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

Battle properties

Steel-type moves:

• Are super-effective against: Ice, Rock
• Are not very effective against: Electric, Fire, Steel, Water
• Have no effect against: None

Steel-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Normal, Bug, Dark, Dragon, Flying, Ghost, Grass, Ice, Psychic, Rock, Steel
• Are weak to: Fighting, Fire, Ground
• Have immunity to: Poison

Characteristics

Defensively, Steel-types are very good. They have resistances to 11 of the 17 types, which can make for a good physical and special tank in battle. They can hold up to many attacks, because of their high Defense. 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. Steel-types have average Attack and Special Attack, though there are some high-powered outliers in the Special field, such as Lucario and Magnezone.

Pokémon

Pure Steel-type Pokémon

#		Name
303		Mawile
379		Registeel

Half Steel-type Pokémon

Primary Steel-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
208		Steelix
227		Skarmory
304		Aron
305		Lairon
306		Aggron
374		Beldum
375		Metang
376		Metagross
385		Jirachi
436		Bronzor
437		Bronzong
483		Dialga

Secondary Steel-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
081		Magnemite
082		Magneton
205		Forretress
212		Scizor
395		Empoleon
410		Shieldon
411		Bastiodon
448		Lucario
462		Magnezone
476		Probopass
485		Heatran

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Bullet Punch			40	100%	30	One foe	Always attacks first.
Doom Desire			120	85%	5	One foe	Hits two turns after this move is used.
Flash Cannon			80	100%	10	One foe	Has a 10% chance of lowering the target's Special Defense.
Gyro Ball			Varies	100%	5	One foe	Deals more damage the slower the user is compared to the target.
Iron Head			80	100%	15	One foe	Has a 30% chance of making target flinch
Iron Tail			100	75%	15	One foe	Has a 30% chance of lowering target's Defense.
Magnet Bomb			60	—%	20	One foe	Never misses.
Metal Burst			—	100%	10	One foe	Returns 150% the damage dealt by the foe's last attack.
Metal Claw			50	95%	35	One foe	Has a 10% chance of raising user's Attack.
Meteor Mash			100	85%	10	One foe	Has a 10% chance of raising user's Attack.
Mirror Shot			65	85%	10	One foe	Has a 30% chance of lowering target's accuracy.
Steel Wing			70	90%	25	One foe	Has a 10% chance of raising user's Defense.

Non-damaging moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Iron Defense			—	—	15	—	Raises user's Defense 2 levels.
Metal Sound			—	85%	40	One foe	Lower's target's Special Defense 2 levels.

Trivia

• Although the Steel-type was introduced in Generation II, no pure Steel-type Pokémon would appear until in Generation III.
• Out of all the types, Steel has most resistances.
• There were no 100% accurate Steel-type attacks until Generation IV.

In other languages

• French: Acier
• German: Stahl
• Italian: Acciaio
• Spanish: Acero
• Korean: 강철 gangcheol