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Notable trainers that specialize in the Flying-type include Falkner of Violet City, Winona of Fortree City and Cyrus of Team Galactic, the former two being Gym Leaders.
This type is the only one of the seventeen that is never seen as a pure type, with the exception of the use of Conversion-like moves and abilities such as Multitype and Color Change. Each other type, besides the Template:Type2, has also been paired with the Flying-type on at least one Pokémon.
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Characteristics
Defensively, the Flying type is useful for its immunity to the common Template:Type2 move Earthquake and its resistance to Fighting. However, the Flying-type's weaknesses aren't uncommon and can often offset the benefits of immunity to Ground, especially due to many dual-type Rock/Ground Pokémon. However, most Flying-types have access to Roost, allowing them to restore their health. Flying-types usually have below average defense stats, making them vulnerable to most physical attacks, super effective or not.
Offensively, Flying-type moves are usually only useful when benefited by same-type attack bonus and for their strength against Template:Type2. The types Flying is super effective against aren't common. In their favor though, most fully evolved Flying-types have above-average Attack and Speed stats. However, having below average Special Attack makes such moves as Air Cutter and Air Slash almost useless.
When used in Contests, Flying-type moves typically become Cool moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types, excluding Tough.
In total, there are sixty-five Pokémon with the Flying-type.
Pokémon
Half Flying-type Pokémon
Secondary Flying-type Pokémon
Moves
Damage-dealing moves
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Trivia
- There are no pure Flying-type Pokémon. No Pokémon has Flying as its primary type, either.
- With the Sky Plate held, the legendary Pokémon Arceus is the only Pokémon capable of becoming a pure Flying-type outside of battle.
- Flying is the only type whose immunity can be canceled by an item, the Iron Ball, instead of only via a move.
- The Flying-type has been paired with every other type, except the Fighting-type.
- Currently, all Pokémon with a double weakness to Template:Type2 moves are part Flying-type.
- Pokémon with Water/Flying and Bug/Flying type combinations have been introduced in every generation so far.
- All types that resist Flying are weak to Ground. All types that resist Ground are weak to Flying.
- With the introduction of Shaymin's Sky Forme, each generation has introduced at least one part-Flying legendary Pokémon.
- There has been a Flying-type introduced in every generation whose name begins with the letters M and S.
- Although Normal is not famous for being paired up with other types, it is the most common type paired with Flying.
- For each possible type combination with a double weakness to Flying there is at least one Pokémon with that type combination. For example:Bug/Grass; Paras, Bug/Fighting; Heracross, Grass/Fighting; Breloom.
- If there was a pure flying type, it would not be able to learn Roost as the Pokémon would loose the only type it had.
In other languages
- Brazilian Portuguese: Voador
- Dutch: Vliegend
- French: Vol
- German: Flug
- Italian: Volante
- Korean: 비행 bihaeng
- Polish: Latający
- Spanish: Volador