Psychic (type)

Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Notable Pokémon Trainers that specialize in Psychic-type Pokémon are Sabrina of Saffron City, Will of the Indigo Plateau Elite Four, Tate and Liza of Mossdeep City, Lucian of the Sinnoh Elite Four, and Caitlin of the Isshu Elite Four.

Statistical averages

Overall

Fully evolved

Battle properties

Generation I

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

Generation II-onward

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

Characteristics

Psychic-type Pokémon have been fairly popular since Generation I. Offensively speaking, they often have great Special Attack meaning they can deal damage quickly using STAB moves. Furthermore, Psychic-type Pokémon can often learn moves of other elemental types, to deal with a multitude of types, most especially their weaknesses of Dark, Ghost, and Bug. As a special sweeper, they are one of the best types in the game as a Psychic Pokémon's speed is also typically quite high. The greatest disadvantage is that Psychic cannot affect Dark. However their immunity to Psychic can now be rendered useless with Miracle Eye, as well as the fact that most Psychic-types can now learnSignal Beam. Some others are able to learn Focus Blast.

Their defensive capabilities are often weak, however, in spite of some Psychic-types featuring moves such as Recover (Alakazam, Mewtwo, Deoxys, Latios, Latias, Starmie, Celebi, Chimecho, Medicham, Lugia). Psychic-types often have excellent Special Defense, but very low Defense and HP. Because of this, they can often only survive Special-based hits, and can easily be defeated by one or two high-powered moves from a Pokémon with an average or above-average Attack stat. Psychic Pokémon also often fall to a single Crunch due to the high Attack of many Dark-type Pokémon. There are exceptions to this, such as Bronzong or Metagross, who have high defense due to their second type, Steel, and their lack of weakness to Dark-type moves.

When used in contests, Psychic-type moves typically become Smart moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types, excluding Tough.

Pokémon

In total, there are 68 Pokémon with the Psychic type; 43 are fully evolved.

Pure Psychic-type Pokémon

# Name 063 Abra 064 Kadabra 065 Alakazam 096 Drowzee 097 Hypno 122 Mr. Mime 150 Mewtwo 151 Mew 196 Espeon 201 Unown 202 Wobbuffet 280 Ralts 281 Kirlia 282 Gardevoir 325 Spoink 326 Grumpig 358 Chimecho 360 Wynaut 386 Deoxys 433 Chingling 439 Mime Jr. 480 Uxie 481 Mesprit 482 Azelf 488 Cresselia 517 Munna 518 Musharna 574 Gochimu 575 Gochimiru 576 Gochiruzeru 577 Yuniran 578 Daburan 579 Rankurusu 605 Riguree 606 Oobemu

Half Psychic-type Pokémon

Primary Psychic-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 177 Natu Psychic Flying 178 Xatu Psychic Flying 249 Lugia Psychic Flying 251 Celebi Psychic Grass 475 Gallade Psychic Fighting 494 Victini Psychic Fire 527 Koromori Psychic Flying 528 Kokoromori Psychic Flying 561 Shinbora Psychic Flying

Secondary Psychic-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 079 Slowpoke Water Psychic 080 Slowbro Water Psychic 102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 121 Starmie Water Psychic 124 Jynx Ice Psychic 199 Slowking Water Psychic 203 Girafarig Normal Psychic 238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 307 Meditite Fighting Psychic 308 Medicham Fighting Psychic 337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 338 Solrock Rock Psychic 343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 344 Claydol Ground Psychic 374 Beldum Steel Psychic 375 Metang Steel Psychic 376 Metagross Steel Psychic 380 Latias Dragon Psychic 381 Latios Dragon Psychic 385 Jirachi Steel Psychic 436 Bronzor Steel Psychic 437 Bronzong Steel Psychic 555 Hihidaruma Hihidaruma* Fire Psychic 648 Meloetta* Normal Psychic

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Non-damaging moves

Balance issues

Psychic-type Pokémon were at the center of a balance issue in the Generation I games.^[1] The issue arose from the lack of an effective countermeasure against Psychic-types caused by the absence of any powerful Template:Type2 moves (at the time the only elemental weaknesses of Psychic-types).

The issue was rectified in later generations with the addition of Steel and Dark types, an added weakness to Template:Type2 moves, and more powerful Bug- and Ghost-type moves.

Trivia

• Psycho Cut, Zen Headbutt and Heart Stamp are the only physical Psychic-type moves.
  • As these moves were introduced after Generation III, this makes Psychic the only former special type not to have any of its moves changed into physical moves.
• Psychic is the most common type for legendary Pokémon, with at least two Psychic-type legendaries introduced in each generation.
• All legendary Pokémon but Regirock, Heatran, and Phione learn at least one Psychic-type move by leveling up.
• Psychic is the only type that shares its name with a move and a Trainer Class.
• Despite the balance issue during Generation I, it was not until Generation IV that a Pokémon and its evolution that have a double weakness to Psychic moves were introduced.
• There has been one Elite Four member or Gym Leader specializing in Psychic-type Pokémon in every generation.
• Even though Aura and Psychic abilities aren't confirmed to be the same, one of Sabrina's quotes in FireRed and LeafGreen suggests that Psychic abilities and Aura are at least similar to each other in description: "Psychic power isn't something that only a few people have. Everyone has psychic power. People just don't realize it."

References

In other languages

• Chinese: 超能力 chāonénglì
• Dutch: Psychisch (anime) / Paranormaal (magazine)
• Finnish: Meedio / Psyykkinen
• French: Psy
• German: Psycho
• Greek: Τηλεπαθητικός - Tilepathitikos / Μυσταγωγός - Mistagogos
• Hebrew: על חושי al hosea
• Italian: Psico
• Japanese: エスパー esper
• Korean: 에스퍼 esper
• Polish: Psychiczny
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Psíquico
• Russian: Психический psikhicheskii
• Spanish: Psíquico