Ground (type)

Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice So far, there are only two notable Ground-type specialist Trainers: Giovanni of Viridian City and Bertha of the Sinnoh Elite Four.

Statistical averages

Overall

Stat
HP: 66
Attack: 81
Defense: 86
Sp.Atk: 53
Sp.Def: 58
Speed: 54
Total: 0

Fully evolved

Stat
HP: 86.22
Attack: 100.87
Defense: 102.30
Sp.Atk: 69.57
Sp.Def: 75.87
Speed: 63.96
Total: 0

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 Water, Grass and Ice, which are key attacking types. It resists Poison, 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-type moves that are not Electric-types themselves, and the lack of a ¼ resistance to Electric even by Generation IV.

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 and very accurate 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 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 IV, only Claydol, Flygon, Bronzong with Levitate, Breloom and Torterra resist both Rock and Ground. Most Ground-type Pokémon are able to learn Rock-type moves, possibly for that very purpose.

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.

In total, there are 48 Pokémon with the Ground-type.

Pokémon

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

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

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

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name Category Contest Power Accuracy PP Target Notes Bone Club Physical Tough 65 85% 20 One target Has a 10% chance of causing the target to flinch. Bone Rush Physical Tough 25 80% 10 One target Attacks two to five times in a row. Bonemerang Physical Cool 50 90% 10 One target Hits twice. Dig Physical Smart 80 100% 10 One target In battle: User digs the first turn, then strikes the next turn. Out of battle: Used to escape tunnels. Earth Power Special Smart 90 100% 10 One target Has 10% chance to lower the target's Special Defense. Earthquake Physical Tough 100 100% 10 All others Fissure Physical Tough — 30% 5 One target Target faints. Magnitude Physical Tough Varies 100% 30 All others Damage chosen randomly. Mud Bomb Special Smart 65 85% 10 One target Has 30% chance to lower the target's accuracy. Mud Shot Special Tough 55 95% 15 One target Lowers the target's Speed. Mud-Slap Special Cute 20 100% 10 One target Lowers the target's accuracy. Sand Tomb Physical Smart 15 70% 15 One target Attacks for two to five turns.

Non-damaging moves

Name Category Contest Power Accuracy PP Target Notes Mud Sport Status Cute — —% 15 All Weakens Template:Type2 moves. Sand-Attack* Status Cute — 100% 15 One target Lowers opponent's accuracy by 1 level. Spikes Status Smart — —% 20 Both foes Lays spikes* that damage opponents who switch into battle*.

Trivia

• The Template:Type2 is the only type not neutral to Ground that has not been combined with the Ground-type yet.
• 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 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 may only be immune to Electric moves from Electric-type Pokémon and not to any other types of electric shocks, as seen in Mewtwo Returns when multiple Ground-types were hurt by Domino's tulip.
• All types that resist the Template:Type2 are weak to Ground, and vice versa.
• Even though it only cannot affect Flying-types and Pokémon with Levitate, more Pokémon are unaffected by Ground-type moves than Pokémon which are immune to any other type, due to the sheer number of Pokémon with the two conditions.

In other languages

• Dutch: Grond
• Finnish: Maa
• French: Sol
• German: Boden
• Hebrew: אדמה adama
• Italian: Terra
• Russian: Земляной zemlyanoi
• Korean: 땅 ttang
• Polish: Ziemny
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Solo Ground / Terra earth
• Spanish: Tierra