Steel (type)

This article is about the in-game type. For the TCG type, see Metal (TCG).

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Types

Normal

Fire

Fighting

Water

Flying

Grass

Poison

Electric

Ground

Psychic

Rock

Ice

Bug

Dragon

Ghost

Dark

Steel

Fairy

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The Steel type (Japanese: はがねタイプ Steel type) is one of the seventeen types. Notable Trainers that specialize in the Steel type include Jasmine of Olivine City, Steven Stone, former Champion of Hoenn, and Byron of Canalave City. Prior to Generation IV, where moves are designated physical or special based on the move itself rather than its type, all Steel-type moves were physical.

The Steel type was introduced in Generation II. As well as introducing new Pokémon with the Steel type, Magnemite and Magneton were retconned to be a dual-typed Electric/Steel Pokémon.

Statistical averages

Overall

Stat
HP: 65.45
Attack: 85.79
Defense: 110.79
Sp.Atk: 70.87
Sp.Def: 82.95
Speed: 55.61
Total: 471.45

Fully evolved

Stat
HP: 74.08
Attack: 97.65
Defense: 119.04
Sp.Atk: 78.96
Sp.Def: 90.46
Speed: 63.27
Total: 523.46

Battle properties

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

Characteristics

Defense

Defensively, Steel-types are considered to be the best type of Pokémon to use. Pure steel Pokémon have resistances to 11 of the 17 types, which can make for a good physical and special tank in battle. Steel-types also have an immunity to Poison-type attacks, and are very tricky to inflict the Poison condition on. They can hold up to many attacks, because of their typically high Defense.

However, all three of the Steel-type's weakness's, Fighting, Ground and Fire, are very common and popular types. This makes it weak to common moves of those types, including the extremely common Earthquake. Fortunately, most Steel-types are dual-typed, which defends usually against one of these types; however, it is possible for dual-type Steel Pokémon to develop double weaknesses to some of these moves.

Pokémon purely of the Steel type have the 2nd greatest amount of resistances in the game. Magnemite, Magneton, and Magnezone, being Steel and Electric, are the most resistant Pokémon in the game, having 12 resistances plus an immunity to Poison. The added Electric type means these Pokémon are also resistant to Electric moves, and have a double resistance to Flying and Steel moves. However, they also have a double weakness to Ground-type moves.

Offense

Offensively, it is only recommended to use Steel-type moves for STAB. There are only two types weak to Steel: Ice and Rock. both of which are rarely used defensively. There are only five pure Steel-type Pokémon and thus most have a second type able to provide more effective moves that could offset this disadvantage. Steel-type Pokémon typically have good Attack and below-average Special Attack, though there are some high-powered outliers in either the Physical field, such as Scizor, Metagross and Excadrill, and the Special field, such as Lucario, Empoleon and Magnezone. Said outliers are used often, so STAB on Steel-type moves can prove valuable.

Contest Properties

When used in Contests, Steel-type moves typically become Cool moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types.

Pokémon

As of Generation V, there are 38 Steel-type Pokémon or 5.86% of all Pokémon, making it the fourteenth most common type.

Pure Steel-type Pokémon

# Name 303 Mawile 379 Registeel 599 Klink 600 Klang 601 Klinklang

Half Steel-type Pokémon

Primary Steel-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 208 Steelix Steel Ground 227 Skarmory Steel Flying 304 Aron Steel Rock 305 Lairon Steel Rock 306 Aggron Steel Rock 374 Beldum Steel Psychic 375 Metang Steel Psychic 376 Metagross Steel Psychic 385 Jirachi Steel Psychic 436 Bronzor Steel Psychic 437 Bronzong Steel Psychic 483 Dialga Steel Dragon 638 Cobalion Steel Fighting

Secondary Steel-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 081 Magnemite* Electric Steel 082 Magneton* Electric Steel 205 Forretress Bug Steel 212 Scizor Bug Steel 395 Empoleon Water Steel 410 Shieldon Rock Steel 411 Bastiodon Rock Steel 413 Wormadam* Bug Steel 448 Lucario Fighting Steel 462 Magnezone Electric Steel 476 Probopass Rock Steel 485 Heatran Fire Steel 530 Excadrill Ground Steel 589 Escavalier Bug Steel 597 Ferroseed Grass Steel 598 Ferrothorn Grass Steel 624 Pawniard Dark Steel 625 Bisharp Dark Steel 632 Durant Bug Steel 649 Genesect Bug Steel

Moves

Gen	Move	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Range	Description
V	Autotomize	Status		000—	000—%	1515 (max 24)	Self	The user sheds part of its body to make itself lighter and sharply raise its Speed stat.
IV	Bullet Punch	Physical	Smart	04040	100100%	3030 (max 48)	Normal	The user strikes the target with tough punches as fast as bullets. This move always goes first.
III	Doom Desire	Special	Cool	140140	100100%	055 (max 8)	Normal	Two turns after this move is used, the user blasts the target with a concentrated bundle of light.
IV	Flash Cannon	Special	Smart	08080	100100%	1010 (max 16)	Normal	The user gathers all its light energy and releases it at once. It may also lower the target's Sp. Def stat.
V	Gear Grind	Physical		05050	08585%	1010 (max 16)	Normal	The user attacks by throwing two steel gears at its target.
IV	Gyro Ball	Physical	Beauty	VariesVaries	100100%	055 (max 8)	Normal	The user tackles the target with a high-speed spin. The slower the user, the greater the damage.
V	Heavy Slam	Physical		VariesVaries	100100%	1010 (max 16)	Normal	The user slams into the target with its heavy body. The more the user outweighs the target, the greater its damage.
III	Iron Defense	Status	Tough	000—	000—%	1515 (max 24)	Self	The user hardens its body's surface like iron, sharply raising its Defense stat.
IV	Iron Head	Physical	Tough	08080	100100%	1515 (max 24)	Normal	The foe slams the target with its steel-hard head. It may also make the target flinch.
II	Iron Tail	Physical	Cool	100100	07575%	1515 (max 24)	Normal	The target is slammed with a steel-hard tail. It may also lower the target's Defense stat.
IV	Magnet Bomb	Physical	Cool	06060	000—%	2020 (max 32)	Normal	The user launches steel bombs that stick to the target. This attack will not miss.
IV	Metal Burst	Physical	Beauty	VariesVaries	100100%	1010 (max 16)	Self	The user retaliates with much greater power against the target that last inflicted damage on it.
II	Metal Claw	Physical	Cool	05050	09595%	3535 (max 56)	Normal	The target is raked with steel claws. It may also raise the user's Attack stat.
III	Metal Sound	Status	Smart	000—	08585%	4040 (max 64)	Normal	A horrible sound like scraping metal harshly reduces the target's Sp. Def stat.
III	Meteor Mash	Physical	Cool	100100	08585%	1010 (max 16)	Normal	The target is hit with a hard punch fired like a meteor. It may also raise the user's Attack.
IV	Mirror Shot	Special	Cute	06565	08585%	1010 (max 16)	Normal	The user looses a flash of energy at the target from its polished body. It may also lower the target's accuracy.
V	Shift Gear	Status		000—	000—%	1010 (max 16)	Self	The user rotates its gears, raising its Attack and sharply raising its Speed.
II	Steel Wing	Physical	Cool	07070	09090%	2525 (max 40)	Normal	The target is hit with wings of steel. It may also raise the user's Defense stat.
All details are accurate to Generation VII games. For details that have changed between generations, please see an individual move's page. Target data assumes user is in the lower left.

Trivia

• Out of all the types, Steel has the most resistances and the highest average Defense.
• Because of Magnemite and Magneton's addition of their secondary Steel type in Generation II, there has been at least one Steel-type Pokémon introduced in each generation. Despite this, there is not a Steel-type move from each generation; Steel is the only type not assigned to a move introduced in Generation I. This is the opposite situation to the other type introduced in Generation II, Dark, as this generation saw Bite change from a Normal- to a Dark-type move but featured no retroactive Dark-type additions.
• Though Steel-type moves deal super-effective damage against both Ice- and Rock-type Pokémon, there has not yet been a Pokémon of that type combination, and therefore, Steel-type moves cannot currently deal 4× damage.
• All Steel-type moves affect only one Pokémon at a time.
• The Steel type is the only type to lack a move that functions differently in Double Battles.
• Steel is the only type that has a non-neutral type matchup with all seventeen types, considering both offense and defense.
• Each of the three starter types have a different effectiveness when attacking a pure Steel-type Pokémon. Grass does ½× damage, Water does 1× damage, and Fire does 2× damage.
• Generation V introduced the most Steel-type Pokémon of any Generation, with 12 and Generation II introduced the least Steel-type Pokémon, with four.
• Ironically, the Steel type was introduced in Generation II and it introduced the least amount of steel Pokémon with only the four listed above.
• Every Steel-type specialist has used Skarmory in their final team in the last game that he or she appears in.
• All Steel-type moves except for Autotomize have a name that consists of two words.
• Generation IV introduced the most Steel-type moves of any Generation, with seven and Generation II introduced the least Steel-type moves, with three.
• A pure Steel-type Pokémon has more resistances than any combination of other types.

In other languages

Language Title Japanese はがね (鋼) Hagane Mandarin Chinese 鋼 / 钢 Gāng Danish Stål Dutch Staal Finnish Teräs French Acier German Stahl Greek Μετάλλου Metallou Hebrew פלדה Plada Indonesian Baja Italian Acciaio Korean 강철 Gangcheol Norwegian Stål Polish Stalowy Portuguese Brazil Aço Steel Metal Metálico Portugal Metal Romanian Oțel Russian Стальной Stal'noy Spanish Acero