Steel (type)

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This article is about the in-game type. For the TCG type, see Metal (TCG).

Template:ElementalTypes The Steel type (Japanese: はがねタイプ Steel type) is one of the seventeen elemental types. Notable Trainers that specialize in the Steel type include Jasmine of Olivine City, Steven Stone, former Champion of Hoenn, and Byron, Gym Leader of Canalave City. Prior to Generation IV, where moves are designated physical or special based on the move itself rather than its type, all Steel-type moves were physical.

The Steel type was introduced in Generation II. As well as introducing new Pokémon with the Steel type, Magnemite and Magneton were retconned to be a dual-typed Electric/Steel Pokémon.

Statistical averages

Overall

Stat
HP: 63
Attack: 85
Defense: 121
Sp.Atk: 66
Sp.Def: 72
Speed: 53
Total: 0


Fully evolved

Stat
HP: 73.72
Attack: 90.61
Defense: 124.89
Sp.Atk: 83.39
Sp.Def: 94.22
Speed: 57.83
Total: 0


Battle properties

Offensive Steel Defensive
Power Types   Power Types
Ice
Rock
½× Bug
Dark
Dragon
Flying
Ghost
Grass
Ice
Normal
Psychic
Rock
Steel
½× Electric
Fire
Steel
Water
Fighting
Fire
Ground
None Poison


Characteristics

Defense

Defensively, Steel-types are considered to be the best type of Pokémon to use. Pure steel Pokémon have resistances to 11 of the 17 types, which can make for a good physical and special tank in battle. This also means Pokémon of purely the steel type have the 2nd greatest amount of resistances in the game (with Magnemite and Magneton, being steel and electric, having 12 - The added electric type means they are also resistant to electric moves, have a double resistance to flying and steel moves, but they also have a double weakness to ground-type moves). They are immune to Template:Type2 attacks and are very tricky to inflict the Poison condition on. In addition, this means that Steel-types cannot become badly poisoned, where the Pokémon takes 1/16 of their total HP more damage after each turn. 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 Defense, but is still reasonably high.

Offense

Offensively, it is not recommended to use Steel-type moves, because there are only two types weak to Steel: Ice and Rock, both of which are rarely used defensively. There are only five pure Steel-type Pokémon and thus most have a second type able to provide more effective moves that could offset this disadvantage. Steel-type Pokémon have average Attack and Special Attack, though there are some high-powered outliers in either the Physical field, such as Metagross and Excadrill, and 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.

Pokémon

As of Generation V, there are 38 Steel-type Pokémon or 5.86% of all Pokémon, making it the fourteenth most common elemental type.

Pure Steel-type Pokémon

# Name
303 Mawile Mawile
379 Registeel Registeel
599 Klink Klink
600 Klang Klang
601 Klinklang Klinklang

Half Steel-type Pokémon

Primary Steel-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2
208 Steelix Steelix Steel Ground
227 Skarmory Skarmory Steel Flying
304 Aron Aron Steel Rock
305 Lairon Lairon Steel Rock
306 Aggron Aggron Steel Rock
374 Beldum Beldum Steel Psychic
375 Metang Metang Steel Psychic
376 Metagross Metagross Steel Psychic
385 Jirachi Jirachi Steel Psychic
436 Bronzor Bronzor Steel Psychic
437 Bronzong Bronzong Steel Psychic
483 Dialga Dialga Steel Dragon
638 Cobalion Cobalion Steel Fighting

Secondary Steel-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2
081 Magnemite Magnemite Electric Steel
082 Magneton Magneton Electric Steel
205 Forretress Forretress Bug Steel
212 Scizor Scizor Bug Steel
395 Empoleon Empoleon Water Steel
410 Shieldon Shieldon Rock Steel
411 Bastiodon Bastiodon Rock Steel
413 Wormadam Wormadam* Bug Steel
448 Lucario Lucario Fighting Steel
462 Magnezone Magnezone Electric Steel
476 Probopass Probopass Rock Steel
485 Heatran Heatran Fire Steel
530 Excadrill Excadrill Ground Steel
589 Escavalier Escavalier Bug Steel
597 Ferroseed Ferroseed Grass Steel
598 Ferrothorn Ferrothorn Grass Steel
624 Pawniard Pawniard Dark Steel
625 Bisharp Bisharp Dark Steel
632 Durant Durant Bug Steel
649 Genesect Genesect Bug Steel

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name Category Contest Power Accuracy PP Target Notes
Bullet Punch Physical Smart 40 100% 30 One foe Always attacks first.
Doom Desire Special Cool 140* 100%* 5 One foe Hits two turns after this move is used.
Flash Cannon Special Smart 80 100% 10 One foe Has a 10% chance of lowering the target's Special Defense.
Gear Grind Physical ??? 50 85% 15 One foe Hits twice.
Gyro Ball Physical Beauty Varies 100% 5 One foe Deals more damage the slower the user is compared to the target.
Heavy Slam Physical ??? Varies 100% 10 One foe Deals more damage the heavier the user is compared to the target.
Iron Head Physical Tough 80 100% 15 One foe Has a 30% chance of making target flinch
Iron Tail Physical Cool 100 75% 15 One foe Has a 30% chance of lowering target's Defense.
Magnet Bomb Physical Cool 60 —% 20 One foe Never misses.
Metal Burst Physical Beauty 100% 10 One foe Returns 150% the damage dealt by the foe's last attack.
Metal Claw Physical Cool 50 95% 35 One foe Has a 10% chance of raising user's Attack.
Meteor Mash Physical Cool 100 85% 10 One foe Has a 10% chance of raising user's Attack.
Mirror Shot Special Cute 65 85% 10 One foe Has a 30% chance of lowering target's accuracy.
Steel Wing Physical Cool 70 90% 25 One foe Has a 10% chance of raising user's Defense.

Non-damaging moves

Name Category Contest Accuracy PP Target Notes
Autotomize Status ??? 15 Raises user's Speed two levels.
Iron Defense Status Tough 15 Raises user's Defense two levels.
Metal Sound Status Smart 85% 40 One foe Lowers target's Special Defense two levels.
Shift Gear Status ??? 10 Raises user's Attack one level, and the user's Speed two levels.

Trivia

  • 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.
  • 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 is not a Steel-type move from each generation; Steel is the only type not assigned to a move introduced in Generation I. This is the opposite situation to the other type introduced in Generation II, Dark, as this generation saw Bite change from a Normal- to a Dark-type move but featured no retroactive Template:Type2 additions.
  • Though Steel-type moves deal super-effective damage against both Ice- and Template:Type2 Pokémon, there has not yet been a Pokémon of that type combination, and therefore, Steel-type moves cannot currently deal 4× damage.
  • All offensive Steel-type moves target one foe.
  • Steel is the only type that has a non-neutral type matchup with all seventeen types, considering both offense and defense.
  • Each of the 3 starter types have a different effectiveness when attacking a pure Steel type Pokémon. Grass does ½× damage, Water does 1× damage, and Fire does 2× damage.
  • Generation V introduced the most Steel-types of any generation, with 12.
  • Every Steel-type specialist has used Skarmory in their final team.
  • The Steel-type is the only type to lack a move that functions differently in double battles.

In other languages

Language Title
Japan Flag.png Japanese はがね (鋼) Hagane
Mandarin Chinese / Gāng
The Netherlands Flag.png Dutch Staal
Finland Flag.png Finnish Teräs
French Canada Flag.png Canada Acier
France Flag.png Europe Acier
Germany Flag.png German Stahl
Greece Flag.png Greek Μετάλλου Metallou
Israel Flag.png Hebrew ברזל Barzel
Indonesia Flag.png Indonesian Baja
Italy Flag.png Italian Acciaio
South Korea Flag.png Korean 강철 Gangcheol
Norway Flag.png Norwegian Stål
Poland Flag.png Polish Stalowy
Portuguese Brazil Flag.png Brazil Aço Steel
Metal Metal
Metálico Metallic
Portugal Flag.png Portugal Metal Metal
Russia Flag.png Russian Стальной Stal'noy
Spanish CELAC Flag.png Latin America Acero
Spain Flag.png Spain Acero