The Steel-type (Japanese: はがねタイプ Hagane type) is one of the seventeen elemental types.
Some notable trainers that specialize in the Steel-type include Jasmine of Olivine City, Steven Stone, previously champion of the Elite Four of Hoenn, and Byron, Gym Leader of Canalave City.
Statistical averages
Overall
Fully evolved
Battle properties
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Characteristics
The Steel-type was established in Generation II.
Defensively, Steel-types are considered to be the best type of Pokémon to use. They have resistances to 11 of the 17 types, which can make for a good physical and special tank in battle. They are immune to Poison-type attacks, and cannot be poisoned (except by Twineedle in Generation II). They can hold up to many attacks, because of their high Defense, but all 3 of the type's weaknesses are to the very common: Fire, Fighting and Ground types. Those defensive flaws are made up by the fact that only a small number of Steel-types are without another type. Their Special Defense is lower than their physical, but is still reasonably high.
Offensively, it is not recommended to use Steel-type moves, because there are only two types weak to Steel: Ice and Rock and both of which are rarely used defensively. Steel-types have average Attack and Special Attack, though there are some high-powered outliers in the Special field, such as Lucario, Empoleon and Magnezone.
When used in contests, Steel-type moves typically become Cool moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types.
In total, there are 26 Pokémon with the Steel-type.
Pokémon
Pure Steel-type Pokémon
Half Steel-type Pokémon
Primary Steel-type Pokémon
Secondary Steel-type Pokémon
Moves
Damage-dealing moves
Non-damaging moves
Trivia
- Although the Steel-type was introduced in Generation II, the only currently known pure Steel-type Pokémon were introduced in Generation III.
- There are only two pure Steel-type Pokémon, the least of all types aside from Flying, which has no single-type Pokémon.
- Out of all the types, Steel has the most resistances and the highest average Defense.
- There were no 100% accurate Steel-type attacks until Generation IV.
- Up until Pokémon Platinum, Weedle was completely unable to damage Steel-type Pokémon because the only damaging move it could learn was Poison Sting, and Steel-types are immune to Poison-type moves. From Platinum onwards, Weedle is able to learn Bug Bite via level-up, allowing it to do at least some damage (though Bug is still not very effective).
- 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 are not Steel-type moves from each generation; Steel is the only type not assigned to a move introduced in Generation I.
- 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 cannot currently deal 4× damage.
- All Steel-type moves consist of two words.
- Steel is the only type that has a non-neutral type matchup with all seventeen types, considering both offense and defense.
In other languages
- Brazilian Portuguese: Metal, Metálico, Aço PS: Although the correct translation to Steel in portuguese would be Aço it's most commonly known in Brazil as Metal or Metalico, which mean respectively: Metal and Metallic.
- Dutch: Staal
- French: Acier
- German: Stahl
- Italian: Acciaio
- Japanese: はがね (鋼) hagane
- Korean: 강철 gangcheol
- Polish: Stalowy
- Spanish: Acero
