Ice (type)

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

Overall

Fully evolved

Battle properties

Generation I

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×	None		0×	None

Generation II-onwards

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	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, 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. However, many Ice-types have more weaknesses than resistances even with another type.

Offensive-wise, though, Ice is one of the most powerful and most commonly used types. Double weaknesses to Ice are very common (especially among Template:Type2s, 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. Template:Type2s 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 361 Snorunt 362 Glalie 378 Regice 471 Glaceon

Half Ice-type Pokémon

Primary Ice-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 124 Jynx Ice Psychic 144 Articuno Ice Flying 220 Swinub Ice Ground 221 Piloswine Ice Ground 225 Delibird Ice Flying 238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 363 Spheal Ice Water 364 Sealeo Ice Water 365 Walrein Ice Water 473 Mamoswine Ice Ground 478 Froslass Ice Ghost

Secondary Ice-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 087 Dewgong Water Ice 091 Cloyster Water Ice 131 Lapras Water Ice 215 Sneasel Dark Ice 459 Snover Grass Ice 460 Abomasnow Grass Ice 461 Weavile Dark Ice

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Non-damaging moves

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.
  • As of Generation IV, half of them are Physical moves and the other half are Special moves.
• 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.
• Despite Fire being strong against Ice, and Electric being neutral to Ice, in Generation I, there are actually more Ice-type Pokémon that are weak to Electric than Ice Pokémon that are weak to Fire. This is largely due to the fact that most Ice-type Pokémon in that generation are also part Water.

In other languages

• Chinese: 冰 bīng
• Dutch: IJs
• Finnish: Jää
• French: Glace
• German: Eis
• Hebrew: קרח kerach
• Italian: Ghiaccio
• Japanese: こおり (氷) kōri
• Korean: 얼음 eol'eum
• Polish: Lodowy
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Gelo
• Russian: Ледяной ledyanoi
• Spanish: Hielo