Rock (type)

Template:ElementalTypes Template:TypeNotice Notable trainers that specialize in the Rock-type include Brock 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.

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

Rock-type moves:

• Are super-effective against: Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice
• Are not very effective against: Fighting, Ground, Steel
• Have no effect against: None

Rock-type Pokémon:

• Resist: Normal, Fire, Flying, Poison
• Are weak to: Fighting, Grass, Ground, Steel, Water
• Have immunity to: None

Characteristics

By means of defense, the Rock-type is medicore. It has no less than five weaknesses-an amout only tied with the Grass-type, and surpassed by none, but still holds four resistances, including very useful ones to Fire and Normal. While Rock-types do tend to have incredible physical defense stats, their weaknesses to Ground and Fighting, two very common physical attacking types in moves such as Earthquake, Close Combat and Focus Punch greatly decrease their ability to soak physical hits, and as most Rock-type have average special defense stats, combined with weaknesses to the likes of Surf but useful resistances such as to Flamethrower, they enither excel nor fail for special defensive means.

By means of offense, though, the Rock-type is one of the best and most commonly-used types. Three types resist Rock: Steel, Ground and Fighting, types that reralt combine together-making the Rock-types quadly resisted only by two pokemon-Lucario and Steelix, and immuned by none. Even the Ice-type, another type known to be one of the best attacking types, is doubly resisted by six pokemon-Lapras, Dewgong, Empoleon, Walrein, Cloyster and Heatran, and immune by the oh-so-famous Shedinja, although four of those are Ice-types themselfs. On the other hand, it strikes Fire, Bug, Flying and Ice for super-effective damage. Flying-types, as well as Bug, are very common, and as both tend to be bombined, many Bug-types have a quad weakness to Rock. All Ice-types, with the sole exception of Mamoswine, are weak to Rock as well, as well as Fire-types, two types already known for their defensive fraigility.

In total, there are 37 pokemon within the Rock-type, 20 of them fully-evolved.

Pokémon

In total, there are 37 Pokémon of the Rock-type.

Pure Rock-type Pokémon

#		Name
185		Sudowoodo
299		Nosepass
377		Regirock
408		Cranidos
409		Rampardos
438		Bonsly

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

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

Moves

Damage-dealing moves

Name	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Target	Notes
AncientPower		Tough	60	100%	5	One foe	Has a 10% chance of raising all the user's stats at once.
Head Smash		Tough	150	80%	5	One foe	User takes 50% recoil damage.
Power Gem		Beauty	70	100%	20	One foe
Rock Blast		Tough	25	80%	10	One foe	Attacks two to five times in a row.
Rock Slide		Tough	75	90%	10	Both foes	Has a 30% chance of making the target flinch.
Rock Throw		Tough	50	90%	15	One foe
Rock Tomb		Smart	50	80%	10	One foe	Lowers opponent's Speed.
Rock Wrecker		Tough	150	90%	5	One foe	Attack on first turn, then must rest next turn.
Rollout		Tough	30	90%	20	One foe	Attacks up to 5 turns in a row; power doubles with each successive hit.
Stone Edge		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		Tough	—	—%	20	User	Raises user's Speed 2 levels
Sandstorm		Tough	—	—%	40	One Foe	A five-turn sandstorm is summoned to hurt all combatant types except Rock, Ground, and Template:Type2. As of Generation IV it also boosts the Special Defense of all Rock-type Pokémon 50% on the battle field
Stealth Rock		Cool	—	—%	20	One Foe	The user lays a trap of levitating stones around the foe. The trap hurts foes that switch into battle.

Trivia

• If there were a hypothetical Pokémon of all 17 types, it would only be weak to Rock-type moves. However it's possible to create more weaknesses by using moves such as Foresight to remove immunities.
• There were no pure Rock-type Pokémon until Generation II.
• No physical Rock-type move is 100% accurate.
• In the first season of the Pokémon anime and during much of Generation I, the Rock-type was often wrongly assumed to be unaffected by Template:Type2 attacks. This was likely due to the fact that at the time, the only Rock-types that were not part Ground were the Fossil Pokémon.
• 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.
• Every known Fossil Pokémon so far is Rock-type.

In other languages

• French: Roche
• German: Gestein
• Italian: Roccia
• Spanish: Roca
• Korean: 바위 bawi
• Hebrew: סלע sela or אבן ehven