Steel (type): Difference between revisions

This article is about the in-game type. For the TCG type, see Metal (TCG).

Types

Normal

Fire

Fighting

Water

Flying

Grass

Poison

Electric

Ground

Psychic

Rock

Ice

Bug

Dragon

Ghost

Dark

Steel

Fairy

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The Steel type (Japanese: はがねタイプ Steel type) is one of the seventeen types. Notable Trainers that specialize in the Steel type include Jasmine of Olivine City, Steven Stone, former Champion of Hoenn, and Byron of Canalave City. Prior to changes in Generation IV all Steel-type moves were physical, but they may now also be special depending on the attack.

The Steel type was introduced in Generation II. As well as introducing new Pokémon with the Steel type, Magnemite and Magneton were retconned to be a dual-type Electric/Steel Pokémon.

Statistical averages

Overall

Fully evolved

Battle properties

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

Characteristics

Defense

Defensively, Steel types are considered to be the best type of Pokémon to use. Pure steel Pokémon have resistances to 11 of the 17 types, which can make for a good physical and special tank in battle. Steel types also have an immunity to Poison-type attacks, and are very tricky to inflict the Poison condition on. They can hold up to many attacks, because of their typically high Defense. They are also notably the only type capable of resisting the Dragon type that could otherwise take advantage of its STAB.

However, all three of the Steel type's weaknesses — Fighting, Ground and Fire — are very common and popular types. This makes it weak to common moves of those types, including the extremely common Earthquake. Fortunately, most Steel types are dual-types, which defends usually against one of these types; however, it is possible for dual-type Steel Pokémon to develop double weaknesses to some of these moves.

Pokémon purely of the Steel type have the 2nd greatest amount of resistances in the game. Magnemite, Magneton, and Magnezone, being Steel and Electric, are the most resistant Pokémon in the game, having 12 resistances plus an immunity to Poison. The added Electric type means these Pokémon are also resistant to Electric moves, and have a double resistance to Flying and Steel moves. However, they also have a double weakness to Ground-type moves (though this can be negated with the move Magnet Rise, giving them a second immunity).

Offense

Offensively, it is only recommended to use Steel-type moves for STAB. There are only two types weak to Steel: Ice and Rock, both of which are rarely used defensively, and have other type weaknesses with more versatility. Furthermore, the types that do resist Steel are very common (Including itself). There are only five pure Steel-type Pokémon and thus most have a second type able to provide more effective moves that could offset this disadvantage. Steel-type Pokémon typically have good Attack and below-average Special Attack, though there are some high-powered outliers in either the Physical field, such as Scizor, Metagross and Excadrill, and the Special field, such as Lucario, Empoleon and Magnezone. Said outliers are used often, so STAB on Steel-type moves can prove valuable. All in all, Steel can be a useful type offensively if combined with STAB, paired with another type for support and boosted by a high base total of at least one of the attacking stats.

Contest Properties

When used in Contests, Steel-type moves typically become Cool moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types.

Pokémon

As of Generation V, there are 38 Steel-type Pokémon or 5.86% of all Pokémon, making it the 14th most common type.

Pure Steel-type Pokémon

# Name 303 Mawile 379 Registeel 599 Klink 600 Klang 601 Klinklang

Pokéstar Studios opponents

# Name N/A MT N/A Transport

Half Steel-type Pokémon

Primary Steel-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 208 Steelix Steel Ground 227 Skarmory Steel Flying 304 Aron Steel Rock 305 Lairon Steel Rock 306 Aggron Steel Rock 374 Beldum Steel Psychic 375 Metang Steel Psychic 376 Metagross Steel Psychic 385 Jirachi Steel Psychic 436 Bronzor Steel Psychic 437 Bronzong Steel Psychic 483 Dialga Steel Dragon 638 Cobalion Steel Fighting

Secondary Steel-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 081 Magnemite* Electric Steel 082 Magneton* Electric Steel 205 Forretress Bug Steel 212 Scizor Bug Steel 395 Empoleon Water Steel 410 Shieldon Rock Steel 411 Bastiodon Rock Steel 413 Wormadam* Bug Steel 448 Lucario Fighting Steel 462 Magnezone Electric Steel 476 Probopass Rock Steel 485 Heatran Fire Steel 530 Excadrill Ground Steel 589 Escavalier Bug Steel 597 Ferroseed Grass Steel 598 Ferrothorn Grass Steel 624 Pawniard Dark Steel 625 Bisharp Dark Steel 632 Durant Bug Steel 649 Genesect Bug Steel

Pokéstar Studios opponents

# Name Type 1 Type 2 N/A F-00 Steel Normal N/A MT2 Steel Electric

Moves

Trivia

• Out of all the types, Steel has the most resistances and the highest average Defense.
• Because of Magnemite and Magneton's addition of their secondary Steel type in Generation II, there has been at least one Steel-type Pokémon introduced in each generation. Despite this, there is not a Steel-type move from each generation; Steel is the only type not assigned to a move introduced in Generation I. This is the opposite situation to the other type introduced in Generation II, Dark, as this generation saw Bite change from a Normal- to a Dark-type move but featured no retroactive Dark-type Pokémon.
• Though Steel-type moves deal super-effective damage against both Ice- and Rock-type Pokémon, there has not yet been a Pokémon of that type combination, and therefore, Steel-type moves currently cannot deal 4× damage.
• All Steel-type moves affect only one Pokémon at a time.
• The Steel type is the only type to lack a move that functions differently in Double Battles.
• Steel is the only type that has a non-neutral type matchup with all seventeen types, considering both offense and defense.
• Each of the three starter types have a different effectiveness when attacking a pure Steel-type Pokémon. Grass does ½× damage, Water does 1× damage, and Fire does 2× damage.
• Generation V introduced the most Steel-type Pokémon of any Generation, with 12 and Generation II introduced the fewest Steel-type Pokémon, with four.
• All Steel-type moves except for Autotomize have a name that consists of two words.
• Generation IV introduced the most Steel-type moves of any Generation, with seven and Generation II introduced the fewest Steel-type moves, with three.
• A pure Steel-type Pokémon has more resistances than any dual type Pokémon that is not part Steel.

In other languages

Language Title Japanese はがね (鋼) Hagane Mandarin Chinese 鋼 / 钢 Gāng Danish Stål Dutch Staal Finnish Teräs French Acier German Stahl Greek Μετάλλου Metallou Hebrew פלדה Plada Indonesian Baja Italian Acciaio Korean 강철 Gangcheol Norwegian Stål Polish Stalowy Portuguese Brazil Aço Steel Metal Metálico Portugal Metal Romanian Oțel Russian Стальной Stal'noy Spanish Acero Swedish Stål Thai เหล็ก