Ice (type)

Ice redirects here. For the type of special tile, see Ice tile.

Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Trainers of note that specialize in the Ice-type include Lorelei of the Kanto Elite Four, Pryce of Mahogany Town, Glacia of the Hoenn Elite Four, and Candice of Snowpoint City.

Statistical averages

Battle properties

Generation I

Ice-type moves:

• Are super effective against: Dragon, Flying, Grass, Ground
• Are not very effective against: Ice, Water
• Have no effect against: None

Ice-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Ice
• Are weak to: Fighting, Fire, Rock
• Have immunity to: None

Generation II-onwards

Ice-type moves:

• Are super effective against: Dragon, Flying, Grass, Ground
• Are not very effective against: Fire, Ice, Steel, Water
• Have no effect against: None

Ice-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Ice
• Are weak to: Fighting, Fire, Rock, Steel
• Have immunity to: None

Characteristics

Defensively, the Ice-type is considered a nearly useless type, only bearing a resistance to one type (itself) and being weak to four types, although two of those types are not very common. This disadvantage in defensive weaknesses is made up somewhat, since most Ice-types have a secondary type that give them resistances and immunities.

Offensively, the Ice-type is considered the best attacking type, together with Ground. It is the only type effective against the Template:Type2 (besides other Dragons) and covers the very common Flying- and Template:Type2s, and also Ground.

Pokémon

Pure Ice-type Pokémon

#		Name
361	File:361MS.gif	Snorunt
362	File:362MS.gif	Glalie
378	File:378MS.gif	Regice
471		Glaceon

Half Ice-type Pokémon

Primary Ice-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
124	File:124MS.gif	Jynx	File:IceIC.gif	File:PsychicIC.gif
144	File:144MS.gif	Articuno	File:IceIC.gif	File:FlyingIC.gif
220	File:220MS.gif	Swinub	File:IceIC.gif	File:GroundIC.gif
221	File:221MS.gif	Piloswine	File:IceIC.gif	File:GroundIC.gif
225	File:225MS.gif	Delibird	File:IceIC.gif	File:FlyingIC.gif
238	File:238MS.gif	Smoochum	File:IceIC.gif	File:PsychicIC.gif
363	File:363MS.gif	Spheal	File:IceIC.gif	File:WaterIC.gif
364	File:364MS.gif	Sealeo	File:IceIC.gif	File:WaterIC.gif
365	File:365MS.gif	Walrein	File:IceIC.gif	File:WaterIC.gif
473		Mamoswine	File:IceIC.gif	File:GroundIC.gif
478		Froslass	File:IceIC.gif	File:GhostIC.gif

Secondary Ice-type Pokémon

#		Name	Type 1	Type 2
087	File:087MS.gif	Dewgong	File:WaterIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
091	File:091MS.gif	Cloyster	File:WaterIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
131	File:131MS.gif	Lapras	File:WaterIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
215	File:215MS.gif	Sneasel	File:DarkIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
459		Snover	File:GrassIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
460		Abomasnow	File:GrassIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif
461		Weavile	File:DarkIC.gif	File:IceIC.gif

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Aurora Beam		Beauty	65	100%	20	One foe	Has a 10% chance of lowering the opponent's Attack.
Avalanche		Cool	60	100%	10	One foe	Deals double damage if user was hurt this turn.
Blizzard		Beauty	120	70%	5	Both foes	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice Ball		Beauty	30	90%	20	One foe	Attacks up to 5 turns in a row; power doubles with each successive hit.
Ice Beam		Beauty	95	100%	10	One foe	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice Fang		Cool	65	95%	15	One foe	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent and cause flinching.
Ice Punch		Beauty	75	100%	15	One foe	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Ice Shard		Beauty	40	100%	30	One foe	Always attacks first.
Icicle Spear		Beauty	10	100%	30	One foe	Attacks two to five times in a row.
Icy Wind		Beauty	55	95%	15	Both foes	Lowers the target's Speed.
Powder Snow		Beauty	40	100%	25	Both foes	Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent.
Sheer Cold		Beauty	—	30%	5	One foe	Target faints.

Non-damaging moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
Hail		Beauty	—	100%	10	All	Causes Hail to fall for 5 turns
Haze		Beauty	—	100%	30	All	Resets stat changes in all Pokémon
Mist		Beauty	—	100%	30	One Foe	Nullifies opponent's stat-changing moves for 5 turns

Trivia

• Pure Ice-type species were not introduced until Generation III.
• Thirteen of the fifteen Ice-type moves are Beauty moves in Contests. The only two that aren't are new in Generation IV, meaning that in Hoenn Contests, all Ice-type moves were Beauty moves.
• As Ice is a strong offensive type and a poor defensive type, defensive Ice-types (Regice, Articuno and to an extent Cloyster, Dewgong and Lapras) are somewhat of an oxymoron. This is expecially true of the sole-typed Regice.

In other languages

• French: Glace
• German: Eis
• Italian: Ghiaccio
• Spanish: Hielo
• Korean: 얼음 eol'eum
• Hebrew. קרח kerach