Pokémon Type Chart

How to read the Pokémon type chart

Every Pokémon and every damaging move has a type. When a move hits, its type is compared with the defending Pokémon’s type, and the damage is multiplied by the result.

1. Find the move’s type in the left column (in the attacking view).
2. Find the defending Pokémon’s type along the top.
3. Read the cell where they meet. Green 2 means super effective, red ½ means not very effective, dark 0 means the move has no effect, and a blank cell means normal damage.

Switch to the defending view to read it the other way round: find your Pokémon’s type on the left and see how every attacking type hits it. In that view, red shows its weaknesses and green shows its resistances. You can also jump to any type:

Type strengths and weaknesses at a glance

Steel resists or is immune to the most types (11). Fighting and Ground are super effective against the most types (5). Grass and Rock have the most weaknesses (5), while Normal and Electric have the fewest (1).

Every type’s strengths and weaknesses

How dual types work

Many Pokémon have two types. To find how much damage they take, multiply the matchup against each type.

For example, Charizard is Fire and Flying. Rock is super effective against both, so Rock moves do 4× damage. Grass is resisted by both, so Grass moves only do ¼×. Ground has no effect on Flying, so Charizard is immune to Ground even though Fire is weak to it. Of the 171 possible typings, 53 have at least one 4× weakness.

The type chart in Pokémon Infinite Fusion

Pokémon Infinite Fusion uses exactly the same type chart as the modern main series games, including the Fairy type. What makes it different is typing. A fused Pokémon takes its primary type from the head and its secondary type from the body, and if the body’s type would repeat the head’s, it takes the body’s other type instead.

That opens up a lot of new type combinations. There are 171 possible typings (18 single types and 153 pairs). The regular Pokémon in Infinite Fusion cover 115 of them. With fusions, 170 are possible, so 55 typings exist only as fusions. Under this site’s fusion rules, the only typing no fusion can have is pure Flying.

Check the typing of any fusion, in both orders, with the type calculator, or see a specific fusion’s weaknesses, abilities included, with the weakness calculator.

Best defensive type combinations

These typings have the fewest weaknesses. Every one of them can be made in Infinite Fusion.

Type combinations with the most weaknesses

These typings have the most 4× weaknesses and the most weaknesses overall. If a fusion you like ends up with one of them, try swapping the head and body.

STAB: why a Pokémon’s own type matters in attack

A move that matches one of the user’s own types gets the same-type attack bonus, or STAB, which multiplies its damage by 1.5. A Water-type Pokémon using a Water move hits 1.5× harder than a Normal-type Pokémon using the same move. STAB stacks with type effectiveness, so a super-effective STAB move does 3× damage. See exact numbers in the damage calculator.