Ice (type): Difference between revisions

Ice redirects here. For the type of special tile, see Ice tile.

Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Trainers of note that specialize in the Ice-type include Lorelei of the Kanto Elite Four, Pryce of Mahogany Town, Glacia of the Hoenn Elite Four, and Candice of Snowpoint City.

Statistical averages

Battle properties

Generation I

Ice-type moves:

• Are super effective against: Dragon, Flying, Grass, Ground
• Are not very effective against: Ice, Water
• Have no effect against: None

Ice-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Ice
• Are weak to: Fighting, Fire, Rock
• Have immunity to: None

Generation II-onwards

Ice-type moves:

• Are super effective against: Dragon, Flying, Grass, Ground
• Are not very effective against: Fire, Ice, Steel, Water
• Have no effect against: None

Ice-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Ice
• Are weak to: Fighting, Fire, Rock, Steel
• Have immunity to: None

Characteristics

Defensively, the Ice-type is considered a poor type, only bearing a resistance to one-even though useful-type (itself) and being weak to four types, although the Steel weakness is rarely harming, as Steel is not a common offesive type. This disadvantage is maked up somewhat, as the majority of Ice-types are dual-typed, what gives them resistances and/or immunities.

Offensively, the Ice-type is considered the best attacking type of all, together with Ground. It is the only type truely effective against the Template:Type2, as the only weakness of Dragons besides Ice is Dragon itself, which does not weaken any other type, giving little reason to use them over Ice attacks without STAB apart of defeating Kingdra and Palkia, meaning, the only other counters to Dragons are other Dragons. It also coveres the very common Flying- and Template:Type2s, and also Ground, which is, as said, the other best attacking type. X4 Weaknesses to Ice are very common (expecially among Dragons), while the only Pokémon that have a X1/4 resistiance to Ice and are not Ice-types themselfs are Empoleon and Heatran, although neither would enjoy Mamoswine's Earthquake. There is no type immune to Ice, which gives it an advantage over the other best attacking type, Ground, which does not effect Flying-types, a very common type to see, and Pokémon with the Levitate trait.

Quite expectedly, Ice and Ground, the two best attacking types, cover one another very well, what makes Mamoswine's type combination very useful for offensive sets. Ice and Electric are also knowen to creat a good combination, also knowen as "BoltBeam" (Thunderbolt and Ice Beam), that only Magnezone, Lanturn (with Volt Absorb) and Shedinja resists. That makes Ice very useful on sweepers, both physical and special.

Pokémon

Pure Ice-type Pokémon

#		Name
361	File:361MS.gif	Snorunt
362	File:362MS.gif	Glalie
378	File:378MS.gif	Regice
471		Glaceon

Half Ice-type Pokémon

Primary Ice-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
124	File:124MS.gif	Jynx	File:IceIC.gif	File:PsychicIC.gif
144	File:144MS.gif	Articuno	File:IceIC.gif	File:FlyingIC.gif
220	File:220MS.gif	Swinub	File:IceIC.gif	File:GroundIC.gif
221	File:221MS.gif	Piloswine	File:IceIC.gif	File:GroundIC.gif
225	File:225MS.gif	Delibird	File:IceIC.gif	File:FlyingIC.gif
238	File:238MS.gif	Smoochum	File:IceIC.gif	File:PsychicIC.gif
363	File:363MS.gif	Spheal	File:IceIC.gif	File:WaterIC.gif
364	File:364MS.gif	Sealeo	File:IceIC.gif	File:WaterIC.gif
365	File:365MS.gif	Walrein	File:IceIC.gif	File:WaterIC.gif
473		Mamoswine	File:IceIC.gif	File:GroundIC.gif
478		Froslass	File:IceIC.gif	File:GhostIC.gif

Secondary Ice-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
087	File:087MS.gif	Dewgong	File:WaterIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
091	File:091MS.gif	Cloyster	File:WaterIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
131	File:131MS.gif	Lapras	File:WaterIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
215	File:215MS.gif	Sneasel	File:DarkIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
459		Snover	File:GrassIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
460		Abomasnow	File:GrassIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
461		Weavile	File:DarkIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Aurora Beam		Beauty	65	100%	20	One foe	Has a 10% chance of lowering the opponent's Attack.
Avalanche		Cool	60	100%	10	One foe	Deals double damage if user was hurt this turn.
Blizzard		Beauty	120	70%	5	Both foes	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice Ball		Beauty	30	90%	20	One foe	Attacks up to 5 turns in a row; power doubles with each successive hit.
Ice Beam		Beauty	95	100%	10	One foe	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice Fang		Cool	65	95%	15	One foe	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent and cause flinching.
Ice Punch		Beauty	75	100%	15	One foe	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice Shard		Beauty	40	100%	30	One foe	Always attacks first.
Icicle Spear		Beauty	10	100%	30	One foe	Attacks two to five times in a row.
Icy Wind		Beauty	55	95%	15	Both foes	Lowers the target's Speed.
Powder Snow		Beauty	40	100%	25	Both foes	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Sheer Cold		Beauty	—	30%	5	One foe	Target faints.

Non-damaging moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Hail		Beauty	—	100%	10	All	Causes Hail to fall for 5 turns
Haze		Beauty	—	100%	30	All	Resets stat changes in all Pokémon
Mist		Beauty	—	100%	30	One Foe	Nullifies opponent's stat-changing moves for 5 turns

Trivia

• Pure Ice-type species were not introduced until Generation III.
• 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.
• As Ice is a strong offensive type and a poor defensive type, defensive Ice-types (Regice, Articuno and to an extent Cloyster, Dewgong and Lapras) are somewhat of an oxymoron. This is expecially true of the sole-typed Regice.
• Ice has the lowest number of resistences (counting immunities), being resistent to only itself.
• All types weak to Ice up to now are combined with the Ice-type, except for Dragon.

In other languages

• French: Glace
• German: Eis
• Italian: Ghiaccio
• Spanish: Hielo
• Korean: 얼음 eol'eum
• Hebrew. קרח kerach