Statistical averages
Overall
Fully evolved
Battle properties
Generation I
Offensive | | Defensive |
Power | Types | | Resist | Types |
2× |
| ½× | |
½× |
| 2× |
|
0× | None | 0× | None |
Generation II-onwards
Offensive | | Defensive |
Power | Types | | Resist | Types |
2× |
| ½× | |
½× |
| 2× |
|
0× | None | 0× | None |
Characteristics
The Ice-type is considered by many to be the worst of all types defensively. It only resists itself, while carrying many common weaknesses to
Fire,
Fighting,
Rock and
Steel, such as
Stealth Rock,
Scizor's
Bullet Punch and the randomly-carried
Fire Blast meant to cover the much sturdier Steel-types. These defensive weaknesses are reduced somewhat by the rarity of pure Ice-types.
Offensive-wise, though, Ice is one of the most powerful and most commonly used types. Double weaknesses to Ice are very common (especially among
Dragon-types, whose final forms are almost all doubly weak), while only two non-Ice-types doubly resist Ice:
Empoleon and
Heatran. Ice also pairs strongly with other common attacking types, notably
Ground and
Electric.
Water-types can also effectively use Ice attacks, which cover their major weakness of
Grass, as well as
Dragon, which resists their moves.
When used in contests, Ice-type moves typically become
Beauty moves, but some may be
Cool moves.
In total, there are 22 Pokémon with the Ice-type.
Pokémon
Pure Ice-type Pokémon
Half Ice-type Pokémon
Primary Ice-type Pokémon
Secondary Ice-type Pokémon
Moves
Damage-dealing moves
Non-damaging moves
Name | Category | Contest | Power | Accuracy | PP | Target | Notes |
Hail | Status | Beauty | — | 100% | 10 | All | Causes Hail to fall for 5 turns*. |
Haze | Status | Beauty | — | 100% | 30 | All | Resets stat changes in all Pokémon. |
Mist | Status | Beauty | — | 100% | 30 | Self | Protects user from stat downgrades (from an opposing Pokémon) for 5 turns. |
|
Trivia
- Pure Ice-type species were not introduced until Generation III. As of Generation IV, there are only four pure Ice-types, even then, two are of the same evolutionary family.
- Thirteen of the fifteen Ice-type moves are Beauty moves in Contests. The only two that aren't are new in Generation IV, meaning that in Hoenn Contests, all Ice-type moves were Beauty moves.
- All damaging Ice-type moves have a secondary effect.
- Only the Normal-type has a lower number of resistances than the Ice-type, having no resistances (but one immunity). Ice only resists itself.
- With the exception of the Dragon-type, all types that are weak to Ice have been combined with it on at least one Pokémon.
- There has been a Gym Leader or Elite Four member who specializes in the Ice introduced in each generation, with the Gym Leaders introduced in even-numbered generations and the Elite Four members introduced in odd-numbered ones.
- Pryce is the only known male Ice-type specialist. The others, Candice, Lorelei, and Glacia, are all female.
- Both of the Ice-type specialists who are Gym Leaders, Pryce and Candice, are the seventh Gym Leader in their respective region, which appears in Generation IV.
- The Frozen status is the only one to not have a move that automatically causes it. "Burned" can be caused directly by Will-o-wisp, "Paralyzed" by Stun Spore and Thunder Wave, Sleep by Hypnosis, and etc.
In other languages
- Brazilian Portuguese: Gelo
- Dutch: IJs
- Finnish: Jää
- French: Glace
- German: Eis
- Italian: Ghiaccio
- Japanese: こおり (氷) kōri
- Korean: 얼음 eol'eum
- Polish: Lodowy
- Spanish: Hielo
- Hebrew: קרח "kerach"
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