Ice (type)

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

Statistical averages

Overall

Stat
HP: 75
Attack: 67
Defense: 72
Sp.Atk: 74
Sp.Def: 79
Speed: 66
Total: 0

Fully evolved

Stat
HP: 81.79
Attack: 80.86
Defense: 85.00
Sp.Atk: 86.21
Sp.Def: 90.36
Speed: 77.86
Total: 0

Battle properties

Generation I

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×	None		0×	None

Generation II-onwards

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×	None		0×	None

Characteristics

The Ice type is considered by many to be the worst of all types defensively. It only resists itself, while carrying weaknesses to Fire, Fighting, Rock and Steel, making it weak to moves such as Stealth Rock, Bullet Punch and Fire Blast. Even with a second type, all but one Ice-type Pokémon have more weaknesses than resistances.

Offensive-wise, because only two non-Ice-types doubly resist Ice (Empoleon and Heatran), Ice is alongside Ground and Fighting as one of the most powerful and most commonly used types. Double weaknesses to Ice are the most common (especially among Template:Type2s, whose final forms are almost all doubly weak). Ice also pairs strongly with other common attacking types, notably Ground and Electric. Template:Type2s can also effectively use Ice attacks, which cover their major weakness of Grass, as well as Dragon, which resists their moves.

When used in contests, Ice-type moves typically become Beauty moves, while some may be Cool moves.

In total, there are only 29 Pokémon of the currently known 649 with the Ice type, which accounts for a small amount of the Pokédex. This means it is tied with Dragon as one of the rarest of all types to be had by a Pokémon, second only to Ghost.

Pokémon

There are 29 Pokémon with the Ice-type, making it tied with Dragon for the fifteenth most common type.

Pure Ice-type Pokémon

# Name 361 Snorunt 362 Glalie 378 Regice 471 Glaceon 582 Vanipeti 583 Baniricchi 584 Baibanira 613 Kumasyun 614 Tsunbear 615 Furiijio

Half Ice-type Pokémon

Primary Ice-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 124 Jynx Ice Psychic 144 Articuno Ice Flying 220 Swinub Ice Ground 221 Piloswine Ice Ground 225 Delibird Ice Flying 238 Smoochum Ice Psychic 363 Spheal Ice Water 364 Sealeo Ice Water 365 Walrein Ice Water 473 Mamoswine Ice Ground 478 Froslass Ice Ghost

Secondary Ice-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 087 Dewgong Water Ice 091 Cloyster Water Ice 131 Lapras Water Ice 215 Sneasel Dark Ice 459 Snover Grass Ice 460 Abomasnow Grass Ice 461 Weavile Dark Ice 479 Rotom* Electric Ice 646 Kyurem Dragon Ice

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name Category Contest Power Accuracy PP Target Notes Aurora Beam Special Beauty 65 100% 20 One foe Has a 10% chance of lowering the opponent's Attack. Avalanche Physical Cool 60 100% 10 One foe Deals double damage if user was hurt this turn. Blizzard Special Beauty 120 70% 5 Both foes Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent. Cold Flare Special ??? 140 90% 5 One foe User charges first turn, then strikes second turn. Has a 30% chance of burning the target. Freeze Bolt Physical ??? 140 90% 5 One foe User charges first turn, then strikes second turn. Has a 30% chance of paralyzing the target. Frozen World Special ??? 65 95% 10 All foes Lowers the target's Speed. Ice Ball Physical Beauty 30 90% 20 One foe Attacks up to 5 turns in a row; power doubles with each successive hit. Ice Beam Special Beauty 95 100% 10 One foe Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent. Ice Breath Special ??? 40 90% 10 One foe Always a critical-hit. Ice Fang Physical Cool 65 95% 15 One foe Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent and cause flinching. Ice Punch Physical Beauty 75 100% 15 One foe Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent. Ice Shard Physical Beauty 40 100% 30 One foe Always attacks first. Icicle Drop Physical ??? 85 90% 10 One foe Has a 30% chance of causing the opponent to flinching. Icicle Spear Physical Beauty 25* 100% 30 One foe Attacks two to five times in a row. Icy Wind Special Beauty 55 95% 15 Both foes Lowers the target's Speed. Powder Snow Special Beauty 40 100% 25 Both foes Has a 10% chance of freezing the opponent. Sheer Cold Special Beauty — 30% 5 One foe Target faints.

Non-damaging moves

Name Category Contest Power Accuracy PP Target Notes Hail Status Beauty — 100% 10 All Causes Hail to fall for 5 turns*. Haze Status Beauty — 100% 30 All Resets stat changes in all Pokémon. Mist Status Beauty — 100% 30 Self Protects user from stat downgrades (from an opposing Pokémon) for 5 turns.

Trivia

• Although the Ice-type existed since Generation I, 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.
• Only the Normal-type has a lower number of resistances than the Ice type, having no resistances (but one immunity). Ice only resists itself.
• All types that are weak to Ice have been combined with it on at least one Pokémon.
• There has been a Gym Leader or Elite Four member who specializes in the Ice introduced in each generation.
  • All three of the Ice-type specialists who are Gym Leaders, Pryce, Candice, and Hachiku, are the seventh Gym Leaders in their respective region.
• Despite Fire being strong against Ice, and Electric being neutral to Ice, in Generation I, there are actually more Ice-type Pokémon that are weak to Electric than Ice Pokémon that are weak to Fire. This is largely due to the fact that most Ice-type Pokémon in that generation are also part Water.
• Generation V introduced the most Ice-types, with seven introduced, not including Frost Rotom's newly changed typing.
  • Generation V also introduced the most pure Ice-types, with six new Pokémon. Generation III introduced three, Generation IV introduced one, while Generations I and II introduced the fewest, with zero apiece.
• As of Generation IV, all unevolved Pokémon that evolve into an ice type have names that start with the letter S. The exception is Eevee.

In other languages

• Chinese: 冰 bīng
• Dutch: IJs
• Finnish: Jää
• French: Glace
• German: Eis
• Greek: Πάγος - Pagos / Ψύχος - Psihos
• Hebrew: קרח kerach
• Italian: Ghiaccio
• Japanese: こおり (氷) kōri
• Korean: 얼음 eol'eum
• Polish: Lodowy
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Gelo
• Russian: Ледяной ledyanoi
• Spanish: Hielo
• Slovak: Ľadový