status moves that get ActionInitiative from Prankster.

%%Offensively: x2 Psychic, x2 Ghost, x1/2 Fighting, x1/2 Steel (Gen II-VI), x1/2 Dark, x1/2 Fairy
%%Defensively: x1/2 Ghost, x1/2 Dark, x0 Psychic, x2 Fighting, x2 Bug, x2 Fairy
%%Known Specialists: Karen in ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''; Sydney in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Grimsley in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Nanu in ''Sun and Moon''; Piers in ''Sword and Shield''
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* ActionInitiative:
** Sucker Punch was, until gen 7 (in which its power was reduced to 70), tied with Extreme Speed as the most powerful Priority Attack in the game ([[ElementalRockPaperScissors with Super Effective coverage, to boot!]]), but only works if the opponent uses a damaging move the same turn.
** Pursuit strikes first when the opponent tries to switch, gaining the highest Priority value in the game in this situation.
** Quash causes the target to always go last, but will only succeed if the user goes before the target.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack:
** Feint Attack is described as the user approaching disarmingly, then throwing a sucker punch (not to be confused with another Dark-type move of the same name) when the target doesn't expect it. With no chance to react or dodge, the attack ignores Accuracy and Evasion effects.
** Likewise, False Surrender is described as the user bowing their head in submission to let the opponent's guard down, then using their hair to stab the opponent.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Zig-Zagged, despite the Japanese name implying they are a group of {{Card Carrying Villain}}s. It really depends on the species in question. Some, like [[SealedEvilInACan Spiritomb]] and [[TheHypnotoad Malamar]], are just as evil as the typing describes. Others, like [[HeroWithBadPublicity Absol]] and [[BullyHunter Pangoro]], are downright ''noble'' in comparison, while some, like [[{{Ninja}} Greninja]], represent pragmatic tactics and sneakiness more than blatant villainy (and the same can be said of their attacks in general). There are also more aggressive and predatory Dark-types like Mega Gyarados, Tyranitar, Hydreigon, and Krookodile. Even Incineroar, the closest thing to a Pokémon directly based on a villain archetype, [[{{Kayfabe}} plays up its jerkassery]] as part of its {{Heel}} motif.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Fling during the story mode of the games. Using Fling consumes the item that the user was holding, and the only items that have above average power are either impossible to get before the post-game or hard/expensive to reacquire due to their rarity (or in some cases, only 1 of that item exists per save file). In PlayerVersusPlayer matches and the battle facilities like the Battle Tower. it's less of an issue, as consumed items are given back after each match, but [[ItOnlyWorksOnce you can still only use it once per match]].
** Using Fling with an Iron Ball gives it a Power of 130 with no accuracy downside. However, holding an Iron Ball cuts the user's Speed in half and negates any Ground immunity they might have (which also makes them susceptible to Spikes, Toxic Spikes, and Sticky Web). All for a move that's [[ItOnlyWorksOnce single-use]], unless the user also knows Recycle.
** Power Trip increases in power the more status buffs the user has, but getting to that point takes a long time, and it starts out with a measly base power of 20.
* BalanceBuff: Most Dark-types have higher Attack than Special Attack, but previously all Dark-type attacks were classified as Special moves. Gen IV's move split gave them physical Dark moves to put their best stats to proper use.
* TheBrute: When they're not {{Combat Pragmatist}}s, they tend to be this, with Tyranitar and Guzzlord being prime examples.
* CardCarryingVillain: Subverted. While they're literally called the Evil-type in Japan, they aren't actually evil for the most part, just [[CombatPragmatist pragmatic]] or {{Jerkass}}es.
* CastingAShadow:
** Downplayed, contrary to their English name. They mostly focus on [[CombatPragmatist pragmatic]] tactics and characterization, with only 3 moves — two of which are {{Secret Art}}s of specific species — involving any sort of darkness-controlling prowess.
** The Dark-type Z-Move also falls into this more than it does pragmatism, as it takes the form of a black hole that consumes the opponent.
* ColorCodedElements: The Dark-type icon is a very dark, grayish brown.
* CombatPragmatist: This is their gimmick, not dark powers; Dark-types rely on trickery, sneakiness, and general dirty fighting to win. Their moves involve taunting the opponent to make them angry or confuse them, using a WoundedGazelleGambit to attack when the opponent isn't ready, literal {{Back Stab}}bing, [[ManBitesMan biting the enemy]], [[ImpromptuTracheotomy chopping them in the throat]] to prevent them from making any noise, [[ISurrenderSuckers feigning surrender to get a cheap shot]], and manipulating the enemy's held item. Generation VI's Greninja is a very good example, in that its Dark typing simply comes from its being a {{Ninja}} and using sneaky techniques rather than using dark powers or having a vicious/cruel nature. Incineroar is based on a heel wrestler and fights dirty in any way possible, but any wickedness is subverted in that it actually is [[{{Kayfabe}} all just the act of a performer]].
* CombinationAttack: Beat Up is an attack where the Pokémon calls on the player's entire team [[note]]K.O.'d and Pokémon with a status ailment sit out.[[/note]] to gang up on the opposing Pokémon. When it was first introduced, the game would roll call the team as they made their attack.
* DarkIsEvil: Zigzagged. It's called the ''Evil''-type in Japanese versions and, in general, Dark-types aren't nice guys (there are exceptions, such as [[BearerOfBadNews Absol]]); however, see below.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The type can be translated as "Evil" in Japanese, but many of them are portrayed as simply being misunderstood, or enjoying harmless mischief; Greninja, one of the most famous Dark-types, is neither, as it's usually depicted as a heroic CombatPragmatist ninja. Incineroar, meanwhile, [[{{Kayfabe}} plays up its jerkassery]] as part of its {{Heel}} motif. This plays into how the type name in Japanese, "Aku", has more nuanced meanings than just plain "evil."
* DoubleTap: Assurance deals double damage if the target has already been hurt during the same turn. Its Japanese name translates to "Make Sure," which, given the Dark-type preference for underhanded tactics, implies that the doubled damage comes from hitting the target exactly where they were hit the first time.
* TheDragAlong: There's a small subset of Pokémon that begin with 35 base friendship rather than 70 when you capture them in the wild — in other words, they're significantly less happy to join up with you than ordinary Pokémon (though you'll still win them over through dedication and care). Dark- and Ghost-types jointly make up a major chunk of this group.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors
** Offense
*** Strong: Ghost, Psychic
*** Weak: Dark, Fairy, Fighting, Steel (Gen II-V)
** Defense
*** Strong: Dark, Ghost
*** Weak: Bug, Fairy, Fighting
*** Immune: Psychic
* EvilMakesYouUgly: In contrast to their Fairy-type foils, Dark-types aren't exactly pretty-looking, perhaps to add to their intimidating appearance. Quite a few Dark-Types in particular possess the [[FaceOfAThug Intimidate]] ability, which lowers the attack of the opponent when they enter battle.
* EvilWearsBlack: Well, they are the Evil-type in Japanese, and most of them are black in color.
* GameBreakingBug:
** In ''Platinum, [=HeartGold, and SoulSilver=]'', if Pursuit [=KOed=] a Pokémon that switched out while certain battle conditions were in effect, a [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Acid_rain bizarre glitch]] occurred that caused ''all weather to take effect at once.'' This also caused every Pokémon except Swinub, Piloswine, and Mamoswine[[note]]as Ice/Ground dual-types, they were immune to all weather damage, something no other Pokémon could claim in Generation IV[[/note]] to take damage at the end of every turn four times, with the damage apparently caused by their Ability. Bothersome enough, but if Cherrim or Castform was sent into battle, they kept switching between forms indefinitely until the game was turned off.
** Early in the life of ''Sun and Moon'', the moves Parting Shot and Memento could cause crashes on Battle Spot if the Z-Move versions of them were used. These moves were temporarily banned until some time after the issue was fixed.
* GlassCannon: Somewhere between this and {{Fragile Speedster}}s, as they are good at "sweeping" teams, but rarely have good defense, with a few {{Mighty Glacier}}s (most famously Tyranitar) and {{Stone Wall}}s in there.
* HealingShiv: Using Fling with a Mental Herb or White Herb will cure the target of [[DistractedByTheSexy infatuation]] and stat debuffs, respectively. You can also fling Berries to apply their restorative effects. The Z-move variations of Memento and Parting Shot will heal the next Pokémon swapped in.
* HerdHittingAttack: The user of Brutal Swing swings its body violently around the field, hitting all adjacent Pokémon.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Foul Play uses the target's attack stat (and any boosts they have) to deal damage, while Punishment does more damage the more {{Status Buff}}s the target has.
* ImpossibleThief: Snatch can steal ''opponents' {{Status Buff}}s and healing'', but only if used on the same turn the opponent buffs/heals themselves.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Throat Chop deals pretty heavy damage for a Dark-type move and prevents the opponent from using sound-based attacks for 2 turns.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Fling has the user throw their currently held item at the foe to deal damage (and possibly inflict a secondary effect depending on the item). Flinging an Iron Ball has the highest Power of all Dark-Type attacks (130), but ItOnlyWorksOnce as the item is lost after that, unless you also know the move Recycle (and alternating Fling and Recycle is [[CoolButInefficient about as practical as Hyper Beam]]).
* IShallTauntYou: Almost all moves that could be classified as {{Practical Taunt}}s (i.e. Taunt, Torment, and Flatter) are of the Dark type. (Swagger is the exception — it's a Normal-type move.)
* ISurrenderSuckers: False Surrender is a move where the user pretends to bow its head in surrender, then stabs the enemy with their PrehensileHair.
* {{Jerkass}}: [[DarkIsEvil Evil]] or [[DarkIsNotEvil not]], practically every member of this type is a jerk in some fashion or another.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Some of them fit this too. Umbreon evolves with high friendship, Pangoro [[BullyHunter hunts down and fights bullies]], and Absol goes out of its way to warn people of disasters. Incineroar is based on a [[{{Heel}} Heel Wrestler]] and fights dirty in any way possible in the ring, [[{{Kayfabe}} but it's all part of the act]] and it actually [[FriendToAllChildren enjoys admiration from children]].
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Assurance will do double damage if the target was hurt earlier in the turn. This includes recoil and entry hazard damage.
* KillingIntent: Dark Pulse is described as the user projecting an aura imbued with horrible thoughts at the target that has a chance of making them flinch. Nasty Plot is described as the user stimulating its brain by thinking bad thoughts.
* LimitBreak:
** The Dark-type Z-Move is Black Hole Eclipse, in which the user creates a black hole and sucks the target into it.
** The Dark-type Max Move is Max Darkness, in which the user creates two streams of pure darkness which swirl around the opponent and explode, decreasing the special defense of the opponent.
** Gigantamax Grimmsnarl's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Snooze, which causes two streams of Grimmsnarl's hair to appear and swallow the opponent, causing them to become drowzy, and fall asleep the next turn.
* LikeCannotCutLike: Dark-type Pokémon resist Dark attacks.
* LostInTranslation:
** The type's name itself is originally called the "Evil"-type, hence why they mostly lack [[CastingAShadow darkness-related powers]] outside a few like Dark Pulse and Dark Void.
** The move "Sucker Punch" is not buffed by the ability Iron Fist (buffs punch-based moves) because its original Japanese name means "Surprise Attack" (which is what a sucker punch is in American slang: an unexpected, often underhanded move[[note]]not necessarily someone punching you in the face or stomach when you don't expect it, but some people do take that literally[[/note]]).
** Somewhat of an example with Night Slash; its Japanese name, Tsujigiri (sometimes translated as "crossroad killing"), refers to an old samurai practice of testing out a new weapon or fighting style by hiding at a crossroads at night and attacking the first defenseless passerby they saw. While its English name and description are still true to the spirit of the original, the reference to feudal Japan was removed, and most international players would probably interpret it as "Sucker Punch with a blade" or a "[[SpellBlade dark energy-infused Slash]]" (which could be interpreted as such in certain animations).
* MagicallyIneptFighter: Not to the same extent as the Fighting type, and certain offensively-inclined Dark-types like Hydreigon and Zoroark, as well as Dark [[OlympusMons Legendaries]], are just as effective on the special side if not more so. However, most Dark-types tend to favor Attack over Special Attack. The list of Dark-type attacks supports this, as only three are Special attacks, with one being Zoroark's [[SecretArt Night Daze.]]
* MakeMeWannaShout: The move Snarl deals damage by having the user "[yell] as if it is ranting about something."
* ManBitesMan: Bite and Crunch are both Dark-type attacks. The former was a Normal-type move until it was {{retcon}}ned into the Dark-type.
* ManipulativeBastard: The more cunning Dark-types are good at using psychological warfare, incorporating it into their fighting style, with such attacks as Flatter, Torment, Taunt, and Fake Tears. As of Generation VII, they're immune to Prankster-boosted priority, most probably because they're used to such trickery.
* MechanicallyUnusualClass: Many of their attacks have unique effects, often fitting their pragmatic nature. Sucker Punch is an attack that moves first, but only if the opponent uses an attacking move; Parting Shot lowers the opponent's Attack and Special Attack then switches your Pokémon; Foul Play deals damage calculating the opponent's Attack stat instead of the user's, and so forth.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Dark-type attacks don't do much damage offensively due to low power. However, they have a ton of status attacks, including Parting Shot, Torment, Snatch, and Quash. Even their damaging attacks tend to work oddly; Sucker Punch only hits if the opponent is using a damaging attack, Foul Play calculates damage using the opponent's Attack instead of the user's, Payback doubles in power if the user moves second, and so forth.
* {{Mooks}}: Alongside the Poison-type, they're the favored {{Mons}} of low-level henchmen for the various villainous teams, essentially making them the [[UpToEleven Mooks' Mooks.]]
* NatureIsNotNice: One of the many facets to the Dark Type, and in this case, is about feralness and rambunctious, if not violent behaviors creatures of the wild can exhibit. While in terms of ecology and zoology, many of the Dark Type have come to be to fulfill their instincts and niche in nature as part of the ecosystem in their way with their behavior, bringing them to human society might be harder, as what they may do as normal may not be looked upon kindly within human eyes and mores; bringing home a wild animal home hoping to tame it in real life definitely is evocative of this. Taming their type and getting through to them as trained Pokemon definitely curbs this, but they still retain this type if only for their ingrained nature and behavior that suited them when in the wilderness.
* NocturnalMooks: In Gen II, most Dark-types could only be obtained at night, never appearing in the wild in the day.
* NoItemUseForYou: The Dark type is known for having a number of moves that interfere with an opponent's Held Item usage.
** Thief steals the opponent's Held Item if the user doesn't have one.
** Knock Off disables the opponent's Held Item for the rest of the battle.
** Switcheroo swaps the user's Held Item with the opponent's, meaning that a user without a Held Item will effectively steal their opponent's when used.
** Embargo prevents the opponent from using Held Items for five turns.
* ObviousRulePatch:
** They were introduced in ''Gold and Silver'' as a direct response to the then-powerful Psychic-type.
** The Physical/Special split made almost every Dark-type move Physical so that the type (which predominately consists of Physical Attackers) could actually use their own [=STAB=].
* PowerUpLetdown: The above ObviousRulePatch ended up not working as well as intended because this trope also came into effect. On their introduction, Dark-type attacks were all classified as Special Attacks, which meant Dark-types wanted to run physical moves, but their STAB moves were Special Attacks, which they weren't so good in. It didn't help that many Psychic-types take special attacks better than physical ones. Gen IV's split reclassified all previously existing Dark-type moves as Physical, further suggesting that Dark should have been considered a Physical type in the first place.
* PredatorsAreMean: [[DownplayedTrope Kind of.]] Despite being the EVIL type in the original language, Dark-types can be just as heroic as any other type the trainer chooses. However, many Dark-types are [[JerkAss jerks]], or at least more aggressive than other types, to varying degrees, and the majority of them are predators. The exceptions are scavengers (Honchkrow and Mandibuzz lines), herbivores (Pangoro line), and the Dark/Ghost dual-types (Sableye eats gemstones, and Spiritomb doesn't technically need food to begin with).
* ReformedButNotTamed: As said before, though they are classified as "Dark" or "Evil" for exhibiting behaviors that are malevolent and destructive, Dark Types can be tamed through to be obedient and civil, while their instinctual and ingrained behavior can be accepted as neccistated behavior developed in their environment to adapt and survive. It also helps that even before the coming of Dark Types, cruelty by wild Pokemon was not mutually exclusive to types, especially in Generation I, and despite their massive ownership within the Team syndicates and criminals, it is all up to the trainer and their behavior that influences how their Pokemon acts.
* {{Retcon}}:
** The move Bite was retconned from a Normal-type move into a Dark-type move in Generation II.
** When the Physical/Special split happened, every Dark-type attack that existed beforehand were changed to be Physical attacks.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Feint Attack is named F'''a'''int Attack prior to Gen VI, which doesn't make sense since the latter implies a WoundedGazelleGambit, an "I'm TakingYouWithMe" attack, or a OneHitKill (since Pokémon that are unable to battle are said to have fainted). It's none of those things. Or just an attack that's indistinct and hard to see.
* ScavengersAreScum: Several Pokémon based off real life scavengers are Dark-typed. At this moment we have the vultures Vullaby and Mandibuzz and the crows Murkrow and Honchkrow.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Attacks that are relatively weak but increase in power under certain situations tend to be one of the Dark-type's gimmicks:
** Pursuit is normally weak with a Power of 40, but it deals double damage if the target tries to switch out manually or is using the moves U-turn, Volt Switch, or Parting Shot (the latter only if the user of Pursuit moves after the user of those moves, however).
** Payback's Power of 50 will double if the user goes after the target. In the Generation IV games, switching out counted as going first for this purpose.
** Assurance is mediocre with a Power of 60, but that will double if the target has already taken damage that turn.
** The Power of Punishment starts off at 60, but increases by 20 for every stage of StatusBuff the target has, reaching a max power of 200.
** From ''X and Y'' onward, Knock Off's Power of 65 increases by 50% if the target was holding an item that can be removed.
** Power Trip's Base Power starts off at a measly 20, but its power is increased by 20 the more positive stat increases the user has. With everything at the maximum (six stat increases for all seven stats that can be increased), the move's base power becomes '''860''', the highest of all physical moves.
** Lash Out has 75 power, but doubles if any of the user's stats have been lowered that turn.
* SituationalSword: Many of their attacks will fail completely or do weak damage unless certain conditions are met. For example, Sucker Punch will only deal damage if the target uses a damaging attack on the same turn and doesn't go before the user.
* SneakAttack: Sucker Punch is called "Surprise Attack" in Japan. Feint Attack, Night Slash and [[ISurrenderSuckers False Surrender]] are described as hitting the opponent when their guard is down.
* StandardStatusEffects: Using Fling with certain items can inflict status aliments with a 100% success rate, with the status inflicted being dependent on what item is thrown. A Flame Orb will inflict Burn, a Poison Barb will inflict normal Poison, a Toxic Orb will inflict Toxic Poison, a Light Ball will inflict Paralysis, and a King's Rock or Razor Fang will cause the target to flinch.
* StatusBuff:
** Nasty Plot boosts the user's Special Attack by two stages.
** Hone Claws increases the user's Attack and Accuracy by one stage.
* SuperMode: Houndoom, Tyranitar, Sableye, Sharpedo, and Absol are capable of Mega Evolution, and the Water/Flying-type Gyarados becomes Water/Dark-type when it Mega Evolves. Greninja can also transform into Ash-Greninja if it has the Battle Bond ability. Grimmsnarl and Urshifu (in its Fighting/Dark single strike style) are also capable of Gigantamax.
* SwitchOutMove: Parting Shot gives a parting threat, lowering the target's Attack and Special Attack before the user switches out.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: If a Pancham is in a team with a Dark-type when it levels up, then the latter's bad behavior will rub off on it and it'll evolve into Pangoro, who is a Dark-type itself.
* UndergroundMonkey: Alolan Rattata, Alolan Grimer, Galarian Zigzagoon and their evolved forms are part Dark-Types, while Alolan Meowth and Alolan Persian are pure Dark-Types.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Prior to the Physical/Special split in ''Diamond and Pearl'', all Dark-type moves were Special while almost every Dark-type was a Physical attacker.
* VideoGameStealing:
** Thief deals damage and steals any item an opponent is holding if the user is not holding one.
** Knock Off removes items that can be removed and (as of ''X and Y'') gets a 50% damage boost when the item is successfully removed. It will not gain a power boost if the item cannot be removed (such as a Pokémon holding a Mega Stone, Z-Crystal, or an Arceus/Silvally holding a Plate/Memory).
** Snatch steals and uses any Status moves the opponent tried to use that turn and prevents them from using it.
** Switcheroo is exactly like Trick, swapping the target's and user's items.
* WeakButSkilled:
** In terms of damaging moves, the Dark type's strongest attacks (barring signature moves) are Darkest Lariat and Night Daze, which rest at 85 base power and, while no longer restricted to one Pokémon each as they were originally, can only be learned by a relative few. For most Dark-types, the strongest Dark-type moves available to them are Dark Pulse and Crunch, both at 80 base power. Regular moves that go above that mark are invariably [[SituationalDamageAttack situational damage attacks]] when used to their full CombatPragmatist potential, so as a result, the Dark type's hardest-hitting moves are ones that seem initially weak but provide increased power when used smartly.
** Even its status moves fall under this category, as many of them don't seem immediately helpful, but can turn a match around when used skillfully. Most Dark-type status moves are geared toward shutting down specific tactics (for example, Torment prevents repeated use of the same move, while Taunt, Snatch, and Topsy-Turvy address an opponent's use of non-damaging moves), but those mechanics also tend to make them ineffective when used without strategy.
** Hone Claws boosts Attack by one stage, making it a poor choice for aggressive play, but it also provides a hard-to-find boost to Accuracy, which can allow users to reliably incorporate inaccurate moves into their strategy, such as Stone Edge. It's also a good choice for any Pokémon with the ability Hustle, which decreases the accuracy of their physical moves by 20%.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Pursuit deals double damage to opponents attempting to switch out and hits them before they can switch. Handy for punishing fragile Psychic- and Ghost-Types that may try to get away.
* ZergRush: Beat Up has the user attack once for each conscious party member that is not afflicted by a status condition, up to 6 times.
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[[folder:Steel]]
!!Steel-Type (はがねタイプ ''hagane taipu'')
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The second of two types added with ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', they are the most defensive type in the game. The strong metal that covers the bodies of Steel-type Pokémon grants them high defenses and a great number of resistances. While weak to Fighting, Fire, and Ground, they resist ''everything else'' (except Water and Electric and [[{{Nerf}} Ghost and Dark as of Gen VI]]) and are immune to one type (Poison). Offensively, they hit Ice-, Rock-, and Fairy-Types hard but are resisted by other Steel-, Water-, Electric-, and Fire-Types. Most Pokémon of this type have the theme of armoring or being a creature of living metal, though there are some that don't really fit the bill beyond possessing thick hides. Steel-types can be found in caves, mountain regions, and urban areas.

When a sandstorm is in effect, Steel-type Pokémon do not take residual damage from it.
%%Offensively: x2 Ice, x2 Rock, x2 Fairy, x1/2 Fire, x1/2 Water, x1/2 Electric, x1/2 Steel
%%Defensively: x2 Fire, x2 Fighting, x2 Ground, x0 Poison, resists everything else except for Water, Electric, Ghost (Gen VI onwards), and Dark (Gen VI onwards)
%%Known Specialists: Jasmine in ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''; Steven in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Byron in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Wikstrom in ''X and Y''; Molayne in ''Sun and Moon''
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* ActionInitiative: Bullet Punch has increased priority. Notably, more Fighting-types learn this move than Steel-types.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack:
** Magnet Bomb, an attack that uses homing metal chunks, never misses regardless of accuracy or evasion. Magnet-based Pokémon like the Magnemite line and Probopass get this move.
** Smart Strike, a TM where the user stabs the opponent with an accurate horn.
* AnchorsAway: The move Anchor Shot, exclusive to Dhelmise, deals Steel-type damage and traps the foe under an anchor.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Quite a few Steel-types are based on objects, such as the Magnemite, Beldum, Bronzor, Klink, and Honedge lines.
* ArmoredButFrail: Several Steel-types have high defenses, but have below-average health to balance it out.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Doom Desire ignores the moves Protect, Detect, and Endure, and it hits through the Ability Wonder Guard.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Doom Desire takes two turns before the attack actually hits, which is more than enough time to switch out to something that can tank the hit.
** Iron Tail has great power (100, which is on par with Earthquake), can be taught to a wide variety of Pokémon, and can lower the opponent's Defense as a bonus. It has a less than perfect accuracy of 75% and many of the Pokémon that learn it have other moves with better coverage and accuracy.
** Steel Beam is the most powerful Steel-type attack at 140 power, but the user loses a massive half of their maximum health upon usage. Several Steel-types also lack the Special Attack needed to utilize this move.
* BalanceBuff: Steel-types weren't very useful for attacking prior to Gen VI; they only did super-effective damage to Ice and Rock, which had plenty of other type weaknesses to exploit (including both being weak to Fighting). Gen VI added Fairies to give Steel-types more use.
* CastFromHitPoints: The very powerful Steel Beam deals incredible damage but also causes the user to lose half their hit points thanks to using their own body's metal in the attack.
* ChromeChampion: Steel-types often look like they're covered in gleaming silver metal or are actually made of it. Several physical Steel-type moves, such as Metal Claw and Iron Head, cause the user to glow silver metallic for a brief second regardless of their actual type and/or appearance.
* ColdIron: Likely the reason they are super-effective against Fairies is to invoke the idea.
* ColorCodedElements: The Steel-type color is silver, as is the metal armor of many of its members.
* CombiningMecha: The basic principle of the robot-like Magnemite, Beldum, Klink, and Meltan lines; the basic concept of their evolutions is "the starter form, but there's more of them together". There's also the non-evolving Stakataka which is constructed by hundreds of individual lifeforms, and Doublade, which is a subversion (the Honedge it evolves from divides into two instead).
* CounterAttack: Metal Burst will deal damage to the opponent equal to 1.5 times the amount the user took that turn, regardless of whether the foe's move is physical or special. Unlike Counter and Mirror Coat, it doesn't have negative priority, so make sure that the user is slower than the opponent before using it.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Steel Beam is almost as strong as Hyper Beam and doesn't have the recharge turn, but it causes the user to lose half of its health each time it's used.
* DiscardAndDraw: In Generation VI, they became super-effective against Fairy-types and resist their moves, but lost their resistances to Dark- and Ghost-type attacks.
* DubInducedPlotHole: Meteor Mash is boosted by Iron Fist (which boosts the power of 'punch' moves by 20%, though no Pokémon with Iron Fist can learn Meteor Mash) because its Japanese name is "Comet Punch" (not to be confused with the move called [[RapidFireFisticuffs "Comet Punch"]] in the English versions, which is named "Consecutive Punch" in Japanese).
* ElementalRockPaperScissors
** Offense
*** Strong: Fairy, Ice, Rock
*** Weak: Electric, Fire, Steel, Water
** Defense
*** Strong: Bug, Dark (Gen II-V), Dragon, Fairy, Flying, Ghost (Gen II-V), Grass, Ice, Normal, Psychic, Rock, Steel
*** Weak: Fighting, Fire, Ground
*** Immune: Poison
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning:
** Gyro Ball, a move where the user spins into the enemy. It gets stronger the slower the user is compared to the opponent.
** During the Steel-type Spectacular Talent, the Pokémon spins so fast it turns into a silver tornado, while smashing into various spherical objects like a pinball.
* ExtraOreDinary: The type isn't much in the way of ferrokinesis so much as it is "hit the target with a protrusion covered in metal". They tend to prefer relying on their defenses, as until the [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Fairy-type]] was introduced, the [[AnIcePerson only]] [[DishingOutDirt types]] they were good against had easier-to-exploit weaknesses.
* GoombaStomp: Heavy Slam deals Steel-type damage depending on how heavy the target is compared to the user; the heavier the user is, the more damage dealt. Considering that most Pokémon who get this are on the heavy side, it tends to hurt a lot.
* HeavilyArmoredMook: Quite a number of Pokémon that gain the Steel-type on evolving also gain a good increase in defenses. Steelix is a notable example.
* HornAttack: Smart Strike, an AlwaysAccurateAttack where the user stabs its opponent with a sharp horn. It's a TM that can appropriately be taught to most Pokémon with horns.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: While not as well-known as the Dragon type in that regard, Steel is — on the defensive side at least — one of the best types in the game with a whopping '''10''' resistances and 1 immunity to only 3 weaknesses (though all of these weaknesses are pretty common and crippling).
* KillItWithFire: One of their weaknesses is to the Fire-type, representing metal softening and melting at high temperatures.
* LightEmUp: Three of the four Special Steel-type moves (Doom Desire, Flash Cannon, and Mirror Shot) involve firing out light energy.
* LikeCannotCutLike: One of the many types Steel is resistant to is itself.
* LimitBreak:
** The Steel-type Z-Move is Corkscrew Crash, in which the user spins really fast like a steel drill and rams into the target.
** The Steel-type Max Move, Max Steelspike, causes huge metal projections to burst from the ground and skewer the opponent. The Steel type energy flowing from this metal also raises the Defense of the user and their allies.
** Gigantamax Copperajah's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Steelsurge, in which Copperajah causes huge green spikes of copper to emerge from the ground and tear into the opponent. this move also sets a unique kind of Spikes on the field, who's damage increases depending on the opponent's resilience to steel
** Gigantamax Melmetal's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Meltdown, in which Melmetal sends spikes of its body material at the opponent, preventing the target and its allies from using the same move twice in a row.
* MechanicalLifeforms: While most Steel-types simply resemble regular animals with metallic growths or plating, those that put the extra emphasis on Steel, like Magnemite, Metagross, and Klinklang, edge fully into this trope. Magearna embraces it to the point that only its core, the Soul Heart, is not completely mechanical.
* MightyGlacier:
** If a Steel-type is not purely defensive, it will often be slow and quite strong.
** The move Gyro Ball exploits this; the slower the user is than the foe, the more damage it will do. The [[EldritchAbomination Ultra Beast]] Stakataka — with its Rock/Steel-typing, high Attack, and painfully slow Speed — can dish out some very devastating Gyro Balls. And Trick Room (which inverts Speed) doesn't cut into the move's power, either.
* {{Nerf}}: In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', they lost their resistances to [[CombatPragmatist Dark]] and [[SoulPower Ghost]].
* {{Retcon}}: Magnemite and Magneton were given a secondary Steel-type in Generation II.
* SecretArt:
** Doom Desire, a move only known by Jirachi.
** Steel Beam, a special attack with an incredibly high power of 140, but deals half the user's health on use. It can only be taught by a special tutor to Steel-types (and Silvally).
** The abilities Light Metal and Heavy Metal halves and doubles the user's weight, respectively.
** Magnet Pull increases the encounter rate of Steel-types in the wild and prevents them from switching or fleeing.
** Despite not being used by a Steel-type, the ability Steelworker essentially provides a STAB bonus to Steel-type attacks.
* ShedArmorGainSpeed: Autotomize causes the user to shed part of their armored body in order to lighten themselves and sharply increase speed.
* SiliconBasedLife: Quite a number of Steel-types fall into this category, especially the ones who are part Rock or Ground.
* SituationalDamageAttack:
** Gyro Ball's damage depends on how slow the user is compared to the opponent, going up to a massive 150 power if the opponent is at least 6x as fast as the user.
** Heavy Slam's power depends on the user's weight compared to the target's weight. It's a paltry 40 power if the target is over 50% of the user's weight, but a whopping 120 if the target is below 20% of the user's weight.
* SituationalSword: Steel Roller has a huge 130 base power and removes any terrain on the battlefield, but can only be used if there is a terrain in effect.
* StatusBuff:
** Iron Defense raises the user's defense by two stages.
** Autotomize raises the user's speed by 2 stages while reducing their weight by 100 kg.
** Shift Gear raises the user's speed by two levels while raising attack by one.
** Metal Claw, Steel Wing, and Meteor Mash all have a chance of raising the user's stats in addition to dealing damage. This is notable because outside of the Jirachi-exclusive Doom Desire, these three moves constituted 75% of the type's attacking moves as of Generation III.
* StoneWall: There are outliers, like [[LightningBruiser Excadrill]], but the Steel-type's many resistances and few uses as an attacking type compliment this strategy. To counteract the type's high defenses and resistances, Steel-type Pokémon tend to have average or below-average HP.
* StrongFleshWeakSteel: The inorganic and sometimes mechanical Steel-types are weak to the mostly organic physical-brawling Fighting-types.
* SuperMode: Steelix, Scizor, Mawile, Aggron, Metagross, and Lucario are capable of Mega Evolution, with Aggron notably becoming a pure Steel-type upon doing so, while Melmetal, Corviknight, Copperajah, and Duraludon are capable of Gigantamax (but only Melmetal and Copperajah have Steel-type G-Max Moves).
* SuperToughness: Steel-types resist over half the types in the game and have strong enough defenses to easily shrug them off.
* ThisIsADrill: The Steel-type Z-move, Corkscrew Crash, involves the user slamming into the target while spinning like a drill.
* ThunderboltIron: Some Steel-types such as Registeel and Jirachi are heavily implied to be made out of metal that's not of this world.
* UndergroundMonkey: The Alolan Diglett, Alolan Sandshrew, Galarian Meowth and Galarian Stunfisk families are part Steel-Type.
* UseYourHead: How Iron Head works.
* WaveMotionGun: The powerful but self-damaging Steel Beam is a huge laser made of the user's steel, causing half the user's health in recoil damage.
* WeakToFire: One of Steel's three weaknesses is Fire. This allowed a lot of Dragons to use Fire-type moves to burn through Steels. This was a contributing factor in the creation of the last type, Fairy.
* WeakToMagic: Steel-types tend to have very high Defence but poorer Special Defence.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe:
** The Ability Magnet Pull can trap Pokémon and prevent them from fleeing or switching, but only if they're Steel-type. The Steel/Ghost-type Honedge line is immune to this due to Ghosts being immune to trapping effects.
** The move Anchor Shot prevents the target it hits from switching.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fairy]]
!!Fairy-Type (フェアリータイプ ''fearii taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[OurFairiesAreDifferent https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fairy_types.png]]]]

The newest type, introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. Introduced to combat the growing power of the Dragon-type and to boost the offensively-weak Poison- and Steel-types, Fairy-type Pokémon represent practically every culture's interpretation of TheFairFolk (whether it's the cute, harmless, benevolent sprites or the more mischievous, often meaner tricksters). Sprites, cute critters, and mystical otherworldly beings often represent the type. Despite their adorable appearances, they're effective against the more "hardcore" Pokémon.

Fairy is a highly effective type, both offensively and defensively. It resists Dark, Fighting, and Bug and is immune to Dragon, and is only weak to Steel and Poison. Offensively it's just as good, hitting Fighting-, Dragon-, and Dark-Types super-effectively while being resisted by Poison, Steel, and Fire. The things holding them back are their relative scarcity, lack of heavy hitters compared to other types, lack of physical moves[[note]]Play Rough and Spirit Break are the only physical Fairy-type moves that aren't Z-Moves, and the latter is a SecretArt[[/note]] and the fact that they are commonly slow and can't take physical hits very well.
%%Offensively: x2 Fighting, x2 Dark, x2 Dragon, x1/2 Fire, x1/2 Poison, x1/2 Steel
%%Defensively: x1/2 Bug, x1/2 Fighting, x1/2 Dark, x0 Dragon, x2 Poison, x2 Steel
%%Known Specialists: Valerie in ''X and Y''; Mina in ''Sun and Moon'', Lillie in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''; Opal in ''Sword and Shield''
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* ActionBomb: The move Misty Explosion knocks out the user in exchange for inflicting high damage on the opponent, and its power is doubled on Misty Terrain.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Disarming Voice bypasses accuracy and evasion modifiers when used.
* BadassAdorable: Their proclivity for cute designs only belies their true power as fighters, particularly against Dragon-types.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Fairy-Types are generally very charming and [[CuteMonsterGirl attractive]], like Gardevoir, Florges, and Primarina, and they have the appropriate benevolence to associate with their beauty/cuteness. That said, there's a spectrum of good and malicious Fairy-types. Some of the [[LightIsNotGood Not-Good]] Fairy-types include Mimikyu (a borderline EldritchAbomination who [[IJustWantToHaveFriends just wants to be loved]]) Hatterene (who are cute but dangerous, violent, and very easily angered), Shiinotic (freakish and alien-looking mushrooms that sap the vitality of their slumbering prey), and the Dark/Fairy Grimmsnarl, (hideous and intimidating imp-ogre beings that thrive on negative energy).
* BeautyIsBad: Conversely, some cutesy Fairy-types are actually quite dangerous. The Hatenna line, for example, is notoriously violent, contrary to their pastel colors and appearance. While Hatenna flees from emotions, Hattrem will ''beat the living daylights'' out of strongly emotional beings, and Hatterene will rip into anyone being "too loud" near it.
* BigBallOfViolence: Play Rough is depicted as this, with hearts and stars coming out of a cloud obscuring the beatdown. It's also the only widely distributed Physical Fairy-type move.[[note]]The only other Physical Fairy-type move, Spirit Break, is Grimmsnarl's SecretArt.[[/note]]
* BlowYouAway: The move Fairy Wind deals damage by hitting the target with [[ShapedLikeItself a fairy wind]].
* CastFromHitPoints: The DummiedOut Light of Ruin deals damage to the user equal to 1/2 of the damage dealt to the target.
* ColdIron: They are weak to Steel-type attacks, reflecting mythical fairies' aversion to iron.
* ColorCodedElements: The Fairy-type coloring is light pink, and several Fairies are also pink.
* ComedicSociopathy:
** Invoked by the standard Fairy-type Z-Move, Twinkle Tackle. The user doesn't even care about the target being kicked away, let alone them exploding.
** Mimikyu's exclusive Z-Move, "Let's Snuggle Forever" took this UpToEleven as Mimikyu ''packs and crushes the target before throwing them away''. Even the user's trainer gives a thumbs up and smiles.
* TheDragonslayer: Every single one of them, owing to their tremendous advantage over the Dragon-type.
* DummiedOut: A powerful Fairy-type move called Light of Ruin can be called by Metronome and its name appears in the Hotel Richissime room service minigame, but can't be learned by anything currently officially available in the games. In terms of brute force, it's the strongest Fairy-type attack and it also happens to be the only special attack with recoil. It's actually the SecretArt of AZ's Floette, which has been unreleased in any game but has existed in the game code ever since ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors:
** Offense
*** Strong: Dark, Dragon, Fighting
*** Weak: Fire, Poison, Steel
** Defense
*** Strong: Bug, Dark, Fighting
*** Weak: Poison, Steel
*** Immune: Dragon
* TheFairFolk: While the overall lean is towards the modern, more positive interpretation of fairies as benevolent nature spirits or harmless pranksters (such as Mawile and the mischievous Klefki), there are some particularly amoral Fairy-types trainers should be wary of.
** The Tapus (island guardians) of Alola are depicted as tiki-like guardian deities, but have morality that [[BlueAndOrangeMorality doesn't fall within human standards]].
** [[LightIsNotGood Shiinotic]] lure travelers into the woods with its glowing lights so it can put them to sleep and feed on their energy.
** The Dark/Fairy type Impidimp line from ''Sword and Shield'' are vile creatures who literally feed on the negative emotions of their unfortunate targets. The line culminates in the monstrous [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]]-like Grimmsnarl, whose signature Fairy-type move shatters the target's spirit (lowering its Special Attack). From the same game, Hatterene is equally disturbing, as it will violently react to strong emotions, creates crippling headaches around itself and will tear a person apart for being "too loud" around it.
* FieldPowerEffect: They learn several moves meant to manipulate the environment, including Misty Terrain, Flower Shield, and Xerneas's signature Geomancy.
* HealingShiv: Floral Healing, which becomes even more effective at healing in Grassy Terrain.
* HeartBeatDown: Some of the moves, most notably Sweet Kiss and Disarming Voice.
* KillerRabbit: Most Fairy-Types are both very cute-looking and surprisingly powerful battlers. Azumarill is a literal example, being a deceptively powerful rabbit thanks to [[SuperStrength Huge Power]].
* KissOfDeath: Draining Kiss involves the user kissing the target, causing damage and [[LifeDrain stealing some HP]].
* LifeDrain: Draining Kiss heals the user for 75% of the damage it dealt.
* LightEmUp: The Fairy-type is as close to a Light-type as the Pokémon series gets — along with being associated with bright pink, their moves tend to have a light motif, especially Dazzling Gleam, Fleur Cannon, Moonblast, Moonlight, and the [[DummiedOut aforementioned]] Light of Ruin.
* LightIsGood: Most Fairy-types are almost universally bright and colorful in design, and on the whole are quite benevolent with few exceptions. They also oppose the Dark-Type, being both super-effective and resistant to Dark-Type attacks.
* LightIsNotGood: However, Fairy-type includes Shiinotic and the Tapus, who are more malicious and have morality beyond human and Pokémon understanding, respectively. The Hatenna line also play this straight, being brightly colored but dangerous Pokémon. The Impidimp line subvert this by also being half Dark-Type, to match their [[DarkIsEvil malicious nature]].
* LimitBreak:
** The Fairy-type Z-Move is Twinkle Tackle, in which the user creates a charming space and toys with the target.
** The Fairy-type Max Move is Max Starfall, in which the user drops stars on the opponent, creating a Misty Terrain for five turns.
** Gigantamax Alcremie's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Finale, in which Alcremie drops gigantic drops of cream on th opponent, healing itself and its allies bu a sixth of their max HP.
** Gigantamax Hatterene's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Smite, in which Hatterene drops stars on the opponent, confusing all opponents on the field.
* LogicalWeakness: Fairy-types are weak to Steel-types because, in traditional mythology involving TheFairFolk, they were vulnerable to iron and steel.
* {{Lunacy}}: They have a lunar motif in their moves Moonblast and Moonlight, the latter of which was {{Retcon}}ned in as a Fairy-type move. The lunar motif may have been influenced by the Clefable line, an evolutionary line that was the original fairy-themed Pokémon and had a strong association with the moon. The line became Fairy-type upon the new type's introduction.
* MakeMeWannaShout:
** Disarming Voice is a sound-based attack, though its damage-dealing ability is more due to inflicting "emotional damage" than the power of the sound itself.
** Every Pokémon that can have the Pixilate Ability is capable of learning Hyper Voice, which can deal serious damage thanks to Pixilate's power boost and the STAB bonus from it.
* MightyGlacier: Most Fairy-Types are slow, but can usually take a hit and hit back hard.
* ObviousRulePatch: They were introduced to curb the Dragon-type, as Creator/GameFreak thought they had made it too powerful. They also give Poison and Steel more offensive uses, as both of them were pretty much only used for their defensive capabilities beforehand.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The basis for Fairy-types can include all kinds of spirits, sprites, deities, and cute critters alike.
* PercentDamageAttack: Nature's Madness cuts the target's current HP in half, like Super Fang. The Z-move Guardian of Alola cuts the target's current HP by 75%.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Fairy's elemental color is light pink, and has a lot of cute and feminine Pokémon in its ranks, many of whom have Pink in their color schemes. Quite a few of them are female-only or have gender ratios that favor females. There are also a lot of Fairy-Types who are also Psychic-Type, another element associated with pink, and further emphasizing their femininity.
* PuppyDogEyes: The Baby-Doll Eyes move, which lowers the opponent's Attack and is a first-strike move.
* RealMenWearPink: The Impidimp line stands out among Fairy-types for being male-only, and the final evolution, Grimmsnarl, is an intimidating ogre-like monster. Doesn't stop them from using the SuperCuteSuperpowers used by other Pokémon of the type.
* {{Retcon}}: When the type was introduced, a fair number of older Pokémon were changed to be at least part Fairy. In the case of the Togepi, Clefairy, and Snubbull families, they're now pure Fairy-Types (they were Normal-Types before). Compared to the Dark- and Steel-types, no Pokémon gained the Dark-type and only two (Magnemite and Magneton) gained a Steel-type in Generation II. The moves Charm, [[StandardStatusEffects Sweet Kiss]], and [[HealThyself Moonlight]] were also retconned to be Fairy, but none of these are affected by ElementalRockPaperScissors.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: A lot of Pokémon of this type fit this trope, especially if unevolved.
* SecretArt:
** Pixilate turns Normal-type moves into Fairy-type and boosts them by 20% (30% in Gen VI).
** Misty Terrain protects all Pokémon on the ground from StandardStatusEffects. It also reduces damage taken from Dragon-type attacks by 50%.
* StatusBuff:
** The move Geomancy sharply raises the user's Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed, but takes two turns to activate.
** The move Aromatic Mist raises the Special Defense of an ally by 1 stage.
** The ability Flower Shield raises the Defense of all Grass-type Pokémon in the battle.
* SuperCuteSuperPowers: Quite a few Fairy-type moves are based on cuteness, such as Charm, Sweet Kiss, [[PuppyDogEyes Baby-doll Eyes]], and Disarming Voice.
* SuperMode: Gardevoir, Mawile, and Diancie are capable of Mega Evolution while Altaria and Audino become part Fairy-type when they Mega Evolve. Alcremie, Hatterene, and Grimmsnarl are capable of Gigantamax, but only Alcremie and Hatterene have Fairy-type G-Max Moves.
* TakingYouWithMe: Misty Explosion deals damage to all targets around the user but faints the user, and its base power is increased on Misty Terrain.
* ATwinkleInTheSky: The Fairy-type Z-Move Twinkle Tackle rams the opponent into the sky, wherein it disappears leaving only an audible twinkle behind.
* UglyCute: Snubull, Granbull, and, arguably, Mawlie stand out as the only non-cute or pretty Fairy-types.
* UndergroundMonkey: Alolan Ninetales, Galarian Weezing and Galarian Rapidash are part Fairy-Type.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Being a type that {{No Sell}}s Dragon attacks and has a lot of other resistances, Fairy-type Pokémon are weak against Poison and Steel, known for having weak offensive presence; the former being the weakest Pokémon type since Gen I.
* WhiteMage: Over half of all Fairy-type moves are status moves. Buff one's own stats? Debuff an opponent? Buff an ally's stats? Heal oneself? Heal an ally? Block all status moves used against your team? Block ''all'' StandardStatusEffects from the entire field? Fairies can do all of this.
[[/folder]]

!!'''Spin-Off Exclusive Types'''

[[folder:Shadow]]
!!Shadow-Type / Dark-Type (ダークタイプ ''daaku taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shadow_lugia_4.png]]
Exclusive to spin-off titles ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', Shadow Pokémon are the end product of a scientific and magical process that's created by the top scientists of Cipher to remove all emotions from Pokémon. These Pokémon have no compunction about attacking Pokémon and people, which makes them the perfect weapons for Cipher's crimes. Much to the displeasure of the denizens of Orre, Shadow Pokémon became popular among the criminal underground. Some trainers who own Shadow Pokémon don't even know they have them. Only people with certain tools and psychic abilities can identify a Shadow Pokémon by its shadowy aura. Shadow Pokémon can be reverted back into normal Pokémon by bonding with its trainer, which is one of the main objectives of the ''Colosseum'' series. Cipher and the threat of Shadow Pokémon were stopped thanks to the protagonists of the two games, but it's hinted that Cipher is planning a comeback.

In ''Colosseum'', Shadow isn't so much a type as it is a classification. It doesn't change a Pokémon's strengths or weaknesses in the ElementalRockPaperScissors, and its only move at the time (Shadow Rush) is a physical move that [[NonElemental deals neutral damage to everything]].

''XD: Gale of Darkness'' revamps Shadow to be an actual type and provides it with more moves, though it is unique in that it acts as a third type (or second if a Shadow Pokémon only has one type normally) and doesn't provide a Same-Type Attack Bonus to its attacks. [[InfinityPlusOneElement All Shadow-type attacks are also now super-effective on all normal Pokémon]], but they are resisted by other Shadow Pokémon.

Unlike other types at the time, whose moves were fixed as Physical or Special, Shadow-type moves in ''XD: Gale of Darkness'' can be either. This predates the Physical/Special split of moves introduced into the main series games in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl''.
%%Offensively: x2 normal Pokémon, x1/2 Shadow
%%Defensively: x1/2 Shadow
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* AttackAttackAttack: Shadow Pokémon tend to lack defensive or healing moves.
* AxCrazy: In Hyper Mode, a Shadow Pokémon may attack its teammate, its own Trainer, or the opposing Trainer.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: In the hands of the player, these Pokémon are still dangerous, but their power is focused on the forces of Cipher.
* BlowYouAway: Shadow Blast, the Shadow version of Lugia's Aeroblast and Shadow Lugia's signature move.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Pokémon are normally friendly creatures who enjoy spending time with their Trainers as well as a good fight. Shadow Pokémon have become artificially corrupted into mindless attack drones whose only purpose is to do nothing ''but'' fight.
* CantCatchUp: When caught, a Shadow Pokémon cannot level up, evolve, or learn new moves until it's purified, at which point it'll automatically gain the experience back. Try training one early in the game, and the Shadow Pokémon you caught in the last town will stop being useful quickly and become dead weight in a major battle until you gain the ability to fully purify them.
* CastFromHitPoints: Shadow Rush (''Colosseum'' only) and Shadow End cause recoil damage to the user. Rush has 1/4 recoil while End has 1/2.
* TheCorruption: They are created by robbing emotions from Pokémon to turn them into soulless fighting machines.
* DarkIsEvil: Shadow Pokémon are corrupted beings that need to be restored to their true selves.
* DubNameChange: They're called "Dark Pokémon" in the Japanese version, but were changed to "Shadow Pokémon" to avoid confusion with the Dark-type (which is called the Evil-type in Japan).
* EmptyShell: The creation of Shadow Pokémon involves removing their emotions.
* EvilKnockoff: Shadow Chill, Shadow Bolt, Shadow Fire, and Shadow Blast are corrupted versions of Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, and Aeroblast, respectively.
** Many Shadow moves are knockoffs of some other move. Shadow Blitz is an evil Tackle, Shadow Down is basically just a more accurate Screech, Shadow End is a PowerfulButInaccurate move CastFromHitPoints reminiscent of Head Smash, Shadow Hold is a worse Mean Look, Shadow Mist is based on Sweet Scent, Shadow Panic is a very slightly better Supersonic, and Shadow Sky is a weather move similar to Hail in the way it damages all but Shadow Pokémon.
* FireIceLightning: Shadow Bolt, Shadow Chill, and Shadow Fire. Respectively the signature moves of the corrupted Zapdos, Articuno, and Moltres.
* HeelFaceTurn: A Shadow Pokémon experiences one after being purified.
* HerdHittingAttack: Shadow Down, Shadow Hold, Shadow Mist, Shadow Panic, Shadow Rave, Shadow Storm, and Shadow Wave hit all enemies while Shadow Half and Shadow Shed hit everyone on the field.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: In an ElementalRockPaperScissors sense. Shadow is super effective against every other type in ''XD'' and only resisted by itself.
* InvisibleToNormals: The shadowy aura surrounding a Shadow Pokémon can only be seen by very few people or those with special technology.
* MindRape: In the words of Ein, Cipher's head scientist, Shadow Pokémon are born by "closing the door to a Pokémon's heart." The fact that they are willing to attack anyone only adds to this.
* NoCureForEvil: There are no "positive support" Shadow moves.
* OlympusMons: Not even legendaries are safe from becoming Shadow Pokémon, as players will eventually encounter Shadow Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Raikou, Entei, and Suicune. However, there's one special Shadow legendary Pokémon: Shadow Lugia. Considered the ultimate Shadow Pokémon, Shadow Lugia looks very different compared to normal Lugia with its reversed color scheme and other details. It's also nearly immune to purification, as normal methods of purification don't work on it. Only the Purify Chamber at max power can truly purify Shadow Lugia.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: Averted. If you fail to snag a Shadow Pokémon in a one-time battle, there'll be a trainer somewhere who will still have it. In ''Colosseum'' the trainer can be found somewhere else, while in ''XD'' Miror B. will roam Orre and battle you until you snag all the Shadow Pokémon.
* PowerAtAPrice: Shadow attacks hit everything but other Shadow Pokémon super effectively, but Shadow Pokémon cannot level up, evolve, or learn new moves.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Before a Shadow Pokémon can be purified into a normal Pokémon, it must let its heart open towards the trainer.
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: The aura of darkness that surrounds a Shadow Pokémon is dark purple.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: Shadow Blitz, Shadow Break, Shadow End, and Shadow Rush.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: A Shadow Pokémon's aura goes red and black when it enters Hyper[=/=]Reverse Mode.
* RedemptionDemotion: In the hands of an NPC trainer in ''Colosseum'', Shadow Pokémon have a normal moveset with Shadow Rush included. When snagged, however, they only know Shadow Rush.
* RiddleForTheAges: The exact process of creating Shadow Pokémon, which involves "closing the door to their hearts", is never disclosed.
* SecretArt: Enforced. Shadow attacks can only be used by Shadow Pokémon, and purified ones will immediately forget them.
* ThemeNaming: Every one of the type's attacks has "Shadow" in its name.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: They are visually indistinct from normal Pokémon to the average human. The only way to identify them is by having an innate ability to sense them like Rui or using special equipment like Michael's Aura Reader. The only exception is Shadow Lugia/[=XD001=], which has become so thoroughly corrupted that even its outward appearance has been changed.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Shadow Hold prevents switching.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fire]]
!!Fire-Type / Flame-Type (ほのおタイプ ''hono'o taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[PlayingWithFire https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fire_types.png]]]]

Pokémon with power over fire, lava, and all forms of heat. Most of them are {{Glass Cannon}}s, but surprisingly, the type has a lot of resistances (Bug, Grass, Ice, Steel, Fairy, itself). Most Fire-Type moves are also capable of inflicting the Burn status, which causes damage while also halving the afflicted Pokémon's physical attack. Fire types are immune to the Burn status themselves, which is handy for the physical attackers among them. They are based on fantastical animals that can breathe fire, but there are a few, such as Magmar and Chandelure, which are more esoteric. Fire is also one of the three starter types.

They tend to live in particularly hot areas, like [[LethalLavaLand volcanoes]], but as not every game has that kind of environment, they can be just as comfortable in caves or urban areas. Due to fire being one of the less naturally common elements, non-starter Fire-types tend to be rare and few in number.

Offensively, they are strong against Bug, Grass, Ice, and Steel, but weak against Dragon, Fire, Rock, and Water. Defensively, it's strong against Bug, Fire, Grass, Ice, Steel, and Fairy, but weak against Ground, Rock, and Water.
%%Offensively: x2 Bug, x2 Grass, x2 Ice, x2 Steel, x1/2 Dragon, x1/2 Fire, x1/2 Rock, x1/2 Water
%%Defensively: x1/2 Bug, x1/2 Fire, x1/2 Grass, x1/2 Ice (Gen II onward), x1/2 Steel, x1/2 Fairy, x2 Ground, x2 Rock, x2 Water
%%Known Specialists: Blaine in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''; Flannery in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Flint in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Chili in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Malva in ''X and Y''; Kiawe in ''Sun and Moon''; Kabu in ''Sword and Shield''

* AttackAttackAttack: There are only 2 Fire-type attacks that aren't offensive; [[StandardStatusEffects Will-O-Wisp]] and [[ThePowerOfTheSun Sunny Day]]. Even then, Will-O-Wisp inflicts damage over time, and Sunny Day raises the power of Fire-type moves.

** Blast Burn is a Fire-type clone of Hyper Beam, meaning you're exposed to retaliation for 1 turn after using it (and you could do more damage by just using Flamethrower twice).
** Fire Blast has better accuracy than Blizzard and Thunder, but it still has a very low PP count at 5 and thus is [[TooAwesomeToUse not very practical]] outside of battle facilities that heal your Pokémon after each battle.
** Inferno always inflicts a burn when it hits and has high power, but only has 50% accuracy.
** Burn Up has a base power of 130, but the user loses its Fire typing after using the move. Furthermore, it fails when used by a non-Fire-type Pokémon, so ItOnlyWorksOnce.
* BreathWeapon: Most of the attacks of this type are depicted as this; of course, some Fire-type Pokémon[[note]]Braixen & Magmortar mainly[[/note]] have other methods of expelling fire.
* BoringButPractical: Flamethrower isn't the most damaging attack out there, but it still does good damage, reliably hits its target, and has a respectable amount of PP.
* CastFromHitPoints: Flare Blitz is a powerful move, but does damage to the user equal to 1/3 of the damage dealt to the target.
* ColorCodedElements: Fire is represented as an [[FireIsRed orange-red]].
* CounterAttack: Shell Trap, Turtonator's SecretArt, blows up opponents that hit Turtonator with a physical attack.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique:
** Overheat deals incredible damage, but lowers the user's Special Attack by two stages with each use, preventing it from hitting nearly as hard on repeated uses (and weakening the user's other Special moves as well).
** V-create is the third strongest move in the series that isn't a Z-move and the strongest one that isn't sacrificial, but each use lowers the user's defenses and Speed by one stage each.
** Flavor-wise, Burn Up is this, as it completely consumes the user's flames. In practice, whether losing one's Fire-typing is a boon or a bane depends on what moves the opponent is capable of using.
* DifficultButAwesome: Eruption's Power is directly proportional to how much HP the user has left, boasting a large 150 (same as Blast Burn) if the user is at full health. If you can keep the user healthy, it's far more useful than Fire Blast due to higher Power, 100% accuracy, and the ability to hit multiple opponents in Double and Triple Battles.
* ElementalPunch: The moves Fire Punch and Blaze Kick. Fire Punch has slightly above-average power and wide distribution while Blaze Kick is a bit stronger and has a higher crit chance at the cost of some accuracy.
* ElementalRivalry: The obvious one would be [[FireWaterJuxtaposition Fire and Water]], but there appears to be a lot of pairs of Fire types with [[LightningFireJuxtaposition Electric]] types. The Magmar and Electabuzz families and the Houndoom and Manectric families are version counterparts, there's a rivalry between Volkner and Flint in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'', and then there's [[Videogame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Reshiram and Zekrom]].

*** Strong: Bug, Grass, Ice, Steel
*** Weak: Dragon, Fire, Rock, Water

*** Strong: Bug, Fire, Grass, Ice (Gen II-Forward), Steel, Fairy
*** Weak: Ground, Rock, Water
* FireIceLightning: A very popular motif seen frequently in the series — Ember, Powder Snow, Thunder Shock; Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch; Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt; Fire Blast, Blizzard, Thunder; Magmar, Jynx, Electabuzz; Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres; Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem; and so many more. There isn't much of an ElementalRockPaperScissors usually seen with this kind of arrangement compared to other games — the only type in this triad that has an advantage over another is Fire over Ice.
* FireIsRed: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]. Several Fire attacks tend to be more realistically shaded, including blue flames for the more potent attacks, but most of the Pokémon themselves have red as their primary body color.
* FlamingHair: This design feature is popular among Fire-types, notably the Ponyta line and Infernape.
* GlassCannon: Fire has many common weaknesses and tends to be frail defensively, but hits a lot super effectively. Ironically, they have the highest number of resistances after Steel, at 6.
* GoombaStomp: Heat Crash, the Tepig line's signature move. It deals Fire-type damage depending on how heavy the target is compared to the user.
* HerdHittingAttack: During Double and Triple Battles, Lava Plume hits everything but the user while Eruption, Heat Wave, and Incinerate only hit enemy Pokémon.
* KillItWithWater: Almost all of them are weak to Water-type attacks. They can learn Sunny Day to reduce the damage taken from Water-type attacks.
* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: The Fire type only has three weaknesses, but they're practically ubiquitous and counter it quite well. Good physical attackers of almost any type can learn Ground- and Rock-type attacks via TM, and most Fire-types have poor physical bulk with which to take these attacks. Meanwhile, Water is ''the most common type in the game'', and most Fire-types will be stuck with the unwieldy Solar Beam when dealing with them. [[note]]Many Fire-types can learn weak or impractical coverage moves to handle Water-types like Thunder Fang, Thunder Punch, Grass Knot, and Wild Charge. However, the more powerful Grass- and Electric-type moves are limited to just a few legendary Pokémon, Magmortar, and the Vulpix, Litwick, and Larvesta lines.[[/note]]
* LastDiscMagic: Fire Blast is usually available to buy as a TM late in the game or can be learned naturally by many Fire-types during the late- or post-game.
* LightEmUp: ''Diamond and Pearl'' gave a lot of Fire-Types access to [[ChargeAttack Solar]] [[GreenThumb Beam]], which gives them an attack to use against Water-, Rock-, and Ground-types.
* LikeCannotCutLike: Fire-type Pokémon resist Fire attacks.
* LimitBreak:
** The Fire-type Z-Move is Inferno Overdrive, a burst of fire which causes a massive and devastating explosion.
** The Fire-type Max Move is Max Flare, a massive tongue of flame which activates harsh sunlight.
** Gigantamax Cinderace's G-Max Move is G-Max Fireball, an enormous Pyro Ball that it kicks towards its enemy.
** Gigantamax Charizard's exclusive G-Max Move, G-Max Widfire, sees it launch a dragon-shaped flame at the opponent, which explodes on impact and deals additional damage on non-Fire-types for several turns after.
** G-Max Centiferno, the G-Max Move of Gigantamax Centiskorch, is a massive blast of fire that traps opponents in a swirling inferno akin to Fire Spin.
* MagmaMan: Invoked in certain magma-related attacks like Lava Plume and Eruption.
* MundaneUtility: The Flame Body and Magma Armor abilities have the secondary effect of causing Pokémon Eggs to hatch in half the time they usually would, making Pokémon with these abilities incredibly useful for hatching lots of eggs quickly. The Slugma line notably have both of these abilites.
* PlayingWithFire: Naturally, the Fire-Type wields incendiary abilities.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: They get the move [[WeatherManipulation Sunny Day]], which enhances their attacks by 50% and weakens Water-Type attacks by the same amount.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: It's only natural that Fire Pokémon are immune to burn effects.
* RingOfFire: The move Fire Spin invokes this, as the target is both trapped (unable to flee or switch out) and progressively damaged over several turns. Heatran's signature Magma Storm is much the same, only [[ShapedLikeItself with magma]].
* SecretArt:
** The following abilities are exclusive to Fire-types:
*** Blaze increases the power of Fire moves when the user is at 1/3 or less health.
*** The Flame Body ability has a 30% chance to burn opponents who use physical contact attacks on the user. [[MundaneUtility It also makes eggs hatch faster.]]
*** The Flash Fire Ability gives immunity to Fire and gives a boost to the user's Fire attacks by 50% if they are hit by one. It doesn't stack with itself.
*** Magma Armor prevents the user from becoming Frozen. [[MundaneUtility It also makes eggs hatch faster.]]
*** White Smoke prevents the user from having their stats lowered by opponents, but doesn't prevent moves like Overheat from lowering the user's stats.
** The following moves can only be learned by Fire-types:
*** Eruption's damage depends on the user's current HP, and taking damage will reduce the power.[[note]]Groudon is a partial exception, as it can learn Eruption despite not being Fire-type outside of its SuperMode.[[/note]]
*** Lava Plume hits all Pokémon around the user and has a good chance to inflict a burn.
*** Fire Pledge, exclusive to Fire-type starters and monkey, can be combined with Grass Pledge or Water Pledge to deal extra damage and create a special secondary effect.
*** Blast Burn, exclusive to fully-evolved Fire-type starters, is a clone of Hyper Beam. It deals a large amount of damage, but forces the user to stay in the next turn to recharge.
*** UpToEleven with Burn Up, where it can only be used if the user is a Fire-type, to the point that due to its side effect, [[ItOnlyWorksOnce it can only be used once]] until the user is switched out.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Heat Crash's power depends on the user's weight compared to the target's weight. It's a paltry 40 power if the target is over 50% of the user's weight, but a whopping 120 if the target is below 20% of the user's weight.
* StandardStatusEffect: Heavily associated with the Burn Status.
* StatusBuff: [[FeedItWithFire Flash Fire]] increases the power of the user's Fire-type moves by 50% when hit by a Fire-type move. Since it's not considered a stat boost like for Storm Drain and Lightning Rod, it doesn't stack with itself.
* SuperMode: Charizard, Houndoom, Blaziken, and Camerupt are capable of Mega Evolution, with Charizard notably being one of two Pokémon to boast ''two'' Mega Evolutions. Groudon gains the Fire-type upon undergoing Primal Reversion. Charizard, Coalossal, Centiskorch and Cinderace are also all capable of Gigantamax, though Coalossal's G-Max Move focuses on its other type (Rock).
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: [[AwesomeButImpractical While almost impossible to set up]], a Fire-type attack can reach a damage multiplier of ''x36''.[[note]]During harsh sunlight and while having Flash Fire or Blaze activated, attack a Bug/Steel or Ice/Steel type given the Ability Fluffy after it has been afflicted with Forest's Curse.[[/note]]
** In a similar vein, a Fire-type attack also has the lowest attainable non-zero multiplier, a pitiful ''0.02065x''.[[note]]This is done by attacking a dual-type Pokémon under rain whose types both resist Fire-type attacks (such as the Water/Dragon type Kingdra), with Thick Fat or Heatproof as its ability while Water Sport is in effect.[[/note]]
* TurnsRed: Blaze boosts the power of Fire-type moves by 1.5x when the user is at 1/3 of their max health or less. It's exclusive to Fire-type starter Pokémon (and Pansear and Simisear).
* UndergroundMonkey: Alolan Marowak is part Fire-Type.
* UselessUsefulSpell: The ability Magma Armor makes the owner immune to being Frozen. Not only is getting Frozen incredibly rare due to each move that inflicts it only having a 10% chance to do so, using a Fire-type attack when Frozen will thaw out the user, so it's not debilitating anyway.
* WhipItGood: Fire Lash, previously Heatmor's signature move, strikes at the foe using a burning lash. It's notable for being a move with respectable base power '''and''' a guaranteed Defense drop, allowing it to snowball very quickly, though its only user lacked the stats to make good use of it. In ''Sword and Shield'', it was given to [[CreepyCentipedes Sizzlipede and Centiskorch]], the latter of which has the strong Attack stat to abuse Fire Lash a lot more easily.
* WreathedInFlames: Invoked with the Fire-type exclusive ability, Flame Body. Also used for some physical Fire-type moves.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Water]]
!!Water-Type (みずタイプ ''mizu taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[MakingASplash https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/water_types.png]]]]

With 70 percent of the Earth covered by it, it isn't difficult to imagine that Water Pokémon are the most common type. It's one of the three types that has been paired with every existing type at least once (the other being Flying and Psychic). Most Water-types are based on aquatic animals, both marine and freshwater, and is one of the three starter types. They can be found on every aquatic route, and some of the more amphibious types can be found in [[BubblegloopSwamp wetlands]]. They can also be fished out using various fishing rods.

Offensively, they are strong against Fire, Rock, and Ground, but are resisted by Grass, Dragon, and other Water-types. Defensively, they resist Fire, Ice, and Steel and are only weak to Electric- and Grass-types ([[AnIcePerson but most Grass-types don't want to hang around them willingly]]), making them pretty hard to wear down.
%%Known Specialists: Misty in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''; Wallace and Juan in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Crasher Wake in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Cress in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Marlon in ''Black 2 and White 2''; Siebold in ''X and Y''; Lana in ''Sun and Moon''; Nessa in ''Sword and Shield''
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* ActionInitiative: Aqua Jet. Water Shuriken, despite being a multi-hit move, has boosted priority as well.
* AquaticMook: Several wild Water-type Pokémon are fought while on water, underwater, or fished up.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Hydro Cannon is a Water-type clone of Hyper Beam, meaning that your opponent will have a free turn to [[JustForPun wash you up]] after you use it. (Also, you could do more damage by spamming Surf, so... yeah. Don't use it unless you like losing.)
* BattleInTheRain: RainDance summons a rainstorm that rages on for several turns of battle and empowers Water moves, as well as causing several other effects (such as giving 100% accuracy to Thunder and Hurricane). The abilities Drizzle and Primordial Sea are automatic versions that activate as soon as the user enters battle.
* BreathWeapon: A weird one in that the water they use is often depicted as coming from their mouths in most adaptations.
* BubbleGun: The moves Bubble and its big sister Bubble Beam, both of which cause damage in addition to possibly lowering the target's speed.
* ComMons: They serve as the main encounters on aquatic routes, though they aren't exceptionally powerful. Tentacool in particular are very common in the seas of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Alola.
* ColorCodedElements: WaterIsBlue, as are most Water-types' color schemes.
* CoupDeGrace: Brine deals double damage to targets who have less than half their health left.
* DifficultButAwesome: Water Spout's Power is directly proportional to how much HP the user has left, boasting a large 150 (same as Hydro Cannon) if the user is at full health. If you can keep the user healthy, it's far more useful than Hydro Pump due to higher Power, 100% accuracy, and the ability to hit multiple opponents in Double and Triple Battles.
* ElementalBaggage: Brine? Dive? Muddy Water? Surf? Waterfall? Whirlpool? Doesn't matter, your Pokémon can always summon enough water from nowhere to enable these moves, even if you're fighting in the middle of the desert or ''[[UpToEleven at the edge of space!]]''
* ElementalRockPaperScissors
** Offense
*** Strong: Fire, Ground, Rock
*** Weak: Dragon, Grass, Water
** Defense
*** Strong: Fire, Ice, Steel, Water
*** Weak: Electric, Grass
* FakeBalance:
** Within the Starter PowerTrio; not only does Water have the least number of weaknesses[[note]]2 types, Grass and Electric, compared to Fire's 3 and [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere Grass's 5]][[/note]] and types that resist it[[note]]Only 3 types, [[LikeCannotCutLike Water]], Grass, and Dragon, resist Water, compared to Fire's 4 and Grass's ''[[KryptoniteIsEverywhere 7]]''[[/note]], meaning that they can easily beat Grass-types despite the type disadvantage thanks to their access to [[AnIcePerson Ice-type attacks]], and Electric-types (their only other weakness) due to them not resisting Water attacks and their GlassCannon tendencies.
** The weather condition related to the Water type, rain, is ''far'' superior to the other weather conditions. Intense sunlight powers up Fire-type moves, but the Abilities powered up by intense sunlight are usually given to Grass-types, which are roasted even harder by the powered-up Fire moves. Rock- and Ground-types might enjoy having their weaknesses to Water being reduced, but in turn, they risk taking a no-charge Solar Beam. Sandstorm's powering-up Abilities, Sand Force and Sand Rush, are mutually exclusive and not innate boosts. Rain gives a boost to Water-type attacks ''and'' its Abilities are granted to mostly Water-types, who make extremely good use of them.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Practically all Water-types based on fish just seem to float in midair when battling on land, except, as of Gen VI, [[ButtMonkey Magikarp]], who just flops around helplessly.
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: Surf, ubiquitous both as a mandatory field move and as a potent and reliable attack, involves the user surfing toward the opponent. On a huge crest of ocean water. Muddy Water is also depicted as this.
* GradualGrinder: Real-life water can wear away at almost anything with enough time, and a few Water-type moves have shades of it.
** Liquidation and Razor Shell aren't particularly powerful, but carry 20 and 50% chances to lower the opponent's Defense and thus become stronger with repeated uses.
** Clamp and Whirlpool are weak, but inflict [[FixedDamageAttack percentage-based damage]] that can run from 50% of the target's max HP to 83%[[note]]if the user holds a Binding Band and traps the target for five turns instead of four[[/note]] over time.
** While they don't directly correlate to dealing damage, Water Pulse, Waterfall, Muddy Water and Octazooka are relatively weak or average in power but carry greater-than-average chances[[note]]20% chance of confusion, 20% chance of flinching, and 30 and 50% chances to lower accuracy, respectively[[/note]] to activate. The excellent defensive properties of the Water type and the generally good bulk that most Water-types have works well with this, allowing Water-types plenty of turns to stay on the field and wear the opponent down.
* GrimyWater: The move Muddy Water uses Surf's animation, but with the water a sickly brown instead of blue. It has a chance to lower the target's accuracy, an effect borrowed from the Ground-type's wheelhouse.
* HealItWithWater:
** Aqua Ring confers a Leftovers effect, healing the user 1/16 of its max HP at the end of each turn.
** A few abilities are based on this concept. Rain Dish causes a Pokémon to regain some HP when it's raining, Water Absorb will heal Pokémon hit with water-type attacks instead of damaging them, and Hydration will cure status effects (eg. burn, freeze, poison) in rain.
* HerdHittingAttack: Bubble, Muddy Water, Water Spout, and Origin Pulse hit all enemy Pokémon, while Surf and Sparkling Aria hit everyone but the user[[note]]although Surf hit enemies only in Generation III[[/note]].
* IceMagicIsWater: ''Every'' Water-Type (except Magikarp, Rotom Wash, and Pyukumuku) has access to an Ice-Type attack (usually from Technical Machines or Move Tutors), giving them a chance at beating Grass-types and Dragon-types.
* JackOfAllStats: Water is useful offensively and defensively, and most Water types are capable of serving as [[MightyGlacier any]] [[LightningBruiser of]] [[StoneWall the]] [[FragileSpeedster competitive]] [[GlassCannon archetypes]].
* LastDiscMagic: Hydro Pump isn't a TM like Fire Blast, Thunder, or Blizzard, but can be learned naturally by many Water-types during the late- or post-game.
* LikeCannotCutLike: Water moves do not do much against Water-types.

** The Water-type Z-Move is Hydro Vortex, a powerful MegaMaelstrom, and while the foe is trapped in it, the attacker rams into them repeatedly.
** The Water-type Max Move is Max Geyser, a huge torrent launched at the opponent, the cascading aftermath of so much water flying about causing heavy rain to fall for five turns.
** Primarina's personal Z-Move is Oceanic Operetta, in which it forms an enormous sphere of water and drops it on the target.
** G-Max Cannonade, Gigantamax Blastoise's G-Max Move, is a series of short, pressurized blasts of water from its cannons followed by a single large blast. The resulting vortex continues to damage non-Water-types over the next several turns.
** Upon Gigantamaxing, Rapid Strike Style Urshifu gains access to G-Max Rapid Flow, a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of watery punches that completely ignores all protection moves.
** Gigantamax Inteleon's G-Max Hydrosnipe is a blast of water from its harpoon that explodes upon impact.
** The G-Max Move of Gigantamax Drednaw is G-Max Stonesurge. Drednaw fires a sphere of water from its mouth that, upon hitting the ground, spreads large stones around to activate a Stealth Rock effect.
** G-Max Foam Burst, exclusive to Gigantamax Kingler, is a jet of water that explodes into a torrent of bubbles, surrounding the target and decreasing its speed.
* LogicalWeakness:
** It has been noted several times in the anime that Water-types are weak against Electric-types because water is conductive to electricity. [[note]]Specifically water with impurities and dissolved electrolytes, at least, like salt water, which is what sea water is. Deionized pure water doesn't conduct electricity.[[/note]]
** Real-life plants store water, rely on water to grow, and play a huge role in preventing floods and storms from washing away the ground. In the games, the one-time-use Absorb Bulb and Luminous Moss items convert incoming Water-type attacks to stat boosts — additionally, the Cacnea and Maractus lines can potentially have Water Absorb as an ability, reflecting the particularly thirsty plants they're based off of.
* MakingASplash: Naturally, the Water-Type's arsenal revolves around all things water-based, mostly focusing on moving around large quantities of water, shooting streams of water (sometimes heated) and bubbles at your opponent and traveling around in the element itself. Some Water type moves involve more magical/precise control of their shape though, turning water into blades (Liquidation) or throwing stars (Water Shuriken).
* MegaMaelstrom: Hydro Vortex pulls the enemy under and unleashes one of these.
* RainDance: A Water-type move that makes it rain. See BattleInTheRain above.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: As explained above, nearly all water Pokémon will have some variation of an ice attack.
* SeaMonster: Many of the more powerful Water-types have a place in in-game lore as these, especially Gyarados, a vicious sea serpent whose rages can lay whole coastal cities to waste; [[TheWormThatWalks Wishiwashi]], an individually small and weak fish that can school in large groups to take the form of a giant, powerful, and [[TheDreaded widely feared]] monster; and [[OlympusMons Kyogre]], a massive leviathan and the primordial god of the sea.
* SecretArt:
** The ability Drizzle gives an instant Rain Dance effect when the user switches into battle if there is no weather or another weather in play. It lasts for 5 turns unless the user is holding a Damp Rock, in which case it lasts 8 turns. If Rain is already active, it ''does not'' reset or stack with the current turn limit. Prior to ''X and Y'', the effect was permanent unless it was overridden by another weather activating.
** Primal Kyogre has an enhanced version of Drizzle called Primordial Sea. It has the same Water-boosting effects, cannot be overridden by normal weather abilities or weather moves (only Desolate Land and Delta Stream), and makes it so all Fire-type moves except for Will-O-Wisp will always fail. Unlike Drizzle, it will not persist when the owner switches out or if it is supressed by Gastro Acid.
** The ability Mega Launcher increases the power of Aura Sphere, Dark Pulse, Water Pulse, Dragon Pulse, and Heal Pulse by 50%.[[note]][[DevelopersForesight It boosts Origin Pulse as well]], though this is more a curiosity than anything, as Kyogre doesn't get Mega Launcher naturally and changing its ability mid-battle requires several steps.[[/note]]
** The ability Torrent increases the power of Water moves by 50% when the user is at 1/3 or less HP.
** Water Pledge and Hydro Cannon, which are special moves only tutorable to Water-type starter Pokémon.
** The move Water Spout deals damage depending on the percentage of the user's current HP, with a higher percentage meaning higher damage.
** The ability Water Veil makes the owner immune to burns.
** The ability Water Bubble not only makes the owner immune to burns, it also reduces Fire-type damage by half, and doubles the power of the user's Water-type attacks.
* SimpleYetAwesome: Surf has no additional effects in battle aside from hitting everything around the user and all it does is attack with a giant wave of water. But, it's vital for getting around and is strong enough that it's actually a legitimately good move, unlike other Hidden Machines.
** Waterfall is another Water-type Hidden Machine (and like Surf eventually became a TM), and it's every bit as useful as Surf. While Surf is the more powerful move, Waterfall has a chance to cause flinching, and it's decently powerful and runs off the Attack stat, making it a common option for physical attackers like Gyarados.
** Scald is a decently powerful Water-type move [[note]]on par with Waterfall at 80 power[[/note]] with 100% accuracy and also has a 30% chance of inflicting the burn status, which deals damage over time and halves the afflicted Pokémon's attack. It's been a TM since its debut in Gen V, which was also the generation that [=TMs=] first became usable repeatedly. Because of this, it's pretty much assumed that any Pokémon that ''can'' have Scald probably ''will'', especially if it uses its Special Attack stat for attacking. Scald also has the nice ability to thaw out the user when used, though it will also thaw a frozen target.
* SpamAttack: Water Shuriken hits the target 2-5 times on each use, with each hit dealing weak damage.

** Withdraw increases the user's defense by 1 stage.
** Swift Swim doubles the user's speed during Rain.
** Storm Drain gives immunity to Water attacks and increases the user's Special Attack by 1 stage whenever hit by one. In a Double or Triple Battle, single-target Water-type moves used by an opponent or ally will be forced to target the Pokémon with Storm Drain.
* SuperMode: Blastoise, Slowbro, Gyarados, Swampert, and Sharpedo are capable of Mega Evolution. Kyogre can undergo Primal Reversion to become Primal Kyogre, while Greninja is capable of transforming into Ash-Greninja if it has the Battle Bond ability. Blastoise, Kingler, Lapras, Inteleon, Drednaw, ''and'' Urshifu (in its Fighting/Water Rapid Strike style) are all capable of Gigantamax (though Lapras's G-Max Move is not Water-type).
* StoneWall: Water types are often lauded with being one of the best defensive typings in the game. They only have two weakness and have four resistances. On top of that, quite a few Water-types also favors high HP and Defensive stats, but their speed tend to be fairly low.
* SwitchOutMove: Flip Turn inflicts damage by ramming into the target while propelled by water like a surfer, then switches the user out (again, like a surfer quickly changing direction).
* TruthInTelevision: Scald has a 30% chance to burn, which is higher than most Fire-type moves. There's a reason for that: water and steam transfer heat by direct contact instead of by radiation, making hot water and steam burns more painful (and sometimes fatal) than the common burns you get when you touch something hot, like a flame or a hot stovetop. Water also has a very high specific heat, which means the particles of steam carry huge amounts of damaging energy.
** Water's high specific heat also explains its resistances to both Fire and Ice — it takes a ''lot'' of thermal energy to change water's temperature.
* TurnsRed: Torrent boosts the power of Water-type moves when the user is at low health. It's exclusive to Water-type starter Pokémon, Panpour, and Simipour.

[[folder:Grass]]
!!Grass-Type (くさタイプ ''kusa taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[GreenThumb https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grass_types.png]]]]

Grass-type Pokémon is a misnomer. The type is associated with all plant life, autotrophic protista, even heterotrophic crinoids and fungi. They tend to be {{Mighty Glacier}}s, strong and sturdy like a tree, but slow to move, though there are several outliers, such as Jumpluff, Sceptile, Whimsicott, and Kartana, who are particularly [[FragileSpeedster speedy]]. It's one of the three starter types. As the name implies, they can generally be encountered wherever tall grass is found, but a few, like Cacturne and Abomasnow, can be found in places that seem inhospitable to plant life, proving their resilience.

Grass-types can be difficult to use effectively in battle, as they are heavily disadvantaged in many different ways. [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere They have FIVE weaknesses]] (Fire, Flying, Ice, Poison, and Bug), their attacks are resisted by '''seven''' types (Fire, Flying, Poison, Bug, Grass, Dragon, and Steel), and their movepools tend to be poor, [[PoorPredictableRock with many Grass-types lacking options other than Grass, Normal, and other attacks/moves from their secondary types]]. Despite this, they are good at spreading around status effects and passive damage through Leech Seed and the like. Grass types are also good at blocking such status effects themselves, as they're immune to powder moves and Leech Seed. Lastly, their positive defensive matchups can still be relied upon, as Grass is one of only three types to take less-than-neutral damage from Ground and Electric — and, as exemplified in the starter type triangle, also resists the ubiquitous Water type, [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere although its access to Ice moves makes handling Water-types themselves much riskier than taking a Water-type move]].
%%Known Specialists: Erika in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''; Gardenia in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Cilan in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Ramos in ''X and Y''; Mallow in ''Sun and Moon''; Milo in ''Sword and Shield''

* ActionInitiative: Grassy Glide has increased priority if Grassy Terrain is in effect.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Magical Leaf bypasses accuracy and evasion checks when it's used.

** Solar Beam and Solar Blade are strong attacks, but they have [[SuckingInLines a charge turn]] that telegraphs what you are doing to your opponent. Averted in Sunny weather where the charge turn is negated, but played straighter in Rain, Sandstorms, Hail or Strong Winds, which halve their power.
** Frenzy Plant is a Grass-type clone of Hyper Beam, which means you're a sitting duck after using it. Also, you can do more damage by spamming Energy Ball.
* BoringButPractical: Energy Ball isn't the most damaging Grass-type move, but it is accurate, has a good amount of PP, deals fairly good damage, and has a 10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage. This trope also applies to Seed Bomb, which has slightly less (but still decent) base damage than Energy Ball, but does physical damage, has 5 additional PP, and has no secondary effects.
* BulletSeed: The TropeNamer. It's an attack which shoots seeds at the opponent to hit 2-5 times.
* CastFromHitPoints: Wood Hammer does damage to the user equal to 1/3 of how much it deals to the target.
* ChargedAttack: Solar Beam and Solar Blade require a turn to gather sunlight before the attack executes on the second turn. If the weather is sunny, however, the charge turn is not required.
* ColorCodedElements: Grass-typing is represented as Green, and many Grass-types are varying shades of green and yellow.
* CriticalHitClass: Razor Leaf and Leaf Blade have high critical hit ratios.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Leaf Storm deals heavy damage to the target, but lowers the Special Attack of the user by two stages. Serperior is well-known for its Contrary ability, which ''raises'' its stats after using the move instead of lowering them.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors:

*** Strong: Ground, Rock, Water
*** Weak: Bug, Dragon, Fire, Flying, Grass, Poison, Steel

*** Strong: Electric, Grass, Ground, Water
*** Weak: Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice, Poison
* EnergyBall: An attack of this name is under the Grass type. The flavor text describes the attack drawing its power from nature, which could explain the Grass-type (and the attack animation in Generation VI has little leaf particles). Oddly, it's often found in Bug, Psychic, and Ghost-types' movepools.
* FantasticFlora: Just going by its attacks, the Grass-type includes plants whose seeds can plant themselves into other beings to cause insomnia or leech away health (Worry Seed and Leech Seed), and spores that can induce sleep and paralysis (Spore and Stun Spore).
* GardenGarment: Bellossom and Lilligant both have the appearance of wearing dresses fashioned out of petals, while Leavanny, Roselia, and Roserade have a leaf-based "cape".
* GreenThumb: Naturally, the Grass-Type specializes in plant-related combat.
* HealThyself:
** The Morelull line's [[SecretArt signature move]], Strength Sap, heals the user by the same amount of HP as the target's Attack stat, as well as lowering the target's Attack by one stage[[labelnote:*]]it's flavored as a LifeDrain attack, but technically doesn't qualify for that trope since it doesn't deal any damage[[/labelnote]].
** The move Synthesis immediately restores half of the user's HP. Like several other Grass-type moves, it's more effective [[ThePowerOfTheSun in sunny weather]]; however, like Solar Beam and Solar Blade, it's hindered by rain and sandstorms.
%% ** The move Jungle Healing heals both the user and its ally while curing them of status effects.
* HealingWinds: Aromatherapy, where the user releases a soothing scent that cures all status effects.
* HerdHittingAttack: Razor Leaf hits all opponents, while Petal Blizzard hits everyone but the user.
* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Grass-types have the most weaknesses of all types, at five (tied with Rock), and their attacks are resisted by seven types (tied with Bug). Several Grass Pokémon, like [[PsychicPowers Exeggcute, Exeggutor, Celebi,]] [[AnIcePerson Snover, and Abomasnow]], are notorious for having the most weaknesses of any Pokémon at '''six normal weaknesses and one double weakness each'''. Come Generation VI, we can add Grass/Dark-types Nuzleaf, Shiftry, and Cacturne to the list.
* LifeDrain: Several Grass moves, like Absorb and Mega Drain, deal damage while healing the user for 50% of the damage dealt. Leech Seed acts as a sort of continuous LifeDrain.
* LikeCannotCutLike: Grass moves do half damage against Grass-types. Leech Seed will also only fail on opposing Grass-types.
* LightEmUp: The move Solar Beam is a beam of [[ThePowerOfTheSun charged sunlight]].

** The Grass-type Z-Move is Bloom Doom; after the Pokémon turns the area into a flowery meadow, it releases a devastating flower explosion.
** The Grass-type Max Move is Max Overgrowth, which causing huge mushrooms to grow and damage the opponent with bursts of energy from them, also turning the ground into Grassy Terrain for five turns.
** Gigantamax Venusaur's exclusive G-Max Move, G-Max Vine Lash, has it spawning huge vines from its back and lashing the opponent with them and, for four turns, continuing to damage non-grass type Pokémon.
* LogicalWeakness: Grass' resistance towards Electric is explained in ''[[Recap/PokemonS6E7TreesACrowd Tree's a Crowd]]'', as Grass-types diffuse electricity into the trees or ground.
* MushroomMan: Though not plants, mushrooms are always associated with the Grass-type in this franchise. In terms of actual humanoid fungi, there are Amoonguss, a hopping toadstool with a face on its stem and a sort pair of arms ending in smaller mushroom caps, and Shiinotic, a diminutive humanoid with short legs, thin and spindly arms and fingers and a broad purple cap growing from its head. They evolve from more borderline examples of this trope that put more emphasis on "mushroom" than "man", Foongus — much like Amoonguss, but with only a pair of fingerless arms for limbs — and Morelull — an ambulatory cluster of hyphae with eyes and three mushrooms sprouting from its top. Breloom has a similar bipedal build, but more closely resembles a kangaroo.
* PetalPower: Petal Dance and Petal Blizzard are damage-dealing moves presented as their user buffeting its target with a flurry of razor-sharp petals.
* {{Planimal}}: By definition, any Pokémon that has the Grass type must be at least part plant (or fungus), and as such most Grass-types that aren't outright {{Plant Person}}s or {{Nature Spirit}}s of some sort will end up being this. Exactly how this works can vary: in some cases, the Pokémon is a "normal" animal in symbiosis with a plant or fungus (like the Paras line and their parasitic mushroom, or the Bulbasaur line, whose plant the Pokédex describes as growing from a seed planted in their back at birth). Others, like Sawsbuck, simply appear to be individual creatures with characteristics of both plants and animals.
* PoisonousPerson: Many have a secondary Poison-typing (especially in Gen I) and usually have access to Poison attacks.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: Just like real plants, some Grass-type abilities involve sunlight, like Synthesis, Solar Beam, and the abilities Chlorophyll and Leaf Guard.

** Chlorophyll doubles the user's Speed in sunny weather.
** Effect Spore has a 30% chance of inflicting paralysis, sleep, or poisoning on Pokémon that make contact with the possessor of the Ability. All Pokémon who have this Ability as a standard Ability are mushroom-based.
** Harvest has a 50% chance of recreating a consumed berry each turn (100% chance during sunny weather).
** Leaf Guard makes the user immune to StandardStatusEffects during sunny weather.
** Overgrow increases the power of Grass moves when the user is at 1/3 or less health.
** Leech Seed deals percentage-based LifeDrain damage to the opponent until the seeds are removed by Rapid Spin or switching out.
** Grass Pledge and Frenzy Plant, which are special moves only tutorable to Grass-type starter Pokémon.
** Spore makes the target fall asleep, but unlike most sleep-inducing moves, it has 100% accuracy. Others have much worse accuracy. Only mushroom-based Pokémon can learn this.
** Forest's Curse is a move that gives a Pokémon the Grass type on top of their existing typings, which, given Grass's [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere many weaknesses]], usually is advantageous. Kyurem in particular has ''10 weaknesses'' when afflicted with Forest's Curse, while the combinations Ground/Flying, Ground/Dragon, Dragon/Flying, Ice/Steel, Bug/Steel, Bug/Fighting, Dark/Psychic and Ice/Bug each gain an 8x weakness. %%Also Water/Ground, Water/Dragon, and Water/Flying to the move Freeze-Dry and Normal/Dark, Normal/Fighting, Fighting/Dark, Ice/Fighting, and Ice/Dark to the move Flying Press.
** Grassy Terrain creates a {{Geo Effect|s}} which gives all Pokémon on the ground RegeneratingHealth and increases the power of their Grass-type moves.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Grass Knot's Power is dependent on the target's weight. For the lightest of targets, it's a pathetic 20, but for the heaviest, it's a very strong 120.
* SpamAttack: Bullet Seed hits the opponent with a barrage of 2-5 weak hits on each use.
* StealthPun: Leaf Blade. It's often depicted as a blade of green energy in the anime, but in the games it's a green slash. But it's a blade used by Grass-type Pokémon. It's a '''literal''' ''blade of grass''.
* SupportPartyMember: Although [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere their offensive and defensive matchups]] are a little shaky, Grass-types tend to get many support/utility moves like Poisonpowder, Sleep Powder, Stun Spore, Spore, Leech Seed, Aromatherapy, and such, while also soaking up the first five.
* SuperMode: Venusaur, Sceptile, and Abomasnow are capable of Mega Evolution, and Venusaur, Rillaboom, Flapple, and Appletun are capable of Gigantamax, with the latter two notably sharing an appearance while doing so.
* TurnsRed: Overgrow boosts the power of Grass-type moves when the user is at 1/3 of their total health or lower. It's exclusive to Grass-type starter Pokémon (and Pansage and Simisage).
* UselessUsefulSpell: Petal Blizzard is tied with Leaf Blade as the strongest physical Grass-type move without any downsides, and even hits multiple opponents in Double, Triple, and Horde Battles. Everything capable of learning it has below-average Attack at best, making it largely worthless.
* WeakToFire: As part of the core ElementalRockPaperScissors, Grass-type starters always maintain a weakness to the fire type (when not counting Mega Sceptile, who is Grass/Dragon and is thus neutral to Fire).

[[folder:Electric]]
!!Electric-Type (でんきタイプ ''denki taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[ShockAndAwe https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/electric_types.png]]]]

Electric-types are known for their ability to control electricity. Most of them are known for [[FastAsLightning extraordinary speed stats]]. They are also capable of inflicting the paralysis status (though this ability isn't exclusive to electric-type moves). Paralysis cuts the affected Pokémon's speed, and there's also a chance that it can't move at all. Electric types are immune to Paralysis themselves. A lot of them are electricity-generating animals, but a number of machines are among the ranks. Electric rodents appear to be [[RecurringElement particularly common.]]

Offensively, it is effective against two of the most common types in the game (Water and Flying), while it is resisted by Grass-types, Dragon-types, and other Electric-types, with Ground-types being immune. Defensively, it resists Flying, Steel, and itself, and is only weak to Ground. [[GlassCannon To balance this, most Electric-types have weak defenses.]]

They mostly make their homes in urban regions, but some take up residence in caves and forests, the latter most memorably being where Pikachu are found.
%%Offensively: x2 Water, x2 Flying, x1/2 Dragon, x1/2 Electric, x1/2 Grass, x0 Ground
%%Defensively: x1/2 Electric, x1/2 Flying, x1/2 Steel, x2 Ground
%%Known Specialists: Lt. Surge in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''; Wattson in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Volkner in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Elesa in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Clemont in ''X and Y''; Sophocles in ''Sun and Moon''

* AllWebbedUp: Electroweb, which inflicts damage while lowering the target's Speed stat.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Shock Wave bypasses accuracy and evasion checks when used. Thunder confers the same effect during Rain, with the added bonus of hitting the target when they're in the middle of using Fly, Bounce, or Sky Drop.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: In ''Diamond and Pearl'', Thunder had a 30% chance to bypass Protect during Rain due to a glitch.
* AntiAir: One of the few types that are effective against Flying-types. Thunder bypasses the target's semi-invulnerable phase when they are using Fly, Bounce, or Sky Drop.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Thunder is the strongest widespread Electric attack in the game, but it has a less-than-perfect accuracy of 70%. Averted during Rain when its accuracy is perfect, but played straighter in sunny weather, which reduces its accuracy to 50%.
** Zap Cannon is tied with Volt Tackle as the strongest Electric move that's available to non-Legendaries and always inflicts [[StandardStatusEffects Paralysis]] on its target, but its accuracy is worse than Thunder's at ''50%''.
* BoringButPractical: Thunderbolt isn't the flashiest or strongest Electric attack, but it has above-average power (90 as of Gen VI) and 100% accuracy.
* CastFromHitPoints: Wild Charge and Volt Tackle deal damage to the user equal to a fraction of the damage they deal to their targets; 1/4 and 1/3, respectively.
* ChainLightning: Discharge and Parabolic Charge damage all adjacent Pokémon in Double and Triple battles.
* ColorCodedElements: The Electric-type icon is [[YellowLightningBlueLightning Yellow]], as is a majority of Electric-types themselves.
* ElementalRivalry: There appear to be a lot of pairs of [[LightningFireJuxtaposition Electric types with Fire types]]. See Fire-types for examples.

*** Strong: Flying, Water
*** Weak: Dragon, Electric, Grass
*** Can't Hit: Ground

*** Strong: Electric, Flying, Steel
*** Weak: Ground
* FragileSpeedster: They tend to have above-average or high Speed, but are not very durable. In Gen VI, they even gain immunity to paralysis, which would otherwise terribly slow them down.
* HarmlessElectrocution:
** In RealLife, electrocution can be extremely dangerous or even fatal. In-game, the worst it'll ever do is cause a Pokémon to faint.
** Electrify (the SecretArt of Helioptile and Heliolisk) causes the target's next attack to register Electric damage, with the flavor being that the user of Electrify was able to infuse the target with electricity without actually harming them at all. Ion Deluge is a somewhat less effective version, as it only converts Normal-type moves, but it's available to more than one evolutionary line.
* HerdHittingAttack: Electroweb hits all opponents, while Discharge and Parabolic Charge hit everyone but the user.
* ImprovisedLightningRod: The ability Lightning Rod draws all Electric moves toward the user, confers immunity to those moves if they don't already have it, and gives a free boost to Special Attack each time they are hit by them (unless they're a Ground-type). It's mostly Electric-types themselves who have this ability, but a few Ground-types gain it as well (such as [[AscendedMeme Rhydon]]). It's also possessed by Mega Sceptile (its tail acts as the lightning rod), and most notably, one pair of Water Pokémon (Goldeen and Seaking — it's the horn that acts as the makeshift lightning rod).
* KidAppealCharacter: Every generation has an Electric-type rodent with generally low stats, meant to replicate the appeal of Pikachu.
* LastDiscMagic: Thunder is usually available to buy as a TM late in the game or can be learned naturally by many Electric-types during the late- or post-game.
* LightEmUp: Many Electric-type Pokémon can learn [[BigCreepyCrawlies Signal Beam]]. Some Electric-type Pokémon are themselves strongly associated with light, such as Luxray, Lanturn, and Ampharos.
* LikeCannotCutLike: Electric-types resist themselves.
* LimitBreak:
** The Electric-type Z-Move is Gigavolt Havoc, a spear-like bolt of devastating lightning.
** The Electric-type Max Move is Max Lightning, which turns the ground into Electric Terrain.
** Gigantamax Toxtricity's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Stun Shock, which causes Toxtricity to slam its tail on opponents like a guitar, and randomly either poisons or paralyzes them.
* TheParalyzer: Thunder Wave is the series’ bread-and-butter example, and Electric-types in general are strongly associated with paralysis.
* PoorPredictableRock: Electric types usually have fairly limited movepools on the special side, with many having to rely on Hidden Power for type coverage. Electric types on the physical side have it just as bad or even worse in a sense. That is while they often do have a wider range of type coverage with their physical moves, their STAB moves are very limited when it comes to good choices. The only widespread physical Electric type move of above average power is Wild Charge, which does recoil damage, something the often frail Electric types don't appreciate. All of the other options are substantially weaker or are signature moves restricted to one or two Pokémon.
* PowerfulButInaccurate: Zap Cannon is one of the strongest Electric-type moves and will always inflict paralysis if it hits, but it only has 50% accuracy.
* RecurringElement: In each Generation, there's always at least one Electric-type rodent that has a design similar to Pikachu.

** The ability Static inflicts Paralysis 30% of the time to opponents that use contact moves on the user.
** The ability Motor Drive makes the user immune to Electric attacks and increases their Speed by 1 stage whenever hit by one.
** The ability Volt Absorb also gives immunity to Electric attacks and heals the user by 25% of their max HP when hit by one.
** The move Electro Ball is a move that deals more damage the faster the user is compared to the target.
** The move Volt Tackle is exclusive to the Pikachu line and has high power at the cost of dealing damage to the user.
** The move Electric Terrain is a field move that lasts for 5 turns (8 if the user holds a Terrain Extender). It prevents grounded Pokémon from falling asleep and increases the power of Electric moves used by grounded Pokémon by 50%.
** The move Nuzzle is a very weak attack learned only by the [[RecurringElement Pikachu line and its Kid-Appealing successors]], but it will always inflict Paralysis on the target.
** The move Parabolic Charge is somewhat weak, but hits all opponents in Double, Triple, and Horde Battles and has a LifeDrain effect.
* ShockAndAwe: The Electric-type's specialty, of course.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Electro Ball's damage is dependent on the difference between the user's and target's Speed; the faster the user is than the target, the more damage it will do.
* StandardStatusEffects: Most Electric attacks have a 10%-30% chance to paralyze the target, which lowers their speed by 50% and causes them to lose a turn from being "fully paralyzed" 25% of the time. The move Thunder Wave inflicts it 90% of the time without doing damage, while Nuzzle and Zap Cannon inflict damage in addition to always causing it ([[PowerfulButInaccurate though Zap Cannon has 50% accuracy]]).
** Since Generation VI, Electric-types are now immune to paralysis themselves.
* StaticElectricity: The ability Static adds a chance of causing paralysis every time the owner is hit by a physical move and increases the chances of finding Electric-type Pokémon in the wild.

** Charge doubles the power of the next Electric-type attack used and increases the user's Special Defense by 1 stage.
** Magnetic Flux raises the Defense and Special Defense of all allies with the Plus or Minus abilities.
** Plus and Minus give a 50% Special Attack increase when an ally on the field with either ability is present. This isn't considered a stat boost, meaning this stacks on a multiplier instead of additively with stat bonuses from StatusBuff moves like Nasty Plot.
** Lightning Rod increases the user's Special Attack by 1 stage whenever they are hit with an Electric-type attack, unless they are already immune to Electric; it also draws in and nullifies Electric-type attacks.
* SuperMode: Ampharos and Manectric are capable of Mega Evolution, while Pikachu and Toxtricity are capable of Gigantamax.
* SwitchOutMove: Volt Switch, which inflicts damage before forcing the user to switch out. The user won't switch out if the target is immune to the move.
* UndergroundMonkey: Alolan Geodude and its evolved forms are part Electric-Type.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Most of the Electric Pokémon that learn Electro Ball aren't that fast to begin with.[[note]]Only Voltorb, Electrode, Electabuzz, Mega Manectric, Emolga, and Galvantula are fast enough to abuse it, and even then, the opponent needs to be ''[[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Electro_Ball significantly]]'' slower for the move to outdamage [[BoringButPractical Thunderbolt]].[[/note]]
* WonderTwinPowers: The Plus and Minus abilities, originally exclusive to Doubles-gimmicky Plusle and Minun and made available to a few other Electric-types as a Hidden Ability, increase their wielders' Special Attack stats when paired together. As of Gen V, they also activate when paired with themselves.
* YellowLightningBlueLightning: Electric attacks typically have a yellow coloration (although blue has not been unheard of), while the Pokémon themselves also tend to be yellow or blue.

[[folder:Ice]]
!!Ice-Type (こおりタイプ ''ko'ori taipu'')
[[quoteright:347:[[AnIcePerson https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_inline_mta510shid1r9lhsj.png]]]]

Pokémon with the ability to control ice, snow, and/or cold temperatures in some manner. A lot of them are based on arctic animals, animals found in cold water, or personifications of snow and ice. Many Ice moves can inflict the very debilitating Freeze status, which renders the victim virtually immobile (unless you are lucky enough for it to thaw out). Ice-types are hardy enough to be immune to Freezing themselves, and as of Generation VII, Sheer Cold. Ice is typically one of the harder types to find, as they only reside in colder areas. They also tend to appear late in the game, and Ice-type specialists are either among the last two Gym Leaders fought in the region or a member of the Elite Four. Ice is the rarest type as of Generation VII.

Ice has a tenuous status on the type chart. While Ice-type attacks are strong against many Pokémon (Grass, Flying, Ground, and Dragon, but are resisted by Water, Ice, Fire, and Steel), their defensive capabilities are ''much'' worse. Ice-type Pokémon only resist Ice-type attacks, and have ''[[KryptoniteIsEverywhere a lot]]'' of weaknesses (Rock, Fighting, Fire, and Steel).

When a hailstorm is in effect, Ice-Type Pokémon take no residual damage from it.
%%Offensively: x2 Grass, x2 Ground, x2 Flying, x2 Dragon, x1/2 Water, x1/2 Fire, x1/2 Ice, x1/2 Steel
%%Defensively: x1/2 Ice, x2 Fire, x2 Rock, x2 Fighting, x2 Steel
%%Known Specialists: Lorelei in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''; Pryce in ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''; Glacia in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Candice in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Brycen in ''Black and White''; Wulfric in ''X and Y''; Melony in ''Shield''

* ActionInitiative: Ice Shard, as an Ice-type iteration of Quick Attack, will let the user move first.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Blizzard will bypass accuracy and evasion checks during Hail.
* AnIcePerson: Predictably, the Ice-type's abilities are all cryogenic in nature.
* AntiAir: Ice is one of the few types to be super effective against Flying. Slightly downplayed in that, unlike Rock and Electric, Ice does not resist flying.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: In ''Diamond and Pearl'', Blizzard had a 30% chance to bypass Protect during Hail due to a glitch.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Blizzard is the strongest widespread Ice attack, but has iffy accuracy at 70%. Averted in Hail, where it always hits.
** The Kyurem formes' {{Secret Art}}s, Freeze Shock and Ice Burn, have a charge turn that telegraph what you're doing to your opponent. This means that they will always end up hitting an Ice-resistant Pokémon if your opponent is even ''mildly'' competent.
* BoringButPractical: Ice Beam isn't the flashiest or most damaging Ice-type move out there, but it does reliable damage and is learned by quite the array of Pokémon, making it a good choice for both Ice-type Pokémon and non-Ice-types looking to nail opponents with an Ice weakness that would otherwise walk all over them.
* ChargedAttack: Ice Burn and Freeze Shock require a turn to charge before inflicting heavy damage.
* ColorCodedElements: Ice-types are represented by light-blue, and many Ice-types share the colorization.
* TheDragonslayer: Before Fairy came along, Ice was ''the'' type for nailing Dragons. It was Dragon's only weakness outside itself, and up until Generation V, most fully-evolved Dragon-types had a double weakness to Ice.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors
** Offense
*** Strong: Dragon, Flying, Grass, Ground
*** Weak: Fire (Gen II-Forward), Ice, Steel, Water
** Defense
*** Strong: Ice
*** Weak: Fighting, Fire, Rock, Steel
* FreezeRay: The bread-and-butter Ice attack, Ice Beam.
* GlassCannon: From a typing standpoint, Ice hits four types super-effectively and, in practice, many of the Pokémon weak to Ice are doubly weak to Ice. On the other hand, at least a quarter of all Ice-types have a double weakness of their own, and the type's lack of resistances makes it difficult for an Ice-type to rely on ElementalRockPaperScissors to take a hit.
* HairTriggerAvalanche: The move Avalanche doubles in power if the user has been attacked already in that turn, capturing this trope's flavor of an avalanche being something specifically provoked by the victim, as opposed to other natural disasters. In later games, the user's attacking animation evokes this trope even further, appearing to be screaming, depending on the species.
* HarmlessFreezing: In RealLife, exposure to extreme cold and freezing temperatures has a high risk of inflicting frostbite. Here, the worst it can do is make you unable to attack for the rest of the battle. That said, there's no way to freeze opponents ''without'' damaging them first...
* HerdHittingAttack: Blizzard, Glaciate, Icy Wind, and Powder Snow hit both opponents in Doubles.
* HumanSnowball: Ice Ball, as the user deliberately encases ''itself'' in ice before mowing down the opponent. Oddly enough, the anime contradicts this by making it a projectile attack.
* KillItWithIce: Their approach to battle, naturally — bombard the opponent with snow storms, ice, and blasts of chilling wind to defeat them.
* IceMagicIsWater:
** In Generation I, Ice-type moves actually dealt normal damage to Fire-type Pokémon rather than resisted, which the part-Flying Charizard and Moltres didn't appreciate. Additionally, some Water-types are part-Ice, and can learn Ice-type moves.
** Many Ice-type Pokémon that lack a secondary Water typing can still learn Water Pulse by TM.
* LateCharacterSyndrome: Due to most [[SortingAlgorithmOfThreateningGeography ice and snow-themed places being set later in the game then other places]], Ice-typed Pokémon have a tendency to be ignored since most players would have their in-game team already in place. They also tend to evolve at higher levels than other types, the earliest being Smoochum at level 30.
* LastDiscMagic:
** Blizzard is usually available to buy as a TM late in the game or can be learned naturally by many Ice-types during the late- or post-game.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', Ice Beam is the final TM you receive from the Gym Leaders. In other games in which there's an Ice-type Gym Leader (who also gives away an Ice-type TM), s/he is the seventh out of eight.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' effectively turns the entire type into this. You don't get access to the area where nearly all Ice-type Pokémon live (and the Z-Crystal is located) until you're ready to challenge the Elite Four, and the only Ice [=TMs=] available before you reach the final island are Hail and Aurora Veil, neither of which are direct attacks.
** Finally averted in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', where Seaward Cave, an optional early area in ''Sun and Moon'', became both mandatory and colder. Smoochum and Delibird are both part of the walking encounter table, and returning with Lapras Surf, itself obtained fairly early on the second island, will net you the Frost Breath TM and a chance at catching a Seel. Similarly, in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', getting lucky with the weather in the Wild Area can net you a Vanillite or Snover before even tackling the first gym.
* LightEmUp: Aurora Beam, a weaker cousin to Ice Beam (though with a different effect), involves a beam of rainbow-colored light.
* LikeCannotCutLike: The only type Ice Pokémon resist against is themselves.
* LimitBreak:
** The Ice-type Z-Move is Subzero Slammer, in which the user drastically drops the temperature and freezes the target inside a massive ice crystal which proceeds to shatter, inflicting great damage.
** The Ice-type Max Move is Max Hailstorm. It summons huge hailstones which crash into the opponent and break apart into millions of pieces which cause, you guessed it, a hailstorm for five turns.
** Gigantamax Lapras's exclusive G-Max Move, G-Max Resonance, summons a huge hailstone that drops onto the opponent and breaks apart into an Aurora Veil that reduces damage taken for five turns.
* LuckBasedMission: Wanna see a Frozen Pokémon? Good luck, since there's no move that guarantees that it will be inflicted like the other StandardStatusEffects (accuracy aside) and the highest chance of it happening normally is 10% (the move Secret Power has a 30% chance of freezing, but only when used in the few-and-far between icy areas). This is likely to restrict what is arguably the most crippling status condition in the game; without items, the frozen Pokémon is completely helpless unless the equally low 10% chance of it thawing out of the ice occurs. And in Gen I, their only hope of defrosting without items is getting hit with a Fire-type move or if the opponent uses Haze; otherwise they're completely hosed.
* MightyGlacier: Puns aside, many Ice-types have great offensive power and decent defenses but poor speed. Avalugg and Regice are literal takes on this trope, being Mighty Glaciers (Avalugg is physical-oriented, Regice is special-oriented) that are also actual animated glaciers.
* {{Nerf}}: In the original ''Red and Green'', Blizzard had a 30% chance to Freeze and 90% accuracy, and any Frozen Pokémon would stay Frozen ''permanently'' (unless you had a Ice Heal, Full Heal, or Full Restore, which you couldn't use in Player Versus Player matches, or the opponent used [[GoodBadBugs Haze]] or a damaging Fire-type move except for Fire Spin). International releases reduced the freeze chance to 10%, and Gen II onwards changed Blizzard's accuracy to 70%, made it so that a Frozen Pokémon has a 10% chance to cure itself every turn (even the same turn it was Frozen), introduced moves that could be used while Frozen that would also thaw out the user, and prevents Freeze from being inflicted during Sunny Day. Contrary to popular belief, however, if a frozen Pokémon is sent out during harsh sunlight, it will not thaw out faster.
* ObviousRulePatch: Generation VI nerfed critical hits to do 1.5x damage instead of 2x. To account for this, the power of Frost Breath (and its counterpart Storm Throw) was adjusted from 40 to 60, which actually still makes it somewhat more powerful than before when factoring the crit in.[[note]]In Generation V, Frost Breath was weaker than Ice Beam even with the crit factored in; the buff to Frost Breath (and slight nerf to Ice Beam) in Generation VI puts the two on even ground.[[/note]]
* OneHitKO: Sheer Cold can instantly knock out the opponent, with an accuracy of 30% if the user and target are at equal levels. It's also the only move of this type that no Pokémon has an immunity to via ElementalRockPaperScissors, until Generation VII where Ice-types are immune to it. Shedinja is also immune to it because of Wonder Guard.
* PowerEqualsRarity: Ice is easily one of the best attacking types in the series. However, the Ice-''types'' capable of getting STAB on them are rare and usually reserved for the endgame — by contrast, the Water-types that can learn Ice moves are ubiquitous, but can't hit as hard with them.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: They're immune to being frozen and resist their own attacks.
* ScissorsCutsRock: Normally, Ice-type attacks aren't very effective on Water-types, but the SecretArt Freeze Dry ''is'' super-effective on them as a special property.
* SecretArt:
** The ability Ice Body heals the owner for 1/16 of their total HP at the end of each turn during Hail.
** The ability Snow Cloak boosts Evasion by 1 stage during Hail.
** The ability Slush Rush doubles the owner's speed during Hail.
** The ability Snow Warning gives an instant Hail effect when the user switches into battle if there is no weather or another weather in play. It lasts for 5 turns unless the user is holding an Icy Rock, in which case it lasts 8 turns. If Hail is already active, it ''does not'' reset or stack with the current turn limit. Prior to ''X and Y'', the effect was permanent unless it was overridden by another weather activating.
** The ability Refrigerate turns Normal-type moves into Ice-type moves and grants a 20% damage bonus in addition to STAB (30% in Gen VI).
** The move Frost Breath always inflicts a CriticalHit, unless the target has the ability Battle/Shell Armor or is under the effect of Lucky Chant.
** The move Freeze-Dry [[ScissorsCutsRock hits Water-types super effectively]].
** The move Aurora Veil creates a barrier that reduces damage from both physical and special moves, but it can only be used during a hailstorm.
* SpamAttack: Icicle Spear hits the target 2-5 times on each use. Cloyster can notably hit a target with this move 5 times due to having Skill Link as a possible ability.
* StandardStatusEffects: Associated with the Freeze status, with many of their attacks having a 10% chance to inflict it(notably, there is no non-damaging move that inflicts Freeze, ala Toxic, Thunder Wave, or Will-O-Wisp). Ice-types themselves cannot be frozen (unless it's done by Tri Attack in Generation II).
* StatusBuffDispel: Haze is under this type, despite its animation being a thick cloud of black smoke. Mist [[InvertedTrope inverts]] it by preventing stats from being lowered.
* SuperMode: Glalie and Abomasnow are capable of Mega Evolution, while Lapras alone is able to Gigantamax.
* UndergroundMonkey: Alolan Vulpix, Alolan Sandshrew, Galarian Darumaka, Galarian Mr. Mime and their evolved forms are Ice-Types.
* WeakToFire: Fire resists and is super-effective against Ice-types; however, this is averted by the large sum of part-Water Ice Pokémon, the two part-Rock types, and Kyurem.

[[folder:Psychic]]
!!Psychic-Type / Esper-Type (エスパータイプ ''esupaa taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[PsychicPowers https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/psychic_types.png]]]]

Pokémon with various types of mental or magical abilities, they have a tendency to be used whenever a particular Pokémon has a vague sort of magical power that doesn't fit any of the other elemental types. They are usually found in more urban environments.

On paper, Psychic-Types were supposed to be weak to Ghost and Bug, but [[FakeBalance both of those types were rare with only weak attacks]] (not helped by a glitch that made it outright ''immune'' to Ghost), and a quarter of all Pokémon in Gen I were part Poison (including the only Ghost-types at the time, as well as the only Bug-types with Bug-type attacks worth a quasi-significant fraction of a fuck). Add on the facts that Psychic-types favored the Special stat, which governed Special Attack ''and'' Special Defense, that there were a ''lot'' of strong Psychic-types (including [[OlympusMons Mewtwo]], one of the most powerful Pokémon in the series), and that Psychic was only resisted by itself, and [[InfinityPlusOneElement Psychic was one of the best types in the game]]. This reign of terror ended with the introduction of 2 types, Dark and Steel, both of which were defensively strong against Psychic attacks (Dark-types being flat-out immune, as well as offensively strong against Psychic-types), the introduction of better Bug and Ghost moves, and splitting apart the Special stat into Special Attack and Special Defense. Furthermore, Psychic is only resistant to itself and Fighting, making it the second-worst defensive typing after Ice. Needless to say, the Psychic-type is no longer a GameBreaker. Nonetheless, Psychic is the type with the most [[OlympusMons Legendary and Mythical Pokémon]] associated with it, with all generations having at least two of them being at least part Psychic, with the exception of Gen VI (which only had one). Its also the third type to be paired with every other type after Flying and Water.

%%Offensively: x2 Poison, x2 Fighting, x1/2 Psychic, x1/2 Steel, x0 Dark
%%Defensively: x1/2 Psychic, x1/2 Fighting, x2 Bug, x2 Ghost, x2 Dark
%%Known Specialists: Sabrina in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''; Will in ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''; Liza and Tate in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Lucian in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Caitlin in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Olympia in ''X and Y''; Faba in ''Sun and Moon''
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* AlienAmongUs: Implied with at least some Psychic-types, confirmed with Deoxys, Elgyem, Beheeyem, the Cosmog line, and Necrozma.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Hyperspace Hole bypasses accuracy and evasion checks when used.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Future Sight and Hyperspace Hole ignore protection moves (Protect, Mat Block, etc.) when they deal damage.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Future Sight has good power, but it takes two turns before the attack hits — more than enough time for the opponent to switch to something that can tank or nullify the attack. (Don't try using Protect against it, though. It doesn't work.)
** Stored Power increases damage based on the amount of status buffs the user has. As it initially has a power of 20, it doesn't seem that useful, but with every single stat buffed up to maximum, the power skyrockets to 860, over three times more powerful than Explosion. Getting to that point requires an entire team with Baton Pass and stat-boosting moves or a [[MasterOfNone Smeargle]] with Moody/Acupressure, and it takes a while to fully play out. And even if you do manage to pull off the stat boosts, your opponent could still completely nullify the attack with a Dark-type Pokémon and/or just erase your hard work with Haze or a SwitchOutMove.
*** That said, buffing it all the way to 860 is essentially ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill territory. It's fully possible with the right setup to unleash a 260 power Stored Power on ''turn 1'' in a Double Battle.
** Necrozma's Prismatic Laser is essentially a slightly stronger Psychic-type Hyper Beam, which means using it forces the user to spend a turn sitting around doing nothing... and it could do more damage by spamming Psychic or Photon Geyser anyways.
* BarrierBustingBlow: Psychic Fangs breaks Reflect, Light Screen, and Aurora Veil before dealing damage, unless the target is immune or if the move misses.
* BarrierWarrior: The two main screen moves, Reflect and Light Screen, are both Psychic-type — and so is the move Barrier, in fact. Mr. Mime is a particularly noteworthy example, as it is generally associated with all three moves (its original Japanese name is even "Barrierd").
* BrainCriticalMass: Many of them are said to be incredibly intelligent.
* CastingAShadow: Many of them can learn [[BoringButPractical Shadow Ball]], which can help them cover their weakness to Ghosts and hit other Psychic-types.
* ColorCodedElements: The Psychic-type icon is deep pink/magenta, though Psychic-types themselves come in a variety of colors.
* ConfusionFu: Psychic-type mythical and legendary Pokémon, like [[LightningBruiser Mewtwo]] and [[FragileSpeedster Azelf]], are known for having vast and varied movepools, often for both physical and special attack. As for the other Psychic-types, their movepools usually range from decent to outright barren.
* CounterAttack: Mirror Coat, which only works against Special attacks and doesn't affect Dark-types, hits the opponent for double the damage the user took.
* CriticalHitClass: Generation 4 added several new moves with a higher-than-normal chance of landing a CriticalHit. The Psychic type got Psycho Cut, an extremely spammable physical attack with decent power and 100% accuracy that is restricted to a very small number of Pokémon, even less of whom posess the stats to effectively use it.[[note]] By level up: Kadabra, Alakazam, Mewtwo, Absol, Gallade, Cresellia, Inkay, Malamar, Kartana, and Necrozma. By breeding: Drowzee, Meditite, Spinda, and Pawniard. [[/note]] Even after ''Sword and Shield'' made Psycho Cut a TM, which expanded the number of Pokémon that can learn it, some of which have the Attack to use it well, the number of Pokémon that can learn it is still relatively small.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Deoxys's SecretArt, Psycho Boost, deals massive damage but lowers the user's Special Attack stat by two stages when it hits.
* DreamStealer: The move Dream Eater not only damages the target, [[LifeDrain but also restores the user's HP]], on the grounds that the user is devouring the target's dream. It should be said, though, that while this is a Psychic move, it's at least as much associated with Ghost-types.
* EasyAmnesia: So easy that Pokémon can inflict it on themselves via the Psychic move Amnesia, sharply raising Sp. Def.
* EldritchAbomination: Not to the extent of Ghost-types, mind you, but Psychic-types can get pretty freaking weird. Special mention goes to the Ralts line (in the Amorphous egg group despite being humanoid, capable of creating small black holes, etc.), Unown (a RealityWarping HiveMind from another dimension that vaguely resembles the letters of the English alphabet), Mewtwo (man-made monstrosity intended to be as powerful as the legendary Mew but [[GoneHorriblyRight gone horribly awry]]), and Necrozma (a being from Ultra Space that's [[SiliconBasedLife made of black prisms]], is violent and aggressive, steals light from worlds, and [[spoiler:is the remains of a [[FallenAngel once-benevolent light dragon]]]]).
* ElementalRockPaperScissors
** Offense
*** Strong: Fighting, Poison
*** Weak: Psychic, Steel
*** Can't Hit: Dark
** Defense
*** Strong: Fighting, Psychic
*** Weak: Bug, Dark, Ghost (Gen II-Forward)
*** Immune: Ghost (Gen I Only)
* TheEmpath: Many of them are skilled at sensing emotion.
* FailedFutureForecast: Prior to Gen V, the move Future Sight had 90% accuracy, meaning there was a 10% chance your Pokémon would "foresee an attack" that never actually came to pass. It's since been boosted to 100% accuracy, though that's still not failproof, especially since it's now affected by ElementalRockPaperScissors (meaning that Dark-types NoSell it).
* FreakyFridayFlip: The Psychic repertoire includes a number of "swap" moves in which the user exchanges some attribute with the target: Power Swap exchanges their Attack and Sp. Atk values; Guard Swap exchanges their Defense and Sp. Def values; Skill Swap exchanges their abilities; and Heart Swap exchanges their stat changes.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Many Pokémon of this type have appearances inspired by genetics and biology (Deoxys, Solosis and its evolutions) or explicitly created through this method (Mewtwo).
* GreenThumb: They frequently have access to Grass-type moves, usually [[BoringButPractical Energy Ball]] and [[SituationalDamageAttack Grass Knot]].
* GravityMaster: The move Gravity, which negates the Ground immunity conferred by the Flying-type and Levitate, as well as inhibiting certain airborne moves like Bounce, falls under the Psychic banner.
* HealingShiv: The move Heal Pulse, which restores HP but cannot target the user.
* HeroicSacrifice: The move Healing Wish, which makes the user faint but restores the HP and status of the next Pokémon to switch in. [[OlympusMons Cresselia's]] SecretArt Lunar Dance is an even better version that restores PP as well.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: In the original games, a player would have an incredibly difficult time without at least one Psychic of their own, and would have no way to counter [=NPC=]s' Psychics except with sheer LevelGrinding. This was remedied by the introduction of the [[CombatPragmatist Dark]]-type and to a lesser extent the [[ExtraOreDinary Steel]]-type in [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Gen II]], as well as making Psychic types weak to Ghost, and giving them and Bug types stronger moves. Even in the later games, they are still useful to have, as both of the types they are good against only have one or two other weaknesses [[note]]Fighting is otherwise weak to Flying and Fairy, while Poison is otherwise weak to Ground.[[/note]]
* LightEmUp: For the longest time, it was the closest in-game equivalent. Starting with Gen II, Pokémon associated with the [[ThePowerOfTheSun sun]] and light were cast as this type, including angelic Pokémon like Gardevoir[[note]]now part-Fairy as well[[/note]], Cresselia, and Celebi. They were always contrasted against the traditionally "dark" Ghost and Dark types, albeit ''weak'' to them. Even after the debut of Fairy-types, the ''de facto'' sun Pokémon, Solgaleo, is Psychic/Steel, and its moon-themed counterpart, Lunala, is Psychic/Ghost. Necrozma takes it to its logical conclusion, with it absorbing light, having [[FrickinLaserBeams Prismatic Laser]] and Photon Geyser for {{Secret Art}}s, and [[spoiler:having a true form made of light]]. Further supporting this is the fact that many of them can learn the Bug-type move Signal Beam (itself an example of LightEmUp), which helps them deal with Dark-types.
* LightIsGood: Like Fairy-types, many Psychic-types are angelic and nice, such as Cresselia, Gardevoir (who also happens to be Fairy-type), the lake spirits (Azelf, Uxie, and Mesprit), and the Cosmog line.
* LightIsNotGood: Originally, Psychic-types were very sinister, with the likes of Drowzee, known for preying on children in particular as its evolved form Hypno, in its ranks. Mewtwo, the original "evil" Pokémon, is a Psychic-type's mascot, contrasting strongly against more angelic Pokémon within it. Coming after Mewtwo is Malamar, a Psychic/Dark type who willfully tries to control the minds of people and Pokémon, and portrayed as one of the few "evil" Pokémon in the anime. Then there is Necrozma, who is not only [[NonStandardCharacterDesign an all-black prism creature that looks more robot than Pokémon]] (and has powers centered around light), but is also the BigBad of ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'' (and indeed the first Pokémon to be the villain of a main game).
* LikeCannotCutLike: Psychic-types resist Psychic-type attacks.
* LimitBreak:
** The Psychic-type Z-Move is [[MindRape Shattered Psyche]], in which the user controls the target and hurts them by hurling them around.
** The Psychic-type Max Move is Max Mindstorm, in which the user sends a huge blast of pure psychic energy at the opponent which creates Psychic Terrain for five turns.
** Gigantamax Orbeetle's signature G-Max Move is G-Max Gravitas, in which it sends out a huge beam from its underside, so powerful that it intensifies Gravity for five turns.
* {{Nerf}}: ''Gold and Silver'' introduced the Dark- and Steel-types to resist their attacks (and in Dark's case, hit Psychic for super-effective damage), and more powerful Bug- and Ghost-type moves were introduced.
* ManBitesMan: Psychic Fangs deals damage with the user's teeth.
* NonElemental: Psywave (all games) and Future Sight (pre-Generation V) do not take ElementalRockPaperScissors into account or get a [=STAB=] bonus when they deal damage.
* OlympusMons: Psychic is the most common type for legendary and mythical Pokémon combined, with a whopping 19/74 of them boasting a Psychic typing. Perhaps most notably, this includes the original strongest Pokémon Mewtwo and the entirety of Gen 7's mascot trio (which comes to five, including Cosmog and Cosmoem).
* PowerCopying: Trace (an Ability) and Role Play (a Move) can copy most Abilities. Each has a [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Trace few]] [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Role_Play exceptions]] they can't copy.
* PrimalFear: Because Psychic Pokémon tend to refer to mental ability and the mind, their weaknesses are also based on common fears — Bugs, the Dark, and Ghosts.
* PsychicPowers: This is their gimmick. The Psychic-type has access to a vast array of powers, like telepathy, telekinesis, precognition, and much more.
* RandomizedDamageAttack: Psywave is an odd variant in that it inflicts a random amount of damage ranging from 50% to 150% of the user's level, making it a hybrid of this and [[FixedDamageAttack its total opposite]]. Also, it doesn't inflict type damage (but Dark-types can still stop it).
* RealityWarper: Some Psychic-type moves create bizarre effects on the battlefield, as seen with the three Room attacks. Trick Room sets an effect where slower Pokémon go before faster ones. Wonder Room swaps the Defense and Special Defense stats of everyone. Magic Room negates the effects of items. A move similar to Trick Room, Speed Swap, swaps the Speed stats of the user and the target. This even goes for human psychics, such as Inver, who is able to switch all weaknesses and resistances around in Inverse Battles.
* RestingRecovery: Rest, a move which cures status conditions and restores the user's HP at the cost of falling asleep, is under this type.
* ScissorsCutsRock:
** Miracle Eye allows Psychic-type moves to affect Dark-types, who are normally immune to them. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that very few Dark-types have a secondary typing of [[PoisonousPerson Poison]] or [[BareFistedMonk Fighting]].
** Psyshock, despite being a special type move, actually deals physical type damage, giving Psychic-types a strong move against special walls. The same is true for Psystrike.
* SecretArt:
** Psyshock, [[ArmorPiercingAttack which uses the opponent's Defense stat while using the attacker's Special Attack stat]]. Psystrike is an even stronger version that is the signature move of [[OlympusMons Mewtwo]].
** The ability Forewarn reveals the move with the highest power that the opponent knows. In the ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' spinoffs, the user will occasionally dodge attacks, even if the attack cannot miss.
** Psychic Terrain protects all Pokémon on the ground from [[ActionInitiative moves with increased priority]]. It also gives a hefty 50% boost to other Psychic-type attacks.
* {{Seers}}: Some Psychic-type moves involve divining the future in some way, such as Future Sight (which has the added bonus of dealing damage). The Ability Forewarn also qualifies, as the user's powers warn it of the opponent's strongest move.
* SituationalSword: Synchronoise only works if the user and target share a type.
* SquishyWizard: Most of them hit very hard with Special Attack, but are not good at defense. Alakazam is a notable example: it's ludicrously fast and has Special Attack to match, but neutral physical attacks are incredibly painful, and super-effective physical attacks are likely going to take it down in one hit. They do tend to have good Special Defense, though.
* StarfishAliens: Some Psychic-types are implied to be extraterrestrial in origin and many of these are pretty weird-looking. Deoxys, Elgyem, Beheeyem, and (if one counts extradimensional beings) Necrozma are the only ones for whom this is ''confirmed'' to be the case, but Starmie also has this suggested of it.
* StatusBuff:
** Calm Mind increases the user's Special Attack and Special Defense by 1 stage each.
** Meditate increases Attack by 1 stage.
** [[SuperSpeed Agility]] increases Speed by 2 stages.
** Reflect and Light Screen decrease the damage taken from Physical attacks and Special attacks, respectively, by all allies by 50% in Single Battles and 33% in Double or Triple Battles. They aren't dispelled by switching and stack multiplicativately with Defense/Special Defense boosts, but only last for 5 turns (or 8 with a Light Clay). (In Gen I, the note about stacking multiplicativately still held true, but they lasted indefinitely and wore off upon switching.)
** Amnesia increases Special Defense by 2 stages. In Generation I, it increases Special by two stages.
** Cosmic Power increases Defense and Special Defense by 1 stage.
** Barrier increases Defense by 2 stages.
* SuperIntelligence: The abilities of many Psychic Pokémon stem from their ridiculously high intelligence.
* SuperMode: Alakazam, Slowbro, Mewtwo, Gardevoir, Medicham, Metagross, Latias, Latios, and Gallade are capable of Mega Evolution, with Mewtwo having ''two'' potential Mega Evolutions. Necrozma can not only absorb Solgaleo or Lunala for a stronger form, but it can also Ultra Burst (effectively Mega Evolution, [[MyRulesAreNotYourRules only not actually]]) from there into the stronger-than-Arceus Ultra Necrozma. Orbeetle and Hatterene are also capable of Gigantamax, though only Orbeetle has a Psychic-type G-Max Move.
* SwordBeam: Psycho Cut, one of the few Physical-category Psychic moves, which manifests as a crescent-shaped energy wave launched at the opponent. While having a physical blade is not '''strictly''' necessary to learn it, a lot of the Pokémon that do have some form of NaturalWeapon to focus it through, such as Gallade's sword-like limbs, Absol's horn, Malamar's tentacles, Kartana's blades, Cresselia's crescents, etc.
* {{Telepathy}}: Most Psychic Pokémon are natural telepaths, but there is also an actual ability called Telepathy which ensures a Pokémon cannot be hit by its allies in a Double/Triple battle.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Teleport is a Psychic-type move that allows the user to escape from a Wild Pokémon and can take you back to the last Pokémon Center you visited when used outside of battle. Unfortunately, that's all it does — it's useless in battles with Trainers and is rendered obsolete outside of battle once you get Fly (and the latter isn't even doable in Gen VII thanks to field moves being cut). Generation 8 at last gave it a effect for trainer battles, namely switching out with another team member.
** Teleportation in general is often associated with Psychic-types. All the Gyms that specialize in Psychic-types have at least a few teleporters that you have to use to make your way through.
* UndergroundMonkey: Alolan Raichu, Galarian Ponyta and Galarian Rapidash are part Psychic-Type.
* UseYourHead: How Zen Headbutt works.
* WeaksauceWeakness: They're weak to ''Bug''-type attacks. In ''Red'', ''Blue'', and ''Yellow'', this was their only weakness due to a bug that made Psychic immune to Ghost.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dragon]]
!!Dragon-Type (ドラゴンタイプ ''doragon taipu'')
[[quoteright:313:[[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragon_types.png]]]]

A group based on dragons and similar monsters from around the world. They are among the most elusive types, usually only appearing in secluded areas. As such, they are the third-rarest type. Their elusiveness is [[PowerEqualsRarity often related to their power]], and some of the strongest and most dangerous Pokémon in the series are Dragon-type. This power, combined with their mysteriousness, makes them very well-regarded in some circles. Dragon is a popular type for Legendaries. While the Dragon type covers most dragonlike Pokémon, there are a few dragonlike species that lack the typing but have similar properties and movepools; conversely, not all Dragon-type Pokémon are based on animals that can be classified as (or even resemble) dragons.

Offensively, they are only super effective against themselves, are resisted by only Steel-types, and completely ineffective against Fairy-types. They don't need to hit super-effectively [[LightningBruiser to make it hurt]]. They resist Water, Grass, Fire, and Electric, but are weak to Ice and Fairy, giving them some nice defensive applications.
%%Offensively: x2 Dragon, x1/2 Steel, x0 Fairy
%%Defensively: x1/2 Fire, x1/2 Water, x1/2 Grass, x1/2 Electric, x2 Ice, x2 Dragon, x2 Fairy
%%Known Specialists: Lance in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow'' and in ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''; Clair in ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''; Drake in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Drayden and Iris in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Ryuki in ''Sun and Moon''; Raihan in ''Sword and Shield''
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* AchillesHeel:
** [[ObviousRulePatch Deliberately invoked]] with Fairy-Type Pokémon in Gen VI. Fairies are immune to Dragon-Type moves and can deal super-effective damage in return. While Ice is only effective offensively, and Steel just resists Dragon-type moves, Fairy is the ''only'' type Dragons have a real disadvantage against.
** Some of the more popular Dragons are also Flying-type, notably Dragonite, Altaria, Salamence, and Rayquaza. This not only cancels Dragon's resistance to Electric, it makes them take quadruple damage from Ice-type attacks.
* ActionInitiative: Dragon Tail has negative priority, causing the user to go last.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: As of ''X and Y'', Dragon Rush will always hit a Pokémon that is under the effects of [[StatusBuff Minimize]].
* AnimalisticAbomination: This is what the legendary dragons fall into. Between a mediator for a pair of world-destroying monstrosities[[note]]Rayquaza[[/note]], universal concepts made flesh[[note]]Dialga and Palkia[[/note]], an extradimensional guardian of reality which also embodies {{antimatter}}[[note]]Giratina[[/note]], three fragments of a god that may or may not have been an alien[[note]]Reshiram, Zekrom, and Kyurem[[/note]], a guardian of the land that balances the powers of avatars of life and death[[note]]Zygarde[[/note]], an extradimensional being fixated on consuming light to repair itself[[note]]Ultra Necrozma[[/note]], and an alien monstrosity responsible for the phenomenon of gigantic Pokémon[[note]]Eternatus[[/note]], the type's legendaries get awfully eldritch.
* TheArtifact: In Generations I and II, the Dragon type was very rare and reserved for the Dragonite line and Kingdra, in keeping with the Japanese media convention of distinguishing between mystical/ethereal dragons like them and more animalistic/bestial dragons like Charizard and Gyarados.[[note]]This can be seen in series like ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'', and how the bestial "wyverns" and rare "Elder Dragons" are different classifications of dragons, especially in Japanese where they're described using different kanji for "dragon".[[/note]] Later generations gave the Dragon type to more common and less "mystical" dragon Pokémon like Garchomp and Haxorus, causing many players to question why Charizard and Gyarados (and to a lesser extent, Lugia) weren't Dragon-type in the first place, and by proxy, why there were so few Dragon-types in those generations.
* AttackAttackAttack: Almost all Dragon-type moves are attacks. Only ''two'' Dragon-type move are status moves (Dragon Dance and Clangorous Soul), and the first is a StatusBuff that's offensively-minded while the second is an all-around stat boost.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** In the TCG. Possibly to give the type an "ultimate element" feel, Dragon-types almost always require two different Energy types to attack.
** Dialga's SecretArt, Roar of Time, is a Hyper Beam clone. The same goes for one of Eternatus' {{Secret Art}}s, Eternabeam, except it's very slightly stronger. You should know by now why both are bad if you've read the rest of this page.
** Dragon Rush is as powerful as Stone Edge and Earthquake, but has less than perfect accuracy at 75% accuracy.
* BreathWeapon:
** Dragon Breath and Dragon Rage are depicted as traditional fire-based ones ([[TechnicolorFire of various colors depending on the adaptation]]), while Dragon Pulse [[WaveMotionGun is more energy-based]].
** Also, half of them can use Flamethrower.
* CastFromHitPoints: The exclusive to Kommo-o move Clangorous Soul damages the user by 33% of their max health, but raises all stats. It replaces the Z-Move Clangorous Soulblaze but adds the health drawback as it isn't a one-use Z-Move.
* ColorCodedElements: A bright, vivid [[PurpleIsPowerful violet]], though it's also been represented by a mix of blue and red. In the TCG, the Dragon-type is represented as [[GoldColoredSuperiority gold]].
* ConfusionFu: Their movepools range from "better than most" to "I have no idea what this thing is going to do to me, but [[ThisIsGonnaSuck it's probably going to suck]]".
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique:
** Draco Meteor is almost as strong as Hyper Beam and doesn't have the recharge turn, but it lowers the user's Special Attack by 2 stages each time it's used.
** Outrage is very strong, but forces the user to stay in battle without the option to switch out for 2-3 turns and inflicts [[StandardStatusEffects Confusion]] on them when it finishes.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Many Dragon-types have characteristics of dinosaurs, most notably Tyrunt and Tyrantrum, the definitive ''TyrannosaurusRex'' Pokémon. Haxorus is [[WordOfGod stated]] to be based on herbivorous dinosaurs, though it also seems to be a bit of a {{Mix And Match Critter|s}}; Duraludon, likewise, seems to be an ambiguous theropod, likely inspired by [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mechagodzilla]]. Jangmo-o and its evolutions, Hakamo-o and Kommo-o, are said to be a cross between theropods and ankylosaurs. Gabite and Garchomp generally resemble [[RaptorAttack dromaeosaurids]]. If you choose to get technical, then the birdlike Dragon-types such as Latios, Latias, Altaria and Reshiram also qualify for this. Also inverted with Pokémon who resemble dinosaurs or other prehistoric reptiles learning Dragon-type moves but not being Dragon-types themselves. Archeops, Aerodactyl and Tyranitar are good examples.
* DiscOneNuke: Pokémon that know Dragon Rage at a low level have a great time if obtained early on, as the attack's guaranteed 40 damage will one-shot most Pokémon. As time passes and Pokémon increase in HP counts, the move will start to fall behind in damage output and will be shelved for stronger and more reliable moves.
* DragonsAreDemonic: The Ghost/Dragon Giratina and the Dark/Dragon Hydreigon and Guzzlord are often depicted as antagonistic creatures with sinister designs. Dragapult is also a Ghost/Dragon type, but is depicted more as creepy by default rather than malevolent. Mega Charizard X has a demonic design, although it's of the DarkIsNotEvil variety. [[spoiler:Eternatus looks malevolent and even nearly brings about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]
* DragonsAreDivine: Even outside of Legendaries, the type is revered as sacred by many groups of people.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors
** Offense
*** Strong: Dragon
*** Weak: Steel
*** Can't Hit: Fairy
** Defense
*** Strong: Electric, Fire, Grass, Water
*** Weak: Dragon, Fairy, Ice
* FakeBalance: Between their [[ConfusionFu massive movepools]] and [[LightningBruiser above-average stats]], they could easily muscle through Steel- and Ice-types that were ''supposed'' to deal with them (they're both weak to Fire, which pretty much every Dragon can abuse since, you know, they're Dragons). The Fairy-type was introduced to alleviate this, especially since they aren't weak to Fire.
* FixedDamageAttack: Dragon Rage inflicts 40 damage to anything that isn't a Fairy-type. This was the only Dragon-type move in Generation I, meaning there was no way to inflict Dragon-type damage.
* InfinityMinusOneSword: Of the "pseudo-legendary" Pokémon [[note]]Pokémon with base stat totals of 600, a three-stage evolutionary line, and require 1,250,000 EXP to reach level 100[[/note]], seven (out of nine) of them are Dragon-typed, the only exceptions being Tyranitar and Metagross. They're not legendary, but they're sure as strong as — or stronger than — some of them.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: In the earlier games, they were intended as this. Dragon-types tended to be very rare and either evolved from weak Pokémon that needed a lot of time and level grinding to raise, or were found in out-of-the-way locations, sometimes both. However, they were only weak to Ice and other Dragons, their moves only resisted by Steel-types, and many Dragons can learn Fire-type attacks for Steel-types anyway (which would also cover any Ice-types the opponent tried). They continued to be one of the best types of the game until Gen VI, in which Fairy-types were introduced to deal with them after WordOfGod admitted they were too strong and too common. Even then, the movepools and potential from most of the Dragon-types still allow them to face its tailor-made weakness using other means outside of their own element.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Dragon is often treated as one of the most special and powerful types in-universe. For example, it's UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga's type specialty in ''VideoGame/PokemonConquest''. Many Legendary and pseudo-legendary Pokémon are Dragon-type as a testament to their power.
* {{Kaiju}}: While no non-Dynamaxed Pokémon is quite Kaiju-sized, this type tends to be pretty close in spirit, with many species being both physically imposing and able to deliver highly destructive attacks. The fact that, outside of Fairy-types, [[TakesOneToKillOne their best counter is another Dragon-type]] is also reminiscent of [[BehemothBattle Kaiju-on-Kaiju combat]]. Some are even directly reminiscent of specific [[{{Kaiju}} Kaijus]], like [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVMinccinoToGenesect Hydreigon]], based on [[Characters/GodzillaTheGhidorahs King Ghidorah]], and [[Characters/PokemonGenerationVIIIFamilies Duraludon]], based on [[Characters/{{Godzilla}} Mechagodzilla]].
* KamehameHadoken: Dragon Pulse resembles both trope namers in the anime; in ''Diamond & Pearl'' and ''Black and White'', it's depicted as a light green ball of energy, while in ''XY'' and ''Sun & Moon'', it's depicted as a beam of energy shaped like a dragon.
* LastDiscMagic: Draco Meteor is only available during the late- or post-game, and can only be taught to Dragon-types with a maximum friendship rating.
* LightningBruiser: They lean towards this, having brutal offensive power on top of generally good stats and awesome type effectiveness. Their sole status move (Dragon Dance) enhances the "lightning" and "bruiser" aspects of its wielder by boosting Attack and Speed.
* LimitBreak:
** The Dragon-type Z-Move is Devastating Drake, in which the user attacks the target with a huge, dragon-shaped aura that causes a massive explosion on impact.
** The Dragon-type Max Move is Max Wyrmwind. This forms a huge tornado of Dragon-type energy around the opponent; said tornado has huge dragon wings made of energy swirl about in it to hit and cut into the opponent. This lowers the Attack stat of the opponent and any of its allies.
** Gigantamax Duraludon's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Depletion, which a huge tornado of Dragon-type energy around the opponent, which decreases the PP of the move the opponent last used by two.
* MagicKnight: After dragons evolve into their final stage, most of them have almost equally high Attack and Special Attack stats, and their movepools usually expand to include an even ratio of physical and special attacks, while the previous stages are usually limited to mostly physical attacks.
* MagikarpPower: Dragons evolve very late, are pretty weak in the first and second stages, and have limited movepools. By the time they reach their final stage (usually in the 40s or 50s), they become very powerful and gain many more options. Special mention goes to Deino, which evolves into Zweilous at level ''50'' and later into Hydreigon at level '''64''', later than any other Pokémon that evolves through leveling up.
* MeteorMove: Gen VI's animation for Dragon Rush shows the user jumping in the air before slamming onto the target in a fiery crash. This is because [[LostInTranslation the Japanese name of the move is Dragon Dive]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Outrage, a move with a power of 120 that locks the user in for 2-3 turns and causes them to become confused.
* {{Nerf}}: Most Dragons were hit by the introduction of the Fairy-type, [[ObviousRulePatch which was the point of them in the first place]]. They can learn Steel-type and Poison-type moves to hit Fairies super-effectively, however, though they rarely have occasion to due to the otherwise poor coverage of these attacks.
* NonElemental: Not in terms of the attacks themselves, which tend to fall under TechnicolorFire, but their offensive type matchups. Dragon is strong against one type (itself), weak against another (Steel), and ineffective against a third (Fairy). This ties it with Normal for having the fewest non-neutral offensive matchups of any type, and Dragon-type attacks instead force foes to rely on high defensive stats instead of favorable ElementalRockPaperScissors to take a hit.
* OlympusMons: From Generation III onwards, Dragon has been a pretty common type among newly introduced Legendary Pokémon; most notably, Sinnoh's and Unova's legendary trios are all part Dragon-type.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent:
** Dragon-types have all sorts of inspiration and basis, from classical Eastern or Western dragons[[note]]such as Mega Charizard X, Dragonite, Salamence, Rayquaza, and the Tao trio[[/note]] to weirder but still recognizable dragons[[note]]such as the creation trio, Kommo-o, Ultra Necrozma, Duraludon and base Eternatus[[/note]] to real-world reptiles[[note]]such as Mega Sceptile, Tyrantrum, and Turtonator[[/note]] to MixAndMatchCritters with aspects of dragons[[note]]such as Flygon, Garchomp, Naganadel and Dragapult[[/note]] to "out there" concepts that only vaguely resemble dragons[[note]]such as Mega Ampharos, Altaria, Alolan Exeggutor, Guzzlord, all of Zygarde's forms and Eternamax Eternatus[[/note]].
** In the first two generations (and to a lesser extent, the following two), the Dragon type was mostly used for dragons that gave off a "mystical" feel - Dragonite, Kingdra, Flygon, Altaria, and various Legendary Pokémon. This seems to be due to a distinction between different types of dragons in Japanese media and culture, where such "mystical" dragons are distinguished from more "bestial", non-magical typically Western dragons such as Charizard and Gyarados[[note]]while Eastern in appearance, it is very ferocious and animalistic and behaves more like a Western dragon[[/note]] (who lack the Dragon type). Salamence and Garchomp began to break the mold before the Dragon type came to encompass a more universal concept of what dragons are.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Some of the "weaker" Dragon types, like Flygon or Druddigon, are generally overlooked; they're still very strong and versatile Pokémon, but they just can't stack up against heavyweights like Garchomp or Haxorus.
* PlayingWithFire: Since dragons are traditionally associated with fire[[note]]at least in Western folklore[[/note]], the majority of Dragon-types get Fire attacks, letting them bypass Steel-Types, the only thing that could wall them before the introduction of Fairies, and Ice-Types, the only other Type that hit them hard. Kingdra, Mega Sceptile, Latias, Latios, Zekrom, Kyurem[[note]]except for White Kyurem[[/note]], Haxorus, and Dragalge are the only Dragons that can't learn Fire attacks besides Hidden Power. Despite this, there are only three Fire/Dragon dual-types: Reshiram, Turtonator, and Mega Charizard X, the latter of which is the only one based on archetypical Western dragons (although Reshiram has features of a wyvern and an Eastern dragon).
* SecretArt: Draco Meteor, which has a very high damage of 130 ([[{{Nerf}} 140 prior to Gen VI]]), but lowers Special Attack by two stages per use. It can only be taught by special tutors to Dragon-types (and Arceus and Silvally), although Mega Charizard X, Mega Ampharos, Mega Sceptile, and Ultra Necrozma can't learn it because they can only be accessed in battle.
* ShedArmorGainSpeed: Scale Shot fires the user's scales at the enemy, which lowers the user's defense but increases their speed.
* ShoulderSizedDragon: Plenty of the first-stage Dragon-types are small enough to qualify, such as Dratini, Bagon, Gible, Axew, Deino, Goomy, Jangmo-o and Dreepy.
* SlapOnTheWristNuke: Spacial Rend is described as ''tearing apart reality'', and its Gen VI animation shows reality cracking like glass. In practice, it has 100 power and its only special effect is an increased chance to land a critical hit — strong, but nowhere near the destructive power it implies.
* SpaceMaster: Downplayed; Generation IV did most of the heavy lifting, creating Dragons with literally cosmic significance in Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina, and further introducing the ultimate Dragon-type move (barring Dialga's SecretArt) Draco Meteor. In Generation VI, using Camouflage in space will give the user the Dragon type.
* StatusBuff: Dragon Dance raises the user's Attack and Speed by one stage. In Generation VI, using the Camouflage move in space will change the user into a Dragon type.
* SuperMode: Altaria, Salamence, Latias, Latios, Rayquaza, and Garchomp are capable of Mega Evolution. Additionally, three non-Dragon-type Pokémon — Charizard, Ampharos, and Sceptile — become Dragon-type through Mega Evolution, while Necrozma also gains the type upon Ultra Bursting. Flapple, Appletun, and Duraludon are also capable of Gigantamax (but only Duraludon has a Dragon-type G-Max Move), though [[spoiler:Eternatus]] is fought in its similar powered-up [[spoiler:Eternamax]] form that boasts a base stat total around ''four hundred'' points higher than Arceus, which is [[GameBreaker (perhaps thankfully)]] not accessible to trainers.
* SwitchOutMove: Dragon Tail goes last, but forces the target to switch out when it hits.
* TakesOneToKillOne: The other type that is weak to itself. Before the introduction of Fairies, the best counter to a Dragon was (and still is, in some cases) usually a stronger and faster one, due to how incredibly powerful they tend to be.
* TechnicolorFire: A lot of Dragon-type moves consist of green, blue, or purple colored fire.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: Pulled off by Dragalge, Naganadel, and Duraludon against Fairy-types, which are normally the bane of dragons. The first two are '''Poison'''/Dragon types, with Dragalge being a specialized MightyGlacier and Naganadel being a specialized FragileSpeedster. The last is a '''Steel'''/Dragon specially oriented MightyGlacier. As such, the three can ''melt'' any Fairy that so much looks at them funny. The only other dragons that can do something similar are the legendaries Eternatus, another Poison/Dragon, and Dialga, another Steel/Dragon.
* TornadoMove: Twister, which is a weak whirlwind attack. It may seem odd to be a Dragon-type move, [[LostInTranslation but that's because the move's Japanese name contains]] ''tatsu'' (dragon). It can cause targets to flinch and strike targets in the semi-invulnerable turn of Fly (doing double damage in the process), but overall, there's practically no point to using it instead of Dragon Pulse or Draco Meteor.
* UltimateLifeForm: Most of them have Pokédex entries that focus on how badass they are.
* UndergroundMonkey: The Alolan Exeggutor is part Dragon-Type.
* UniquenessDecay: It was once only represented by the Dratini family in Generation I. Now there's a good selection to choose from, though they're still somewhat uncommon. In fact, looking at Dragon-types throughout the generations, one can see that it was once reserved for Pokémon that fit the Japanese stereotype of "mystical" or "ethereal" dragons (Dragonite and Kingdra),[[note]]possibly explaining why it wasn't given to obvious but more beastly dragons like Charizard and Gyarados[[/note]] and even in the two generations that followed, most Dragons continued to fit the stereotypes. Pseudo-legendaries Salamence and Garchomp were the only exceptions, and more Dragon Pokémon followed their lead in later generations - bringing everything full circle when Charizard could become a Dragon-type via Mega Evolution.
* UnskilledButStrong: Most Dragon-type moves don't have secondary effects, but hit extremely hard ([[LightningBruiser especially off of the Dragon-types' high stats]]) and are resisted by only 2 types to compensate for their lack of super-effective coverage.
* UnstoppableRage: Outrage, which causes the user to go into a powerful frenzy for two to three turns, and then confuses them out of exhaustion. In-character, many Dragon-types are prone to this — even the ''friendly'' ones, like Dragonite, Goodra, and Drampa, are prone to wrecking everything in their way if they get pissed off. Drampa's Pokédex entry even states that it goes into a rage when children are harmed.
* WeaponizedOffspring: Dragapult, the final form of the Dreepy line, is a motherly Pokémon that can fly at 120 mph and carries several baby Dreepy within the holes on its head. It also uses the Dreepy as ammo for its [[SecretArt Dragon Darts]] move, which the babies look forward to eagerly for some reason.
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!!Dark-Type / Evil-Type (あくタイプ ''aku taipu'')
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One of two types introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''. In the original Japanese, they are known as the ''Aku'' type, which translates into "Evil" or "Scum", though how true of a descriptor that is varies on the Pokémon. Regardless, they usually have a very intimidating or even a brutal presence or are based on doom, trickery, crime, destruction, and below-the-belt fighting tactics.

They are largely a group of pragmatists, both [[CombatPragmatist tactically]] and otherwise. They can be found almost everywhere, as they are not united by an element of nature, but by the consistent traits of pragmatism and brutality. They are immune to Psychics and will wreck Ghost-types, but are weak against Fighting-types, Bug-types, and Fairy-types. As of Generation VII, they're immune to an opponent's status moves that get ActionInitiative from Prankster.

%%Offensively: x2 Psychic, x2 Ghost, x1/2 Fighting, x1/2 Steel (Gen II-VI), x1/2 Dark, x1/2 Fairy
%%Defensively: x1/2 Ghost, x1/2 Dark, x0 Psychic, x2 Fighting, x2 Bug, x2 Fairy
%%Known Specialists: Karen in ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''; Sydney in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Grimsley in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Nanu in ''Sun and Moon''; Piers in ''Sword and Shield''
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* ActionInitiative:
** Sucker Punch was, until gen 7 (in which its power was reduced to 70), tied with Extreme Speed as the most powerful Priority Attack in the game ([[ElementalRockPaperScissors with Super Effective coverage, to boot!]]), but only works if the opponent uses a damaging move the same turn.
** Pursuit strikes first when the opponent tries to switch, gaining the highest Priority value in the game in this situation.
** Quash causes the target to always go last, but will only succeed if the user goes before the target.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack:
** Feint Attack is described as the user approaching disarmingly, then throwing a sucker punch (not to be confused with another Dark-type move of the same name) when the target doesn't expect it. With no chance to react or dodge, the attack ignores Accuracy and Evasion effects.
** Likewise, False Surrender is described as the user bowing their head in submission to let the opponent's guard down, then using their hair to stab the opponent.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Zig-Zagged, despite the Japanese name implying they are a group of {{Card Carrying Villain}}s. It really depends on the species in question. Some, like [[SealedEvilInACan Spiritomb]] and [[TheHypnotoad Malamar]], are just as evil as the typing describes. Others, like [[HeroWithBadPublicity Absol]] and [[BullyHunter Pangoro]], are downright ''noble'' in comparison, while some, like [[{{Ninja}} Greninja]], represent pragmatic tactics and sneakiness more than blatant villainy (and the same can be said of their attacks in general). There are also more aggressive and predatory Dark-types like Mega Gyarados, Tyranitar, Hydreigon, and Krookodile. Even Incineroar, the closest thing to a Pokémon directly based on a villain archetype, [[{{Kayfabe}} plays up its jerkassery]] as part of its {{Heel}} motif.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Fling during the story mode of the games. Using Fling consumes the item that the user was holding, and the only items that have above average power are either impossible to get before the post-game or hard/expensive to reacquire due to their rarity (or in some cases, only 1 of that item exists per save file). In PlayerVersusPlayer matches and the battle facilities like the Battle Tower. it's less of an issue, as consumed items are given back after each match, but [[ItOnlyWorksOnce you can still only use it once per match]].
** Using Fling with an Iron Ball gives it a Power of 130 with no accuracy downside. However, holding an Iron Ball cuts the user's Speed in half and negates any Ground immunity they might have (which also makes them susceptible to Spikes, Toxic Spikes, and Sticky Web). All for a move that's [[ItOnlyWorksOnce single-use]], unless the user also knows Recycle.
** Power Trip increases in power the more status buffs the user has, but getting to that point takes a long time, and it starts out with a measly base power of 20.
* BalanceBuff: Most Dark-types have higher Attack than Special Attack, but previously all Dark-type attacks were classified as Special moves. Gen IV's move split gave them physical Dark moves to put their best stats to proper use.
* TheBrute: When they're not {{Combat Pragmatist}}s, they tend to be this, with Tyranitar and Guzzlord being prime examples.
* CardCarryingVillain: Subverted. While they're literally called the Evil-type in Japan, they aren't actually evil for the most part, just [[CombatPragmatist pragmatic]] or {{Jerkass}}es.
* CastingAShadow:
** Downplayed, contrary to their English name. They mostly focus on [[CombatPragmatist pragmatic]] tactics and characterization, with only 3 moves — two of which are {{Secret Art}}s of specific species — involving any sort of darkness-controlling prowess.
** The Dark-type Z-Move also falls into this more than it does pragmatism, as it takes the form of a black hole that consumes the opponent.
* ColorCodedElements: The Dark-type icon is a very dark, grayish brown.
* CombatPragmatist: This is their gimmick, not dark powers; Dark-types rely on trickery, sneakiness, and general dirty fighting to win. Their moves involve taunting the opponent to make them angry or confuse them, using a WoundedGazelleGambit to attack when the opponent isn't ready, literal {{Back Stab}}bing, [[ManBitesMan biting the enemy]], [[ImpromptuTracheotomy chopping them in the throat]] to prevent them from making any noise, [[ISurrenderSuckers feigning surrender to get a cheap shot]], and manipulating the enemy's held item. Generation VI's Greninja is a very good example, in that its Dark typing simply comes from its being a {{Ninja}} and using sneaky techniques rather than using dark powers or having a vicious/cruel nature. Incineroar is based on a heel wrestler and fights dirty in any way possible, but any wickedness is subverted in that it actually is [[{{Kayfabe}} all just the act of a performer]].
* CombinationAttack: Beat Up is an attack where the Pokémon calls on the player's entire team [[note]]K.O.'d and Pokémon with a status ailment sit out.[[/note]] to gang up on the opposing Pokémon. When it was first introduced, the game would roll call the team as they made their attack.
* DarkIsEvil: Zigzagged. It's called the ''Evil''-type in Japanese versions and, in general, Dark-types aren't nice guys (there are exceptions, such as [[BearerOfBadNews Absol]]); however, see below.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The type can be translated as "Evil" in Japanese, but many of them are portrayed as simply being misunderstood, or enjoying harmless mischief; Greninja, one of the most famous Dark-types, is neither, as it's usually depicted as a heroic CombatPragmatist ninja. Incineroar, meanwhile, [[{{Kayfabe}} plays up its jerkassery]] as part of its {{Heel}} motif. This plays into how the type name in Japanese, "Aku", has more nuanced meanings than just plain "evil."
* DoubleTap: Assurance deals double damage if the target has already been hurt during the same turn. Its Japanese name translates to "Make Sure," which, given the Dark-type preference for underhanded tactics, implies that the doubled damage comes from hitting the target exactly where they were hit the first time.
* TheDragAlong: There's a small subset of Pokémon that begin with 35 base friendship rather than 70 when you capture them in the wild — in other words, they're significantly less happy to join up with you than ordinary Pokémon (though you'll still win them over through dedication and care). Dark- and Ghost-types jointly make up a major chunk of this group.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors
** Offense
*** Strong: Ghost, Psychic
*** Weak: Dark, Fairy, Fighting, Steel (Gen II-V)
** Defense
*** Strong: Dark, Ghost
*** Weak: Bug, Fairy, Fighting
*** Immune: Psychic
* EvilMakesYouUgly: In contrast to their Fairy-type foils, Dark-types aren't exactly pretty-looking, perhaps to add to their intimidating appearance. Quite a few Dark-Types in particular possess the [[FaceOfAThug Intimidate]] ability, which lowers the attack of the opponent when they enter battle.
* EvilWearsBlack: Well, they are the Evil-type in Japanese, and most of them are black in color.
* GameBreakingBug:
** In ''Platinum, [=HeartGold, and SoulSilver=]'', if Pursuit [=KOed=] a Pokémon that switched out while certain battle conditions were in effect, a [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Acid_rain bizarre glitch]] occurred that caused ''all weather to take effect at once.'' This also caused every Pokémon except Swinub, Piloswine, and Mamoswine[[note]]as Ice/Ground dual-types, they were immune to all weather damage, something no other Pokémon could claim in Generation IV[[/note]] to take damage at the end of every turn four times, with the damage apparently caused by their Ability. Bothersome enough, but if Cherrim or Castform was sent into battle, they kept switching between forms indefinitely until the game was turned off.
** Early in the life of ''Sun and Moon'', the moves Parting Shot and Memento could cause crashes on Battle Spot if the Z-Move versions of them were used. These moves were temporarily banned until some time after the issue was fixed.
* GlassCannon: Somewhere between this and {{Fragile Speedster}}s, as they are good at "sweeping" teams, but rarely have good defense, with a few {{Mighty Glacier}}s (most famously Tyranitar) and {{Stone Wall}}s in there.
* HealingShiv: Using Fling with a Mental Herb or White Herb will cure the target of [[DistractedByTheSexy infatuation]] and stat debuffs, respectively. You can also fling Berries to apply their restorative effects. The Z-move variations of Memento and Parting Shot will heal the next Pokémon swapped in.
* HerdHittingAttack: The user of Brutal Swing swings its body violently around the field, hitting all adjacent Pokémon.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Foul Play uses the target's attack stat (and any boosts they have) to deal damage, while Punishment does more damage the more {{Status Buff}}s the target has.
* ImpossibleThief: Snatch can steal ''opponents' {{Status Buff}}s and healing'', but only if used on the same turn the opponent buffs/heals themselves.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Throat Chop deals pretty heavy damage for a Dark-type move and prevents the opponent from using sound-based attacks for 2 turns.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Fling has the user throw their currently held item at the foe to deal damage (and possibly inflict a secondary effect depending on the item). Flinging an Iron Ball has the highest Power of all Dark-Type attacks (130), but ItOnlyWorksOnce as the item is lost after that, unless you also know the move Recycle (and alternating Fling and Recycle is [[CoolButInefficient about as practical as Hyper Beam]]).
* IShallTauntYou: Almost all moves that could be classified as {{Practical Taunt}}s (i.e. Taunt, Torment, and Flatter) are of the Dark type. (Swagger is the exception — it's a Normal-type move.)
* ISurrenderSuckers: False Surrender is a move where the user pretends to bow its head in surrender, then stabs the enemy with their PrehensileHair.
* {{Jerkass}}: [[DarkIsEvil Evil]] or [[DarkIsNotEvil not]], practically every member of this type is a jerk in some fashion or another.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Some of them fit this too. Umbreon evolves with high friendship, Pangoro [[BullyHunter hunts down and fights bullies]], and Absol goes out of its way to warn people of disasters. Incineroar is based on a [[{{Heel}} Heel Wrestler]] and fights dirty in any way possible in the ring, [[{{Kayfabe}} but it's all part of the act]] and it actually [[FriendToAllChildren enjoys admiration from children]].
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Assurance will do double damage if the target was hurt earlier in the turn. This includes recoil and entry hazard damage.
* KillingIntent: Dark Pulse is described as the user projecting an aura imbued with horrible thoughts at the target that has a chance of making them flinch. Nasty Plot is described as the user stimulating its brain by thinking bad thoughts.
* LimitBreak:
** The Dark-type Z-Move is Black Hole Eclipse, in which the user creates a black hole and sucks the target into it.
** The Dark-type Max Move is Max Darkness, in which the user creates two streams of pure darkness which swirl around the opponent and explode, decreasing the special defense of the opponent.
** Gigantamax Grimmsnarl's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Snooze, which causes two streams of Grimmsnarl's hair to appear and swallow the opponent, causing them to become drowzy, and fall asleep the next turn.
* LikeCannotCutLike: Dark-type Pokémon resist Dark attacks.
* LostInTranslation:
** The type's name itself is originally called the "Evil"-type, hence why they mostly lack [[CastingAShadow darkness-related powers]] outside a few like Dark Pulse and Dark Void.
** The move "Sucker Punch" is not buffed by the ability Iron Fist (buffs punch-based moves) because its original Japanese name means "Surprise Attack" (which is what a sucker punch is in American slang: an unexpected, often underhanded move[[note]]not necessarily someone punching you in the face or stomach when you don't expect it, but some people do take that literally[[/note]]).
** Somewhat of an example with Night Slash; its Japanese name, Tsujigiri (sometimes translated as "crossroad killing"), refers to an old samurai practice of testing out a new weapon or fighting style by hiding at a crossroads at night and attacking the first defenseless passerby they saw. While its English name and description are still true to the spirit of the original, the reference to feudal Japan was removed, and most international players would probably interpret it as "Sucker Punch with a blade" or a "[[SpellBlade dark energy-infused Slash]]" (which could be interpreted as such in certain animations).
* MagicallyIneptFighter: Not to the same extent as the Fighting type, and certain offensively-inclined Dark-types like Hydreigon and Zoroark, as well as Dark [[OlympusMons Legendaries]], are just as effective on the special side if not more so. However, most Dark-types tend to favor Attack over Special Attack. The list of Dark-type attacks supports this, as only three are Special attacks, with one being Zoroark's [[SecretArt Night Daze.]]
* MakeMeWannaShout: The move Snarl deals damage by having the user "[yell] as if it is ranting about something."
* ManBitesMan: Bite and Crunch are both Dark-type attacks. The former was a Normal-type move until it was {{retcon}}ned into the Dark-type.
* ManipulativeBastard: The more cunning Dark-types are good at using psychological warfare, incorporating it into their fighting style, with such attacks as Flatter, Torment, Taunt, and Fake Tears. As of Generation VII, they're immune to Prankster-boosted priority, most probably because they're used to such trickery.
* MechanicallyUnusualClass: Many of their attacks have unique effects, often fitting their pragmatic nature. Sucker Punch is an attack that moves first, but only if the opponent uses an attacking move; Parting Shot lowers the opponent's Attack and Special Attack then switches your Pokémon; Foul Play deals damage calculating the opponent's Attack stat instead of the user's, and so forth.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Dark-type attacks don't do much damage offensively due to low power. However, they have a ton of status attacks, including Parting Shot, Torment, Snatch, and Quash. Even their damaging attacks tend to work oddly; Sucker Punch only hits if the opponent is using a damaging attack, Foul Play calculates damage using the opponent's Attack instead of the user's, Payback doubles in power if the user moves second, and so forth.
* {{Mooks}}: Alongside the Poison-type, they're the favored {{Mons}} of low-level henchmen for the various villainous teams, essentially making them the [[UpToEleven Mooks' Mooks.]]
* NatureIsNotNice: One of the many facets to the Dark Type, and in this case, is about feralness and rambunctious, if not violent behaviors creatures of the wild can exhibit. While in terms of ecology and zoology, many of the Dark Type have come to be to fulfill their instincts and niche in nature as part of the ecosystem in their way with their behavior, bringing them to human society might be harder, as what they may do as normal may not be looked upon kindly within human eyes and mores; bringing home a wild animal home hoping to tame it in real life definitely is evocative of this. Taming their type and getting through to them as trained Pokemon definitely curbs this, but they still retain this type if only for their ingrained nature and behavior that suited them when in the wilderness.
* NocturnalMooks: In Gen II, most Dark-types could only be obtained at night, never appearing in the wild in the day.
* NoItemUseForYou: The Dark type is known for having a number of moves that interfere with an opponent's Held Item usage.
** Thief steals the opponent's Held Item if the user doesn't have one.
** Knock Off disables the opponent's Held Item for the rest of the battle.
** Switcheroo swaps the user's Held Item with the opponent's, meaning that a user without a Held Item will effectively steal their opponent's when used.
** Embargo prevents the opponent from using Held Items for five turns.
* ObviousRulePatch:
** They were introduced in ''Gold and Silver'' as a direct response to the then-powerful Psychic-type.
** The Physical/Special split made almost every Dark-type move Physical so that the type (which predominately consists of Physical Attackers) could actually use their own [=STAB=].
* PowerUpLetdown: The above ObviousRulePatch ended up not working as well as intended because this trope also came into effect. On their introduction, Dark-type attacks were all classified as Special Attacks, which meant Dark-types wanted to run physical moves, but their STAB moves were Special Attacks, which they weren't so good in. It didn't help that many Psychic-types take special attacks better than physical ones. Gen IV's split reclassified all previously existing Dark-type moves as Physical, further suggesting that Dark should have been considered a Physical type in the first place.
* PredatorsAreMean: [[DownplayedTrope Kind of.]] Despite being the EVIL type in the original language, Dark-types can be just as heroic as any other type the trainer chooses. However, many Dark-types are [[JerkAss jerks]], or at least more aggressive than other types, to varying degrees, and the majority of them are predators. The exceptions are scavengers (Honchkrow and Mandibuzz lines), herbivores (Pangoro line), and the Dark/Ghost dual-types (Sableye eats gemstones, and Spiritomb doesn't technically need food to begin with).
* ReformedButNotTamed: As said before, though they are classified as "Dark" or "Evil" for exhibiting behaviors that are malevolent and destructive, Dark Types can be tamed through to be obedient and civil, while their instinctual and ingrained behavior can be accepted as neccistated behavior developed in their environment to adapt and survive. It also helps that even before the coming of Dark Types, cruelty by wild Pokemon was not mutually exclusive to types, especially in Generation I, and despite their massive ownership within the Team syndicates and criminals, it is all up to the trainer and their behavior that influences how their Pokemon acts.
* {{Retcon}}:
** The move Bite was retconned from a Normal-type move into a Dark-type move in Generation II.
** When the Physical/Special split happened, every Dark-type attack that existed beforehand were changed to be Physical attacks.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Feint Attack is named F'''a'''int Attack prior to Gen VI, which doesn't make sense since the latter implies a WoundedGazelleGambit, an "I'm TakingYouWithMe" attack, or a OneHitKill (since Pokémon that are unable to battle are said to have fainted). It's none of those things. Or just an attack that's indistinct and hard to see.
* ScavengersAreScum: Several Pokémon based off real life scavengers are Dark-typed. At this moment we have the vultures Vullaby and Mandibuzz and the crows Murkrow and Honchkrow.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Attacks that are relatively weak but increase in power under certain situations tend to be one of the Dark-type's gimmicks:
** Pursuit is normally weak with a Power of 40, but it deals double damage if the target tries to switch out manually or is using the moves U-turn, Volt Switch, or Parting Shot (the latter only if the user of Pursuit moves after the user of those moves, however).
** Payback's Power of 50 will double if the user goes after the target. In the Generation IV games, switching out counted as going first for this purpose.
** Assurance is mediocre with a Power of 60, but that will double if the target has already taken damage that turn.
** The Power of Punishment starts off at 60, but increases by 20 for every stage of StatusBuff the target has, reaching a max power of 200.
** From ''X and Y'' onward, Knock Off's Power of 65 increases by 50% if the target was holding an item that can be removed.
** Power Trip's Base Power starts off at a measly 20, but its power is increased by 20 the more positive stat increases the user has. With everything at the maximum (six stat increases for all seven stats that can be increased), the move's base power becomes '''860''', the highest of all physical moves.
** Lash Out has 75 power, but doubles if any of the user's stats have been lowered that turn.
* SituationalSword: Many of their attacks will fail completely or do weak damage unless certain conditions are met. For example, Sucker Punch will only deal damage if the target uses a damaging attack on the same turn and doesn't go before the user.
* SneakAttack: Sucker Punch is called "Surprise Attack" in Japan. Feint Attack, Night Slash and [[ISurrenderSuckers False Surrender]] are described as hitting the opponent when their guard is down.
* StandardStatusEffects: Using Fling with certain items can inflict status aliments with a 100% success rate, with the status inflicted being dependent on what item is thrown. A Flame Orb will inflict Burn, a Poison Barb will inflict normal Poison, a Toxic Orb will inflict Toxic Poison, a Light Ball will inflict Paralysis, and a King's Rock or Razor Fang will cause the target to flinch.
* StatusBuff:
** Nasty Plot boosts the user's Special Attack by two stages.
** Hone Claws increases the user's Attack and Accuracy by one stage.
* SuperMode: Houndoom, Tyranitar, Sableye, Sharpedo, and Absol are capable of Mega Evolution, and the Water/Flying-type Gyarados becomes Water/Dark-type when it Mega Evolves. Greninja can also transform into Ash-Greninja if it has the Battle Bond ability. Grimmsnarl and Urshifu (in its Fighting/Dark single strike style) are also capable of Gigantamax.
* SwitchOutMove: Parting Shot gives a parting threat, lowering the target's Attack and Special Attack before the user switches out.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: If a Pancham is in a team with a Dark-type when it levels up, then the latter's bad behavior will rub off on it and it'll evolve into Pangoro, who is a Dark-type itself.
* UndergroundMonkey: Alolan Rattata, Alolan Grimer, Galarian Zigzagoon and their evolved forms are part Dark-Types, while Alolan Meowth and Alolan Persian are pure Dark-Types.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Prior to the Physical/Special split in ''Diamond and Pearl'', all Dark-type moves were Special while almost every Dark-type was a Physical attacker.
* VideoGameStealing:
** Thief deals damage and steals any item an opponent is holding if the user is not holding one.
** Knock Off removes items that can be removed and (as of ''X and Y'') gets a 50% damage boost when the item is successfully removed. It will not gain a power boost if the item cannot be removed (such as a Pokémon holding a Mega Stone, Z-Crystal, or an Arceus/Silvally holding a Plate/Memory).
** Snatch steals and uses any Status moves the opponent tried to use that turn and prevents them from using it.
** Switcheroo is exactly like Trick, swapping the target's and user's items.
* WeakButSkilled:
** In terms of damaging moves, the Dark type's strongest attacks (barring signature moves) are Darkest Lariat and Night Daze, which rest at 85 base power and, while no longer restricted to one Pokémon each as they were originally, can only be learned by a relative few. For most Dark-types, the strongest Dark-type moves available to them are Dark Pulse and Crunch, both at 80 base power. Regular moves that go above that mark are invariably [[SituationalDamageAttack situational damage attacks]] when used to their full CombatPragmatist potential, so as a result, the Dark type's hardest-hitting moves are ones that seem initially weak but provide increased power when used smartly.
** Even its status moves fall under this category, as many of them don't seem immediately helpful, but can turn a match around when used skillfully. Most Dark-type status moves are geared toward shutting down specific tactics (for example, Torment prevents repeated use of the same move, while Taunt, Snatch, and Topsy-Turvy address an opponent's use of non-damaging moves), but those mechanics also tend to make them ineffective when used without strategy.
** Hone Claws boosts Attack by one stage, making it a poor choice for aggressive play, but it also provides a hard-to-find boost to Accuracy, which can allow users to reliably incorporate inaccurate moves into their strategy, such as Stone Edge. It's also a good choice for any Pokémon with the ability Hustle, which decreases the accuracy of their physical moves by 20%.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Pursuit deals double damage to opponents attempting to switch out and hits them before they can switch. Handy for punishing fragile Psychic- and Ghost-Types that may try to get away.
* ZergRush: Beat Up has the user attack once for each conscious party member that is not afflicted by a status condition, up to 6 times.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Steel]]
!!Steel-Type (はがねタイプ ''hagane taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[ExtraOreDinary https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/steel_types.png]]]]

The second of two types added with ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', they are the most defensive type in the game. The strong metal that covers the bodies of Steel-type Pokémon grants them high defenses and a great number of resistances. While weak to Fighting, Fire, and Ground, they resist ''everything else'' (except Water and Electric and [[{{Nerf}} Ghost and Dark as of Gen VI]]) and are immune to one type (Poison). Offensively, they hit Ice-, Rock-, and Fairy-Types hard but are resisted by other Steel-, Water-, Electric-, and Fire-Types. Most Pokémon of this type have the theme of armoring or being a creature of living metal, though there are some that don't really fit the bill beyond possessing thick hides. Steel-types can be found in caves, mountain regions, and urban areas.

When a sandstorm is in effect, Steel-type Pokémon do not take residual damage from it.
%%Offensively: x2 Ice, x2 Rock, x2 Fairy, x1/2 Fire, x1/2 Water, x1/2 Electric, x1/2 Steel
%%Defensively: x2 Fire, x2 Fighting, x2 Ground, x0 Poison, resists everything else except for Water, Electric, Ghost (Gen VI onwards), and Dark (Gen VI onwards)
%%Known Specialists: Jasmine in ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''; Steven in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Byron in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Wikstrom in ''X and Y''; Molayne in ''Sun and Moon''
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* ActionInitiative: Bullet Punch has increased priority. Notably, more Fighting-types learn this move than Steel-types.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack:
** Magnet Bomb, an attack that uses homing metal chunks, never misses regardless of accuracy or evasion. Magnet-based Pokémon like the Magnemite line and Probopass get this move.
** Smart Strike, a TM where the user stabs the opponent with an accurate horn.
* AnchorsAway: The move Anchor Shot, exclusive to Dhelmise, deals Steel-type damage and traps the foe under an anchor.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Quite a few Steel-types are based on objects, such as the Magnemite, Beldum, Bronzor, Klink, and Honedge lines.
* ArmoredButFrail: Several Steel-types have high defenses, but have below-average health to balance it out.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Doom Desire ignores the moves Protect, Detect, and Endure, and it hits through the Ability Wonder Guard.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Doom Desire takes two turns before the attack actually hits, which is more than enough time to switch out to something that can tank the hit.
** Iron Tail has great power (100, which is on par with Earthquake), can be taught to a wide variety of Pokémon, and can lower the opponent's Defense as a bonus. It has a less than perfect accuracy of 75% and many of the Pokémon that learn it have other moves with better coverage and accuracy.
** Steel Beam is the most powerful Steel-type attack at 140 power, but the user loses a massive half of their maximum health upon usage. Several Steel-types also lack the Special Attack needed to utilize this move.
* BalanceBuff: Steel-types weren't very useful for attacking prior to Gen VI; they only did super-effective damage to Ice and Rock, which had plenty of other type weaknesses to exploit (including both being weak to Fighting). Gen VI added Fairies to give Steel-types more use.
* CastFromHitPoints: The very powerful Steel Beam deals incredible damage but also causes the user to lose half their hit points thanks to using their own body's metal in the attack.
* ChromeChampion: Steel-types often look like they're covered in gleaming silver metal or are actually made of it. Several physical Steel-type moves, such as Metal Claw and Iron Head, cause the user to glow silver metallic for a brief second regardless of their actual type and/or appearance.
* ColdIron: Likely the reason they are super-effective against Fairies is to invoke the idea.
* ColorCodedElements: The Steel-type color is silver, as is the metal armor of many of its members.
* CombiningMecha: The basic principle of the robot-like Magnemite, Beldum, Klink, and Meltan lines; the basic concept of their evolutions is "the starter form, but there's more of them together". There's also the non-evolving Stakataka which is constructed by hundreds of individual lifeforms, and Doublade, which is a subversion (the Honedge it evolves from divides into two instead).
* CounterAttack: Metal Burst will deal damage to the opponent equal to 1.5 times the amount the user took that turn, regardless of whether the foe's move is physical or special. Unlike Counter and Mirror Coat, it doesn't have negative priority, so make sure that the user is slower than the opponent before using it.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Steel Beam is almost as strong as Hyper Beam and doesn't have the recharge turn, but it causes the user to lose half of its health each time it's used.
* DiscardAndDraw: In Generation VI, they became super-effective against Fairy-types and resist their moves, but lost their resistances to Dark- and Ghost-type attacks.
* DubInducedPlotHole: Meteor Mash is boosted by Iron Fist (which boosts the power of 'punch' moves by 20%, though no Pokémon with Iron Fist can learn Meteor Mash) because its Japanese name is "Comet Punch" (not to be confused with the move called [[RapidFireFisticuffs "Comet Punch"]] in the English versions, which is named "Consecutive Punch" in Japanese).
* ElementalRockPaperScissors
** Offense
*** Strong: Fairy, Ice, Rock
*** Weak: Electric, Fire, Steel, Water
** Defense
*** Strong: Bug, Dark (Gen II-V), Dragon, Fairy, Flying, Ghost (Gen II-V), Grass, Ice, Normal, Psychic, Rock, Steel
*** Weak: Fighting, Fire, Ground
*** Immune: Poison
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning:
** Gyro Ball, a move where the user spins into the enemy. It gets stronger the slower the user is compared to the opponent.
** During the Steel-type Spectacular Talent, the Pokémon spins so fast it turns into a silver tornado, while smashing into various spherical objects like a pinball.
* ExtraOreDinary: The type isn't much in the way of ferrokinesis so much as it is "hit the target with a protrusion covered in metal". They tend to prefer relying on their defenses, as until the [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Fairy-type]] was introduced, the [[AnIcePerson only]] [[DishingOutDirt types]] they were good against had easier-to-exploit weaknesses.
* GoombaStomp: Heavy Slam deals Steel-type damage depending on how heavy the target is compared to the user; the heavier the user is, the more damage dealt. Considering that most Pokémon who get this are on the heavy side, it tends to hurt a lot.
* HeavilyArmoredMook: Quite a number of Pokémon that gain the Steel-type on evolving also gain a good increase in defenses. Steelix is a notable example.
* HornAttack: Smart Strike, an AlwaysAccurateAttack where the user stabs its opponent with a sharp horn. It's a TM that can appropriately be taught to most Pokémon with horns.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: While not as well-known as the Dragon type in that regard, Steel is — on the defensive side at least — one of the best types in the game with a whopping '''10''' resistances and 1 immunity to only 3 weaknesses (though all of these weaknesses are pretty common and crippling).
* KillItWithFire: One of their weaknesses is to the Fire-type, representing metal softening and melting at high temperatures.
* LightEmUp: Three of the four Special Steel-type moves (Doom Desire, Flash Cannon, and Mirror Shot) involve firing out light energy.
* LikeCannotCutLike: One of the many types Steel is resistant to is itself.
* LimitBreak:
** The Steel-type Z-Move is Corkscrew Crash, in which the user spins really fast like a steel drill and rams into the target.
** The Steel-type Max Move, Max Steelspike, causes huge metal projections to burst from the ground and skewer the opponent. The Steel type energy flowing from this metal also raises the Defense of the user and their allies.
** Gigantamax Copperajah's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Steelsurge, in which Copperajah causes huge green spikes of copper to emerge from the ground and tear into the opponent. this move also sets a unique kind of Spikes on the field, who's damage increases depending on the opponent's resilience to steel
** Gigantamax Melmetal's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Meltdown, in which Melmetal sends spikes of its body material at the opponent, preventing the target and its allies from using the same move twice in a row.
* MechanicalLifeforms: While most Steel-types simply resemble regular animals with metallic growths or plating, those that put the extra emphasis on Steel, like Magnemite, Metagross, and Klinklang, edge fully into this trope. Magearna embraces it to the point that only its core, the Soul Heart, is not completely mechanical.
* MightyGlacier:
** If a Steel-type is not purely defensive, it will often be slow and quite strong.
** The move Gyro Ball exploits this; the slower the user is than the foe, the more damage it will do. The [[EldritchAbomination Ultra Beast]] Stakataka — with its Rock/Steel-typing, high Attack, and painfully slow Speed — can dish out some very devastating Gyro Balls. And Trick Room (which inverts Speed) doesn't cut into the move's power, either.
* {{Nerf}}: In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', they lost their resistances to [[CombatPragmatist Dark]] and [[SoulPower Ghost]].
* {{Retcon}}: Magnemite and Magneton were given a secondary Steel-type in Generation II.
* SecretArt:
** Doom Desire, a move only known by Jirachi.
** Steel Beam, a special attack with an incredibly high power of 140, but deals half the user's health on use. It can only be taught by a special tutor to Steel-types (and Silvally).
** The abilities Light Metal and Heavy Metal halves and doubles the user's weight, respectively.
** Magnet Pull increases the encounter rate of Steel-types in the wild and prevents them from switching or fleeing.
** Despite not being used by a Steel-type, the ability Steelworker essentially provides a STAB bonus to Steel-type attacks.
* ShedArmorGainSpeed: Autotomize causes the user to shed part of their armored body in order to lighten themselves and sharply increase speed.
* SiliconBasedLife: Quite a number of Steel-types fall into this category, especially the ones who are part Rock or Ground.
* SituationalDamageAttack:
** Gyro Ball's damage depends on how slow the user is compared to the opponent, going up to a massive 150 power if the opponent is at least 6x as fast as the user.
** Heavy Slam's power depends on the user's weight compared to the target's weight. It's a paltry 40 power if the target is over 50% of the user's weight, but a whopping 120 if the target is below 20% of the user's weight.
* SituationalSword: Steel Roller has a huge 130 base power and removes any terrain on the battlefield, but can only be used if there is a terrain in effect.
* StatusBuff:
** Iron Defense raises the user's defense by two stages.
** Autotomize raises the user's speed by 2 stages while reducing their weight by 100 kg.
** Shift Gear raises the user's speed by two levels while raising attack by one.
** Metal Claw, Steel Wing, and Meteor Mash all have a chance of raising the user's stats in addition to dealing damage. This is notable because outside of the Jirachi-exclusive Doom Desire, these three moves constituted 75% of the type's attacking moves as of Generation III.
* StoneWall: There are outliers, like [[LightningBruiser Excadrill]], but the Steel-type's many resistances and few uses as an attacking type compliment this strategy. To counteract the type's high defenses and resistances, Steel-type Pokémon tend to have average or below-average HP.
* StrongFleshWeakSteel: The inorganic and sometimes mechanical Steel-types are weak to the mostly organic physical-brawling Fighting-types.
* SuperMode: Steelix, Scizor, Mawile, Aggron, Metagross, and Lucario are capable of Mega Evolution, with Aggron notably becoming a pure Steel-type upon doing so, while Melmetal, Corviknight, Copperajah, and Duraludon are capable of Gigantamax (but only Melmetal and Copperajah have Steel-type G-Max Moves).
* SuperToughness: Steel-types resist over half the types in the game and have strong enough defenses to easily shrug them off.
* ThisIsADrill: The Steel-type Z-move, Corkscrew Crash, involves the user slamming into the target while spinning like a drill.
* ThunderboltIron: Some Steel-types such as Registeel and Jirachi are heavily implied to be made out of metal that's not of this world.
* UndergroundMonkey: The Alolan Diglett, Alolan Sandshrew, Galarian Meowth and Galarian Stunfisk families are part Steel-Type.
* UseYourHead: How Iron Head works.
* WaveMotionGun: The powerful but self-damaging Steel Beam is a huge laser made of the user's steel, causing half the user's health in recoil damage.
* WeakToFire: One of Steel's three weaknesses is Fire. This allowed a lot of Dragons to use Fire-type moves to burn through Steels. This was a contributing factor in the creation of the last type, Fairy.
* WeakToMagic: Steel-types tend to have very high Defence but poorer Special Defence.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe:
** The Ability Magnet Pull can trap Pokémon and prevent them from fleeing or switching, but only if they're Steel-type. The Steel/Ghost-type Honedge line is immune to this due to Ghosts being immune to trapping effects.
** The move Anchor Shot prevents the target it hits from switching.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fairy]]
!!Fairy-Type (フェアリータイプ ''fearii taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[OurFairiesAreDifferent https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fairy_types.png]]]]

The newest type, introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. Introduced to combat the growing power of the Dragon-type and to boost the offensively-weak Poison- and Steel-types, Fairy-type Pokémon represent practically every culture's interpretation of TheFairFolk (whether it's the cute, harmless, benevolent sprites or the more mischievous, often meaner tricksters). Sprites, cute critters, and mystical otherworldly beings often represent the type. Despite their adorable appearances, they're effective against the more "hardcore" Pokémon.

Fairy is a highly effective type, both offensively and defensively. It resists Dark, Fighting, and Bug and is immune to Dragon, and is only weak to Steel and Poison. Offensively it's just as good, hitting Fighting-, Dragon-, and Dark-Types super-effectively while being resisted by Poison, Steel, and Fire. The things holding them back are their relative scarcity, lack of heavy hitters compared to other types, lack of physical moves[[note]]Play Rough and Spirit Break are the only physical Fairy-type moves that aren't Z-Moves, and the latter is a SecretArt[[/note]] and the fact that they are commonly slow and can't take physical hits very well.
%%Offensively: x2 Fighting, x2 Dark, x2 Dragon, x1/2 Fire, x1/2 Poison, x1/2 Steel
%%Defensively: x1/2 Bug, x1/2 Fighting, x1/2 Dark, x0 Dragon, x2 Poison, x2 Steel
%%Known Specialists: Valerie in ''X and Y''; Mina in ''Sun and Moon'', Lillie in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''; Opal in ''Sword and Shield''
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* ActionBomb: The move Misty Explosion knocks out the user in exchange for inflicting high damage on the opponent, and its power is doubled on Misty Terrain.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Disarming Voice bypasses accuracy and evasion modifiers when used.
* BadassAdorable: Their proclivity for cute designs only belies their true power as fighters, particularly against Dragon-types.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Fairy-Types are generally very charming and [[CuteMonsterGirl attractive]], like Gardevoir, Florges, and Primarina, and they have the appropriate benevolence to associate with their beauty/cuteness. That said, there's a spectrum of good and malicious Fairy-types. Some of the [[LightIsNotGood Not-Good]] Fairy-types include Mimikyu (a borderline EldritchAbomination who [[IJustWantToHaveFriends just wants to be loved]]) Hatterene (who are cute but dangerous, violent, and very easily angered), Shiinotic (freakish and alien-looking mushrooms that sap the vitality of their slumbering prey), and the Dark/Fairy Grimmsnarl, (hideous and intimidating imp-ogre beings that thrive on negative energy).
* BeautyIsBad: Conversely, some cutesy Fairy-types are actually quite dangerous. The Hatenna line, for example, is notoriously violent, contrary to their pastel colors and appearance. While Hatenna flees from emotions, Hattrem will ''beat the living daylights'' out of strongly emotional beings, and Hatterene will rip into anyone being "too loud" near it.
* BigBallOfViolence: Play Rough is depicted as this, with hearts and stars coming out of a cloud obscuring the beatdown. It's also the only widely distributed Physical Fairy-type move.[[note]]The only other Physical Fairy-type move, Spirit Break, is Grimmsnarl's SecretArt.[[/note]]
* BlowYouAway: The move Fairy Wind deals damage by hitting the target with [[ShapedLikeItself a fairy wind]].
* CastFromHitPoints: The DummiedOut Light of Ruin deals damage to the user equal to 1/2 of the damage dealt to the target.
* ColdIron: They are weak to Steel-type attacks, reflecting mythical fairies' aversion to iron.
* ColorCodedElements: The Fairy-type coloring is light pink, and several Fairies are also pink.
* ComedicSociopathy:
** Invoked by the standard Fairy-type Z-Move, Twinkle Tackle. The user doesn't even care about the target being kicked away, let alone them exploding.
** Mimikyu's exclusive Z-Move, "Let's Snuggle Forever" took this UpToEleven as Mimikyu ''packs and crushes the target before throwing them away''. Even the user's trainer gives a thumbs up and smiles.
* TheDragonslayer: Every single one of them, owing to their tremendous advantage over the Dragon-type.
* DummiedOut: A powerful Fairy-type move called Light of Ruin can be called by Metronome and its name appears in the Hotel Richissime room service minigame, but can't be learned by anything currently officially available in the games. In terms of brute force, it's the strongest Fairy-type attack and it also happens to be the only special attack with recoil. It's actually the SecretArt of AZ's Floette, which has been unreleased in any game but has existed in the game code ever since ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors:
** Offense
*** Strong: Dark, Dragon, Fighting
*** Weak: Fire, Poison, Steel
** Defense
*** Strong: Bug, Dark, Fighting
*** Weak: Poison, Steel
*** Immune: Dragon
* TheFairFolk: While the overall lean is towards the modern, more positive interpretation of fairies as benevolent nature spirits or harmless pranksters (such as Mawile and the mischievous Klefki), there are some particularly amoral Fairy-types trainers should be wary of.
** The Tapus (island guardians) of Alola are depicted as tiki-like guardian deities, but have morality that [[BlueAndOrangeMorality doesn't fall within human standards]].
** [[LightIsNotGood Shiinotic]] lure travelers into the woods with its glowing lights so it can put them to sleep and feed on their energy.
** The Dark/Fairy type Impidimp line from ''Sword and Shield'' are vile creatures who literally feed on the negative emotions of their unfortunate targets. The line culminates in the monstrous [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]]-like Grimmsnarl, whose signature Fairy-type move shatters the target's spirit (lowering its Special Attack). From the same game, Hatterene is equally disturbing, as it will violently react to strong emotions, creates crippling headaches around itself and will tear a person apart for being "too loud" around it.
* FieldPowerEffect: They learn several moves meant to manipulate the environment, including Misty Terrain, Flower Shield, and Xerneas's signature Geomancy.
* HealingShiv: Floral Healing, which becomes even more effective at healing in Grassy Terrain.
* HeartBeatDown: Some of the moves, most notably Sweet Kiss and Disarming Voice.
* KillerRabbit: Most Fairy-Types are both very cute-looking and surprisingly powerful battlers. Azumarill is a literal example, being a deceptively powerful rabbit thanks to [[SuperStrength Huge Power]].
* KissOfDeath: Draining Kiss involves the user kissing the target, causing damage and [[LifeDrain stealing some HP]].
* LifeDrain: Draining Kiss heals the user for 75% of the damage it dealt.
* LightEmUp: The Fairy-type is as close to a Light-type as the Pokémon series gets — along with being associated with bright pink, their moves tend to have a light motif, especially Dazzling Gleam, Fleur Cannon, Moonblast, Moonlight, and the [[DummiedOut aforementioned]] Light of Ruin.
* LightIsGood: Most Fairy-types are almost universally bright and colorful in design, and on the whole are quite benevolent with few exceptions. They also oppose the Dark-Type, being both super-effective and resistant to Dark-Type attacks.
* LightIsNotGood: However, Fairy-type includes Shiinotic and the Tapus, who are more malicious and have morality beyond human and Pokémon understanding, respectively. The Hatenna line also play this straight, being brightly colored but dangerous Pokémon. The Impidimp line subvert this by also being half Dark-Type, to match their [[DarkIsEvil malicious nature]].
* LimitBreak:
** The Fairy-type Z-Move is Twinkle Tackle, in which the user creates a charming space and toys with the target.
** The Fairy-type Max Move is Max Starfall, in which the user drops stars on the opponent, creating a Misty Terrain for five turns.
** Gigantamax Alcremie's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Finale, in which Alcremie drops gigantic drops of cream on th opponent, healing itself and its allies bu a sixth of their max HP.
** Gigantamax Hatterene's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Smite, in which Hatterene drops stars on the opponent, confusing all opponents on the field.
* LogicalWeakness: Fairy-types are weak to Steel-types because, in traditional mythology involving TheFairFolk, they were vulnerable to iron and steel.
* {{Lunacy}}: They have a lunar motif in their moves Moonblast and Moonlight, the latter of which was {{Retcon}}ned in as a Fairy-type move. The lunar motif may have been influenced by the Clefable line, an evolutionary line that was the original fairy-themed Pokémon and had a strong association with the moon. The line became Fairy-type upon the new type's introduction.
* MakeMeWannaShout:
** Disarming Voice is a sound-based attack, though its damage-dealing ability is more due to inflicting "emotional damage" than the power of the sound itself.
** Every Pokémon that can have the Pixilate Ability is capable of learning Hyper Voice, which can deal serious damage thanks to Pixilate's power boost and the STAB bonus from it.
* MightyGlacier: Most Fairy-Types are slow, but can usually take a hit and hit back hard.
* ObviousRulePatch: They were introduced to curb the Dragon-type, as Creator/GameFreak thought they had made it too powerful. They also give Poison and Steel more offensive uses, as both of them were pretty much only used for their defensive capabilities beforehand.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The basis for Fairy-types can include all kinds of spirits, sprites, deities, and cute critters alike.
* PercentDamageAttack: Nature's Madness cuts the target's current HP in half, like Super Fang. The Z-move Guardian of Alola cuts the target's current HP by 75%.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Fairy's elemental color is light pink, and has a lot of cute and feminine Pokémon in its ranks, many of whom have Pink in their color schemes. Quite a few of them are female-only or have gender ratios that favor females. There are also a lot of Fairy-Types who are also Psychic-Type, another element associated with pink, and further emphasizing their femininity.
* PuppyDogEyes: The Baby-Doll Eyes move, which lowers the opponent's Attack and is a first-strike move.
* RealMenWearPink: The Impidimp line stands out among Fairy-types for being male-only, and the final evolution, Grimmsnarl, is an intimidating ogre-like monster. Doesn't stop them from using the SuperCuteSuperpowers used by other Pokémon of the type.
* {{Retcon}}: When the type was introduced, a fair number of older Pokémon were changed to be at least part Fairy. In the case of the Togepi, Clefairy, and Snubbull families, they're now pure Fairy-Types (they were Normal-Types before). Compared to the Dark- and Steel-types, no Pokémon gained the Dark-type and only two (Magnemite and Magneton) gained a Steel-type in Generation II. The moves Charm, [[StandardStatusEffects Sweet Kiss]], and [[HealThyself Moonlight]] were also retconned to be Fairy, but none of these are affected by ElementalRockPaperScissors.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: A lot of Pokémon of this type fit this trope, especially if unevolved.
* SecretArt:
** Pixilate turns Normal-type moves into Fairy-type and boosts them by 20% (30% in Gen VI).
** Misty Terrain protects all Pokémon on the ground from StandardStatusEffects. It also reduces damage taken from Dragon-type attacks by 50%.
* StatusBuff:
** The move Geomancy sharply raises the user's Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed, but takes two turns to activate.
** The move Aromatic Mist raises the Special Defense of an ally by 1 stage.
** The ability Flower Shield raises the Defense of all Grass-type Pokémon in the battle.
* SuperCuteSuperPowers: Quite a few Fairy-type moves are based on cuteness, such as Charm, Sweet Kiss, [[PuppyDogEyes Baby-doll Eyes]], and Disarming Voice.
* SuperMode: Gardevoir, Mawile, and Diancie are capable of Mega Evolution while Altaria and Audino become part Fairy-type when they Mega Evolve. Alcremie, Hatterene, and Grimmsnarl are capable of Gigantamax, but only Alcremie and Hatterene have Fairy-type G-Max Moves.
* TakingYouWithMe: Misty Explosion deals damage to all targets around the user but faints the user, and its base power is increased on Misty Terrain.
* ATwinkleInTheSky: The Fairy-type Z-Move Twinkle Tackle rams the opponent into the sky, wherein it disappears leaving only an audible twinkle behind.
* UglyCute: Snubull, Granbull, and, arguably, Mawlie stand out as the only non-cute or pretty Fairy-types.
* UndergroundMonkey: Alolan Ninetales, Galarian Weezing and Galarian Rapidash are part Fairy-Type.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Being a type that {{No Sell}}s Dragon attacks and has a lot of other resistances, Fairy-type Pokémon are weak against Poison and Steel, known for having weak offensive presence; the former being the weakest Pokémon type since Gen I.
* WhiteMage: Over half of all Fairy-type moves are status moves. Buff one's own stats? Debuff an opponent? Buff an ally's stats? Heal oneself? Heal an ally? Block all status moves used against your team? Block ''all'' StandardStatusEffects from the entire field? Fairies can do all of this.
[[/folder]]

!!'''Spin-Off Exclusive Types'''

[[folder:Shadow]]
!!Shadow-Type / Dark-Type (ダークタイプ ''daaku taipu'')
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Exclusive to spin-off titles ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', Shadow Pokémon are the end product of a scientific and magical process that's created by the top scientists of Cipher to remove all emotions from Pokémon. These Pokémon have no compunction about attacking Pokémon and people, which makes them the perfect weapons for Cipher's crimes. Much to the displeasure of the denizens of Orre, Shadow Pokémon became popular among the criminal underground. Some trainers who own Shadow Pokémon don't even know they have them. Only people with certain tools and psychic abilities can identify a Shadow Pokémon by its shadowy aura. Shadow Pokémon can be reverted back into normal Pokémon by bonding with its trainer, which is one of the main objectives of the ''Colosseum'' series. Cipher and the threat of Shadow Pokémon were stopped thanks to the protagonists of the two games, but it's hinted that Cipher is planning a comeback.

In ''Colosseum'', Shadow isn't so much a type as it is a classification. It doesn't change a Pokémon's strengths or weaknesses in the ElementalRockPaperScissors, and its only move at the time (Shadow Rush) is a physical move that [[NonElemental deals neutral damage to everything]].

''XD: Gale of Darkness'' revamps Shadow to be an actual type and provides it with more moves, though it is unique in that it acts as a third type (or second if a Shadow Pokémon only has one type normally) and doesn't provide a Same-Type Attack Bonus to its attacks. [[InfinityPlusOneElement All Shadow-type attacks are also now super-effective on all normal Pokémon]], but they are resisted by other Shadow Pokémon.

Unlike other types at the time, whose moves were fixed as Physical or Special, Shadow-type moves in ''XD: Gale of Darkness'' can be either. This predates the Physical/Special split of moves introduced into the main series games in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl''.
%%Offensively: x2 normal Pokémon, x1/2 Shadow
%%Defensively: x1/2 Shadow
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* AttackAttackAttack: Shadow Pokémon tend to lack defensive or healing moves.
* AxCrazy: In Hyper Mode, a Shadow Pokémon may attack its teammate, its own Trainer, or the opposing Trainer.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: In the hands of the player, these Pokémon are still dangerous, but their power is focused on the forces of Cipher.
* BlowYouAway: Shadow Blast, the Shadow version of Lugia's Aeroblast and Shadow Lugia's signature move.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Pokémon are normally friendly creatures who enjoy spending time with their Trainers as well as a good fight. Shadow Pokémon have become artificially corrupted into mindless attack drones whose only purpose is to do nothing ''but'' fight.
* CantCatchUp: When caught, a Shadow Pokémon cannot level up, evolve, or learn new moves until it's purified, at which point it'll automatically gain the experience back. Try training one early in the game, and the Shadow Pokémon you caught in the last town will stop being useful quickly and become dead weight in a major battle until you gain the ability to fully purify them.
* CastFromHitPoints: Shadow Rush (''Colosseum'' only) and Shadow End cause recoil damage to the user. Rush has 1/4 recoil while End has 1/2.
* TheCorruption: They are created by robbing emotions from Pokémon to turn them into soulless fighting machines.
* DarkIsEvil: Shadow Pokémon are corrupted beings that need to be restored to their true selves.
* DubNameChange: They're called "Dark Pokémon" in the Japanese version, but were changed to "Shadow Pokémon" to avoid confusion with the Dark-type (which is called the Evil-type in Japan).
* EmptyShell: The creation of Shadow Pokémon involves removing their emotions.
* EvilKnockoff: Shadow Chill, Shadow Bolt, Shadow Fire, and Shadow Blast are corrupted versions of Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, and Aeroblast, respectively.
** Many Shadow moves are knockoffs of some other move. Shadow Blitz is an evil Tackle, Shadow Down is basically just a more accurate Screech, Shadow End is a PowerfulButInaccurate move CastFromHitPoints reminiscent of Head Smash, Shadow Hold is a worse Mean Look, Shadow Mist is based on Sweet Scent, Shadow Panic is a very slightly better Supersonic, and Shadow Sky is a weather move similar to Hail in the way it damages all but Shadow Pokémon.
* FireIceLightning: Shadow Bolt, Shadow Chill, and Shadow Fire. Respectively the signature moves of the corrupted Zapdos, Articuno, and Moltres.
* HeelFaceTurn: A Shadow Pokémon experiences one after being purified.
* HerdHittingAttack: Shadow Down, Shadow Hold, Shadow Mist, Shadow Panic, Shadow Rave, Shadow Storm, and Shadow Wave hit all enemies while Shadow Half and Shadow Shed hit everyone on the field.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: In an ElementalRockPaperScissors sense. Shadow is super effective against every other type in ''XD'' and only resisted by itself.
* InvisibleToNormals: The shadowy aura surrounding a Shadow Pokémon can only be seen by very few people or those with special technology.
* MindRape: In the words of Ein, Cipher's head scientist, Shadow Pokémon are born by "closing the door to a Pokémon's heart." The fact that they are willing to attack anyone only adds to this.
* NoCureForEvil: There are no "positive support" Shadow moves.
* OlympusMons: Not even legendaries are safe from becoming Shadow Pokémon, as players will eventually encounter Shadow Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Raikou, Entei, and Suicune. However, there's one special Shadow legendary Pokémon: Shadow Lugia. Considered the ultimate Shadow Pokémon, Shadow Lugia looks very different compared to normal Lugia with its reversed color scheme and other details. It's also nearly immune to purification, as normal methods of purification don't work on it. Only the Purify Chamber at max power can truly purify Shadow Lugia.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: Averted. If you fail to snag a Shadow Pokémon in a one-time battle, there'll be a trainer somewhere who will still have it. In ''Colosseum'' the trainer can be found somewhere else, while in ''XD'' Miror B. will roam Orre and battle you until you snag all the Shadow Pokémon.
* PowerAtAPrice: Shadow attacks hit everything but other Shadow Pokémon super effectively, but Shadow Pokémon cannot level up, evolve, or learn new moves.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Before a Shadow Pokémon can be purified into a normal Pokémon, it must let its heart open towards the trainer.
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: The aura of darkness that surrounds a Shadow Pokémon is dark purple.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: Shadow Blitz, Shadow Break, Shadow End, and Shadow Rush.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: A Shadow Pokémon's aura goes red and black when it enters Hyper[=/=]Reverse Mode.
* RedemptionDemotion: In the hands of an NPC trainer in ''Colosseum'', Shadow Pokémon have a normal moveset with Shadow Rush included. When snagged, however, they only know Shadow Rush.
* RiddleForTheAges: The exact process of creating Shadow Pokémon, which involves "closing the door to their hearts", is never disclosed.
* SecretArt: Enforced. Shadow attacks can only be used by Shadow Pokémon, and purified ones will immediately forget them.
* ThemeNaming: Every one of the type's attacks has "Shadow" in its name.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: They are visually indistinct from normal Pokémon to the average human. The only way to identify them is by having an innate ability to sense them like Rui or using special equipment like Michael's Aura Reader. The only exception is Shadow Lugia/[=XD001=], which has become so thoroughly corrupted that even its outward appearance has been changed.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Shadow Hold prevents switching.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Normal]]
!!Normal-Type (ノーマルタイプ ''nohmaru taipu'')
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Normal-type Pokémon are the NonElemental of the series. It's not too useful offensively, but their diverse movepools make them capable of some truly impressive ConfusionFu. Unlike most types, which have some kind of obvious unifying theme, Normal-types can be anything from common animals to bizarre {{Cartoon Creature}}s. A few Pokémon, such as Ditto, Castform, Kecleon, Meloetta, Silvally, or Arceus, whose main gimmick revolves around changing their types or not relying on types at all, are Normal-types in their natural state.

They make their habitats in any region that they can call home, [[JackOfAllTrades being the most exceptional generalists of the 18 types]]. Normal is the second most-common type.

They make up most of the ComMons, but there are a few outliers like [[GentleGiant Snorlax]] and [[StoneWall Blissey]]. Arceus, the [[OlympusMons creator deity]] of the Pokémon world, is Normal-type in its default form.

Normal-type attacks are strong against no types, are resisted by Rock and Steel, and do not affect Ghost. Normal-types are only weak to Fighting-type attacks, and are immune to Ghost.
%%Offensively: x1/2 Rock, x1/2 Steel, x0 Ghost
%%Defensively: x2 Fighting, x0 Ghost
%%Known Specialists: Whitney in ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''; Norman in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Lenora in ''Black and White''; Cheren in ''Black 2 and White 2''; Ilima in ''Sun and Moon''

* ActionBomb: The moves Self-Destruct and Explosion, which both knock out the user in exchange for inflicting massive damage on the opponent, are Normal moves.
* ActionInitiative:
** Quick Attack has +1 priority, causing the move to hit first in most situations.
** Feint is weak but [[ArmorPiercingAttack breaks all protection moves such as Protect, Wide Guard, and Spiky Shield]]. It has +2 priority.
** Until the 7th generation games (which nerfed Sucker Punch's power and introduced the 90 power Bug-type move First Impression), Extreme Speed was tied with Sucker Punch for having the highest power of all priority attacks, at 80. It has +2 priority.
** Fake Out has +3 priority and will always make the opponent Flinch, [[ItOnlyWorksOnce but it can only be used the first turn the user is allowed to act]].
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted with Roar and Whirlwind, which have -6 priority, meaning that in the majority of cases, they will hit last.]]
* AlwaysAccurateAttack:
** Swift, Trump Card, Confide, Play Nice, and Tearful Look bypass accuracy and evasion checks when used.
** Lock-On and Mind Reader cause the next attack to always hit even during the semi-invulnerable periods of moves like Fly and Dig.
** And as a variation, Odor Sleuth and Foresight removes Ghost-type immunity and reset Evasion to default. They also bypass accuracy and evasion checks, since they would have a hard time doing what they're supposed to if they were prone to missing.
* ArmorPiercingAttack:
** As mentioned above, Feint breaks through moves like Protect.
** Chip Away ignores changes in the target's Defense. [[ExactWords That's exactly what it does]] — it ignores increases in defense, but also ''decreases.'' (It also ignores modifiers to Evasion.)
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Hyper Beam and Giga Impact are widespread and powerful attacks, but they have a recharge turn after use that forces the user to stay in battle and be unable to do ''anything''. What makes this AwesomeButImpractical is that the opponent can use this turn to do anything they like — healing, switching, boosting, or just beating the crap out of you. Chances are, your opponent's free turn will ''more'' than offset the damage your attack did. Even worse, you can most likely deal just as much (if not more) damage with any other move with an effective base 75 power or more — just use it twice in a row. [[AwesomeButImpractical In other words]], there is next to ''no'' reason to '''ever''' use Hyper Beam or any other move that requires two turns to execute.
** Trump Card has the unique property of increasing in power as its PP depletes, up to ''200'' Power on the final attack. However, it's very weak for the first few attacks and it's difficult surviving long enough for the power to reach its maximum. And, of course, you can only use the max power Trump Card once.
** [[OneHitKO Horn Drill and Guillotine]] will KO the target no matter what (unless its Ability is Sturdy). However, it has an accuracy of 30% if both Pokémon are at the same level, and if the target's level is greater, the attack will fail. The only way to increase the accuracy of the OHKO moves is to have a level advantage: one level higher is one extra percent. If a Pokémon has a 20-level advantage to grant a 50% accuracy for these moves, then there are probably other moves in the Pokémon's arsenal that could one-shot its opponent with better efficiency. If you have a 50-level advantage, you can one-shot your opponent with ''Tackle'' or some similarly laughably weak move.
* BadassNormal: The best way to describe some of the tougher Normal-types. They have weak Special Attacks and limited Special Movepools, but their physical stats and prowess with such moves are excellent.
* BoringButPractical:
** Rapid Spin, Swords Dance, Substitute, Protect, Baton Pass, Encore, and Fake Out. Normal-type moves like these aren't particularly flashy and most don't deal damage, but they can make or break entire battles.
** Although Normal-types lack super-effective STAB coverage and have very little in the way of resistances, they can fill a wide variety of roles and find effective use on a team, both for serious battling and in-game adventuring.
* BrownNote: Perish Song is a cursed song that causes all Pokémon that hear it to instantly faint in three turns. The curse can be nullified by switching out, so utilizing trapping moves and stalling ("Perish Trapping") is practically a requirement to effectively use Perish Song.
* CartoonCreature: A lot of Normal-types look quite bizarre, even if they have recognizable basis. Just look at Lickitung and Audino for a few examples.
* CastFromHitPoints:
** Take Down, Double Edge, and Head Charge deal damage to the user equal to a fraction of the damage dealt to opponents; 1/4 for Take Down and Head Charge and 1/3 for Double Edge.
** Belly Drum consumes 50% of the user's max HP and boosts its Attack to the maximum. Substitute consumes 25% of the user's max HP to create a decoy with that amount of HP to take attacks for it, while also blocking status attacks outright. If the user would be brought to 0 or less HP by either move, it fails.
* ChargedAttack:
** RazorWind and Skull Bash both require the user to spend a turn doing nothing before the attack. As a result, they fall squarely into AwesomeButImpractical territory, though they at least have an increased critical hit chance and raise the user's Defense, respectively.
** Spit Up plays it a little differently — it only works after the user has used Stockpile at least once, and deals more damage if the user has used Stockpile more than once, consuming all charges in the process.
* ColorCodedElements: Normal-types are represented by a warm grey to represent their low interaction with other types. In practice, Normal-types tend to be grey, brown, or pink.
* ComMons: The majority of ComMons are Normal-types, but the opposite is not necessarily true. This includes Rattata, Sentret, Zigzagoon, Patrat, Lillipup, and a majority of early Flying-types who have Normal as their second type.
* ConfusionFu:
** Normal-types tend to have large and ''extremely'' versatile movepools to go with their JackOfAllTrades nature.
** Hidden Power has the potential to become any type but Normal and Fairy. The trainer can't determine its type without consulting the regional Hidden Power checker or doing a lot of math with hidden values, and its animation has no clue to what typing it is.
** Assist can become almost any attack that another Pokémon in the trainer's party knows, while Metronome can become almost '''''any''''' attack, period. [[note]]Except Assist, Chatter, Copycat, Counter, Covet, Destiny Bond, Detect, Endure, Feint, Focus Punch, Follow Me, Helping Hand, Me First, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Metronome]], Mimic, Mirror Coat, Mirror Move, Protect, Quick Guard, Sketch, Sleep Talk, Snatch, Struggle, Switcheroo, Thief, Trick, and Wide Guard.[[/note]]
* CounterAttack: Bide causes the user to charge for two turns, and then attack on the third turn for double the damage it took during the charging period.
* CriticalHitClass: The moves Slash and Razor Wind have a higher than normal chance of causing {{Critical Hit}}s. Also of note is the move Focus Energy, which raises the user's overall chances of landing a critical hit and is useful for any Pokémon that plans to specialize in doing so. There is also Laser Focus, which guarantees that the next attack will be a critical hit.
* DesperationAttack: Struggle can only be used by Pokémon that cannot use any more moves (either due to totally running out of PP or being locked into one move and running out of PP for that one). While it's considered a Normal-type move, the move is truly non-elemental because it doesn't apply ElementalRockPaperScissors. It also damages the user by 1/4th of its max HP with each use, so when a Pokémon starts using Struggle, the battle's going to be over quick.
* DiscOneNuke: [=TM27=] [[ThePowerOfFriendship Return]] is obtained early in the game in ''Black 2 and White 2'' and ''X and Y''. With enough patience and walking around, it's possible to have a ''102'' power attack before tackling the first few gyms. Considering that most moves in the early-game have half that power at best, that's quite powerful. It's even more effective if used by a Normal-type, as its strength increases to '''153''' power, stronger than a STAB-less Giga Impact. More moves will become available, but until then, Return has incredible power.

*** Strong: None
*** Weak: Rock, Steel
*** Can't Hit: Ghost

*** Strong: None
*** Weak: Fighting
*** Immune: Ghost
* FireIceLightning: Tri Attack is depicted as firing three balls of fire, ice, and electric energy. It has a independent 10% chances of burning, freezing, or paralyzing the opponent.
* FixedDamageAttack: Sonic Boom does exactly 20 damage to anything that's not a Ghost-type.
* HealThyself: Recover, Soft-Boiled, Milk Drink, [[RestingRecovery Slack Off]], and Morning Sun all restore the user's HP. Swallow does the same, but only if the user has some charges stored from using Stockpile. Refresh doesn't heal any HP, but it cures some of the major StandardStatusEffects.
* HerdHittingAttack: Captivate, Growl, Hyper Voice, Leer, RazorWind, Relic Song, Sweet Scent, Swift, and Tail Whip affect all foes while Boomburst, Explosion, Self-Destruct, and Teeter Dance hit everyone but the user.
* HPToOne: False Swipe and Hold Back deal normal damage but cannot cause a KO, leaving the target with at least 1 HP. Useful for catching Pokémon.
* JackOfAllStats: As far as matchups go, it's nicely balanced, being weak to [[CloseRangeCombatant one type]] and immune to [[SoulPower another]]. ''Offensively'', Normal-type moves aren't particularly useful except for [[FunWithAcronyms S.T.A.B.]] (Same Type Attack Bonus), which enhances the strength of the moves by 50% as long as the user is the same type.
* JackOfAllTrades:
** They can also fulfill various roles with their plethora of attacking options.
** In the Galar region, Normal-types are preferred in Poké Job requests as they are best at dealing with a wide variety of customers.
* LastChanceHitPoint: Endure allows the user to survive lethal attacks with 1 HP left for the duration of the turn. Especially powerful when combined with Flail and Reversal (which gain strength the lower the user's HP is).
* LastDiscMagic: Hyper Beam and Giga Impact are usually available to buy as a TM late in the game or can be learned naturally by some Pokémon during the late- or post-game.

** The Normal-type Z-Move is Breakneck Blitz, in which the user [[RammingAlwaysWorks crashes into the foe at full speed]].
** The Normal-type Max Move, Max Strike, sends a shockwave through the ground that lowers the target's Speed by 1 stage.
** Gigantamax Meowth's exclusive G-Max Move, G-Max Gold Rush, causes beams of golden light to erupt from the ground to confuse the target and scatter large coins everywhere.
** Pulverizing Pancake, Snorlax's personal Z-Move, causes it to build up energy before leaping up high and crushing its opponent. Its exclusive G-Max Move, G-Max Replenish, restores any Berries it and its allies have eaten.
** Eevee's exclusive Z-Move is Extreme Evoboost, in which it summons one of each of its evolutions to infuse it with strength, increasing each of its stats by two stages each. G-Max Cuddle, Gigantamax Eevee's G-Max Move, has it playfully "cuddle" (read: crush) its opponent, infatuating the target if it's the opposite gender.
* LuckBasedMission: Hidden Power's type (and power before ''X and Y'') is dependent on a hidden stat value that each Pokémon has, [[GuideDangIt not that the games tell you this]]. It's pretty much impossible to influence what you'll get without breeding (impractical before the credits roll and both time-consuming and sanity-draining regardless), manipulating the games' RandomNumberGod system (only possible before ''X and Y''), or just cheating.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Snore, Uproar, Hyper Voice, Round, Echoed Voice, Relic Song, and Boomburst are all damaging sound-based Normal moves. As of ''X and Y'', [[ArmorPiercingAttack they can hit Pokémon that are behind a Substitute]].
* MixAndMatchCritters: A lot of Normal-types are based on one animal, but have characteristics of other animals. Slaking is a gorilla mixed with a sloth, Eevee has canine and feline traits, Staraptor resembles a cross between a starling and a bird of prey, and so on.
* MutualDisadvantage: Normal-types cannot be harmed by Ghost-types, but they can't harm Ghost-types either.
* {{Nerf}}:
** Explosion and Self-Destruct no longer halves the target's Defense starting in Generation V, effectively halving its power.
** Horn Drill and Guillotine (and Fissure) based the hit possibility on Speed in Generation I and was affected by accuracy and evasion modifiers. Using X Accuracy (which made all attacks hit) on a fast Pokémon with Fissure could quickly defeat teams, even if using an underleveled Pokémon. Generation II changed these moves to the level-based hit possibility, and they ignore accuracy and evasion modifiers.
** Hyper Beam in Generation I did not have a recharge turn if the Pokémon knocked out its opponent or broke a Substitute. In Generation II and beyond, the attack ''always'' has a recharge turn.
* NonElemental:
** Normal is (unsurprisingly) this in the type system. Against the other 17 types, Normal is resisted by two and one is immune. The other types, including itself, all take normal damage. On the downside, Normal moves are not super-effective against any type either.
** In relation to them being essentially the "default" typing and not having any strong elemental qualities of its own, Normal is notable for having many moves that can be strongly influenced by the environment, weather, or simply the individual inner qualities of the Pokémon using the move. Hidden Power becomes a elemental typing depending on the IVs of the Pokémon, Secret Power changes effect according to the current surroundings, Nature Power becomes a different move depending on the current terrain, Weather Ball changes typing and power with the weather, and Terrain Pulse changes power and typing with the Terrain. Likewise there are a number of Abilities (Aerilate, Pixilate, Refrigerate, Galvanize) which increase the power of Normal type attacks and change them into a elemental typing in the process. Normalize does the opposite, writing over elemental attacks the user knows and turning them into Normal type moves while also boosting their strength.
* NonIndicativeName: There are many Pokémon who aren't "normal" in the slightest, but are Normal-type solely because they don't fit into any of the other types. Good examples of this would be [[{{God}} Arceus]] (the creator of the universe) and [[MixAndMatchCritters Type: Null]] (a chimera of parts from other Pokémon).[[note]]It should be noted that both Arceus and Silvally (the evolution of Type: Null) have the gimmick of being able to change their type before battle, depending on what item they hold, so the Normal type is essentially little more than a default state of being for them.[[/note]]
* OneHitKO: Horn Drill and Guillotine will instantly KO the target if they connect.
* PercentDamageAttack: Super Fang cuts the current HP of the target in half.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Return. Its power is dependent on how the user's Friendship Value is, maxing out at 102 power. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Frustration, which has the same power when the Value is as low as possible.
* PuppyDogEyes: Tearful Look lowers makes the target lose its combative spirit, lowering its Attack and Special Attack.
* QuirkyBard: There are a lot of Normal-type Pokémon whose main features are gimmicks. Ditto can transform into other Pokémon; Eevee has eight potential evolutions; Smeargle can copy nearly every move; Spinda has variable spot patterns; Castform's type changes to match the weather (except sandstorms for some odd reason); Kecleon's ability changes its type into the attack last used on it; Chatot interacts with the DS microphone; Deerling and Sawsbuck have different designs depending on the in-game season; and many more. Often, these gimmicks are [[JokeCharacter all they have]], though some are still capable fighters (like Eevee's evolutions and Sawsbuck).
* RammingAlwaysWorks: Tackle, Take Down, Double Edge, Head Charge, and Giga Impact, among others. Ramming is so iconic for being associated with Normal type attacks that the ultimate Normal type move (Breakneck Blitz) is itself basically a [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal terrain-tearing Tackle]] in its animation.
* RandomEffectSpell: Metronome can select nearly any move in the series when used, while Assist is more controlled in that it will randomly select a move that one of the user's teammates know. Both of them cannot call certain moves, like [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment themselves]], [[DefendCommand Protect]], or [[CounterAttack Counter]].
* RealIsBrown: Many of them have a brown or tan color scheme to make them look more like real animals.
* {{Retcon}}:
** Several previously Normal-type Pokémon and a few Normal-type moves became Fairy-type in Gen VI.
** This also happened in Generation II, where [[DishingOutDirt Sand Attack]], [[CombatPragmatist Bite]], [[BareFistedMonk Karate Chop]], and [[BlowYouAway Gust]], all Normal-type in Generation I, changed type.
* ScissorsCutsRock: Foresight and Odor Sleuth allow the user to hit Ghost-type Pokémon with Normal- and Fighting-type moves, which is normally impossible.
* ShedArmorGainSpeed: This is how Shell Smash works. Though it lowers the user's defenses, it also gives great boosts to Speed as well as both offenses.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Flail deals more damage the lower the user's HP is. At full HP, the power is a measly 20, but when the user has under 5% of their HP left, it becomes even stronger than [[WaveMotionGun Hyper Beam]].
* SpamAttack: Barrage, Comet Punch, Double Slap, Fury Attack, Fury Swipes, Spike Cannon, and Tail Slap hit 2-5 times when used, though each hit is pretty weak.
* SpinToDeflectStuff: The move Rapid Spin has the user spin at high speed to deal damage. It's actually really weak, but it has the useful property of removing Leech Seed, trapping moves that deal damage like Bind, and [[GeoEffects entry hazards]] like Spikes. This effect only works if the attack deals damage ''and'' the user doesn't faint from recoil, so a Ghost-type or damage from Rocky Helmet/Rough Skin/Iron Barbs can stop it.
* StatusBuff:
** Swords Dance increases the user's Attack by 2 stages (a 100% additive increase).
** Work Up and Growth increase Attack and Special Attack by 1 stage each (a 50% additive increase), with Growth doubling the boosts during Sunny Day or Drought.
** Harden and Defense Curl increase Defense by 1 stage, [[{{Combos}} with Defense Curl having the added bonus of doubling the power of]] [[RollingAttack Rollout and Ice Ball]].
** Howl and Sharpen increase Attack by 1 stage.
** Accupressure randomly increases one stat by 2 stages.
** Belly Drum maxes out attack (to 400%) [[CastFromHitPoints at the cost of half the user's HP]].
** Double Team increases Evasion by 1 stage.
** Minimize increases Evasion by 2 stages, but also causes the user to always get hit by and take double damage from [[GiantFootOfStomping Stomp]], [[DeathFromAbove Body Slam]], [[RollingAttack Steamroller]], Dragon Rush, [[DeathFromAbove Flying Press]], and Phantom Force, as well as taking double damage from [[WrestlerInAllOfUs Malicious]] [[LimitBreak Moonsault]].
** [[ShedArmorGainSpeed Shell Smash]] increases Attack, Special Attack, and Speed by 2 stages, but decreases Defense and Special Defense by 1 stage.
** Stockpile increases both Defense and Special Defense by 1 stage, but maxes out at 3 stages instead of 6 because of the move's interaction with [[HealThyself Swallow]] and [[ChargedAttack Spit Up]].
** Helping Hand increases the damage dealt by a partner Pokémon in Doubles/Triples by 50%.
* SuperMode: Pidgeot, Kangaskhan, Lopunny, and Audino are capable of Mega Evolution, while Meowth, Eevee, and Snorlax are capable of Gigantamax.
* SuperSpeed: Invoked with Quick Attack and Extreme Speed, which involve the user moving so fast they strike before other Pokémon normally would.
* SwitchOutMove:
** Roar and Whirlwind cause the target to switch out, but force the user to move last (mainly as a safeguard against abusive shuffle/[[CycleOfHurting lockdown]] shenanigans).
** Baton Pass causes the user to simply switch out. However, doing so will maintain the user's current status changes (positive and negative), non-permanent status conditions (like confusion), Substitutes, and the like. Switching out normally would remove those changes. It also allows the user to switch out if it is prevented from doing so by Mean Look or Shadow Tag, and it will not trigger Pursuit's special effect.
* UselessUsefulSpell:
** Hidden Power can turn out like this if the type you get is something you can already get, like a STAB move [[NotCompletelyUseless (unless the user is one of the rare Pokémon that doesn't get access to one of their STABs, like Flying-type moves for Thundurus)]]. Even worse before ''X and Y'', where your Hidden Power could end up with a Power of ''30'', meaning that your resisted STAB attacks will most likely hit harder than a super-effective Hidden Power.
** Most Normal-types have astoundingly diverse movepools (by TM and tutor), but sadly, most of the moves that make up that movepool run off stats that most Normal-types don't have use for (namely special attacks).
* WaveMotionGun: The famous [[AwesomeButImpractical Hyper Beam]] manifests as a huge beam of energy.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: The moves Block and Mean Look prevent most opponents from escaping as long as the user remains in play. Only Ghost-types and Pokémon with certain abilities can escape.

[[folder:Fire]]
!!Fire-Type / Flame-Type (ほのおタイプ ''hono'o taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[PlayingWithFire https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fire_types.png]]]]

Pokémon with power over fire, lava, and all forms of heat. Most of them are {{Glass Cannon}}s, but surprisingly, the type has a lot of resistances (Bug, Grass, Ice, Steel, Fairy, itself). Most Fire-Type moves are also capable of inflicting the Burn status, which causes damage while also halving the afflicted Pokémon's physical attack. Fire types are immune to the Burn status themselves, which is handy for the physical attackers among them. They are based on fantastical animals that can breathe fire, but there are a few, such as Magmar and Chandelure, which are more esoteric. Fire is also one of the three starter types.

They tend to live in particularly hot areas, like [[LethalLavaLand volcanoes]], but as not every game has that kind of environment, they can be just as comfortable in caves or urban areas. Due to fire being one of the less naturally common elements, non-starter Fire-types tend to be rare and few in number.

Offensively, they are strong against Bug, Grass, Ice, and Steel, but weak against Dragon, Fire, Rock, and Water. Defensively, it's strong against Bug, Fire, Grass, Ice, Steel, and Fairy, but weak against Ground, Rock, and Water.
%%Offensively: x2 Bug, x2 Grass, x2 Ice, x2 Steel, x1/2 Dragon, x1/2 Fire, x1/2 Rock, x1/2 Water
%%Defensively: x1/2 Bug, x1/2 Fire, x1/2 Grass, x1/2 Ice (Gen II onward), x1/2 Steel, x1/2 Fairy, x2 Ground, x2 Rock, x2 Water
%%Known Specialists: Blaine in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''; Flannery in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Flint in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Chili in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Malva in ''X and Y''; Kiawe in ''Sun and Moon''; Kabu in ''Sword and Shield''

* AttackAttackAttack: There are only 2 Fire-type attacks that aren't offensive; [[StandardStatusEffects Will-O-Wisp]] and [[ThePowerOfTheSun Sunny Day]]. Even then, Will-O-Wisp inflicts damage over time, and Sunny Day raises the power of Fire-type moves.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Blast Burn is a Fire-type clone of Hyper Beam, meaning you're exposed to retaliation for 1 turn after using it (and you could do more damage by just using Flamethrower twice).
** Fire Blast has better accuracy than Blizzard and Thunder, but it still has a very low PP count at 5 and thus is [[TooAwesomeToUse not very practical]] outside of battle facilities that heal your Pokémon after each battle.
** Inferno always inflicts a burn when it hits and has high power, but only has 50% accuracy.
** Burn Up has a base power of 130, but the user loses its Fire typing after using the move. Furthermore, it fails when used by a non-Fire-type Pokémon, so ItOnlyWorksOnce.
* BreathWeapon: Most of the attacks of this type are depicted as this; of course, some Fire-type Pokémon[[note]]Braixen & Magmortar mainly[[/note]] have other methods of expelling fire.
* BoringButPractical: Flamethrower isn't the most damaging attack out there, but it still does good damage, reliably hits its target, and has a respectable amount of PP.
* CastFromHitPoints: Flare Blitz is a powerful move, but does damage to the user equal to 1/3 of the damage dealt to the target.
* ColorCodedElements: Fire is represented as an [[FireIsRed orange-red]].
* CounterAttack: Shell Trap, Turtonator's SecretArt, blows up opponents that hit Turtonator with a physical attack.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique:
** Overheat deals incredible damage, but lowers the user's Special Attack by two stages with each use, preventing it from hitting nearly as hard on repeated uses (and weakening the user's other Special moves as well).
** V-create is the third strongest move in the series that isn't a Z-move and the strongest one that isn't sacrificial, but each use lowers the user's defenses and Speed by one stage each.
** Flavor-wise, Burn Up is this, as it completely consumes the user's flames. In practice, whether losing one's Fire-typing is a boon or a bane depends on what moves the opponent is capable of using.
* DifficultButAwesome: Eruption's Power is directly proportional to how much HP the user has left, boasting a large 150 (same as Blast Burn) if the user is at full health. If you can keep the user healthy, it's far more useful than Fire Blast due to higher Power, 100% accuracy, and the ability to hit multiple opponents in Double and Triple Battles.
* ElementalPunch: The moves Fire Punch and Blaze Kick. Fire Punch has slightly above-average power and wide distribution while Blaze Kick is a bit stronger and has a higher crit chance at the cost of some accuracy.
* ElementalRivalry: The obvious one would be [[FireWaterJuxtaposition Fire and Water]], but there appears to be a lot of pairs of Fire types with [[LightningFireJuxtaposition Electric]] types. The Magmar and Electabuzz families and the Houndoom and Manectric families are version counterparts, there's a rivalry between Volkner and Flint in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'', and then there's [[Videogame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Reshiram and Zekrom]].

*** Strong: Bug, Grass, Ice, Steel
*** Weak: Dragon, Fire, Rock, Water

*** Strong: Bug, Fire, Grass, Ice (Gen II-Forward), Steel, Fairy
*** Weak: Ground, Rock, Water
* FireIceLightning: A very popular motif seen frequently in the series — Ember, Powder Snow, Thunder Shock; Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch; Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt; Fire Blast, Blizzard, Thunder; Magmar, Jynx, Electabuzz; Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres; Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem; and so many more. There isn't much of an ElementalRockPaperScissors usually seen with this kind of arrangement compared to other games — the only type in this triad that has an advantage over another is Fire over Ice.
* FireIsRed: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]. Several Fire attacks tend to be more realistically shaded, including blue flames for the more potent attacks, but most of the Pokémon themselves have red as their primary body color.
* FlamingHair: This design feature is popular among Fire-types, notably the Ponyta line and Infernape.
* GlassCannon: Fire has many common weaknesses and tends to be frail defensively, but hits a lot super effectively. Ironically, they have the highest number of resistances after Steel, at 6.
* GoombaStomp: Heat Crash, the Tepig line's signature move. It deals Fire-type damage depending on how heavy the target is compared to the user.
* HerdHittingAttack: During Double and Triple Battles, Lava Plume hits everything but the user while Eruption, Heat Wave, and Incinerate only hit enemy Pokémon.
* KillItWithWater: Almost all of them are weak to Water-type attacks. They can learn Sunny Day to reduce the damage taken from Water-type attacks.
* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: The Fire type only has three weaknesses, but they're practically ubiquitous and counter it quite well. Good physical attackers of almost any type can learn Ground- and Rock-type attacks via TM, and most Fire-types have poor physical bulk with which to take these attacks. Meanwhile, Water is ''the most common type in the game'', and most Fire-types will be stuck with the unwieldy Solar Beam when dealing with them. [[note]]Many Fire-types can learn weak or impractical coverage moves to handle Water-types like Thunder Fang, Thunder Punch, Grass Knot, and Wild Charge. However, the more powerful Grass- and Electric-type moves are limited to just a few legendary Pokémon, Magmortar, and the Vulpix, Litwick, and Larvesta lines.[[/note]]
* LastDiscMagic: Fire Blast is usually available to buy as a TM late in the game or can be learned naturally by many Fire-types during the late- or post-game.
* LightEmUp: ''Diamond and Pearl'' gave a lot of Fire-Types access to [[ChargeAttack Solar]] [[GreenThumb Beam]], which gives them an attack to use against Water-, Rock-, and Ground-types.
* LikeCannotCutLike: Fire-type Pokémon resist Fire attacks.
* LimitBreak:
** The Fire-type Z-Move is Inferno Overdrive, a burst of fire which causes a massive and devastating explosion.
** The Fire-type Max Move is Max Flare, a massive tongue of flame which activates harsh sunlight.
** Gigantamax Cinderace's G-Max Move is G-Max Fireball, an enormous Pyro Ball that it kicks towards its enemy.
** Gigantamax Charizard's exclusive G-Max Move, G-Max Widfire, sees it launch a dragon-shaped flame at the opponent, which explodes on impact and deals additional damage on non-Fire-types for several turns after.
** G-Max Centiferno, the G-Max Move of Gigantamax Centiskorch, is a massive blast of fire that traps opponents in a swirling inferno akin to Fire Spin.
* MagmaMan: Invoked in certain magma-related attacks like Lava Plume and Eruption.
* MundaneUtility: The Flame Body and Magma Armor abilities have the secondary effect of causing Pokémon Eggs to hatch in half the time they usually would, making Pokémon with these abilities incredibly useful for hatching lots of eggs quickly. The Slugma line notably have both of these abilites.
* PlayingWithFire: Naturally, the Fire-Type wields incendiary abilities.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: They get the move [[WeatherManipulation Sunny Day]], which enhances their attacks by 50% and weakens Water-Type attacks by the same amount.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: It's only natural that Fire Pokémon are immune to burn effects.
* RingOfFire: The move Fire Spin invokes this, as the target is both trapped (unable to flee or switch out) and progressively damaged over several turns. Heatran's signature Magma Storm is much the same, only [[ShapedLikeItself with magma]].

** The following abilities are exclusive to Fire-types:
*** Blaze increases the power of Fire moves when the user is at 1/3 or less health.
*** The Flame Body ability has a 30% chance to burn opponents who use physical contact attacks on the user. [[MundaneUtility It also makes eggs hatch faster.]]
*** The Flash Fire Ability gives immunity to Fire and gives a boost to the user's Fire attacks by 50% if they are hit by one. It doesn't stack with itself.
*** Magma Armor prevents the user from becoming Frozen. [[MundaneUtility It also makes eggs hatch faster.]]
*** White Smoke prevents the user from having their stats lowered by opponents, but doesn't prevent moves like Overheat from lowering the user's stats.
** The following moves can only be learned by Fire-types:
*** Eruption's damage depends on the user's current HP, and taking damage will reduce the power.[[note]]Groudon is a partial exception, as it can learn Eruption despite not being Fire-type outside of its SuperMode.[[/note]]
*** Lava Plume hits all Pokémon around the user and has a good chance to inflict a burn.
*** Fire Pledge, exclusive to Fire-type starters and monkey, can be combined with Grass Pledge or Water Pledge to deal extra damage and create a special secondary effect.
*** Blast Burn, exclusive to fully-evolved Fire-type starters, is a clone of Hyper Beam. It deals a large amount of damage, but forces the user to stay in the next turn to recharge.
*** UpToEleven with Burn Up, where it can only be used if the user is a Fire-type, to the point that due to its side effect, [[ItOnlyWorksOnce it can only be used once]] until the user is switched out.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Heat Crash's power depends on the user's weight compared to the target's weight. It's a paltry 40 power if the target is over 50% of the user's weight, but a whopping 120 if the target is below 20% of the user's weight.
* StandardStatusEffect: Heavily associated with the Burn Status.
* StatusBuff: [[FeedItWithFire Flash Fire]] increases the power of the user's Fire-type moves by 50% when hit by a Fire-type move. Since it's not considered a stat boost like for Storm Drain and Lightning Rod, it doesn't stack with itself.
* SuperMode: Charizard, Houndoom, Blaziken, and Camerupt are capable of Mega Evolution, with Charizard notably being one of two Pokémon to boast ''two'' Mega Evolutions. Groudon gains the Fire-type upon undergoing Primal Reversion. Charizard, Coalossal, Centiskorch and Cinderace are also all capable of Gigantamax, though Coalossal's G-Max Move focuses on its other type (Rock).
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: [[AwesomeButImpractical While almost impossible to set up]], a Fire-type attack can reach a damage multiplier of ''x36''.[[note]]During harsh sunlight and while having Flash Fire or Blaze activated, attack a Bug/Steel or Ice/Steel type given the Ability Fluffy after it has been afflicted with Forest's Curse.[[/note]]
** In a similar vein, a Fire-type attack also has the lowest attainable non-zero multiplier, a pitiful ''0.02065x''.[[note]]This is done by attacking a dual-type Pokémon under rain whose types both resist Fire-type attacks (such as the Water/Dragon type Kingdra), with Thick Fat or Heatproof as its ability while Water Sport is in effect.[[/note]]
* TurnsRed: Blaze boosts the power of Fire-type moves by 1.5x when the user is at 1/3 of their max health or less. It's exclusive to Fire-type starter Pokémon (and Pansear and Simisear).
* UndergroundMonkey: Alolan Marowak is part Fire-Type.
* UselessUsefulSpell: The ability Magma Armor makes the owner immune to being Frozen. Not only is getting Frozen incredibly rare due to each move that inflicts it only having a 10% chance to do so, using a Fire-type attack when Frozen will thaw out the user, so it's not debilitating anyway.
* WhipItGood: Fire Lash, previously Heatmor's signature move, strikes at the foe using a burning lash. It's notable for being a move with respectable base power '''and''' a guaranteed Defense drop, allowing it to snowball very quickly, though its only user lacked the stats to make good use of it. In ''Sword and Shield'', it was given to [[CreepyCentipedes Sizzlipede and Centiskorch]], the latter of which has the strong Attack stat to abuse Fire Lash a lot more easily.
* WreathedInFlames: Invoked with the Fire-type exclusive ability, Flame Body. Also used for some physical Fire-type moves.

[[folder:Water]]
!!Water-Type (みずタイプ ''mizu taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[MakingASplash https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/water_types.png]]]]

With 70 percent of the Earth covered by it, it isn't difficult to imagine that Water Pokémon are the most common type. It's one of the three types that has been paired with every existing type at least once (the other being Flying and Psychic). Most Water-types are based on aquatic animals, both marine and freshwater, and is one of the three starter types. They can be found on every aquatic route, and some of the more amphibious types can be found in [[BubblegloopSwamp wetlands]]. They can also be fished out using various fishing rods.

Offensively, they are strong against Fire, Rock, and Ground, but are resisted by Grass, Dragon, and other Water-types. Defensively, they resist Fire, Ice, and Steel and are only weak to Electric- and Grass-types ([[AnIcePerson but most Grass-types don't want to hang around them willingly]]), making them pretty hard to wear down.
%%Known Specialists: Misty in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''; Wallace and Juan in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Crasher Wake in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Cress in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Marlon in ''Black 2 and White 2''; Siebold in ''X and Y''; Lana in ''Sun and Moon''; Nessa in ''Sword and Shield''

* ActionInitiative: Aqua Jet. Water Shuriken, despite being a multi-hit move, has boosted priority as well.
* AquaticMook: Several wild Water-type Pokémon are fought while on water, underwater, or fished up.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Hydro Cannon is a Water-type clone of Hyper Beam, meaning that your opponent will have a free turn to [[JustForPun wash you up]] after you use it. (Also, you could do more damage by spamming Surf, so... yeah. Don't use it unless you like losing.)
* BattleInTheRain: RainDance summons a rainstorm that rages on for several turns of battle and empowers Water moves, as well as causing several other effects (such as giving 100% accuracy to Thunder and Hurricane). The abilities Drizzle and Primordial Sea are automatic versions that activate as soon as the user enters battle.
* BreathWeapon: A weird one in that the water they use is often depicted as coming from their mouths in most adaptations.
* BubbleGun: The moves Bubble and its big sister Bubble Beam, both of which cause damage in addition to possibly lowering the target's speed.
* ComMons: They serve as the main encounters on aquatic routes, though they aren't exceptionally powerful. Tentacool in particular are very common in the seas of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Alola.
* ColorCodedElements: WaterIsBlue, as are most Water-types' color schemes.
* CoupDeGrace: Brine deals double damage to targets who have less than half their health left.
* DifficultButAwesome: Water Spout's Power is directly proportional to how much HP the user has left, boasting a large 150 (same as Hydro Cannon) if the user is at full health. If you can keep the user healthy, it's far more useful than Hydro Pump due to higher Power, 100% accuracy, and the ability to hit multiple opponents in Double and Triple Battles.
* ElementalBaggage: Brine? Dive? Muddy Water? Surf? Waterfall? Whirlpool? Doesn't matter, your Pokémon can always summon enough water from nowhere to enable these moves, even if you're fighting in the middle of the desert or ''[[UpToEleven at the edge of space!]]''
* ElementalRockPaperScissors

*** Strong: Fire, Ground, Rock
*** Weak: Dragon, Grass, Water

*** Strong: Fire, Ice, Steel, Water
*** Weak: Electric, Grass
* FakeBalance:
** Within the Starter PowerTrio; not only does Water have the least number of weaknesses[[note]]2 types, Grass and Electric, compared to Fire's 3 and [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere Grass's 5]][[/note]] and types that resist it[[note]]Only 3 types, [[LikeCannotCutLike Water]], Grass, and Dragon, resist Water, compared to Fire's 4 and Grass's ''[[KryptoniteIsEverywhere 7]]''[[/note]], meaning that they can easily beat Grass-types despite the type disadvantage thanks to their access to [[AnIcePerson Ice-type attacks]], and Electric-types (their only other weakness) due to them not resisting Water attacks and their GlassCannon tendencies.
** The weather condition related to the Water type, rain, is ''far'' superior to the other weather conditions. Intense sunlight powers up Fire-type moves, but the Abilities powered up by intense sunlight are usually given to Grass-types, which are roasted even harder by the powered-up Fire moves. Rock- and Ground-types might enjoy having their weaknesses to Water being reduced, but in turn, they risk taking a no-charge Solar Beam. Sandstorm's powering-up Abilities, Sand Force and Sand Rush, are mutually exclusive and not innate boosts. Rain gives a boost to Water-type attacks ''and'' its Abilities are granted to mostly Water-types, who make extremely good use of them.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Practically all Water-types based on fish just seem to float in midair when battling on land, except, as of Gen VI, [[ButtMonkey Magikarp]], who just flops around helplessly.
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: Surf, ubiquitous both as a mandatory field move and as a potent and reliable attack, involves the user surfing toward the opponent. On a huge crest of ocean water. Muddy Water is also depicted as this.
* GradualGrinder: Real-life water can wear away at almost anything with enough time, and a few Water-type moves have shades of it.
** Liquidation and Razor Shell aren't particularly powerful, but carry 20 and 50% chances to lower the opponent's Defense and thus become stronger with repeated uses.
** Clamp and Whirlpool are weak, but inflict [[FixedDamageAttack percentage-based damage]] that can run from 50% of the target's max HP to 83%[[note]]if the user holds a Binding Band and traps the target for five turns instead of four[[/note]] over time.
** While they don't directly correlate to dealing damage, Water Pulse, Waterfall, Muddy Water and Octazooka are relatively weak or average in power but carry greater-than-average chances[[note]]20% chance of confusion, 20% chance of flinching, and 30 and 50% chances to lower accuracy, respectively[[/note]] to activate. The excellent defensive properties of the Water type and the generally good bulk that most Water-types have works well with this, allowing Water-types plenty of turns to stay on the field and wear the opponent down.
* GrimyWater: The move Muddy Water uses Surf's animation, but with the water a sickly brown instead of blue. It has a chance to lower the target's accuracy, an effect borrowed from the Ground-type's wheelhouse.
* HealItWithWater:
** Aqua Ring confers a Leftovers effect, healing the user 1/16 of its max HP at the end of each turn.
** A few abilities are based on this concept. Rain Dish causes a Pokémon to regain some HP when it's raining, Water Absorb will heal Pokémon hit with water-type attacks instead of damaging them, and Hydration will cure status effects (eg. burn, freeze, poison) in rain.
* HerdHittingAttack: Bubble, Muddy Water, Water Spout, and Origin Pulse hit all enemy Pokémon, while Surf and Sparkling Aria hit everyone but the user[[note]]although Surf hit enemies only in Generation III[[/note]].
* IceMagicIsWater: ''Every'' Water-Type (except Magikarp, Rotom Wash, and Pyukumuku) has access to an Ice-Type attack (usually from Technical Machines or Move Tutors), giving them a chance at beating Grass-types and Dragon-types.
* JackOfAllStats: Water is useful offensively and defensively, and most Water types are capable of serving as [[MightyGlacier any]] [[LightningBruiser of]] [[StoneWall the]] [[FragileSpeedster competitive]] [[GlassCannon archetypes]].
* LastDiscMagic: Hydro Pump isn't a TM like Fire Blast, Thunder, or Blizzard, but can be learned naturally by many Water-types during the late- or post-game.
* LikeCannotCutLike: Water moves do not do much against Water-types.

** The Water-type Z-Move is Hydro Vortex, a powerful MegaMaelstrom, and while the foe is trapped in it, the attacker rams into them repeatedly.
** The Water-type Max Move is Max Geyser, a huge torrent launched at the opponent, the cascading aftermath of so much water flying about causing heavy rain to fall for five turns.
** Primarina's personal Z-Move is Oceanic Operetta, in which it forms an enormous sphere of water and drops it on the target.
** G-Max Cannonade, Gigantamax Blastoise's G-Max Move, is a series of short, pressurized blasts of water from its cannons followed by a single large blast. The resulting vortex continues to damage non-Water-types over the next several turns.
** Upon Gigantamaxing, Rapid Strike Style Urshifu gains access to G-Max Rapid Flow, a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of watery punches that completely ignores all protection moves.
** Gigantamax Inteleon's G-Max Hydrosnipe is a blast of water from its harpoon that explodes upon impact.
** The G-Max Move of Gigantamax Drednaw is G-Max Stonesurge. Drednaw fires a sphere of water from its mouth that, upon hitting the ground, spreads large stones around to activate a Stealth Rock effect.
** G-Max Foam Burst, exclusive to Gigantamax Kingler, is a jet of water that explodes into a torrent of bubbles, surrounding the target and decreasing its speed.
* LogicalWeakness:
** It has been noted several times in the anime that Water-types are weak against Electric-types because water is conductive to electricity. [[note]]Specifically water with impurities and dissolved electrolytes, at least, like salt water, which is what sea water is. Deionized pure water doesn't conduct electricity.[[/note]]
** Real-life plants store water, rely on water to grow, and play a huge role in preventing floods and storms from washing away the ground. In the games, the one-time-use Absorb Bulb and Luminous Moss items convert incoming Water-type attacks to stat boosts — additionally, the Cacnea and Maractus lines can potentially have Water Absorb as an ability, reflecting the particularly thirsty plants they're based off of.
* MakingASplash: Naturally, the Water-Type's arsenal revolves around all things water-based, mostly focusing on moving around large quantities of water, shooting streams of water (sometimes heated) and bubbles at your opponent and traveling around in the element itself. Some Water type moves involve more magical/precise control of their shape though, turning water into blades (Liquidation) or throwing stars (Water Shuriken).
* MegaMaelstrom: Hydro Vortex pulls the enemy under and unleashes one of these.
* RainDance: A Water-type move that makes it rain. See BattleInTheRain above.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: As explained above, nearly all water Pokémon will have some variation of an ice attack.
* SeaMonster: Many of the more powerful Water-types have a place in in-game lore as these, especially Gyarados, a vicious sea serpent whose rages can lay whole coastal cities to waste; [[TheWormThatWalks Wishiwashi]], an individually small and weak fish that can school in large groups to take the form of a giant, powerful, and [[TheDreaded widely feared]] monster; and [[OlympusMons Kyogre]], a massive leviathan and the primordial god of the sea.

** The ability Drizzle gives an instant Rain Dance effect when the user switches into battle if there is no weather or another weather in play. It lasts for 5 turns unless the user is holding a Damp Rock, in which case it lasts 8 turns. If Rain is already active, it ''does not'' reset or stack with the current turn limit. Prior to ''X and Y'', the effect was permanent unless it was overridden by another weather activating.
** Primal Kyogre has an enhanced version of Drizzle called Primordial Sea. It has the same Water-boosting effects, cannot be overridden by normal weather abilities or weather moves (only Desolate Land and Delta Stream), and makes it so all Fire-type moves except for Will-O-Wisp will always fail. Unlike Drizzle, it will not persist when the owner switches out or if it is supressed by Gastro Acid.
** The ability Mega Launcher increases the power of Aura Sphere, Dark Pulse, Water Pulse, Dragon Pulse, and Heal Pulse by 50%.[[note]][[DevelopersForesight It boosts Origin Pulse as well]], though this is more a curiosity than anything, as Kyogre doesn't get Mega Launcher naturally and changing its ability mid-battle requires several steps.[[/note]]
** The ability Torrent increases the power of Water moves by 50% when the user is at 1/3 or less HP.
** Water Pledge and Hydro Cannon, which are special moves only tutorable to Water-type starter Pokémon.
** The move Water Spout deals damage depending on the percentage of the user's current HP, with a higher percentage meaning higher damage.
** The ability Water Veil makes the owner immune to burns.
** The ability Water Bubble not only makes the owner immune to burns, it also reduces Fire-type damage by half, and doubles the power of the user's Water-type attacks.
* SimpleYetAwesome: Surf has no additional effects in battle aside from hitting everything around the user and all it does is attack with a giant wave of water. But, it's vital for getting around and is strong enough that it's actually a legitimately good move, unlike other Hidden Machines.
** Waterfall is another Water-type Hidden Machine (and like Surf eventually became a TM), and it's every bit as useful as Surf. While Surf is the more powerful move, Waterfall has a chance to cause flinching, and it's decently powerful and runs off the Attack stat, making it a common option for physical attackers like Gyarados.
** Scald is a decently powerful Water-type move [[note]]on par with Waterfall at 80 power[[/note]] with 100% accuracy and also has a 30% chance of inflicting the burn status, which deals damage over time and halves the afflicted Pokémon's attack. It's been a TM since its debut in Gen V, which was also the generation that [=TMs=] first became usable repeatedly. Because of this, it's pretty much assumed that any Pokémon that ''can'' have Scald probably ''will'', especially if it uses its Special Attack stat for attacking. Scald also has the nice ability to thaw out the user when used, though it will also thaw a frozen target.
* SpamAttack: Water Shuriken hits the target 2-5 times on each use, with each hit dealing weak damage.
* StatusBuff:
** Withdraw increases the user's defense by 1 stage.
** Swift Swim doubles the user's speed during Rain.
** Storm Drain gives immunity to Water attacks and increases the user's Special Attack by 1 stage whenever hit by one. In a Double or Triple Battle, single-target Water-type moves used by an opponent or ally will be forced to target the Pokémon with Storm Drain.
* SuperMode: Blastoise, Slowbro, Gyarados, Swampert, and Sharpedo are capable of Mega Evolution. Kyogre can undergo Primal Reversion to become Primal Kyogre, while Greninja is capable of transforming into Ash-Greninja if it has the Battle Bond ability. Blastoise, Kingler, Lapras, Inteleon, Drednaw, ''and'' Urshifu (in its Fighting/Water Rapid Strike style) are all capable of Gigantamax (though Lapras's G-Max Move is not Water-type).
* StoneWall: Water types are often lauded with being one of the best defensive typings in the game. They only have two weakness and have four resistances. On top of that, quite a few Water-types also favors high HP and Defensive stats, but their speed tend to be fairly low.
* SwitchOutMove: Flip Turn inflicts damage by ramming into the target while propelled by water like a surfer, then switches the user out (again, like a surfer quickly changing direction).
* TruthInTelevision: Scald has a 30% chance to burn, which is higher than most Fire-type moves. There's a reason for that: water and steam transfer heat by direct contact instead of by radiation, making hot water and steam burns more painful (and sometimes fatal) than the common burns you get when you touch something hot, like a flame or a hot stovetop. Water also has a very high specific heat, which means the particles of steam carry huge amounts of damaging energy.
** Water's high specific heat also explains its resistances to both Fire and Ice — it takes a ''lot'' of thermal energy to change water's temperature.
* TurnsRed: Torrent boosts the power of Water-type moves when the user is at low health. It's exclusive to Water-type starter Pokémon, Panpour, and Simipour.

[[folder:Grass]]
!!Grass-Type (くさタイプ ''kusa taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[GreenThumb https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grass_types.png]]]]

Grass-type Pokémon is a misnomer. The type is associated with all plant life, autotrophic protista, even heterotrophic crinoids and fungi. They tend to be {{Mighty Glacier}}s, strong and sturdy like a tree, but slow to move, though there are several outliers, such as Jumpluff, Sceptile, Whimsicott, and Kartana, who are particularly [[FragileSpeedster speedy]]. It's one of the three starter types. As the name implies, they can generally be encountered wherever tall grass is found, but a few, like Cacturne and Abomasnow, can be found in places that seem inhospitable to plant life, proving their resilience.

Grass-types can be difficult to use effectively in battle, as they are heavily disadvantaged in many different ways. [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere They have FIVE weaknesses]] (Fire, Flying, Ice, Poison, and Bug), their attacks are resisted by '''seven''' types (Fire, Flying, Poison, Bug, Grass, Dragon, and Steel), and their movepools tend to be poor, [[PoorPredictableRock with many Grass-types lacking options other than Grass, Normal, and other attacks/moves from their secondary types]]. Despite this, they are good at spreading around status effects and passive damage through Leech Seed and the like. Grass types are also good at blocking such status effects themselves, as they're immune to powder moves and Leech Seed. Lastly, their positive defensive matchups can still be relied upon, as Grass is one of only three types to take less-than-neutral damage from Ground and Electric — and, as exemplified in the starter type triangle, also resists the ubiquitous Water type, [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere although its access to Ice moves makes handling Water-types themselves much riskier than taking a Water-type move]].
%%Known Specialists: Erika in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''; Gardenia in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Cilan in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Ramos in ''X and Y''; Mallow in ''Sun and Moon''; Milo in ''Sword and Shield''

* ActionInitiative: Grassy Glide has increased priority if Grassy Terrain is in effect.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Magical Leaf bypasses accuracy and evasion checks when it's used.

** Solar Beam and Solar Blade are strong attacks, but they have [[SuckingInLines a charge turn]] that telegraphs what you are doing to your opponent. Averted in Sunny weather where the charge turn is negated, but played straighter in Rain, Sandstorms, Hail or Strong Winds, which halve their power.
** Frenzy Plant is a Grass-type clone of Hyper Beam, which means you're a sitting duck after using it. Also, you can do more damage by spamming Energy Ball.
* BoringButPractical: Energy Ball isn't the most damaging Grass-type move, but it is accurate, has a good amount of PP, deals fairly good damage, and has a 10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage. This trope also applies to Seed Bomb, which has slightly less (but still decent) base damage than Energy Ball, but does physical damage, has 5 additional PP, and has no secondary effects.
* BulletSeed: The TropeNamer. It's an attack which shoots seeds at the opponent to hit 2-5 times.
* CastFromHitPoints: Wood Hammer does damage to the user equal to 1/3 of how much it deals to the target.
* ChargedAttack: Solar Beam and Solar Blade require a turn to gather sunlight before the attack executes on the second turn. If the weather is sunny, however, the charge turn is not required.
* ColorCodedElements: Grass-typing is represented as Green, and many Grass-types are varying shades of green and yellow.
* CriticalHitClass: Razor Leaf and Leaf Blade have high critical hit ratios.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Leaf Storm deals heavy damage to the target, but lowers the Special Attack of the user by two stages. Serperior is well-known for its Contrary ability, which ''raises'' its stats after using the move instead of lowering them.

*** Strong: Ground, Rock, Water
*** Weak: Bug, Dragon, Fire, Flying, Grass, Poison, Steel

*** Strong: Electric, Grass, Ground, Water
*** Weak: Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice, Poison
* EnergyBall: An attack of this name is under the Grass type. The flavor text describes the attack drawing its power from nature, which could explain the Grass-type (and the attack animation in Generation VI has little leaf particles). Oddly, it's often found in Bug, Psychic, and Ghost-types' movepools.
* FantasticFlora: Just going by its attacks, the Grass-type includes plants whose seeds can plant themselves into other beings to cause insomnia or leech away health (Worry Seed and Leech Seed), and spores that can induce sleep and paralysis (Spore and Stun Spore).
* GardenGarment: Bellossom and Lilligant both have the appearance of wearing dresses fashioned out of petals, while Leavanny, Roselia, and Roserade have a leaf-based "cape".
* GreenThumb: Naturally, the Grass-Type specializes in plant-related combat.
* HealThyself:
** The Morelull line's [[SecretArt signature move]], Strength Sap, heals the user by the same amount of HP as the target's Attack stat, as well as lowering the target's Attack by one stage[[labelnote:*]]it's flavored as a LifeDrain attack, but technically doesn't qualify for that trope since it doesn't deal any damage[[/labelnote]].
** The move Synthesis immediately restores half of the user's HP. Like several other Grass-type moves, it's more effective [[ThePowerOfTheSun in sunny weather]]; however, like Solar Beam and Solar Blade, it's hindered by rain and sandstorms.
%% ** The move Jungle Healing heals both the user and its ally while curing them of status effects.
* HealingWinds: Aromatherapy, where the user releases a soothing scent that cures all status effects.
* HerdHittingAttack: Razor Leaf hits all opponents, while Petal Blizzard hits everyone but the user.
* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Grass-types have the most weaknesses of all types, at five (tied with Rock), and their attacks are resisted by seven types (tied with Bug). Several Grass Pokémon, like [[PsychicPowers Exeggcute, Exeggutor, Celebi,]] [[AnIcePerson Snover, and Abomasnow]], are notorious for having the most weaknesses of any Pokémon at '''six normal weaknesses and one double weakness each'''. Come Generation VI, we can add Grass/Dark-types Nuzleaf, Shiftry, and Cacturne to the list.
* LifeDrain: Several Grass moves, like Absorb and Mega Drain, deal damage while healing the user for 50% of the damage dealt. Leech Seed acts as a sort of continuous LifeDrain.
* LikeCannotCutLike: Grass moves do half damage against Grass-types. Leech Seed will also only fail on opposing Grass-types.
* LightEmUp: The move Solar Beam is a beam of [[ThePowerOfTheSun charged sunlight]].
* LimitBreak:
** The Grass-type Z-Move is Bloom Doom; after the Pokémon turns the area into a flowery meadow, it releases a devastating flower explosion.
** The Grass-type Max Move is Max Overgrowth, which causing huge mushrooms to grow and damage the opponent with bursts of energy from them, also turning the ground into Grassy Terrain for five turns.
** Gigantamax Venusaur's exclusive G-Max Move, G-Max Vine Lash, has it spawning huge vines from its back and lashing the opponent with them and, for four turns, continuing to damage non-grass type Pokémon.
* LogicalWeakness: Grass' resistance towards Electric is explained in ''[[Recap/PokemonS6E7TreesACrowd Tree's a Crowd]]'', as Grass-types diffuse electricity into the trees or ground.
* MushroomMan: Though not plants, mushrooms are always associated with the Grass-type in this franchise. In terms of actual humanoid fungi, there are Amoonguss, a hopping toadstool with a face on its stem and a sort pair of arms ending in smaller mushroom caps, and Shiinotic, a diminutive humanoid with short legs, thin and spindly arms and fingers and a broad purple cap growing from its head. They evolve from more borderline examples of this trope that put more emphasis on "mushroom" than "man", Foongus — much like Amoonguss, but with only a pair of fingerless arms for limbs — and Morelull — an ambulatory cluster of hyphae with eyes and three mushrooms sprouting from its top. Breloom has a similar bipedal build, but more closely resembles a kangaroo.
* PetalPower: Petal Dance and Petal Blizzard are damage-dealing moves presented as their user buffeting its target with a flurry of razor-sharp petals.
* {{Planimal}}: By definition, any Pokémon that has the Grass type must be at least part plant (or fungus), and as such most Grass-types that aren't outright {{Plant Person}}s or {{Nature Spirit}}s of some sort will end up being this. Exactly how this works can vary: in some cases, the Pokémon is a "normal" animal in symbiosis with a plant or fungus (like the Paras line and their parasitic mushroom, or the Bulbasaur line, whose plant the Pokédex describes as growing from a seed planted in their back at birth). Others, like Sawsbuck, simply appear to be individual creatures with characteristics of both plants and animals.
* PoisonousPerson: Many have a secondary Poison-typing (especially in Gen I) and usually have access to Poison attacks.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: Just like real plants, some Grass-type abilities involve sunlight, like Synthesis, Solar Beam, and the abilities Chlorophyll and Leaf Guard.

** Chlorophyll doubles the user's Speed in sunny weather.
** Effect Spore has a 30% chance of inflicting paralysis, sleep, or poisoning on Pokémon that make contact with the possessor of the Ability. All Pokémon who have this Ability as a standard Ability are mushroom-based.
** Harvest has a 50% chance of recreating a consumed berry each turn (100% chance during sunny weather).
** Leaf Guard makes the user immune to StandardStatusEffects during sunny weather.
** Overgrow increases the power of Grass moves when the user is at 1/3 or less health.
** Leech Seed deals percentage-based LifeDrain damage to the opponent until the seeds are removed by Rapid Spin or switching out.
** Grass Pledge and Frenzy Plant, which are special moves only tutorable to Grass-type starter Pokémon.
** Spore makes the target fall asleep, but unlike most sleep-inducing moves, it has 100% accuracy. Others have much worse accuracy. Only mushroom-based Pokémon can learn this.
** Forest's Curse is a move that gives a Pokémon the Grass type on top of their existing typings, which, given Grass's [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere many weaknesses]], usually is advantageous. Kyurem in particular has ''10 weaknesses'' when afflicted with Forest's Curse, while the combinations Ground/Flying, Ground/Dragon, Dragon/Flying, Ice/Steel, Bug/Steel, Bug/Fighting, Dark/Psychic and Ice/Bug each gain an 8x weakness. %%Also Water/Ground, Water/Dragon, and Water/Flying to the move Freeze-Dry and Normal/Dark, Normal/Fighting, Fighting/Dark, Ice/Fighting, and Ice/Dark to the move Flying Press.
** Grassy Terrain creates a {{Geo Effect|s}} which gives all Pokémon on the ground RegeneratingHealth and increases the power of their Grass-type moves.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Grass Knot's Power is dependent on the target's weight. For the lightest of targets, it's a pathetic 20, but for the heaviest, it's a very strong 120.
* SpamAttack: Bullet Seed hits the opponent with a barrage of 2-5 weak hits on each use.
* StealthPun: Leaf Blade. It's often depicted as a blade of green energy in the anime, but in the games it's a green slash. But it's a blade used by Grass-type Pokémon. It's a '''literal''' ''blade of grass''.
* SupportPartyMember: Although [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere their offensive and defensive matchups]] are a little shaky, Grass-types tend to get many support/utility moves like Poisonpowder, Sleep Powder, Stun Spore, Spore, Leech Seed, Aromatherapy, and such, while also soaking up the first five.
* SuperMode: Venusaur, Sceptile, and Abomasnow are capable of Mega Evolution, and Venusaur, Rillaboom, Flapple, and Appletun are capable of Gigantamax, with the latter two notably sharing an appearance while doing so.
* TurnsRed: Overgrow boosts the power of Grass-type moves when the user is at 1/3 of their total health or lower. It's exclusive to Grass-type starter Pokémon (and Pansage and Simisage).
* UselessUsefulSpell: Petal Blizzard is tied with Leaf Blade as the strongest physical Grass-type move without any downsides, and even hits multiple opponents in Double, Triple, and Horde Battles. Everything capable of learning it has below-average Attack at best, making it largely worthless.
* WeakToFire: As part of the core ElementalRockPaperScissors, Grass-type starters always maintain a weakness to the fire type (when not counting Mega Sceptile, who is Grass/Dragon and is thus neutral to Fire).

[[folder:Electric]]
!!Electric-Type (でんきタイプ ''denki taipu'')
[[quoteright:350:[[ShockAndAwe https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/electric_types.png]]]]

Electric-types are known for their ability to control electricity. Most of them are known for [[FastAsLightning extraordinary speed stats]]. They are also capable of inflicting the paralysis status (though this ability isn't exclusive to electric-type moves). Paralysis cuts the affected Pokémon's speed, and there's also a chance that it can't move at all. Electric types are immune to Paralysis themselves. A lot of them are electricity-generating animals, but a number of machines are among the ranks. Electric rodents appear to be [[RecurringElement particularly common.]]

Offensively, it is effective against two of the most common types in the game (Water and Flying), while it is resisted by Grass-types, Dragon-types, and other Electric-types, with Ground-types being immune. Defensively, it resists Flying, Steel, and itself, and is only weak to Ground. [[GlassCannon To balance this, most Electric-types have weak defenses.]]

They mostly make their homes in urban regions, but some take up residence in caves and forests, the latter most memorably being where Pikachu are found.
%%Offensively: x2 Water, x2 Flying, x1/2 Dragon, x1/2 Electric, x1/2 Grass, x0 Ground
%%Defensively: x1/2 Electric, x1/2 Flying, x1/2 Steel, x2 Ground
%%Known Specialists: Lt. Surge in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''; Wattson in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Volkner in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Elesa in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Clemont in ''X and Y''; Sophocles in ''Sun and Moon''

* AllWebbedUp: Electroweb, which inflicts damage while lowering the target's Speed stat.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Shock Wave bypasses accuracy and evasion checks when used. Thunder confers the same effect during Rain, with the added bonus of hitting the target when they're in the middle of using Fly, Bounce, or Sky Drop.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: In ''Diamond and Pearl'', Thunder had a 30% chance to bypass Protect during Rain due to a glitch.
* AntiAir: One of the few types that are effective against Flying-types. Thunder bypasses the target's semi-invulnerable phase when they are using Fly, Bounce, or Sky Drop.

** Thunder is the strongest widespread Electric attack in the game, but it has a less-than-perfect accuracy of 70%. Averted during Rain when its accuracy is perfect, but played straighter in sunny weather, which reduces its accuracy to 50%.
** Zap Cannon is tied with Volt Tackle as the strongest Electric move that's available to non-Legendaries and always inflicts [[StandardStatusEffects Paralysis]] on its target, but its accuracy is worse than Thunder's at ''50%''.
* BoringButPractical: Thunderbolt isn't the flashiest or strongest Electric attack, but it has above-average power (90 as of Gen VI) and 100% accuracy.
* CastFromHitPoints: Wild Charge and Volt Tackle deal damage to the user equal to a fraction of the damage they deal to their targets; 1/4 and 1/3, respectively.
* ChainLightning: Discharge and Parabolic Charge damage all adjacent Pokémon in Double and Triple battles.
* ColorCodedElements: The Electric-type icon is [[YellowLightningBlueLightning Yellow]], as is a majority of Electric-types themselves.
* ElementalRivalry: There appear to be a lot of pairs of [[LightningFireJuxtaposition Electric types with Fire types]]. See Fire-types for examples.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors:

*** Strong: Flying, Water
*** Weak: Dragon, Electric, Grass
*** Can't Hit: Ground

*** Strong: Electric, Flying, Steel
*** Weak: Ground
* FragileSpeedster: They tend to have above-average or high Speed, but are not very durable. In Gen VI, they even gain immunity to paralysis, which would otherwise terribly slow them down.
* HarmlessElectrocution:
** In RealLife, electrocution can be extremely dangerous or even fatal. In-game, the worst it'll ever do is cause a Pokémon to faint.
** Electrify (the SecretArt of Helioptile and Heliolisk) causes the target's next attack to register Electric damage, with the flavor being that the user of Electrify was able to infuse the target with electricity without actually harming them at all. Ion Deluge is a somewhat less effective version, as it only converts Normal-type moves, but it's available to more than one evolutionary line.
* HerdHittingAttack: Electroweb hits all opponents, while Discharge and Parabolic Charge hit everyone but the user.
* ImprovisedLightningRod: The ability Lightning Rod draws all Electric moves toward the user, confers immunity to those moves if they don't already have it, and gives a free boost to Special Attack each time they are hit by them (unless they're a Ground-type). It's mostly Electric-types themselves who have this ability, but a few Ground-types gain it as well (such as [[AscendedMeme Rhydon]]). It's also possessed by Mega Sceptile (its tail acts as the lightning rod), and most notably, one pair of Water Pokémon (Goldeen and Seaking — it's the horn that acts as the makeshift lightning rod).
* KidAppealCharacter: Every generation has an Electric-type rodent with generally low stats, meant to replicate the appeal of Pikachu.
* LastDiscMagic: Thunder is usually available to buy as a TM late in the game or can be learned naturally by many Electric-types during the late- or post-game.
* LightEmUp: Many Electric-type Pokémon can learn [[BigCreepyCrawlies Signal Beam]]. Some Electric-type Pokémon are themselves strongly associated with light, such as Luxray, Lanturn, and Ampharos.
* LikeCannotCutLike: Electric-types resist themselves.

** The Electric-type Z-Move is Gigavolt Havoc, a spear-like bolt of devastating lightning.
** The Electric-type Max Move is Max Lightning, which turns the ground into Electric Terrain.
** Gigantamax Toxtricity's exclusive G-Max Move is G-Max Stun Shock, which causes Toxtricity to slam its tail on opponents like a guitar, and randomly either poisons or paralyzes them.
* TheParalyzer: Thunder Wave is the series’ bread-and-butter example, and Electric-types in general are strongly associated with paralysis.
* PoorPredictableRock: Electric types usually have fairly limited movepools on the special side, with many having to rely on Hidden Power for type coverage. Electric types on the physical side have it just as bad or even worse in a sense. That is while they often do have a wider range of type coverage with their physical moves, their STAB moves are very limited when it comes to good choices. The only widespread physical Electric type move of above average power is Wild Charge, which does recoil damage, something the often frail Electric types don't appreciate. All of the other options are substantially weaker or are signature moves restricted to one or two Pokémon.
* PowerfulButInaccurate: Zap Cannon is one of the strongest Electric-type moves and will always inflict paralysis if it hits, but it only has 50% accuracy.
* RecurringElement: In each Generation, there's always at least one Electric-type rodent that has a design similar to Pikachu.

** The ability Static inflicts Paralysis 30% of the time to opponents that use contact moves on the user.
** The ability Motor Drive makes the user immune to Electric attacks and increases their Speed by 1 stage whenever hit by one.
** The ability Volt Absorb also gives immunity to Electric attacks and heals the user by 25% of their max HP when hit by one.
** The move Electro Ball is a move that deals more damage the faster the user is compared to the target.
** The move Volt Tackle is exclusive to the Pikachu line and has high power at the cost of dealing damage to the user.
** The move Electric Terrain is a field move that lasts for 5 turns (8 if the user holds a Terrain Extender). It prevents grounded Pokémon from falling asleep and increases the power of Electric moves used by grounded Pokémon by 50%.
** The move Nuzzle is a very weak attack learned only by the [[RecurringElement Pikachu line and its Kid-Appealing successors]], but it will always inflict Paralysis on the target.
** The move Parabolic Charge is somewhat weak, but hits all opponents in Double, Triple, and Horde Battles and has a LifeDrain effect.
* ShockAndAwe: The Electric-type's specialty, of course.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Electro Ball's damage is dependent on the difference between the user's and target's Speed; the faster the user is than the target, the more damage it will do.
* StandardStatusEffects: Most Electric attacks have a 10%-30% chance to paralyze the target, which lowers their speed by 50% and causes them to lose a turn from being "fully paralyzed" 25% of the time. The move Thunder Wave inflicts it 90% of the time without doing damage, while Nuzzle and Zap Cannon inflict damage in addition to always causing it ([[PowerfulButInaccurate though Zap Cannon has 50% accuracy]]).
** Since Generation VI, Electric-types are now immune to paralysis themselves.
* StaticElectricity: The ability Static adds a chance of causing paralysis every time the owner is hit by a physical move and increases the chances of finding Electric-type Pokémon in the wild.
* StatusBuff:
** Charge doubles the power of the next Electric-type attack used and increases the user's Special Defense by 1 stage.
** Magnetic Flux raises the Defense and Special Defense of all allies with the Plus or Minus abilities.
** Plus and Minus give a 50% Special Attack increase when an ally on the field with either ability is present. This isn't considered a stat boost, meaning this stacks on a multiplier instead of additively with stat bonuses from StatusBuff moves like Nasty Plot.
** Lightning Rod increases the user's Special Attack by 1 stage whenever they are hit with an Electric-type attack, unless they are already immune to Electric; it also draws in and nullifies Electric-type attacks.
* SuperMode: Ampharos and Manectric are capable of Mega Evolution, while Pikachu and Toxtricity are capable of Gigantamax.
* SwitchOutMove: Volt Switch, which inflicts damage before forcing the user to switch out. The user won't switch out if the target is immune to the move.
* UndergroundMonkey: Alolan Geodude and its evolved forms are part Electric-Type.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Most of the Electric Pokémon that learn Electro Ball aren't that fast to begin with.[[note]]Only Voltorb, Electrode, Electabuzz, Mega Manectric, Emolga, and Galvantula are fast enough to abuse it, and even then, the opponent needs to be ''[[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Electro_Ball significantly]]'' slower for the move to outdamage [[BoringButPractical Thunderbolt]].[[/note]]
* WonderTwinPowers: The Plus and Minus abilities, originally exclusive to Doubles-gimmicky Plusle and Minun and made available to a few other Electric-types as a Hidden Ability, increase their wielders' Special Attack stats when paired together. As of Gen V, they also activate when paired with themselves.
* YellowLightningBlueLightning: Electric attacks typically have a yellow coloration (although blue has not been unheard of), while the Pokémon themselves also tend to be yellow or blue.

[[folder:Ice]]
!!Ice-Type (こおりタイプ ''ko'ori taipu'')
[[quoteright:347:[[AnIcePerson https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_inline_mta510shid1r9lhsj.png]]]]

Pokémon with the ability to control ice, snow, and/or cold temperatures in some manner. A lot of them are based on arctic animals, animals found in cold water, or personifications of snow and ice. Many Ice moves can inflict the very debilitating Freeze status, which renders the victim virtually immobile (unless you are lucky enough for it to thaw out). Ice-types are hardy enough to be immune to Freezing themselves, and as of Generation VII, Sheer Cold. Ice is typically one of the harder types to find, as they only reside in colder areas. They also tend to appear late in the game, and Ice-type specialists are either among the last two Gym Leaders fought in the region or a member of the Elite Four. Ice is the rarest type as of Generation VII.

Ice has a tenuous status on the type chart. While Ice-type attacks are strong against many Pokémon (Grass, Flying, Ground, and Dragon, but are resisted by Water, Ice, Fire, and Steel), their defensive capabilities are ''much'' worse. Ice-type Pokémon only resist Ice-type attacks, and have ''[[KryptoniteIsEverywhere a lot]]'' of weaknesses (Rock, Fighting, Fire, and Steel).

When a hailstorm is in effect, Ice-Type Pokémon take no residual damage from it.
%%Offensively: x2 Grass, x2 Ground, x2 Flying, x2 Dragon, x1/2 Water, x1/2 Fire, x1/2 Ice, x1/2 Steel
%%Defensively: x1/2 Ice, x2 Fire, x2 Rock, x2 Fighting, x2 Steel
%%Known Specialists: Lorelei in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''; Pryce in ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''; Glacia in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Candice in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Brycen in ''Black and White''; Wulfric in ''X and Y''; Melony in ''Shield''

* ActionInitiative: Ice Shard, as an Ice-type iteration of Quick Attack, will let the user move first.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Blizzard will bypass accuracy and evasion checks during Hail.
* AnIcePerson: Predictably, the Ice-type's abilities are all cryogenic in nature.
* AntiAir: Ice is one of the few types to be super effective against Flying. Slightly downplayed in that, unlike Rock and Electric, Ice does not resist flying.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: In ''Diamond and Pearl'', Blizzard had a 30% chance to bypass Protect during Hail due to a glitch.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Blizzard is the strongest widespread Ice attack, but has iffy accuracy at 70%. Averted in Hail, where it always hits.
** The Kyurem formes' {{Secret Art}}s, Freeze Shock and Ice Burn, have a charge turn that telegraph what you're doing to your opponent. This means that they will always end up hitting an Ice-resistant Pokémon if your opponent is even ''mildly'' competent.
* BoringButPractical: Ice Beam isn't the flashiest or most damaging Ice-type move out there, but it does reliable damage and is learned by quite the array of Pokémon, making it a good choice for both Ice-type Pokémon and non-Ice-types looking to nail opponents with an Ice weakness that would otherwise walk all over them.
* ChargedAttack: Ice Burn and Freeze Shock require a turn to charge before inflicting heavy damage.
* ColorCodedElements: Ice-types are represented by light-blue, and many Ice-types share the colorization.
* TheDragonslayer: Before Fairy came along, Ice was ''the'' type for nailing Dragons. It was Dragon's only weakness outside itself, and up until Generation V, most fully-evolved Dragon-types had a double weakness to Ice.

*** Strong: Dragon, Flying, Grass, Ground
*** Weak: Fire (Gen II-Forward), Ice, Steel, Water

*** Strong: Ice
*** Weak: Fighting, Fire, Rock, Steel
* FreezeRay: The bread-and-butter Ice attack, Ice Beam.
* GlassCannon: From a typing standpoint, Ice hits four types super-effectively and, in practice, many of the Pokémon weak to Ice are doubly weak to Ice. On the other hand, at least a quarter of all Ice-types have a double weakness of their own, and the type's lack of resistances makes it difficult for an Ice-type to rely on ElementalRockPaperScissors to take a hit.
* HairTriggerAvalanche: The move Avalanche doubles in power if the user has been attacked already in that turn, capturing this trope's flavor of an avalanche being something specifically provoked by the victim, as opposed to other natural disasters. In later games, the user's attacking animation evokes this trope even further, appearing to be screaming, depending on the species.
* HarmlessFreezing: In RealLife, exposure to extreme cold and freezing temperatures has a high risk of inflicting frostbite. Here, the worst it can do is make you unable to attack for the rest of the battle. That said, there's no way to freeze opponents ''without'' damaging them first...
* HerdHittingAttack: Blizzard, Glaciate, Icy Wind, and Powder Snow hit both opponents in Doubles.
* HumanSnowball: Ice Ball, as the user deliberately encases ''itself'' in ice before mowing down the opponent. Oddly enough, the anime contradicts this by making it a projectile attack.
* KillItWithIce: Their approach to battle, naturally — bombard the opponent with snow storms, ice, and blasts of chilling wind to defeat them.
* IceMagicIsWater:
** In Generation I, Ice-type moves actually dealt normal damage to Fire-type Pokémon rather than resisted, which the part-Flying Charizard and Moltres didn't appreciate. Additionally, some Water-types are part-Ice, and can learn Ice-type moves.
** Many Ice-type Pokémon that lack a secondary Water typing can still learn Water Pulse by TM.
* LateCharacterSyndrome: Due to most [[SortingAlgorithmOfThreateningGeography ice and snow-themed places being set later in the game then other places]], Ice-typed Pokémon have a tendency to be ignored since most players would have their in-game team already in place. They also tend to evolve at higher levels than other types, the earliest being Smoochum at level 30.
* LastDiscMagic:
** Blizzard is usually available to buy as a TM late in the game or can be learned naturally by many Ice-types during the late- or post-game.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', Ice Beam is the final TM you receive from the Gym Leaders. In other games in which there's an Ice-type Gym Leader (who also gives away an Ice-type TM), s/he is the seventh out of eight.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' effectively turns the entire type into this. You don't get access to the area where nearly all Ice-type Pokémon live (and the Z-Crystal is located) until you're ready to challenge the Elite Four, and the only Ice [=TMs=] available before you reach the final island are Hail and Aurora Veil, neither of which are direct attacks.
** Finally averted in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', where Seaward Cave, an optional early area in ''Sun and Moon'', became both mandatory and colder. Smoochum and Delibird are both part of the walking encounter table, and returning with Lapras Surf, itself obtained fairly early on the second island, will net you the Frost Breath TM and a chance at catching a Seel. Similarly, in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', getting lucky with the weather in the Wild Area can net you a Vanillite or Snover before even tackling the first gym.
* LightEmUp: Aurora Beam, a weaker cousin to Ice Beam (though with a different effect), involves a beam of rainbow-colored light.
* LikeCannotCutLike: The only type Ice Pokémon resist against is themselves.
* LimitBreak:
** The Ice-type Z-Move is Subzero Slammer, in which the user drastically drops the temperature and freezes the target inside a massive ice crystal which proceeds to shatter, inflicting great damage.
** The Ice-type Max Move is Max Hailstorm. It summons huge hailstones which crash into the opponent and break apart into millions of pieces which cause, you guessed it, a hailstorm for five turns.
** Gigantamax Lapras's exclusive G-Max Move, G-Max Resonance, summons a huge hailstone that drops onto the opponent and breaks apart into an Aurora Veil that reduces damage taken for five turns.
* LuckBasedMission: Wanna see a Frozen Pokémon? Good luck, since there's no move that guarantees that it will be inflicted like the other StandardStatusEffects (accuracy aside) and the highest chance of it happening normally is 10% (the move Secret Power has a 30% chance of freezing, but only when used in the few-and-far between icy areas). This is likely to restrict what is arguably the most crippling status condition in the game; without items, the frozen Pokémon is completely helpless unless the equally low 10% chance of it thawing out of the ice occurs. And in Gen I, their only hope of defrosting without items is getting hit with a Fire-type move or if the opponent uses Haze; otherwise they're completely hosed.
* MightyGlacier: Puns aside, many Ice-types have great offensive power and decent defenses but poor speed. Avalugg and Regice are literal takes on this trope, being Mighty Glaciers (Avalugg is physical-oriented, Regice is special-oriented) that are also actual animated glaciers.
* {{Nerf}}: In the original ''Red and Green'', Blizzard had a 30% chance to Freeze and 90% accuracy, and any Frozen Pokémon would stay Frozen ''permanently'' (unless you had a Ice Heal, Full Heal, or Full Restore, which you couldn't use in Player Versus Player matches, or the opponent used [[GoodBadBugs Haze]] or a damaging Fire-type move except for Fire Spin). International releases reduced the freeze chance to 10%, and Gen II onwards changed Blizzard's accuracy to 70%, made it so that a Frozen Pokémon has a 10% chance to cure itself every turn (even the same turn it was Frozen), introduced moves that could be used while Frozen that would also thaw out the user, and prevents Freeze from being inflicted during Sunny Day. Contrary to popular belief, however, if a frozen Pokémon is sent out during harsh sunlight, it will not thaw out faster.
* ObviousRulePatch: Generation VI nerfed critical hits to do 1.5x damage instead of 2x. To account for this, the power of Frost Breath (and its counterpart Storm Throw) was adjusted from 40 to 60, which actually still makes it somewhat more powerful than before when factoring the crit in.[[note]]In Generation V, Frost Breath was weaker than Ice Beam even with the crit factored in; the buff to Frost Breath (and slight nerf to Ice Beam) in Generation VI puts the two on even ground.[[/note]]
* OneHitKO: Sheer Cold can instantly knock out the opponent, with an accuracy of 30% if the user and target are at equal levels. It's also the only move of this type that no Pokémon has an immunity to via ElementalRockPaperScissors, until Generation VII where Ice-types are immune to it. Shedinja is also immune to it because of Wonder Guard.
* PowerEqualsRarity: Ice is easily one of the best attacking types in the series. However, the Ice-''types'' capable of getting STAB on them are rare and usually reserved for the endgame — by contrast, the Water-types that can learn Ice moves are ubiquitous, but can't hit as hard with them.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: They're immune to being frozen and resist their own attacks.
* ScissorsCutsRock: Normally, Ice-type attacks aren't very effective on Water-types, but the SecretArt Freeze Dry ''is'' super-effective on them as a special property.

** The ability Ice Body heals the owner for 1/16 of their total HP at the end of each turn during Hail.
** The ability Snow Cloak boosts Evasion by 1 stage during Hail.
** The ability Slush Rush doubles the owner's speed during Hail.
** The ability Snow Warning gives an instant Hail effect when the user switches into battle if there is no weather or another weather in play. It lasts for 5 turns unless the user is holding an Icy Rock, in which case it lasts 8 turns. If Hail is already active, it ''does not'' reset or stack with the current turn limit. Prior to ''X and Y'', the effect was permanent unless it was overridden by another weather activating.
** The ability Refrigerate turns Normal-type moves into Ice-type moves and grants a 20% damage bonus in addition to STAB (30% in Gen VI).
** The move Frost Breath always inflicts a CriticalHit, unless the target has the ability Battle/Shell Armor or is under the effect of Lucky Chant.
** The move Freeze-Dry [[ScissorsCutsRock hits Water-types super effectively]].
** The move Aurora Veil creates a barrier that reduces damage from both physical and special moves, but it can only be used during a hailstorm.
* SpamAttack: Icicle Spear hits the target 2-5 times on each use. Cloyster can notably hit a target with this move 5 times due to having Skill Link as a possible ability.
* StandardStatusEffects: Associated with the Freeze status, with many of their attacks having a 10% chance to inflict it(notably, there is no non-damaging move that inflicts Freeze, ala Toxic, Thunder Wave, or Will-O-Wisp). Ice-types themselves cannot be frozen (unless it's done by Tri Attack in Generation II).
* StatusBuffDispel: Haze is under this type, despite its animation being a thick cloud of black smoke. Mist [[InvertedTrope inverts]] it by preventing stats from being lowered.
* SuperMode: Glalie and Abomasnow are capable of Mega Evolution, while Lapras alone is able to Gigantamax.
* UndergroundMonkey: Alolan Vulpix, Alolan Sandshrew, Galarian Darumaka, Galarian Mr. Mime and their evolved forms are Ice-Types.
* WeakToFire: Fire resists and is super-effective against Ice-types; however, this is averted by the large sum of part-Water Ice Pokémon, the two part-Rock types, and Kyurem.

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!!Fighting-Type (かくとうタイプ ''kakutou taipu'')
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Fighting-types tend to represent various styles of martial artists, but with the twist that these fighters have their skills as a natural ability, rather than as a discipline. They can be found in caves, honing their discipline against the tough Rock-types, and occasionally in urban areas, likely a result of their discipline making them easily domesticated. [[MundaneUtility They can be useful in construction.]]

Originally, Fighting-types weren't very useful in Gen I when Psychic-types ruled the proverbial roost. With the introduction of both Dark- and Steel-types, both of which were weak to Fighting-types, their usability shot up dramatically, and they are now one of the major attacking types alongside Ground and Rock. Fighting-type attacks are super-effective on Normal, Rock, Ice, and the aforementioned Dark and Steel types, but are resisted by Bug, Poison, Flying, Psychic, and Fairy-types and completely ignored by Ghosts. Fighting-types are also useful defensively against Rock, Bug, and Dark attacks, but take double damage from Flying, Psychic, and Fairy moves.
%%Offensively: x2 Normal, x2 Rock, x2 Ice, x2 Dark, x2 Steel, x1/2 Bug, x1/2 Flying, x1/2 Poison, x1/2 Psychic, x1/2 Fairy, x0 Ghost
%%Defensively: x1/2 Bug, x1/2 Rock, x1/2 Dark, x2 Flying, x2 Psychic, x2 Fairy
%%Known Specialists: Bruno in ''Red and Green/Blue'' and ''Yellow''[[note]]and also ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''[[/note]]; Chuck in ''Gold and Silver'' and ''Crystal''; Brawly in ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''Emerald''; Maylene in ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''Platinum''; Marshal in ''Black and White'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''; Korrina in ''X and Y''; Hala in ''Sun and Moon''; Bea in ''Sword''

* ActionInitiative:
** The physical Mach Punch and the special Vacuum Wave have priority, letting the user go before the opponent more often than not.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Vital Throw, Revenge, Counter, Focus Punch, and Circle Throw, which all have negative priority, causing the user to go last most of the time.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Aura Sphere and Vital Throw bypass accuracy and evasion checks. They can still fail if the opponent is in the middle of using a move like Fly, as it removes them from the field.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Sacred Sword ignores changes in the target's Defense and Evasion (but also ignores increases as well).