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

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 very poor type. It is resistant only to itself, and is weak to four types. It makes up for this disadvantage mostly due to the fact that most Ice-types are dual-types. While the type is lacking in resistances, it is considered one of the best attacking types. It is particularly strong against Template:Type2s, many of which are dual-types that sport a double weakness to Ice. They can also deal super-effective damage against the common Template:Type2 and Template:Type2, along with the fairly common Template:Type2 for good measure.

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

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 especially true of the sole-typed Regice.
• Ice has the lowest number of resistances (counting immunities), being resistant to only itself.
• Each type that is weak to Ice up to now has been found combined with Ice except for Dragon.

In other languages

• French: Glace
• German: Eis
• Italian: Ghiaccio
• Japanese: こおり (氷) kōri
• Korean: 얼음 eol'eum
• Spanish: Hielo