The Rock-type (Japanese: いわタイプ Iwa type) is one of the seventeen elemental types.
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
| HP:
| 63
|
|
| Attack:
| 81
|
|
| Defense:
| 112
|
|
| SpAtk:
| 57
|
|
| SpDef:
| 71
|
|
| Speed:
| 48
|
|
Battle properties
Rock-type moves:
Rock-type Pokémon:
Characteristics
Defensively, the Rock-type tends to have very high physical defense, but weaknesses to common physical moves such as Close Combat and Earthquake. Their Special Defense, though, tends to be average. Most Rock-types are vulnerable to Water, a type with many Special-based moves. For some reason, Rock/Steel, two types known in real life to be very sturdy, have a double weakness to the Ground- and Fighting-types.
Offensively, the Rock-type is considered one of the best types. Only two Pokémon have a double resistance to Rock — Lucario and Steelix — even less than the Ice-type. Rock-type moves are useful, along with Ground-types, being resisted together only by Flygon, Claydol, Breloom, and Bronzong with Levitate. Fighting- and Steel-types can also use Rock-type moves effectively. The move Stealth Rock makes the type better offensively.
Pokémon
In total, there are 37 Pokémon of the Rock-type.
Pure Rock-type Pokémon
Half Rock-type Pokémon
Primary Rock-type Pokémon
Secondary Rock-type Pokémon
Moves
Damage-dealing moves
| Name
| Category
| Contest
| Power
| Accuracy
| PP
| Target
| Notes
|
| AncientPower
| 
| 
| 60
| 100%
| 5
| One foe
| Has a 10% chance of raising all the user's stats at once.
|
| Head Smash
| 
|
| 150
| 80%
| 5
| One foe
| User takes 50% recoil damage.
|
| Power Gem
|
| 
| 70
| 100%
| 20
| One foe
|
|
| Rock Blast
|
|
| 25
| 80%
| 10
| One foe
| Attacks two to five times in a row.
|
| Rock Slide
|
|
| 75
| 90%
| 10
| Both foes
| Has a 30% chance of making the target flinch.
|
| Rock Throw
|
|
| 50
| 90%
| 15
| One foe
|
|
| Rock Tomb
|
| 
| 50
| 80%
| 10
| One foe
| Lowers opponent's Speed.
|
| Rock Wrecker
|
|
| 150
| 90%
| 5
| One foe
| Attack on first turn, then must rest next turn.
|
| Rollout
|
|
| 30
| 90%
| 20
| One foe
| Attacks up to 5 turns in a row; power doubles with each successive hit.
|
| Stone Edge
|
|
| 100
| 80%
| 5
| One foe
| Has a high critical hit ratio.
|
Non-damaging moves
| Name
| Category
| Contest
| Power
| Accuracy
| PP
| Target
| Notes
|
| Rock Polish
| 
|
| —
| —%
| 20
| User
| Raises user's Speed 2 levels
|
| Sandstorm
|
|
| —
| —%
| 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
|
| 
| —
| —%
| 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 Electric-type 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 Grass-type 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
