Ice (type)

Ice redirects here. For the type of special tile, see Ice tile.

The Ice-type (Japanese: こおりタイプ Kōri type) is one of the seventeen elemental types. 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

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 one of the worst types, only bearing a resistance to one type (itself) and being weak to four types, although two of those types are not very common. This disadvantage in defensive weaknesses is made up somewhat, since the Ice-type often finds itself paired up with the Water type, which effectively neutralizes two of its four weaknesses and gives it an offensive advantage against Rock- and Fire-types.

Offensively, the Ice-type is very strong, being one of the only two types that is super effective against Dragon-types (indeed, it finds itself more useful for handling Dragon-types than Dragon moves, since most fully-evolved Dragons have a double weakness to Ice moves) and having relatively uncommon types it is not very effective against.

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
144		Articuno
220		Swinub
221		Piloswine
225		Delibird
238		Smoochum
363		Spheal
364		Sealeo
365		Walrein
473		Mamoswine
478		Froslass

Secondary Ice-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
087		Dewgong
091		Cloyster
131		Lapras
215		Sneasel
459		Snover
460		Abomasnow
461		Weavile

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Aurora Beam			65	100%	20	One foe	Has a 10% chance of lowering the opponent's Attack.
Avalanche			60	100%	10	One foe	Deals double damage if user was hurt this turn.
Blizzard			120	70%	5	Both foes	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice Ball			30	90%	20	One foe	Attacks up to 5 turns in a row; power doubles with each successive hit.
Ice Beam			95	100%	10	One foe	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice Fang			65	95%	15	One foe	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent and cause flinching.
Ice Punch			75	100%	15	One foe	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice Shard			40	100%	30	One foe	Always attacks first.
Icicle Spear			10	100%	30	One foe	Attacks two to five times in a row.
Icy Wind			55	95%	15	Both foes	Lowers the target's Speed.
Powder Snow			40	100%	25	Both foes	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Sheer Cold			—	30%	5	One foe	Target faints.

Non-damaging moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Hail			—	100%	10	All	Causes Hail to fall for 5 turns
Haze			—	100%	30	All	Resets stat changes in all Pokémon
Mist			—	100%	30	One Foe	Nullifies opponent's stat-changing moves for 5 turns

Trivia

• Pure Ice-type species were not introduced until Generation III.

In other languages

• French: Glace
• German: Eis
• Italian: Ghiaccio
• Spanish: Hielo
• Korean: 얼음 eol'eum