Pokemon Types, Strengths and Weaknesses

This Pokemon blog is purposely develop to share knowledge in Pokemon generation 4 that can be playable in Pokemon Pearl, Diamond, and Platinum.

To date, they are 17 types of Pokemon:

1. normal
2. fighting
3. flying
4. poison
5. ground
6. rock
7. bug
8. ghost
9. steel
10. fire
11. water
12. grass
13. electric
14. psychic
15. ice
16. dragon
17. dark

All 17 types of Pokemon have their own strengths and weaknesses. Below I have simplified the data on the advantages and disadvantages of every type.


1.Normal
Effective: None
less effective:rock,steel
weak against: fighting
resist:None
note:normal attack have no effect on ghost type (but move foresight and odor sleuth will make ghost immunity been remove)


2.Fighting
Effective: normal,rock,steel,ice,dark
less effective: poison,flying,bug,psychic
weak against: flying,psychic
resist:bug,dark,rock
note: fighting attack have no effect on ghost type (but move foresight and odor sleuth will make ghost immunity been remove).


3.Flying
Effective:bug,fighting,grass
less effective: electric,rock,steel
weak against: electric,ice,rock
resist: bug,fighting,grass
note:flying type Pokemon is immune from ground type moves,but if gravity move is used or iron ball is given to the flying type, the flying type will take damage.


4.Poison
Effective: grass
less effective: ghost,ground,poison,rock
weak against:psychic,ground
resist:bug,fighting,poison,grass
note:steel type Pokemon is immune from poison type attack


5.Ground

Effective:electric,fire,poison,rock,steel
less effective:bug,grass
weak against:ice,grass,water
resist:poison,rock
note:ground attack have no effect on flying type and Pokemon with the ability levitate.(but move gravity will make flying type immunity been remove). Usually ground type Pokemon can learn rock type move hence it will damage the flying type Pokemon without the used of gravity move.Ground type Pokemon also immune to electric type move.

6.Rock
Effective:bug,fire,flying,ice
less effective:fighting,ground,steel
weak against:fighting,grass,ground,steel,water
resist:normal,fire,flying,poison


7.Bug
Effective:dark,grass,psychic
less effective:fighting,fire,ghost,poison,steel
weak against:fire,flying,rock
resist:fighting,grass,ground


8.Ghost
Effective:ghost,psychic
less effective:dark,steel
weak against: dark,ghost
resist: bug, poison
note: normal and fighting attack have no effect on ghost type (but move foresight and odor sleuth will make the ghost immunity been remove)


9.Steel
Effective:ice,rock
less effective: electric,fire,steel,water
weak against: fighting,fire,ground
resist: 11 types, the only types that steel did not resist are water,fire,fighting,ground and electric
note: poison type attack have no effect on steel type


10.Fire
Effective:bug,grass,ice,steel
less effective:dragon,fire,rock,water
weak against: ground, rock, water
resist: bug,fire,grass,ice,steel
note: usually fire type able to learn solar beam(grass type move) to counter all three types weaknesses.


11.Water
Effective: fire,ground,rock
less effective:dragon,grass,water
weak against:electric,grass
resist:fire,ice,steel,water
note:usually water type able to learn ice beam(ice type move) to counter grass type weakness


12.Grass
Effective:ground,rock,water
less effective:bug,dragon,fire,flying,grass,poison,steel
weak against:bug,fire,flying,grass,poison

resist:electric,water,ground,grass


13.Electric
Effective:flying,water
less effective:dragon,electric,grass
weak against:ground
resist: flying, steel
note: ground type Pokemon not effected by electric type move


14.Psychic
Effective:fighting,poison
less effective:psychic,steel
weak against: ghost,dark,bug
resist: fighting,psychic
note:psychic type move have no effect on dark type Pokemon.(but move miracle eye will make dark type immunity been remove). Usually the psychic type will able to lean focus blast(fighting type move) to counter dark type and fire type attack to counter bug.


15.Ice
Effective:dragon,flying,grass,ground
less effective:fire,ice,steel,water
weak against: fighting,fire,rock,steel
resist:Ice


16.Dragon
Effective:dragon
less effective:steel
weak against:dragon,Ice
resist:electric,fire,grass,water
note:consider by many to be the best, but slightly harder to raise and usually most of final evolution of dragon type have secondary type such as flying and ground, thus making it quadruple weak against ice.Fortunately dragon type able to learn various type of move (break break, flame thrower) enable it to counter it weaknesses.


17.Dark
Effective:ghost,psychic
less effective:dark,fighting,steel
weak against:bug,fighting
resist:dark,ghost
note:dark type is immune to psychic type move(but move miracle eye will make dark immunity been remove).