Ground (type): Difference between revisions

Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Notable trainers that specialize in Ground-type Pokémon are Giovanni of Viridian City, Bertha of the Sinnoh Elite Four, and Yacon of Hodomoe City.

Statistical averages

Overall

Fully evolved

Battle properties

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×			0×

Characteristics

Defensively, the Ground type is somewhat risky. It is weak to the common types Water, Grass and Ice. It resists Poison, which is a rare offensive type, and Rock. It is, however, immune to the Electric-type, posing a great advantage due to the minority of Pokémon resisting Electric moves that are not Electric-type themselves, and the fact that as of Generation V, only Zekrom and Rotom's Mow Form have a ¼ resistance to Electric. This also renders them immune to the crippling Thunder Wave.

Offensively, the Ground type is one of the three most important attacking types, together with Ice and Fighting. It is the only type super-effective against Electric, and is super-effective against five types in total; only the Fighting type is as powerful as this. It is also super-effective against the best defensive type, Steel. Grass- and Bug-types do resist Ground, but many of them lose their Ground resistance due to being part Poison. This, combined with the fact that the highly damaging, very accurate and rather popular (especially among physical attackers) move Earthquake has been available as TM26 in every generation so far, leads to Ground being very potent offensively.

The greatest disadvantage of the Ground type is that it does not affect the very common Flying-type Pokémon at all, or Pokémon with Levitate.

The Ground type combines very well with the Ice-type, as Ice covers Grass and Flying, while Ground covers Rock, Steel, and Fire. Ground and Rock also work very well together; Rock covers Ice and Flying while Ground covers Steel; as of Generation V, only Claydol, Flygon, Bronzong with Levitate, Breloom, Torterra, and Virizion resist both Rock and Ground. Most Ground-type Pokémon are able to learn Rock-type moves, possibly for that very purpose. Ground can pair up nicely with Flying, as it makes the Flying-type immune to Electric attacks, which are one of the Flying-type weaknesses and at the same time make then immune to Earthquake. Also, as of Generation V, only fifteen Pokémon out of 649 can resist both Ground and Flying: Zapdos, Aerodactyl, Skarmory, Solrock, Lunatone, Bronzor, Bronzong (only if they have Levitate), Rotom, Aaken, Archeos, Emonga, Shibishirasu, Shibibiiru, Shibirudon, and Voltolos.

When used in contests, Ground-type moves typically become Tough moves. No Ground-type moves are Beauty moves, while they can be the other three types.

Pokémon

As of Generation V, there are 59 Ground-type Pokémon, making it the seventh most common elemental type.

Pure Ground-type Pokémon

# Name 027 Sandshrew 028 Sandslash 050 Diglett 051 Dugtrio 104 Cubone 105 Marowak 231 Phanpy 232 Donphan 328 Trapinch 383 Groudon 449 Hippopotas 450 Hippowdon 529 Mogurew

Half Ground-type Pokémon

Primary Ground-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock 112 Rhydon Ground Rock 207 Gligar Ground Flying 329 Vibrava Ground Dragon 330 Flygon Ground Dragon 343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 344 Claydol Ground Psychic 464 Rhyperior Ground Rock 472 Gliscor Ground Flying 530 Doryuzu Ground Steel 551 Meguroco Ground Dark 552 Waruvile Ground Dark 553 Waruvial Ground Dark 618 Maggyo Ground Electric 622 Gobitto Ground Ghost 623 Goruugu Ground Ghost 645 Landlos Ground Flying

Secondary Ground-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground 034 Nidoking Poison Ground 074 Geodude Rock Ground 075 Graveler Rock Ground 076 Golem Rock Ground 095 Onix Rock Ground 194 Wooper Water Ground 195 Quagsire Water Ground 208 Steelix Steel Ground 220 Swinub Ice Ground 221 Piloswine Ice Ground 246 Larvitar Rock Ground 247 Pupitar Rock Ground 259 Marshtomp Water Ground 260 Swampert Water Ground 290 Nincada Bug Ground 322 Numel Fire Ground 323 Camerupt Fire Ground 339 Barboach Water Ground 340 Whiscash Water Ground 389 Torterra Grass Ground 413 Wormadam* Bug Ground 423 Gastrodon Water Ground 443 Gible Dragon Ground 444 Gabite Dragon Ground 445 Garchomp Dragon Ground 473 Mamoswine Ice Ground 536 Gamagaru Water Ground 537 Gamageroge Water Ground

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Non-damaging moves

Trivia

• Along with the Template:Type2, Ground-type moves are super-effective against the most types: five.
• Each generation has introduced at least one Ground-type Pokémon whose English name begins with the letter G.
• Although Ground-type Pokémon are immune to Electric-type attacks, the ability Static still affects them.
• In the anime, Ground-type Pokémon's immunity to Electric-type attacks is sometimes treated inconsistently, sometimes upheld and sometimes ignored.
• All types that resist the Template:Type2 are weak to Ground, and vice versa; however, the type combinations Electric/Flying, Rock/Flying, and Steel/Flying still resist both due to the Flying-type's immunity to Ground moves.
• More Pokémon are immune to Ground-type moves than any other type, as both Flying Pokémon and Levitating Pokémon are immune to Ground.
• For each possible Ground-type Pokémon with a different subtype that nullifies its weakness to Grass, there is at least one Pokémon with that type combination.

In other languages

Language Title Japanese じめん (地面) jimen Mandarin Chinese 地面 dìmiàn Dutch Grond Finnish Maa French Canada Sol Europe Sol German Boden Greek Έδαφος - Edafos Hebrew אדמה adama Italian Terra Korean 땅 ttang Polish Ziemny Brazilian Portuguese Solo Ground / Terra earth Russian Земляной zemlyanoi Spanish Latin America Tierra Spain Tierra