Type facts
Every Pokémon has one or two types, and the types decide who beats who. Here are the counts, the odd pairings and the strange rules of the type chart.
22 facts. Each one says how we know it.
Most common type: Water
Water is the most common type. 154 Pokémon are Water type, either on their own or paired with another type.
How we know: Counted every Pokémon that has the type, as its first or second type, in the Pokédex data on pokee.si.
Second most common type: Normal
Normal comes second with 131 Pokémon, which is 23 fewer than Water.
How we know: Counted every Pokémon that has the type, as its first or second type, in the Pokédex data on pokee.si.
Rarest type: Ice
Ice is the rarest type, with only 48 Pokémon. Water has 3.2 times as many.
How we know: Counted every Pokémon that has the type, as its first or second type, in the Pokédex data on pokee.si.
Most common single type: Normal
Plenty of Pokémon have just one type. Normal has the most of those: 75 Pokémon with no second type.
How we know: Counted Pokémon with only one type in the Pokédex data on pokee.si.
One type or two?: 499 v 526
499 Pokémon have one type and 526 have two. That means a little over half of all Pokémon are dual types.
How we know: Worked out from the Pokédex data on pokee.si (1,025 Pokémon, main forms).
Most common pairing: Flying / Normal
Flying and Normal is the most common two-type pairing, with 27 Pokémon. Think of Pidgey, Pidgeotto and Pidgeot.
How we know: Counted every two-type pairing in the Pokédex data on pokee.si (the order of the two types does not matter).
Two-type pairings: 136 of 153
With 18 types there are 153 possible two-type pairings. Counting each Pokémon’s main form, 136 of them exist and 17 have never been used.
How we know: Counted the different two-type pairings of the main forms in the Pokédex data on pokee.si and compared them with all pairs of the 18 types. Regional and special forms are not counted.
One-of-a-kind pairings: 21
21 two-type pairings belong to exactly one Pokémon (counting main forms only). For example, Lokix is the only Bug/Dark Pokémon.
How we know: Counted how many Pokémon share each two-type pairing in the Pokédex data on pokee.si. Regional and special forms are not counted.
Pairings nobody has: 17
Counting main forms, 17 possible pairings have no Pokémon at all. No form of any Pokémon is Ice/Normal, Bug/Normal or Normal/Rock either.
How we know: Compared every pair of the 18 types with the pairings in the Pokédex data on pokee.si, then checked the types of regional and special forms for the examples.
Most immunities: Ghost
Ghost is the type with the most immunities. Normal and Fighting attacks do no damage at all to Ghost Pokémon.
How we know: Read the damage numbers in the type chart on pokee.si: a 0 means no effect.
Types that shrug attacks off: 7 of 18
7 of the 18 types are immune to something: Normal, Ground, Flying, Ghost, Dark, Steel and Fairy. The other 11 types can be hit by everything.
How we know: Read the damage numbers in the type chart on pokee.si: a 0 means no effect.
Ghosts do not feel…: Normal and Fighting
Normal and Fighting attacks cannot hurt a Ghost type. Ghost attacks cannot hurt a Normal type either, so Ghost and Normal are immune to each other.
How we know: Read the damage numbers in the type chart on pokee.si: a 0 means no effect.
Attacks that do nothing: 8
8 types have a target they cannot hurt at all. Electric attacks cannot hurt Ground types, and Dragon attacks cannot hurt Fairy types.
How we know: Read the damage numbers in the type chart on pokee.si: a 0 means no effect.
Toughest type to dent: Steel
Steel resists 10 different types, more than any other type. Steel is also immune to Poison.
How we know: Counted the damage numbers below 1 (but above 0) in the type chart on pokee.si.
Most weaknesses: Grass and Rock
Grass and Rock are each weak to 5 types, more than any other type. Grass loses to Fire, Ice, Poison, Flying and Bug.
How we know: Counted the damage numbers above 1 in the type chart on pokee.si.
Fewest weaknesses: Normal and Electric
Normal and Electric are weak to only 1 type, the fewest of any type.
How we know: Counted the damage numbers above 1 in the type chart on pokee.si.
Hits the most types hard: Fighting and Ground
Fighting and Ground are super effective against 5 different types, more than any other.
How we know: Counted the damage numbers above 1 in each attacking type’s row of the type chart on pokee.si.
Never super effective: Normal
Normal is the only type that is not super effective against anything. Normal attacks always do normal damage or less.
How we know: Looked for rows of the type chart on pokee.si with no damage number above 1.
Four times weak: 193
193 Pokémon take 4× damage from at least one type. It happens when both of a Pokémon’s types are weak to the same attacker.
How we know: Multiplied the type chart numbers for each Pokémon’s two types in the Pokédex data on pokee.si (types only, not abilities).
Most weaknesses: 7
Exeggcute, Exeggutor, Tyranitar and 16 more are weak to 7 different types, the most of any Pokémon (types only, not abilities).
How we know: Multiplied the type chart numbers for each Pokémon’s types in the Pokédex data on pokee.si.
Hardest to hit: 1
130 Pokémon are weak to just 1 type, the fewest of any Pokémon. Pikachu is one of them (types only, not abilities).
How we know: Multiplied the type chart numbers for each Pokémon’s types in the Pokédex data on pokee.si.
Strongest type on average: Dragon
Dragon Pokémon have the highest average stat total, 504.8. The lowest average belongs to Bug, at 374.9.
How we know: Averaged the base stat total of every Pokémon with each type in the Pokédex data on pokee.si (a dual type counts for both of its types).