Rock (type)

Types

Normal

Fire

Fighting

Water

Flying

Grass

Poison

Electric

Ground

Psychic

Rock

Ice

Bug

Dragon

Ghost

Dark

Steel

Fairy

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Stellar

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The Rock type (Japanese: いわタイプ Rock type) is one of the eighteen types. Notable Trainers who specialize in Rock-type Pokémon are Brock, Flint, and Forrest of Pewter City, Roxanne of Rustboro City, Roark of Oreburgh City, and Grant of Cyllage City. Jasmine is also stated to have trained Rock types in the past. Prior to changes in Generation IV, all Rock-type moves were physical, but they may now also be special depending on the attack.

Statistical averages

Overall

Stat
HP: 64.79
Attack: 88.09
Defense: 107.57
Sp.Atk: 56.49
Sp.Def: 69.04
Speed: 46.96
Total: 432.94

Fully evolved

Stat
HP: 74.52
Attack: 96.56
Defense: 119.12
Sp.Atk: 66.60
Sp.Def: 86.40
Speed: 54.28
Total: 497.48

Battle properties

Generation I

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

Generation II-onward

Rock-type Pokémon are immune to the damage from the sandstorm weather condition.

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

Generation IV-onward

Rock-type Pokémon have a Special Defense multiplier of 1.5 during a sandstorm.

Characteristics

Defense

The Rock type is rather risky defensively. Despite having an overall high Defense on average, and whilst it is defensive against the very common Normal-type moves, its weaknesses to Ground- and Fighting-type moves, typically physical in nature and rather commonly used, take it down a notch. The fact that its Special Defense is mediocre at best combined with its weakness to the common Grass- and Water-type 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 Solar Beam). Furthermore, tied with Grass, Rock types have the most weaknesses, with five.

However, resistances to Normal, Flying and Fire help the Rock type to hold its own if it needs to. Moreover, in a Sandstorm the Special Defense is increased by 50%. Furthermore, Sandstorms are very commonly seen, thanks to Sand Stream automatically creating a five-turn Sandstorm.

Offense

Rock is one of the best types offensively. Being resisted by only three of the eighteen types, two of which are hindered by their own mediocre defenses and relative scarcity helps it a lot, and the fact that only four Pokémon out of 718 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.

Contest properties

In Contests, Rock-type moves are typically Tough moves. None of them are Cute moves.

Pokémon

As of Generation VI, there are 55 Rock-type Pokémon or 7.3% of all Pokémon (assuming forms and Mega Evolutions that change typing as different Pokémon), making it the 9th rarest 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 142 Mega Aerodactyl Rock Flying 246 Larvitar Rock Ground 247 Pupitar Rock Ground 248 Tyranitar Rock Dark 248 Mega 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 688 Binacle Rock Water 689 Barbaracle Rock Water 696 Tyrunt Rock Dragon 697 Tyrantrum Rock Dragon 698 Amaura Rock Ice 699 Aurorus Rock Ice 703 Carbink Rock Fairy 719 Diancie Rock Fairy 719 Mega Diancie Rock Fairy

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

Gen	Move	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Range	Description
II	Ancient Power	Special	Tough	06060	100100%	055 (max 8)	Normal	The user attacks with a prehistoric power. It may also raise all the user's stats at once.
VI	Diamond Storm	Physical		100100	09595%	055 (max 8)	Many Others	The user whips up a storm of diamonds to damage opposing Pokémon. This may also raise the user’s Defense stat.
IV	Head Smash	Physical	Tough	150150	08080%	055 (max 8)	Normal	The user attacks the target with a hazardous, full-power headbutt. The user also takes terrible damage.
IV	Power Gem	Special	Beauty	08080	100100%	2020 (max 32)	Normal	The user attacks with a ray of light that sparkles as if it were made of gemstones.
III	Rock Blast	Physical	Tough	02525	09090%	1010 (max 16)	Normal	The user hurls hard rocks at the target. Two to five rocks are launched in quick succession.
IV	Rock Polish	Status	Tough	000—	000—%	2020 (max 32)	Self	The user polishes its body to reduce drag. It can sharply raise the Speed stat.
I	Rock Slide	Physical	Tough	07575	09090%	1010 (max 16)	Many Others	Large boulders are hurled at the opposing team to inflict damage. It may also make the targets flinch.
I	Rock Throw	Physical	Tough	05050	09090%	1515 (max 24)	Normal	The user picks up and throws a small rock at the target to attack.
III	Rock Tomb	Physical	Smart	06060	09595%	1515 (max 24)	Normal	Boulders are hurled at the target. It also lowers the target's Speed by preventing its movement.
IV	Rock Wrecker	Physical	Tough	150150	09090%	055 (max 8)	Normal	The user launches a huge boulder at the target to attack. It must rest on the next turn, however.
II	Rollout	Physical	Tough	03030	09090%	2020 (max 32)	Normal	The user continually rolls into the target over five turns. It becomes stronger each time it hits.
II	Sandstorm	Status	Tough	000—	000—%	2020 (max 32)	All	A five-turn sandstorm is summoned to hurt all combatants except the Rock, Ground, and Steel types.
V	Smack Down	Physical		05050	100100%	1515 (max 24)	Normal	The user throws a stone or projectile to attack an opponent. A flying Pokémon will fall to the ground when it's hit.
IV	Stealth Rock	Status	Cool	000—	000—%	2020 (max 32)	Other Side	The user lays a trap of levitating stones around the opponent's team. The trap hurts opponents that switch into battle.
IV	Stone Edge	Physical	Tough	100100	08080%	055 (max 8)	Normal	The user stabs the target with sharpened stones from below. Critical hits land more easily.
V	Wide Guard	Status		000—	000—%	1010 (max 16)	Your Party	The user and its allies are protected from wide-ranging attacks for one turn. If used in succession, its chances of failing rises.
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.

Abilities

Interacting with Rock-type

User of Color Change will be changed into Rock-type after it is hit with a Rock-type move. Protean will change its user into Rock-type when it uses a Rock-type move. When a Pokémon with Multitype holds a Stone Plate, it will become a Rock-type Pokémon. When a Pokémon with Imposter is sent out and its opposite opponent is Rock-type, it will transform into that Pokémon and turn into Rock-type.

Gen	Ability	Description
V	Sand Force	Strengthens Rock, Ground, and Steel moves to 1.3× their power during a sandstorm.
All details are accurate to Generation VI games. For details that have changed between generations, please see an individual Ability's page.

Exclusive Abilities

Only Rock-type Pokémon can have these Abilities. This does not include signature Abilities.

Trivia

• Generation III introduced the most Rock-type Pokémon of any Generation, with 12, and Generations II and IV introduced the fewest Rock-type Pokémon, both with seven.
• Generation IV introduced the most Rock-type moves of any Generation, with six, and Generation VI introduced the fewest Rock-type moves, with only one.
• If there were a hypothetical Pokémon of all 18 types, it would be weak to only Rock-type moves and Freeze-Dry, due to the fact that there are more Pokémon types weak to them than Pokémon types that resist them, and that no types are immune to them.
  • However, if Gravity was used or it held an Iron Ball or Ring Target, that hypothetical Pokémon would gain a weakness to Ground-type moves as well.
• 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 Grass type 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.
• 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.
• Black, White, Black 2, and White 2 are the only main series games that do not have a Rock-type Gym.
• Johto's Olivine Gym was a Rock type Gym before the Steel type was discovered.
• In Generation I there were only two Rock-type moves, which made it the type with the second fewest moves. Only the Dragon type had fewer moves, with only one move.
• Ancient Power and Power Gem are the only special Rock-type moves.
  • Coincidentally, Ancient Power, Power Gem and Smack Down are the only Rock-type moves of 100% accuracy.

In other languages

Language Title Japanese いわ (岩) Iwa Mandarin Chinese 岩石 Yánshí Danish Sten Dutch Steen Finnish Kivi French Roche German Gestein Greek Πέτρας Petras Hebrew סלע Sela Hindi पथरीले Pathreele Indonesian Batu Italian Roccia Korean 바위 Bawi Norwegian Stein Polish Kamienny Portuguese Brazil Mineral Pedra Stone Rocha Rock Portugal Pedra Stone Romanian Piatră Russian Каменный Kamennyi Spanish Roca Swedish Sten Thai หิน Vietnamese Đá