Ice (type)

Template:ElementalTypes The Ice type (Japanese: こおりタイプ Ice type) is one of the seventeen elemental types. Notable 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 Brycen of Icirrus City. Prior to Generation IV, where moves are designated physical or special based on the move itself rather than its type, all Ice-type moves were special.

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

Defense

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 two Ice-type Pokémon—Froslass and Frost Rotom—have more weaknesses than resistances and immunities.

Offense

Offensive-wise, because only two non-Ice-types doubly resist Ice, and the fact that double weaknesses to Ice are fairly common (largely due to Template:Type2s, whose final forms are often doubly weak), Ice is, along with Ground , Fighting, Rock and Fire, one of the most commonly used attacking types. Ice also pairs well 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.

Pokémon

As of Generation V, there are 31 Ice-type Pokémon or 4.78% of all Pokémon, making it the fifteenth most common elemental type, or effectively the third least common type ahead of the Dragon and Ghost types.

Pure Ice-type Pokémon

# Name 351 Castform* 361 Snorunt 362 Glalie 378 Regice 471 Glaceon 582 Vanillite 583 Vanillish 584 Vanilluxe 613 Cubchoo 614 Beartic 615 Cryogonal

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. Freeze Shock Physical ??? 140 90% 5 One foe User charges first turn, then strikes second turn. Has a 30% chance of paralyzing the target. Frost Breath Special ??? 40 90% 10 One foe Always a critical-hit. Glaciate 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 Burn Special ??? 140 90% 5 One foe User charges first turn, then strikes second turn. Has a 30% chance of burning the target. 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 Crash Physical ??? 85 90% 10 One foe Has a 30% chance of causing the opponent to flinch. 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 Brycen, 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.
  • Every Ice-type introduced in Generation V is a pale blue color. It is the only generation in which this happens.
• 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

Language Title Japanese こおり (氷) kōri Mandarin Chinese 冰 bīng Dutch IJs Finnish Jää French Canada Glace Europe Glace German Eis Greek Πάγου pagou Hebrew קרח kerach Italian Ghiaccio Korean 얼음 eol'eum Norwegian Is Polish Lodowy Brazilian Portuguese Gelo Russian Ледяной ledyanoi Slovak Ľadový Latin American Spanish Hielo