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The 18 Pokémon types.

Types refer to different elemental properties associated with both Pokémon and their moves. There are 18 total official types of Pokémon:

Normal Fire
Water Grass
Electric Ice
Fighting Poison
Ground Flying
Psychic Bug
Rock Ghost
Dark Dragon
Steel Fairy

These 18 types apply to both Pokémon and their moves. Prior to Generation V, there used to be a ??? type which was only applied to the move Curse before having its typing changed, and the Shadow type, which was only present in Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness.

Each type has its own strengths and weaknesses, most of which are logical setups. Fire-type Pokémon are weak against Water-type Pokémon, Ice-type Pokémon are weak against Fire-type Pokémon, Water-type Pokémon are weak against Electric-type Pokémon, etc. These matchups also apply to the types of moves as well: A Fire-type move such as Ember will be strong against a Grass-type Pokémon such as Bulbasaur. Some types of Pokémon are also immune to a certain type of moves, regardless of its attack power, such as using an offensive Ghost-type move on a Normal-type Pokémon.

Pokémon themselves can have up to two types, making them Dual-Type Pokémon, but moves can only be one type (with the exception of the move Flying Press which is a Fighting/Flying-type move). Most if not all dual-type Pokémon's types correspond with one another such as a Grass/Poison-type Pokémon such as Bulbasaur, or a Rock/Ground-type Pokémon such as Onix. However, not all dual-type Pokémon's types relate to each other like this. Some Pokémon may be dual-type between two types that don't normally go together such as Water/Electric-types (such as Lanturn) or Grass/Water types (such as Ludicolo) or Grass/Flying-types (such as Jumpluff), or Fighting/Psychic (such as Medicham). Some dual-type Pokémon lose one of their types and gain a different type upon Evolution such as Scyther (a Bug/Flying-type) which evolves into Scizor (a Bug/Steel-type). Some singular type Pokémon will change completely to a different type or types upon evolution, such as Azurill (a Normal/Fairy-Type) which evolves into Marill (a Water/Fairy-Type) or Eevee (a Normal-Type) which can evolve into Flareon (a Fire-Type), Jolteon (an Electric-Type), Vaporeon (a Water-Type), Espeon (a Psychic-Type), Umbreon (a Dark-Type), Glaceon (an Ice-Type), Leafeon (a Grass-Type) or Sylveon (a Fairy-Type). One Pokémon also completely lose a type upon evolution, Gloom (a Grass/Poison type) evolves into Bellossom (a Grass type). One Pokémon can also change their type altogether, Cubone (a Ground-type) evolves into Alolan Marowak (a Fire/Ghost-type).

Unused Typings

Unique Typings

Trivia

  • The only exception to the max dual typing is the manga-exclusive "Zapmolcuno" which is an Ice/Electric/Fire/Flying type (mostly just used as ???/Flying type for short).
  • So far, the Water-type and Flying-type have mixed with every type.
  • Both Generation II and VI added to the list of types, Gen II adding Dark and Steel and Gen VI adding Fairy.
    • Due to this, several Pokémon have been retyped to take advantage of the addition of new types, with the entire Magnemite line retyped to Electric/Steel and many others becoming Fairy-type following its introduction.
  • The only max single typing move is the move Flying Press which is a Fighting/Flying type move.
    • However, in Pokémon Masters, there are Unity Moves which can use three types if all Pokémon on your side of the field have different typings.

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v · d · ePokémon types
Type Bug · Type Dark · Type Dragon · Type Electric · Type Fairy · Type Fighting · Type Fire · Type Flying · Type Ghost
Type Grass · Type Ground · Type Ice · Type Normal · Type Poison · Type Psychic · Type Rock · Type Steel · Type Water
Only exists within Generation II – IV: Type ??? · Only exists within Colosseum and XD: Shadow
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