Type-enhancing item

A type-enhancing item, when held, enhances the power of attacks with the corresponding type. From Generation IV onward, these items boost the power of moves of the corresponding type by 20%; prior to Generation IV, they give boosts of 10%.

In Johto, several of these items can be obtained from the Week Siblings.

List of type-enhancing items

	Name	Debut Gen.	Corresponding move type
	Black Belt	II	Fighting
	Black Glasses	II	Dark
	Charcoal	II	Fire
	Dragon Fang	II	Dragon
	Hard Stone	II	Rock
	Magnet	II	Electric
	Metal Coat	II	Steel
	Miracle Seed	II	Grass
	Mystic Water	II	Water
	Never-Melt Ice	II	Ice
	Pink Bow	II	Normal
	Poison Barb	II	Poison
	Polkadot Bow	II	Normal
	Sharp Beak	II	Flying
	Silk Scarf	III	Normal
	Silver Powder	II	Bug
	Soft Sand	II	Ground
	Spell Tag	II	Ghost
	Twisted Spoon	II	Psychic

Pokémon-specific type-enhancing items

	Name	Debut Gen.	Corresponding Pokémon		Corresponding move types
	Soul Dew (Gen. VII onwards)	III		Latias Latios	Psychic	Dragon
	Adamant Orb	IV		Dialga	Dragon	Steel
	Lustrous Orb	IV		Palkia	Dragon	Water
	Griseous Orb	IV		Giratina Origin Forme	Dragon	Ghost

Incenses

Main article: Incense

Plates

Main article: Plate

Gems

Main article: Gem

Artwork

Underground

This is artwork of the items as seen in the Sinnoh Underground.

Hard Stone

Global Link

These are artwork of the items as seen in the Pokémon Global Link.

Black Belt	Black Glasses	Charcoal	Dragon Fang	Hard Stone	Magnet
Metal Coat	Miracle Seed	Mystic Water	Never-Melt Ice	Poison Barb	Sharp Beak
Silk Scarf	Silver Powder	Soft Sand	Spell Tag	Twisted Spoon

In the anime

Charcoal appeared in A Farfetch'd Tale. While traveling through Ilex Forest, Ash and his friends met a boy named Sylvester, who was trying to follow in his father's footsteps in order to learn how to make "purifying charcoal". Brock explained that purifying charcoal is actually burnt wood, which can be used as fuel or to purify water and air. At the end of the episode, Ash and his friends received some charcoal as a gift.

A Mystic Water was the prize given to the winner of the Whirl Cup in The Perfect Match!. Another one appeared in Balloons, Brionne, and Belligerence!, where Kanoa found it from a sunken ship, giving it to Ida as a gift.

A Dragon Fang appeared in Beauty is Skin Deep as the treasure of Clair's family, kept in the Blackthorn Gym. It is the fang of an ancient Dragon Pokémon that terrorized Blackthorn City. The Dragon Fang is part of a ritual with the purpose of bringing peace to all Dragon-type Pokémon. The ritual involves the Blackthorn Gym Leader placing it on a special ceremonial table, then pouring water over it, causing a light dragon to burst out of it and rise into the sky. Legend says that this light dragon becomes a star and watches over all Dragon-type Pokémon. Another Dragon Fang appeared in Showdown At Linoone as one of the items Tokin had picked up.

A Black Belt and a Twisted Spoon appeared in Climbing the Tower of Success! as search items for the Wishing Bell Festival scavenger hunt. A Never-Melt Ice was also a search item, but the boy looking for it only found regular ice.

In Currying Favor and Flavor!, Ash and Mallow found a Miracle Seed in a hollowed-out stump full of Berries in Lush Jungle while collecting ingredients for the "Akala Curry".

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  Charcoal

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  A Mystic Water

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  A Dragon Fang

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  A Black Belt

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  A Twisted Spoon

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  A Miracle Seed

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

History

Gold, Silver & Crystal arc

In The Last Battle IV, during the final battle against the Masked Man, Misty, Blaine, and Lt. Surge used Mystic Water, Charcoal, and Magnet to power up the moves of Suicune, Entei, and Raikou, respectively. Notably, the Magnet that appeared was a lodestone rather than a horseshoe magnet as seen in the games, due to the fact that this round was released before the Magnet was given a sprite in the games.

Diamond & Pearl arc

In Vexing Vespiquen & Unmanageable Mothim II, Diamond found a Metal Coat in Byron's vacation home on Iron Island and subsequently gave it to his Shieldon, Don, to hold.

Gallery

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  Magnet, Mystic Water, and Charcoal

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  Metal Coat

Trivia

• Charcoal is the only item available for purchase in a regular store. Some other type-enhancing items can also be purchased, but only from Game Corners.
  • Metal Coat is the only other item available for purchase between Generations I and VII. It is available for purchase in Black City in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.
• Pixie Plate is currently the only type-enhancing item that enhances the power of Fairy-type attacks.
• Outside of wild Pokémon held items and the Stow-on-Side bargain shop, Hard Stone and Metal Coat have the most unique ways of repeated acquisition than any other type-enhancing item:
  • From Generation II to Generation VIII (excluding Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!), only Poison Barb has been held by at least one wild Pokémon available in every core series game. Hard Stone, Metal Coat, and Soft Sand are nearly as obtainable via wild Pokémon, missing only in one set of games each: Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal for Hard Stone, and Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen for Metal Coat and Soft Sand.
  • Between Generations II and VIII, Black Glasses have the lowest number of games in which wild Pokémon hold the respective item, appearing only in Alola in Generation VII.
  • Between Generations II and VIII, Black Glasses has the lowest number in both evolutionary family lines and particular species that hold their respective item in the wild, with just one species: Krokorok. It is only encountered in one Generation and region, and in one location: Haina Desert.
  • Between Generations II and VIII, Poison Barb has the highest number in both evolutionary family lines and particular species that hold their respective item in the wild, with 10 family lines with 16 species. The next closest are Hard Stone (7 lines, 11 species), Ghost (6 lines, 10 species), and Steel (5 lines, 10 species).
• In Generation II, if the selected move is boosted by the proper type-enhancing item, but fails due to confusion, then that item boosts confusion damage as well.

Type-enhancing items
Items	Plates	Incenses	Orbs	Gems	Soul Dew

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