Electric (type)

The Electric-type (Japanese: でんきタイプ Denki type) is one of the seventeen elemental types. Some notable trainers that specialize in the Electric-type include Lt. Surge of Vermilion City, Wattson of Mauville City and Volkner of Sunyshore City.

Statistical averages

Battle properties

Electric-type moves:

• Are super effective against: Flying, Water
• Are not very effective against: Dragon, Electric, Grass
• Have no effect against: Ground

Electric-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Electric, Flying, Steel
• Are weak to: Ground
• Have immunity to: None

Characteristics

Defensively, the Electric-type is fairly well off. Its resistances aren't especially notable aside from Flying, but it has only one weakness, to Ground. Having only one weaknesses means Electric-type Pokémon can take a few hits while dishing out heavy damage or using stat-boosting moves. However, Earthquake is a very popular and powerful Ground move for Pokémon that focus on physical moves.

Offensively, the Electric-type is also pretty well off. Flying and Water are fairly common types, while all its resistances are rare. Ground-type Pokémon can be covered by a Hidden Power of the right type.

Also, Pokémon like Pikachu can learn the move Grass Knot which applies more damage to heavier foes and, as Ground-types are typically heavy, this should be extremely effective.

Pokémon

Pure Electric-type Pokémon

#		Name
025		Pikachu
026		Raichu
100		Voltorb
101		Electrode
125		Electabuzz
135		Jolteon
172		Pichu
179		Mareep
180		Flaaffy
181		Ampharos
239		Elekid
243		Raikou
309		Electrike
310		Manectric
311		Plusle
312		Minun
403		Shinx
404		Luxio
405		Luxray
417		Pachirisu
466		Electivire

Half Electric-type Pokémon

Primary Electric-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
081		Magnemite
082		Magneton
145		Zapdos
462		Magnezone
479		Rotom

Secondary Electric-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
170		Chinchou
171		Lanturn

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Charge Beam			50	90%	10	One Foe	Has a 70% chance of raising the user's Special Attack one stage.
Discharge			80	100%	15	Everyone Else	Has a 30% chance of causing paralysis.
Shock Wave			60	—%	20	One Foe	Never Misses.
Spark			65	100%	20	One Foe	Has a 30% chance of causing paralysis.
Thunder			120	70%	10	One Foe	Has a 10% chance of paralyzing the opponent.
Thunder Fang			65	95%	15	One Foe	Has a 10% chance of paralyzing the opponent and cause flinching.
Thunderbolt			95	100%	15	One Foe	Has a 10% chance of paralyzing the opponent.
ThunderPunch			75	100%	15	One Foe	Has a 10% chance of paralyzing the opponent.
ThunderShock			40	100%	30	One Foe	Has a 10% chance of paralyzing the opponent.
Volt Tackle			120	100%	15	One Foe	User takes 33% recoil damage.
Zap Cannon			120	50%	5	One Foe	Paralyzes the opponent.

Non-damaging moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Charge			—	—%	20	User	Boosts the power of the Electric move it uses next. It also raises the user's Special Defense stat.
Magnet Rise			—	—%	10	User	The user becomes immune to Ground-type attacks for five turns.
Thunder Wave			—	100%	20	One Foe	Paralyzes the opponent.

Trivia

• The three Electric-type gym leaders all have light colored hair. Lt. Surge and Volkner both have blond hair, and Wattson has white hair.
• In the anime, the Electric-type has had some degree of exclusivity with Ash, as his Pikachu was the only Electric-type Pokémon owned by a main character up until Dawn captured Pachirisu in Twice Smitten, Once Shy.
• Each Electric-type gym leader is seen wearing a Military-style outfit, Lt. Surge wears a Uniform reminiscent of that of Vietnam Soldiers, Wattson wears what appears to be an Aviator's jacket, and Volkner wears what appears to be a military uniform similar to that of the dress uniform of Turkish troops.
• In Generation III, all damaging Electric moves were of the Cool contest type. The only non Cool move was Charge.

In other languages

• French: Electrik
• German: Elektro
• Italian: Elettro
• Spanish: Eléctrico
• Korean: 전기 jeon'gi
• Hebrew: חשמל hashmal