Rock (type)

Rock redirects here. Rock is also the Japanese name of Rocco, a character from Phantom Thief Pokémon 7.

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Template:ElementalTypes The Rock type (Japanese: いわタイプ Rock type) is one of the seventeen elemental types. Notable Trainers that specialize in the Rock type include Brock, Flint and Forrest of Pewter City, Roxanne of Rustboro City and Roark of Oreburgh City. They are, notably, all the first Gym Leader encountered in their respective regions. Prior to Generation IV, where moves are designated physical or special based on the move itself rather than its type, all Rock-type moves were physical.

Statistical averages

Overall

Stat
HP: 63
Attack: 81
Defense: 112
Sp.Atk: 57
Sp.Def: 71
Speed: 48
Total: 0

Fully evolved

Stat
HP: 73.40
Attack: 90.35
Defense: 121.75
Sp.Atk: 63.65
Sp.Def: 89.75
Speed: 51.85
Total: 0

Battle properties

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

Characteristics

Defense

The Rock type is rather risky defensively. Despite having an overall high Defense on average, its weaknesses to Ground- and Template:Type2 moves, commonly physical in nature, take it down a notch. The fact that, at best, its Special Defense is mediocre, combined with its weakness to the common Grass and Template:Type2 moves, greatly decrease its ability to defend. Double weaknesses among Rock-types are very common. Rock/Steel Pokémon are doubly weak to Ground and Fighting, two common powerful types. Rock/Water Pokémon and Rock/Ground Pokémon are doubly weak to Grass and the latter is also doubly weak to the common Water (along with an extra weakness to the powerful Ice.) The low Speed that many Rock-types have causes even further problems. Their resistance to Fire can now be made useless as many Fire-types movesets have been expanded in Generation IV to include Grass attacks (most notably Solarbeam).

However, resistances to Normal, Flying and Fire help the Rock-type to hold its own if it needs to. Moreover, it has gotten a boost in Generation IV due to Sandstorm increasing said lackluster Special Defense by 50% and the fact that Sandstorm is very common in many tiers, thanks to Sand Stream automatically casting a permanent Sandstorm.

Offense

Rock is one of the best types offensively. Being resisted by only three of the seventeen types, two of which are hindered by their own bad defenses and relative scarcity helps it a lot, and the fact that only four Pokémon out of 649 have a double resistance to Rock keeps its moves relatively effective. Double weaknesses to Rock are relatively common, mostly due to the many Bug-types having Flying as a secondary type, while the typically high-powered Ice- and Fire-types also do not fare well. As Pokémon of the three types that resist Rock typically can master Rock-type moves, this proves a quite versatile combination.

When used in contests, Rock-type moves typically become Tough moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types, excluding Cute.

Pokémon

As of Generation V, there are 47 Rock-type Pokémon or 7.24% of all Pokémon, making it the tenth most common elemental type.

Pure Rock-type Pokémon

# Name 185 Sudowoodo 299 Nosepass 377 Regirock 408 Cranidos 409 Rampardos 438 Bonsly 524 Roggenrola 525 Boldore 526 Gigalith

Half Rock-type Pokémon

Primary Rock-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 074 Geodude Rock Ground 075 Graveler Rock Ground 076 Golem Rock Ground 095 Onix Rock Ground 138 Omanyte Rock Water 139 Omastar Rock Water 140 Kabuto Rock Water 141 Kabutops Rock Water 142 Aerodactyl Rock Flying 246 Larvitar Rock Ground 247 Pupitar Rock Ground 248 Tyranitar Rock Dark 337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 338 Solrock Rock Psychic 345 Lileep Rock Grass 346 Cradily Rock Grass 347 Anorith Rock Bug 348 Armaldo Rock Bug 410 Shieldon Rock Steel 411 Bastiodon Rock Steel 476 Probopass Rock Steel 566 Archen Rock Flying 567 Archeops Rock Flying 639 Terrakion Rock Fighting

Secondary Rock-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock 112 Rhydon Ground Rock 213 Shuckle Bug Rock 219 Magcargo Fire Rock 222 Corsola Water Rock 304 Aron Steel Rock 305 Lairon Steel Rock 306 Aggron Steel Rock 369 Relicanth Water Rock 464 Rhyperior Ground Rock 557 Dwebble Bug Rock 558 Crustle Bug Rock 564 Tirtouga Water Rock 565 Carracosta Water Rock

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name Category Contest Power Accuracy PP Target Notes AncientPower Special Tough 60 100% 5 One foe Has a 10% chance of raising all the user's stats at once. Head Smash Physical Tough 150 80% 5 One foe User takes 50% recoil damage. Power Gem Special Beauty 70 100% 20 One foe Rock Blast Physical Tough 25 90%* 10 One foe Attacks two to five times in a row. Rock Slide Physical Tough 75 90% 10 Both foes Has a 30% chance of making the target flinch. Rock Throw Physical Tough 50 90% 15 One foe Rock Tomb Physical Smart 50 80% 10 One foe Lowers opponent's Speed. Rock Wrecker Physical Tough 150 90% 5 One foe Attack on first turn, then must rest next turn. Rollout Physical Tough 30 90% 20 One foe Attacks up to 5 turns in a row; power doubles with each successive hit. Smack Down Physical ??? 50 100% 15 One foe Makes Template:Type2s susceptible to Template:Type2 moves. Stone Edge Physical Tough 100 80% 5 One foe Has a high critical hit ratio.

Non-damaging moves

Name Category Contest Power Accuracy PP Target Notes Rock Polish Status Tough — —% 20 User Raises user's Speed two levels. Sandstorm Status Tough — —% 10 One Foe A five-turn* sandstorm is summoned to hurt all combatant types except Rock, Ground, and Steel. As of Generation IV it also boosts the Special Defense of all Rock-type Pokémon 50% on the battlefield Stealth Rock Status Cool — —% 20 One Foe The user lays a trap of levitating stones around the foe. The trap hurts foes that switch into battle*. Wide Guard Status ??? — — 10 User's team Prevents attacks that target multiple Pokémon. May fail if used in succession.

Trivia

• If there were a hypothetical Pokémon of all 17 types, it would only be weak to Rock-type moves, due to the fact that there are more Pokémon types weak to it than Pokémon types that resist it, and that no types are immune to it.
• There were no pure Rock-type Pokémon in Generation I.
• In the first season of the anime and during much of Generation I, the Rock type was often wrongly assumed to be unaffected by Electric-type attacks. This was likely due to the fact that at the time, most Rock-type Pokémon were part Ground-type, and thus immune to Electric-type moves. However, the only non-Ground Rock-type Pokémon (the then five fossil Pokémon) were actually weak to them.
• The Rock type is tied with the Template:Type2 for the largest number of weaknesses when unpaired, with five: Grass, Water, Ground, Fighting, and Steel.
  • Coincidentally, Rock moves are super effective against four of the five types Grass is weak to, with Poison being the exception. Interestingly though, the Rock type resists the Poison type, being a good matchup for all of the Grass type's weaknesses.
• Seven of the fifteen Rock-type moves (just under half) have the word 'rock' in their names.
• Every known fossil Pokémon is part or solely Rock-type. This is most likely due to the placement of real fossils in rock formations, as well as the process by which fossils are created.
• Every known Gym that specializes in the Rock type has been the first Gym of its region.
  • Similarly, each of the Leaders of these Gyms have used Geodude as at least one of their Pokémon.

In other languages

Language Title Japanese いわ (岩) Iwa Mandarin Chinese 岩石 Yánshí Danish Sten Dutch Steen Finnish Kivi French Canada Roche Europe Roche German Gestein Greek Πέτρας Petras Hebrew אבן Aeven Indonesian Batu Italian Roccia Korean 바위 Bawi Norwegian Stein Polish Kamienny Portuguese Brazil Mineral Pedra Stone Rocha Rock Portugal Pedra Stone Russian Каменный Kamennyi Spanish Latin America Roca Spain Roca