Sunday, February 21, 2010

Ice (type)

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Elemental types
Physical
Normal
Fighting
Flying
Poison
Ground
Rock
Bug
Ghost
Steel
Special
Fire
Water
Grass
Electric
Psychic
Ice
Dragon
Dark
 
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The Ice-type (Japanese: こおりタイプ Kōri type) is one of the seventeenelemental types. Trainers of note that specialize in the Ice-type includeLorelei of the Kanto Elite FourPryce of Mahogany TownGlacia of theHoenn Elite Four, and Candice of Snowpoint City.


Statistical averages

Overall

Stat
HP:75
Attack:67
Defense:72
Sp.Atk:74
Sp.Def:79
Speed:66

Fully evolved

Stat
HP:81.79
Attack:80.86
Defense:85.00
Sp.Atk:86.21
Sp.Def:90.36
Speed:77.86

Battle properties

Generation I

OffensiveIceDefensive
PowerTypes ResistTypes
Dragon
Flying
Grass
Ground
½×Ice
½×Ice
Water
Fighting
Fire
Rock
NoneNone

Generation II-onwards

OffensiveIceDefensive
PowerTypes ResistTypes
Dragon
Flying
Grass
Ground
½×Ice
½×Fire
Ice
Steel
Water
Fighting
Fire
Rock
Steel
NoneNone



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 FireFightingRock and Steel, such as Stealth RockScizor'sBullet 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 ElectricWater-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

#   ↓  ↓Name   ↓
361361Snorunt
362362Glalie
378378Regice
471471Glaceon

Half Ice-type Pokémon

Primary Ice-type Pokémon
#   ↓  ↓Name   ↓Type 1   ↓Type 2   ↓
124124JynxIcePsychic
144144ArticunoIceFlying
220220SwinubIceGround
221221PiloswineIceGround
225225DelibirdIceFlying
238238SmoochumIcePsychic
363363SphealIceWater
364364SealeoIceWater
365365WalreinIceWater
473473MamoswineIceGround
478478FroslassIceGhost
Secondary Ice-type Pokémon
#   ↓  ↓Name   ↓Type 1   ↓Type 2   ↓
087087DewgongWaterIce
091091CloysterWaterIce
131131LaprasWaterIce
215215SneaselDarkIce
459459SnoverGrassIce
460460AbomasnowGrassIce
461461WeavileDarkIce

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name   ↓Category   ↓Contest   ↓Power   ↓Accuracy   ↓PP   ↓Target   ↓Notes   ↓
Aurora BeamSpecialBeauty65100%20One foeHas a 10% chance of lowering the opponent's Attack.
AvalanchePhysicalCool60100%10One foeDeals double damage if user was hurt this turn.
BlizzardSpecialBeauty12070%5Both foesHas a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice BallPhysicalBeauty3090%20One foeAttacks up to 5 turns in a row; power doubles with each successive hit.
Ice BeamSpecialBeauty95100%10One foeHas a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice FangPhysicalCool6595%15One foeHas a 10% chance of freezing the opponent and cause flinching.
Ice PunchPhysicalBeauty75100%15One foeHas a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice ShardPhysicalBeauty40100%30One foeAlways attacks first.
Icicle SpearPhysicalBeauty10100%30One foeAttacks two to five times in a row.
Icy WindSpecialBeauty5595%15Both foesLowers the target's Speed.
Powder SnowSpecialBeauty40100%25Both foesHas a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Sheer ColdSpecialBeauty30%5One foeTarget faints.

Non-damaging moves

Name   ↓Category   ↓Contest   ↓Power   ↓Accuracy   ↓PP   ↓Target   ↓Notes   ↓
HailStatusBeauty100%10AllCauses Hail to fall for 5 turns*.
HazeStatusBeauty100%30AllResets stat changes in all Pokémon.
MistStatusBeauty100%30SelfProtects 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, CandiceLorelei, 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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