Rock (type)
Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Notable trainers that specialize in the Rock-type include Brock of Pewter City, Roxanne of Rustboro City and Roark of Oreburgh City. They are, notably, all the first Gym Leader encountered in their respective regions.
Statistical averages
Stat | Range | ||
---|---|---|---|
At Lv. 50 | At Lv. 100 | ||
HP: 63
|
123 - 170 | 236 - 330 | |
81
|
77 - 146 | 150 - 287 | |
112
|
105 - 180 | 206 - 355 | |
57
|
55 - 119 | 107 - 234 | |
71
|
68 - 135 | 132 - 265 | |
48
|
47 - 110 | 90 - 214 | |
Total: 432
|
Other Pokémon with this total | ||
Battle properties
Rock-type moves:
- Are super-effective against: Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice
- Are not very effective against: Fighting, Ground, Steel
- Have no effect against: None
Rock-type Pokémon:
- Resist: Normal, Fire, Flying, Poison
- Are weak to: Fighting, Grass, Ground, Steel, Water
- Have immunity to: None
Characteristics
Defensively, the Rock-type tends to have very high physical defense, but weaknesses to common physical moves such as Close Combat and Earthquake. Theirspecial defense, thought, tendsto be around the average. Most Rock-types are vunarble to Water, a type that still has many special-based representers. For some reason, Rock/Steel, tow types knowen in their realistic versions to be very sturdy, give X4 weaknesses to the Ground and Fighting types.
Offensively, the Rock-type is considered one of the best types. Only two pokemon are X1/4 resistiant to Rock-Lucario and Steelix-even less than the Ice-type, and no pokemon so far is immune to Rock. Rock-type moves are useful and Ground-types, beeing resistes together only by Flygon, Claydol, (Levitate) Bronzong and Breelom. Fighting and {{t|Steel-types can also use Rock-types moves effectively. Stealth Rock makes this type even better offenvisely.
In total, there are 37 Pokémon with the Rock-type.
Pokémon
Pure Rock-type Pokémon
# | Name | |
---|---|---|
185 | File:185MS.gif | Sudowoodo |
299 | File:299MS.gif | Nosepass |
377 | File:377MS.gif | Regirock |
408 | Cranidos | |
409 | Rampardos | |
438 | Bonsly |
Half Rock-type Pokémon
Primary Rock-type Pokémon
# | Name | Type 1 | Type 2 | |
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074 | File:074MS.gif | Geodude | Rock | Ground |
075 | File:075MS.gif | Graveler | Rock | Ground |
076 | File:076MS.gif | Golem | Rock | Ground |
095 | File:095MS.gif | Onix | Rock | Ground |
138 | File:138MS.gif | Omanyte | Rock | Water |
139 | File:139MS.gif | Omastar | Rock | Water |
140 | File:140MS.gif | Kabuto | Rock | Water |
141 | File:141MS.gif | Kabutops | Rock | Water |
142 | File:142MS.gif | Aerodactyl | Rock | Flying |
246 | File:246MS.gif | Larvitar | Rock | Ground |
247 | File:247MS.gif | Pupitar | Rock | Ground |
248 | File:248MS.gif | Tyranitar | Rock | Dark |
337 | File:337MS.gif | Lunatone | Rock | Psychic |
338 | File:338MS.gif | Solrock | Rock | Psychic |
345 | File:345MS.gif | Lileep | Rock | Grass |
346 | File:346MS.gif | Cradily | Rock | Grass |
347 | File:347MS.gif | Anorith | Rock | Bug |
348 | File:348MS.gif | Armaldo | Rock | Bug |
410 | Shieldon | Rock | Steel | |
411 | Bastiodon | Rock | Steel | |
476 | Probopass | Rock | Steel |
Secondary Rock-type Pokémon
# | Name | Type 1 | Type 2 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
111 | File:111MS.gif | Rhyhorn | Ground | Rock |
112 | File:112MS.gif | Rhydon | Ground | Rock |
213 | File:213MS.gif | Shuckle | Bug | Rock |
219 | File:219MS.gif | Magcargo | Fire | Rock |
222 | File:222MS.gif | Corsola | Water | Rock |
304 | File:304MS.gif | Aron | Steel | Rock |
305 | File:305MS.gif | Lairon | Steel | Rock |
306 | File:306MS.gif | Aggron | Steel | Rock |
369 | File:369MS.gif | Relicanth | Water | Rock |
464 | Rhyperior | Ground | Rock |
Moves
Damage-dealing moves
Name | Category | Contest | Power | Accuracy | PP | Target | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AncientPower | Tough | 60 | 100% | 5 | One foe | Has a 10% chance of raising all the user's stats at once. | |
Head Smash | Tough | 150 | 80% | 5 | One foe | User takes 50% recoil damage. | |
Power Gem | Beauty | 70 | 100% | 20 | One foe | ||
Rock Blast | Tough | 25 | 80% | 10 | One foe | Attacks two to five times in a row. | |
Rock Slide | Tough | 75 | 90% | 10 | Both foes | Has a 30% chance of making the target flinch. | |
Rock Throw | Tough | 50 | 90% | 15 | One foe | ||
Rock Tomb | Smart | 50 | 80% | 10 | One foe | Lowers opponent's Speed. | |
Rock Wrecker | Tough | 150 | 90% | 5 | One foe | Attack on first turn, then must rest next turn. | |
Rollout | Tough | 30 | 90% | 20 | One foe | Attacks up to 5 turns in a row; power doubles with each successive hit. | |
Stone Edge | Tough | 100 | 80% | 5 | One foe | Has a high critical hit ratio. |
Non-damaging moves
Name | Category | Contest | Power | Accuracy | PP | Target | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rock Polish | Tough | — | —% | 20 | User | Raises user's Speed 2 levels | |
Sandstorm | Tough | — | —% | 40 | One Foe | A five-turn sandstorm is summoned to hurt all combatant types except Rock, Ground, and Steel-types. As of Generation IV it also boosts the Special Defence of all rock type Pokémon on the battle field | |
Stealth Rock | Cool | — | —% | 20 | One Foe | The user lays a trap of levitating stones around the foe. The trap hurts foes that switch into battle. |
Trivia
- If there were a hypothetical Pokémon of all 17 types, it would only be weak to Rock-type moves. However it's possible to create more weaknesses by using moves like Foresight to remove immunities.
- There were no pure Rock-type Pokémon until Generation II.
- No physical Rock-type move is 100% accurate.
- In the first season of the Pokémon anime and during much of Generation I, the Rock-type was often wrongly assumed to be unaffected by Template:Type2 attacks. This was likely due to the fact that at the time, the only Rock-types that were not part Ground were the Fossil Pokémon.
- The Rock-type is tied with the Template:Type2 for the largest number of weaknesses when unpaired, with five: Grass, Water, Ground, Fighting, and Steel.
- Every known Fossil Pokémon so far is Rock-type.
In other languages
- French: Roche
- German: Gestein
- Italian: Roccia
- Spanish: Roca
- Korean: 바위 bawi
- Hebrew: סלע sela or אבן ehven